I watched this being made during a live class at Milkstreet. If you haven't heard of Milkstreet, or think it's just the name of a public television show or podcast you will be delighted to learn they have a wonderful online program! https://www.177milkstreet.com/ Clearly written and tested recipes, magazine, live demos, live classes, and self-paced lessons too! They have a 12-week trial that gives you access to pretty much everything for just a $1 now - the full year is $59.
I believe their recipe is behind a firewall, so for this blog I will just record my notes on the techniques and order to process the food. (link below just in case they open it up)
Due to what instacart sent me, I drained and rinsed cans of red grapefuit.
Then I cooked the shrimp by poaching it in water that had been boiling.
Remove the pot with the boiling water from the heat and then add fish sauce*, and shrimp. When cooked, remove from the water. Then while the shrimp cool, put shallots in the hot water to cook a bit. Slice the shrimp. (Or put in at the same time and just pick out the shrimp to slice.)
Make the dressing: fish sauce, lime juice, sugar, garlic paste, thai chili, cashews
Combine three mixtures (grapefruit, shrimp/shallot, and dressing together - serve. Add and mix in the cilantro and then garnish with more cashews on the top.
I used myfitnesspal to get the nutritional information - recipe for 3 servings Milkstreet Thai Grapefruit Salad with Shrimp, 1 serving(s) Calories 367 Fat 11 carbs 35 Fiber 4 Protein 29 Sugar 24
I watched this being made during a live class at Milkstreet. If you haven't heard of Milkstreet, or think it's just the name of a public television show or podcast you will be delighted to learn they have a wonderful online program! https://www.177milkstreet.com/ Clearly written and tested recipes, magazine, live demos, live classes, and self-paced lessons too! They have a 12-week trial that gives you access to pretty much everything for just a $1 now - the full year is $59.
This particular recipe is not behind a firewall, and has been published in several places, so I feel it's okay to include the measurements here.
Added the notes to help me remember all the tips for making the dish...
Put in food processor, blend until combined
4 tomatoes
4 chipotle chilies with the adobe sauce
Put 2 T oil into pan and heat.
While that is happening, take 1.5 lbs shrimp and put on a plate, use paper towel to remove moisture on one side.
add half of the shrimp to the pan - take care to put the dry side down.
Cook until the shrimp starts to become golden on the under side. then remove to a bowl and cook the rest of the shrimp.
Add 2 T lime juice and put aside.
Into the pan now put another 2 T of oil
Add 1 diced onion for about 4 minutes. (turning transparent)
Add 3 sliced garlic cloves, 1/2 t oregano and cook for about 1 minute (turning brown)
Stir in 1/4 c dry wine and any shrimp juice from the bowl.
Cook stirring until almost all gone.
Add the food processed mixture and cook stirring until very thick.
Remove from the heat.
Stir in the shrimp, cover and let sit until shrimp white and cooked thru - about 2-4 min.
Stir in 1/2 c chopped cilantro and 2 T lime juice. Taste, season S&P if needed.
Serve in toco format with warm tortillas, avocado slices and sour cream. and lime wedges.
Or with scrambled eggs and grape tomatoes!
My fitnesspal used to get nutritional information for 4 servings Milk street shrimp in chipotle sauce does not include tortillas or (avocado/plain yogurt) toppings Calories 228 Fat 15 Carbs 7 Fiber 1 Protein 19 Sugar 2
We each had with two corn tortillas and some sliced avocado and plain yogurt the first night. So add another 100 - 150 calories.
Then the second night I set rigged up a double boiler to heat the shrimp mixture while I made the scrambled eggs.
I went thru the cans in the pantry this morning and found things with expiration noted for 2021, so I put those on one shelf to remind myself to try to use them first!
So it will be challenge to make recipes that use the ingredients I have on hand...
My first attempt is this:
Cheese Tomato Rice - Testing Recipe
1 c Mahatma Extra-Long Rice rinsed and drained first then put in the instapot
15 oz Campbells Cheddar Cheese Soup
15 oz Hunts Petite Diced Tomatoes
2 spring onions chopped for garnish
1 T parsley for garnish
Put all in instapot and stirred before setting for rice.
I put this in MyFitnessPal as 3 servings, although I will try to split in half so we have it for two meals.
Turns out about 2 cups stuck to the bottom of the pan so only 3 cups usable. I put 1/3 cup in each bowl, so these are the revised numbers. Cheese Tomato Rice - Testing Recipe
Cal kcal 71 Fat g 2 Carbs g 13 Fiber g 0 Protein g 2 Sugar3
2-28-21 1/3 c cup servings for lunch.
