Cauliflower Bake – in the style of ~T~

http://fatsecret.com/recipes/cauliflower-bake/Default.aspx

Cauliflower Bake

A warming cauliflower, potato and leek casserole.

Ingredients

• 3 oz grape tomatoes
• 1 1/4 cups almond milk
• 2 tbsps butter
• 1/4 lb parmesan cheese
• 1/2 tsp paprika
• 1 lb cauliflower
• 1 clove garlic
• 1 leek, chopped
• 2 potatoes, cubed
• 1 oz flour

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 °F (175 °C).
2. Cook cauliflower in boiling water for 10 minutes. Cook potatoes in a separate pan of boiling water for 10 minutes.
3. To make sauce melt butter in a pan, add leek and garlic and saute for 1 minute. Add flour and cook for another minute. Remove the pan from heat and gradually add the almond milk and 1/2 cup of the cheese. Add paprika.
4. Put the cauliflower in a casserole dish, followed by the grape tomatoes and potatoes. Pour the sauce over the potatoes. Sprinkle the rest of the cheese on top of the casserole.
5. Bake for 40 minutes until the vegetables are cooked through and the cheese is brown and bubbling.

so, a friend posted this recipe, and i said. hm. i have a head of cauliflower that i need to use.

and i can get leeks from the commissary.

so boom

dinner

i even planned it –

i made a menu for the week.

i NEVER do that!!!!!

but i did. and i’ve followed it thus far!!

yay me!!!

and of course, i modified it.

just a tiny bit.

oh, and up there — it doesn’t say to chop the cauliflower. into bite size chunks. make sure you do that, cuz once you boil it – it’s pretty difficult to cut… i don’t know why. it just is.

my modifications were:

chop up half of a large onion and half of a green pepper… add those in with the leek…

and i do have to say … watch what parmesan you use… that cheese doesn’t melt very well… soooo, if you can find the parm in a bag – -use it, granted it’s not as good or fresh as anything else, but your cheese sauce will work… mine didn’t so to make it a little bit more saucy and melty i threw in 1/4 cup of shredded mozzarella… oh, and don’t remove your pan from the heat, cuz then the cheese REALLY won’t melt, just lower the heat…

i also chopped up some chicken sausages that contain apple & gouda ((omg good!!)) {http://www.walmart.com/ip/Hillshire-Farm-Chicken-Apple-With-Gouda-Cheese-Smoked-Sausage-12-oz/19276116} i meant to add them before i added the cheese sauce, but i got distracted and forgot, it’s cool. i added them to the top and they kinda carmelized… i don’t know but YUM…

so yeah, throw it in the oven bake it for how long it says and pull it out… (no. that’s NOT what she said – don’t go there)

and enjoy

and you will enjoy

b/c holy crapnuggets it is SOOOO good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i couldn’t stop eating it. . .

i don’t know if it was the fact i had only eaten a small breakfast yesterday or if it was just that good

but i’m gonna put a combination of the both,

and when i heated it up for lunch today — just as delicious!!!!!!

of course, you can make this dish vegetarian by keeping to the recipe and not adding the sausage… but i think it would be good with some bacon or prosciutto on top too… jus sayin

 

so goooood!!!!!

 

 

 

today in review

so, nothing really happened today… but i have some pics to share. . .

sat in the shop all day… tried to do some maintenance but, it wasn’t working for us…

annnnd … that’s the majority of what i did… got some sigs on my 3m qualification. . .

and then i went to the gym.

but here’s some pictures to share:

first up- i took a different route to work today b/c the traffic was insane on the highways, i pulled up the traffic on navi, and it was gonna take me an hour… not to mention the wait at the gate…
so i took local roads… and at one point, Navi showed me this:

Navi is a little confused – it’s a good

thing i looked at the map line…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

so, good thing i looked right? i would have been late and lost…

pic 2:

husband finished the seat for his motorcycle!! i think it looks GOOD… he of course is being über critical…

