I’m going to be gone the rest of the month, so I thought I’d put together recipes for the major events in March. Specifically St. Patrick’s day, Easter, and Spring. Lots of pictures and recipes below the fold.
JeffreyW plates up a nice Corned Beef and Cabbage Dinner above and I have two recipes for it here.
As promised last week. This pretty Coconut Lemon Cake is a showy dessert I like to make for Easter Dinner, click here for the recipe.
What’s going on in your kitchen this weekend? Anyone broken out the grill yet? What recipe makes you feel like spring has finally arrived?
Pictured at the top of the post and above are JeffreyW’s Seafood Primavera, more photos and instructions are here.
Tonight’s featured recipe takes advantage of what you can find fresh in the produce section and makes you long for gardening season. You can change up the vegetables at will and omit the chicken if desired (I’d substitute some nice mushrooms then).
Chicken Primavera
- 3 boneless chicken breasts, cubed in large pieces
- ½ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp pepper
- 1 to 2 tbsp olive oil
- 8 oz sliced carrots
- 8 oz broccoli crowns
- 1 small yellow summer squash, sliced
- 2 tsp basil, crushed or ¼ cup fresh basil leaves
- 1 tsp crushed garlic
- 2 Roma tomatoes, quartered
- ¾ cup chicken broth or equivalent
- ¼ cup white wine
- 2 oz grated parmesan
- 9 oz fresh linguine
skillet, large saucepan
Sprinkle salt & pepper over chicken pieces. Heat oil in skillet, add chicken and saute for 5 minutes over medium-high heat, until golden on all sides. Add carrots, broccoli and squash, and stir for 2 minutes. Add basil, garlic, tomatoes. Stir additional 2 minutes. Remove mixture to bowl. Add chicken broth and wine to skillet, deglaze drippings, bring to a boil, reduce heat, add chicken mixture, toss and cover. Reduce heat to low and let simmer while pasta cooks. Bring water to boil in saucepan and cook pasta according to package directions. Drain very well and toss with chicken mixture. Sprinkle with parmesan and serve.
That’s it for now. Have a great weekend! – TaMara
Baud
NOOOOOOOOOOO!
TaMara (BHF)
@Baud: I’ve sent up the BatSignal for Adam to fill in.
I’ll be around the blog, but won’t be around the kitchen much.
Baud
@TaMara (BHF):
Excellent.
Felonius Monk
@TaMara (BHF):
We will be malnourished. I’ll have to stock up on Twinkies. Think of your poor, lonely Kitchen Aid. :-)
But enjoy, whatever it is you’re going to be up to.
Adam L Silverman
@TaMara (BHF): No Purim recipes?
schrodinger's cat
@Adam L Silverman: She also forgot Holi.
debbie
@Adam L Silverman:
I grabbed some hamentaschen at the store today. A sure sign of spring!
Adam L Silverman
@schrodinger’s cat: I wasn’t sure if that was the next one up for you all, so didn’t want to say anything.
Adam L Silverman
@debbie: We have a deli/restaurant near hear that has its own “Brooklyn Bakery”. They always have hamentaschen. I have a colleague and good friend who grew up in an ethnically and religiously mixed neighborhood in upstate New York. Every so often I send him a care package of hamentaschen.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Adam L Silverman: No March Madness?
schrodinger's cat
@Adam L Silverman: No worries. I was just teasing TaMara. Holi is usually in March. In India each festival is associated with its own special dessert. For Holi it is Puranpoli. Its basically a stuffed chapati with a sweet filling. It takes a lot of skill to master the art of making thin puranpolis.
Puran = filling, stuffing
poli = flat bread.
Adam L Silverman
@BillinGlendaleCA: I’ll post a recipe on how to fricassee a basketball next Friday. Will that work?
Adam L Silverman
@schrodinger’s cat: I’ve had it. If you hadn’t caught me mentioning it, I was the front line supervisor/academic advisor and/or research supervisor/advisor and/or faculty/community sponsor for three different Nepalese generals when I was at USAWC. While the food isn’t exactly the same, a lot of the festival/holiday foods are. So I’ve been well fed!
And I got a couple of really nice kukris too!
pseudonymous in nc
@Adam L Silverman: Nepali food is very good for the innocuous green chili that lures you into taking a bite then blows your head off.
schrodinger's cat
@Adam L Silverman: I had no idea that Nepalese made puranpoli too. AFAIK, its a dish from Maharashtra in western India. I have heard about khukris but never actually seen one in person. My family is not particularly martial, my people were scribes and bookkeepers.
