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Wednesday, April 26, 2006

The First Slog Recipe Challenge

Posted by on April 26 at 12:41 PM

Last night, after exiting the Peter Matthiessen lecture at Benaroya Hall (his last comment: watching his granddaughter do gymnastics that morning inspired him to reflect on what amazing creatures people are, so beautiful, creative, and accomplished, but that we are animals, after all, and these little girls would “be the ones to stick a fork in me if we were stuck in a life raft”) we found this list:

eggs
onions
garlic
whole milk
feta
green veg
fruit
hot water bottle

What delicious food could you make with these ingredients? You may include common kitchen items (flour, etc.), but extra credit for restricting yourself to the items on the list.


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an omlete stuffed with the feta and veggies. With a slice of fruit as a garnish.

Brunch:
Saute onions garlic and green veg's (preferably fresh spinach and fresh arugula). In the blender, blend eggs and whole milk, pour into omelet pan and when fluffy, flip over and fill with spinach mix and feta cheese, fold in half and let the feta slightly melt. serve with fruit on the side.

That's list is one fine start to the day right there.

First, dice the onion.

Next, take one clove of garlic, slice it into really thin slivers and sauté it in a frying pan. Ideally, you use olive oil for the sauté. Don't let the heat get too high or you'll burn it.

Next, add the diced onion and sweat that a bit in the oil with the garlic until the onions start to get a bit translucent.

I'll extrapolate and turn the "green veg" into a bell pepper (or a jalapeno if you like it hot). Cut that up as big or little as you like and add to the already cooking onion and garlic.

Separately, beat the eggs (2-3/person) with some whole milk (I cook by feel so "some" is as specific a measurement as I'm gonna give). Add salt and pepper to taste

Pour the eggs/milk mixture over the by now beautifully done garlic/onions/peppers and cook, moving around with a spatula to avoid burning.

When the eggs are 2/3 cooked sprinkle over as much feta as you can handle so it melts and mixes in with the eggs as you stir.

When the eggs are 90 percent done, remove from heat, cover and let stand for a few minutes while you wash, slice or do whatever you want with the fruit. The heat of the pan and cover will cook the eggs the rest of the way, giving them time to set up and not be under/overdone.

To serve, place on a plate with some toast (whole wheat, maybe honey oat) OR better yet place on a warm tortilla (spinach preferably) and roll up to eat like a burrito. Add hot sauce if desired. Serve with a side of fresh fruit. Wash down with morning drink of your choice.

Eat and enjoy while wondering what you needed that hot water bottle for anyway.


Instead of an omelet, I'd make a fritata with the ingredients. Saute up the onion, and half the garlic. Add the veggies. Beat the eggs with the cheese and add that to the pan. Cook over medium heat until just set, then put into an oven under a broiler to finish cooking. Serve with fruit on the side.

Or, assuming I had some flour on hand (as I always do), I'd make a souffle. Saute the veggies, add flour. Put in milk and stir over low heat until a thick sauce is formed. Beat in egg yolks 2 at a time. Stir in crumbled feta and thyme. Beat egg white until stiff peaks form, then fold the whites into the veggies. Pour into a dish and bake for 20 - 30 minutes.

Serve fruit as a dessert. It would depend upon the fruit, but with that list of ingredients, one could make a clafouti.

Ok
Put the garlic cloves is a coverd oven proof container in the oven to roast (about 15min @ 350).
Meanwhile combine the eggs and a little milk. Blend together well. Add the feta cheese well broken up. Smash the rosted garlic with a fork and blend that in as well. Pour the whole mixture over the cubed veggis (asparagus?) & Fruit (Mango?). Bake in the oven about 20 min. Meanwhile slice and grill (or fry) the onion until crispy. Add to the top of the baked fruit & Veggi's. Add wine and you are done. Yummmy

Moons Over My Greek Army

Finely chop 1/2 onion and sautee in olive oil over medium heat until transluscent. Add 3 cloves minced garlic and 1 bunch of fresh spinach (washed, stems removed, patted dry). Continue sautee process until spinach has cooked down.

While spinach cooks, prepare fruit smoothie. Add 2 cups whole milk, ice, and fruit to blender. Bananas are lovely and will improve texture, a few chopped dates will add a Greek flair. Choose your favorite berries and toss them in. A little honey won't kill you. Blend on high, until ice has been crushed and consistency is thick, yet drinkable. Pour into favorite chilled glass.

Gently poach two eggs. If you don't know how to do this, google it. Or, you could fry them, sunnyside up. It's your call.

Arrange spinach bed on plate. Carefully rest eggs upon this pillow of green. Sprinkle crubled feta cheese across the whole lot and garnish with freshly ground pepper and a pinch of sea salt.

Your table should be set in advance. If dining alone, consider reading up on the Greek military Junta. If dining with another person, double the recipe. It should create enough fuel for a rousing post-breakfast game of Let's Pretend One Of Us Is A Hooker And The Other Has Just Paid For Greek.


Heat oven to 900 degress.
Burn garlic to carbon, crush into powder, and beat with eggs.

Rub onions in eyes. Blend resultant tears with garlic-egg paste. Apply to hair. Leave one week.

Stuff feta in toaster. When crispy, add green veg. When electrical fire is raging, extinquish in dish washer. Add whole milk. Rinse. Spoon mixture from dishwasher basin into tin cups. Serve cold.

Throw rotten fruit at passing strangers during hours of darkness.

Climb naked into hot water bottle. Discard.

I love you, Gurldoggie.

Is butter a "common kitchen item"? If so, I'm making a veg souffle. Mince the veg and cheese very fine. Separate six eggs, beat the living crap out of the whites until they are stiff as snow (niege). Make an absolutely lump-free milk and flour mixture, boil, add a ton of butter, the yolks, the veg mix, cool, stir into the stiff whites, bake. Eat the fruit while you wait. If anyone comes into the room, yell at them hysterically for making your souffle fall, then admit that you are pulling their leg.

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