Motorcycle Seat for the Cafe Racer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and up last is the pic of dinner — WAIT what ?? i actually remembered to take a pic?? no way.

first: the recipe:

BBQ Turkey over Jasmine Rice

brown up some onions! i love browned onions… yummmm
grab some pineapple (i like Dole pineapple in juice in the plastic container)
cut up some turkey
grab some bbq sauce
combine these ingredients along with a little of the juice in a pot and let simmer for a little bit, until heated thoroughly
serve over rice… i had leftover rice from the burritos last night… i also added some chipotle tabasco sauce to heat it up and add some flavor…

i know that this isn’t a real recipe b/c there’s no measurements… but, use what you deem necessary and enjoyyyyyyy

here’s the pic

BBQ Turkey over Jasmine Rice

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

there’s my day in review.

have a wonderful evening

~peace

 

 

 

 

 

 

thanksgiving leftovers

so for thanksgiving, we got a 15 pound turkey…

there’s 2 of us.

2.

15 pounds.

hmmmm. granted the carcass makes up some of that weight… but… there is still a LOT of meat…
unfortunately there is more dark meat than white meat… booo 😦

but, it’s cool.

so, the past 2 nights i have made some delicious meals with those turkey leftovers

granted they were very similar, but hey who cares.

still yum… but unfortunately i didn’t take any pics 😦

anyways — here goes.

Recipe 1:
Turkey Quesadillas

preheat oven to 400° F

oh… measurements?? um. no.
take your leftover turkey — cut it up
take an onion or part of an onion — depending on how much you want
along with some green peppers
saute those up
i threw the turkey in with this stuff after i browned them up quite nicely…
2 tortillas per quesadilla if you want to do the layer way, or just put your 1 tortilla to fold over… this is actually the first time i did it the layered way…
take some brie cheese, and some chipotle cranberry sauce (prepared whole berry sauce — see recipe below!) spread onto your tortillas, throw in the turkey/onion/green pepper mix

bake for 10 minutes, flip and bake another 10 minutes…

i cut into 4 pieces and served with salsa & plain greek yogurt (in place of sour cream)

IT WAS DELICIOUS

Recipe #2:

Turkey Burritos

make some jasmine rice ((b/c jasmine is the best rice… next to basmati, but i messed up our supply, so we don’t have any right now))
while that’s cooking
take some onion, and some pineapple (use crushed or small pieces) – saute those up… yeah – together… delicious… as it browns, throw in some cut up turkey, and some of the chipotle cranberry sauce… let it mix and saute a bit… throw in some black beans (drained) (i used 2 big spoons for each burrito) and let that all mix together while the rice finishes

melt some gouda cheese into your tortillas (i neglected to do this, thinking that the heat from the food would melt it — it didn’t work so well)
spoon some rice and then the turkey mixture into the tortilla, wrap and enjoy…

Recipe #3
Cranberry Sauce

i grabbed a bag of frozen cranberries (b/c the store had not restocked their fresh ones)
take 1/3 c sugar & 1/3 c orange juice
heat to dissolve sugar
pour in frozen cranberries and bring to a low boil
lower heat and let cook for about 15 minutes until all berries are burst ((i stirred mine up a bit to help this process))
make sure to stir occassionally so not to scorch the mixture
let cool so it thickens
serve… or use as you wish!

to make it chipotle cranberry sauce, i simply took aside the portion i was going to use and mixed it with some smoked chipotle tabasco sauce… i could have cut up some adobo chilis but, this was much easier and just as effective 🙂

so, there’s the recipes i created/modified

more to come i’m sure — b/c well, there’s still a ton of turkey and we made some turkey stock and have A TON of it…
we have 5 pint size canning jars full… and a tupperware container full also…

on another note — can i freeze canning jars?? husband said no b/c they are glass and they might burst… or something…

and one more note — i picked up the sunrise medley potatoes tonday at the grocery store and i’m so exxcited to find something to do with them!!! b/c i love purple potatoes…