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Dec. 28th, 2010 10:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yagathaiSo remember how I said I wouldn't cook last night? And I'd just make some condensed cheddar cheese soup out of a can?
Then I was like "you know what would be good in this soup? Roasted garlic." So I roasted some garlic. And while the garlic was roasting I was like "You know what else would be good? If I sauteed some mushrooms in garlic oil and added them to the soup." So I did that while the garlic was roasting. And before I knew it there was ginger in there too, and some crispy fried shallots for texture, and some slices of good strong pickled chorizo, and some curry powder, and...
Yeah. It was pretty delicious, though.
Also I roasted some chestnuts to prep for tonight's dinner, which I think is going to be a pork roast a l'orangeish (I'm using a recipe that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
2muchexposition recommended to me for a smoky chipotle orange sauce) with a side of pan-roasted brussels sprouts with chestnut and bacon, and some mashed sweet potatoes (which I was going to put mushrooms in, but see above). But, oh tragedy of tragedies, after roasting came the peeling, when I discovered that all of the chestnuts were rotten! They were mouldy, through and through!
Sigh. Maybe I'll hit Trader Joe's on the way home to see if they've got any chestnuts. Otherwise, I may have to use... I dunno. I could candy some pecans or walnuts with some cayenne pepper in the sugar. Might add an interesting angle to the dish. Necessity is the mother of invention, right? What do y'all think?
Then I was like "you know what would be good in this soup? Roasted garlic." So I roasted some garlic. And while the garlic was roasting I was like "You know what else would be good? If I sauteed some mushrooms in garlic oil and added them to the soup." So I did that while the garlic was roasting. And before I knew it there was ginger in there too, and some crispy fried shallots for texture, and some slices of good strong pickled chorizo, and some curry powder, and...
Yeah. It was pretty delicious, though.
Also I roasted some chestnuts to prep for tonight's dinner, which I think is going to be a pork roast a l'orangeish (I'm using a recipe that
2muchexposition recommended to me for a smoky chipotle orange sauce) with a side of pan-roasted brussels sprouts with chestnut and bacon, and some mashed sweet potatoes (which I was going to put mushrooms in, but see above). But, oh tragedy of tragedies, after roasting came the peeling, when I discovered that all of the chestnuts were rotten! They were mouldy, through and through!Sigh. Maybe I'll hit Trader Joe's on the way home to see if they've got any chestnuts. Otherwise, I may have to use... I dunno. I could candy some pecans or walnuts with some cayenne pepper in the sugar. Might add an interesting angle to the dish. Necessity is the mother of invention, right? What do y'all think?