Mnemosyne
I haven’t decided what to make for St. Patrick’s Day yet. Last year I made the beef and Guinness pies on the cover of this cookbook and they were quite tasty. I’m a little tired of corned beef — it was never my favorite.
Steeplejack
@Adam L Silverman:
You’ve given me a genius idea! I’m gonna dig out that deep fryer I used once for the Thanksgiving turkey. I think I can totally do a basketball without burning down the house
again.gogol's wife
Can anybody tell me how to look at older posts? It used to be at the bottom of the page there was an “Older posts” label. Now there’s a list of pages, and you’d think that if you clicked on page 2 you get to older posts, but instead it sends me back to the top of this page.
Adam L Silverman
@pseudonymous in nc: I’m a big fan. And they and their families were great people. Excellent officers, wonderful students, just really great folks to know.
Steeplejack
@gogol’s wife:
Type (in your browser’s address field)
https://www.balloon-juice.com/2016/03/11/
to get a “latest posts” style list of all the posts for today—with navigation page numbers (at the bottom) that actually work.
You can use this for any date.
Adam L Silverman
@schrodinger’s cat: I’m not sure if they call it that, but what you describe at least one of them made. Unless it was the Indian general’s wife who brought it, which is a distinct possibility. They kept shoveling food at me, so I may have mixed it up.
Adam L Silverman
@Steeplejack: Remember to post pictures!
gogol's wife
@Steeplejack:
That doesn’t work either.
gogol's wife
@Steeplejack:
I wanted to look at the post about the Oxford comma, but even if I search “Oxford comma,” I only get a list of posts no more recent than 2014.
So basically, I can only read posts that are still up on the main page?
Adam L Silverman
@gogol’s wife: https://www.balloon-juice.com/2016/03/10/late-night-open-thread-the-rigors-of-grammar/
gogol's wife
@Adam L Silverman:
Thank you. But in general, how can I look at older posts?
Adam L Silverman
I’m off to rub doggy bellies and crash. Everyone have a lovely night.
gogol's wife
I guess I can’t.
Steeplejack (phone)
@gogol’s wife:
You can just click on the link I posted! That doesn’t work?
Adam L Silverman
@gogol’s wife: Other than what Steeplejack recommended, I don’t know. That function still isn’t working. I’ll send Alain an email and report back if I find out anything.
Baud
@gogol’s wife: It’s best to leave the past alone.
debbie
@gogol’s wife:
Steeplejack’s link worked for me. Just change the 11 to 10.
Steeplejack
@gogol’s wife:
Oxford comma thread here.
Searching is different from manually paging through a list of all posts, which is what you asked about. The method I gave above does the latter.
To search, you want to put your search term in the search box, over to the top right under the magnifying glass. I just looked for “Oxford comma” and didn’t get the thread from yesterday, probably because the Google (or whatever) search-mo-tron in the back office hasn’t catalogued it yet.
Punchy
So when does someone end up hospitalized (paralyzed?) after protesting a Trump rally? March 15th or 16th?
Felonius Monk
@Baud:
Only true in politics and love.
hilts
RIP Keith Emerson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tajqtwjeIWs
Gin & Tonic
@gogol’s wife: It’s for your own good, comrade.
Omnes Omnibus
@gogol’s wife: As far as I can tell, the old search function is gone. The new one seems rather useless to me. But then I internet wrong.
SiubhanDuinne
@schrodinger’s cat:
Is Holi the very colourful one where people smear paint on each other’s faces? That always looked like fun to me, but my friend Deepak hated it and pretty much cowered in his apartment for the duration.
PurpleGirl
Question: What can be used in place of olive oil? I’m sensitive to fresh olive oil and things cooked in it.
(The irony of it is that my maternal grandfather and his brothers owned olive groves in Sicily. They sold them to finance their travels to other counties, my grandfather to the US, his brothers to Argentina. My grandfather was a unionist who worked as a day laborer and his brothers became farmers in Argentina.)
NotMax
@PurpleGirl
Waited to see if a response was forthcoming before butting in. It’s just a quick saute, so any cooking oil of your choice will do the job.
If you happen to have it in stock, sesame oil would be interesting.
Ruckus
@PurpleGirl:
@NotMax:
I use sesame in place of olive, or any other oil. I’ve always used oils sparingly so the cost isn’t noticeable and my regular supermarket, Ralph’s, carries organic. I was under the misunderstanding that the smoking temp was low but was corrected on a post a few days/weeks ago.
tybee
i cook corned beef in the slow cooker and i put a bag of Zatarain’s spicy crab boil in with the beef.