FOOD & Recipe Thread

[Celandine]

[Celandine]

Spark Collector:

As long as we keep posting, it'll stay active, and hopefully busy.

I'll start it off with a recipe that's a combo between my ideas (the scallops) and my Mom's (the onions):

Honey Onions and Braised Scallops with Lemon and Ginger

2 lb [1 kg] Onions, peeled and sliced
2/3 cup [160 ml] butter
2/3 cup [160 ml] honey

Place sliced onions in a large shallow baking dish. Melt butter and honey in a small sauce pan, low heat, whisking till smooth and easily pourable. Drizzle evenly over the onions. Bake in preheated 350°F [175°C] oven—basting regularly—until golden brown, about 45 minutes to an hour.
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While onions are baking (time the cooking of scallops to finish at same time as onions):

1 lb [500 gm] Sea Scallops (the 1.5 inch/35 mm size), rinsed, drained and patted dry with paper towels
2 Tbsp [30 ml] Olive Oil
1 Tbsp [15 ml] Butter
2 Tbsp [20 ml] fresh lemon juice
¼ cup [40 cc] fresh green onion (scallion) minced finely.
1 tsp [3.5 cc] ground ginger, fresh ground is best
Salt and and fresh-milled black pepper, to taste

In a measuring cup, combine lemon juice, ginger, scallion, salt and pepper. Keep nearby.

In a large skillet frying pan (I prefer my old, seasoned cast iron) heat pan over medium-high heat until a drop of water dances and evaporates. Turn down to medium-low and add olive oil and butter. Heat until it starts smoking just a little bit. Carefully place scallops into pan, in one layer. Very lightly brown one side, moving them about the pan when they start to firm up for even heating, lift with tongs to check the undersides. When just slightly browned, turn scallops over and brown the same amount. This whole process of cooking and lightly browning the scallops on both sides should only take about 4-5 minutes, tops.

While the second side of the scallops are browning, use bulb baster to extract about 1/4 cup [60 ml] of honey/lemon mixture from the dish the onions are baking in and combine with the lemon/ginger/scallion mixture in the measuring cup. Brush mixture over top of scallops, when second side of scallops are lightly browned, flip over again brush more of the mixture. After about 30 seconds, remove from heat, and then immediately transfer scallops to a heated dish. It's very important to not over cook the scallops or they'll become tough.

At this point, if your timing is good, the onions should also be done to a nice golden brown, caramelized nicely.

Serve scallops on a bed of the honey onions, garnish with thin orange slices and spicy radish curlicues.

[Waleed]

I appreciate recipes for diabetes & cardiology patients..

[Celandine]

Waleed Wrote:I appreciate recipes for diabetes & cardiology patients..

Oh! YES PLEASE!!!!
If you can manage it, POST SOME, I need them as well

I want to learn more about Vegetarian Recipes as well...
before living a carnivorous lifestyle becomes the death of me.
.

[Krasni]

What about some Thermomix recipes?

[Celandine]

Krasni Wrote:What about some Thermomix recipes?

HOLY SMOKE!
I'd never heard of it before now
Definitely Post a Few if you Care to Share

Q: does it also CHEW the Food and .... too!?!
On 2nd thought maybe I doanwannano.

You may be kidding, since the machine processes AND cooks the food for you...
but without looking further into it, you'd still need to know what to toss into it, no?

[Celandine]

I ARCHIVED Recipes from Phos...' ORIGINAL "Self Rising Food Thread" in MM

but frankly feel a little awkward about posting them all (Crediting the Author's)
and including the Original Links & Photos (where possible) lest it appear to be *SPAM*

Let me know.

[Bill64]

Waleed Wrote:I appreciate recipes for diabetes & cardiology patients..

You and me both.

[Waleed]

I've been diabetic since 2002, and had a heart attack this past September.. I've been eating the same tasteless food for a very long long time

[Bill64]

1998 for me. The Doc has me on insulin. Two shots a day. I'd sure like to see a cure some day soon.