Monday, November 22, 2021

Green Beans Amandine

Recipe from cookieandkate.com

Ingredients:
-2 Tbsp unsalted butter, sliced (would use olive oil)
-1/2 cup sliced almonds
-1/4 cup thinly sliced shallots (about 1 small)
-1 pound slender green beans, trimmed
-2 tsp lemon juice, to taste
-1 Tbsp + 1/2 cup water, divided
-1/2 tsp fine salt, to taste
-freshly ground black pepper, to taste

Directions.
1. Melt butter over med-low heat.  Once completly melted, add almonds.  Cook stirring constantly until butter browned and almonds are beginning to brown, about 7-8 min
2. Add shallots and cook for 1 min. 
3. Stir in lemon juice + 1 Tbsp water.  While stirring, cook until liquid thickens enough that spatula leaves an open trail on pan behind it, about 1 more min
4. Scoop out and set aside
5. Cook green beans with 1/2 cup water + 1/2 tsp salt.  Cover and cook over med heat, stirring occ ntil beans are nearly tender about 9-10 min (I used pre-cooked green beans)
6. Remove th elid and cook over med-high heat until liquid evaporates, about 2-4 min
7. Off heat, add almond mixture and toss to combine, season with salt and pepper and serve. 

Notes.
I had doubled recipe and used pre-cooked french green beans.
used in friendsgiving and tasted pretty good


*Sides
*American - sort of

Thursday, November 18, 2021

"Fried" rice

Recipe modified from elizabethrider.com sans eggs and peas for Eric.

Ingredients:
-Cooked brown rice (2 cups uncooked for 6 servings)
-avocado oil
-1 jalapeno, diced (or serrano, sliced)
-3 cloves of garlic, cuisinarted
-1 bunch of scallions, chopped
-1 inch of fresh ginger, cuisinarted (probably less, make it equal to amount of garlic)
-3 Tbsp low sodium soy sauce
-1 tsp rice vinegar
-1 tsp toasted sesame oil
-salt and pepper

Directions:
1. Heat avocado oil, garlic, jalapeno in pot
2. Add scallions until softened
3. Add rice, soy sauce, rice vinegar, sesame oil, ginger, salt, and pepper
4. Stir to combine

Notes:
Writing this over a week after I cooked it, so maybe a little foggy.  I may have added the ginger and scallions at the same time.
Served with the encrusted sesame tenders and oven-roasted broccoli


*Asian
*Sides

Black Beans in Instant Pot

Used recipe from loveandlemons.com Roughly 1 cup or half bag of beans to 3 cups of water. So if full bag or 2 cups, then 6 cups of water Hal...