Did a good job of calming down the spicy soup. Did not look like or (to me at least) taste like cheese. Next time I do something like this will instapot the rice then add to the other ingredients?
NOTE: MyFitnessPal will let me go back and edit the number of servings so I will keep track and change here as need.
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We will be having it with the white bean soup I made the other day.
Here is how I started:
3 c white beans - these were soaked in boiling water for a few hours and became 7 cups of beans.
Package says 1/4 c of dried beans is = to one serving. So according to that I have 12 servings beans.
To give us some variety, I split the beans to make two kinds of soup, I will keep track here but believe we will have more than 12 servings servings....
Soup One
Spicy Tomato Turkey White Bean Soup Feb 2021
approx 6 servings - based on the beans not the volume
Once the beans are done soaking:
2 15 oz cans or 30 oz Hunt's Petite Diced Tomato 3.5 oz Embasa Chipotle Peppers in Adobo Sauce Can (full can is 7 oz I had half left over - about 4-5 chilies and the sauce) 1 c water
In food processor to blend
1 onion diced
in instapot to saute
Then added
3/4 c Oscar Mayer Deli Fresh Honey Smoked Turkey Breast Lunch Meat diced small 1/2 inch leftover
3.5 c white beans
water to cover
Result? A good but very spicy and very soupy soup. Next time I do something like this I will add less water.
This is the soup we will have with the cheese tomato rice later today and later on with other additions or sides.
I revised the estimate and put into MyFitnessPal for 9 servings per recipe based on the beans, but from the volume it will be more for sure.
Spicy Tomato Turkey White Bean Soup Feb 2021 (1 serving)
Cal kcal 178 Fat g 3 Carbs g 55 Fiber g 17 Protein g 20 Sugar 5
So far:
2-28-21 three servings of 1.3 cups each.
I thought it was tasty. The others were silent pretty much so too bad we have so much of this left.
I think I will need to revise the numbers from 9 servings to more like 12 servings!
I have to measure the things before I put them in the storage container and put a label on top so I know how much the recipe yields.Also need to figure a way to serve so more equal portions of beans and broth.
Soup Two
Chicken Vegetable White Bean Soup - Feb 2021
approx 6 servings - based on the beans not the volume
Once the beans are done soaking:
1 onion diced
2 c celery sliced
Saute in instapot
Remove onion and celery
pour in 15 oz Swanson chicken broth
use wooden spoon to clean the bottom of the pan
Then I added:
15 oz carrots
15 oz Green Beans, rinse and drained
1 T Better than Bouillon Chicken Broth
1 c spinach fresh
1 c mashed potatoes (left over) made of approx. 1 potato, 1/4 c milk, 1 pad butter
3.5 c white beans
2 T Dimitri's Fish and Seafood Seasoning I know it sounds odd to put with chicken, but the canister just says it has spices so I have been using it for lots of things
5 Bay Leaves - I need to remember to really count these things
12.5 Swanson Canned Chicken
I removed the bay leaves.
I took a few cups and put in the food processor to make it creamier in appearance. The result was an awful green - but when I combined back with the rest of the soup it looked okay!
I revised my estimate and put into Myfitness pal as if the recipe were for 9 servings.
This are revised numbers.
Chicken Vegetable White Bean Soup - Feb 2021 , 1 serving(s)
Cal kcal 220 Fat g 3 Carbs g 62 Fiber g 19 Protein g 25 Sugar 7
So far:
2-27-2021
3 one cup servings - with blueberry almond mini muffins
Tasted very nice. Perhaps I put too many bay leaves in or too much of the Dimitris - but the muffins made it all good!
Krusteaz Wild Blueberry Muffin Mix - Blueberry Muffin, 2 standard size muffins or 4 mini muffins
Cal 270 Fat 1 g Carbs 61 Fiber 1 Protein 3 Sugar 31
Even though this weekly baking idea was my son's, this month he was so busy he didn't bake with me. : ( I had planned out things to bake so, so I went ahead and made things during February.
Date Filled Cookies - changed into Date Filled Pie (Recipe in the blog). Very delicious and fancy looking!
Cookie Crust Apple Pie
No photo. Same crust as the date pie. The apples had a lot of liquid. Next time will strain that off before adding to the crust as the crust got wet during baking.
Coconut Poke Cake - yummy! I want to try different kinds! (Recipe in the blog)
Two Ingredient Biscuits
This time I made with Four Ingredients... 1 c yogurt, 1 c SR Flour, 1 egg, 2 t butter then added about 1/4 c more flour to make dough more firm.
350 degrees for about 12-15 minutes. That yielded three biscuits to have as dinner with Libby's Sausage and Gravy and Peas.
Blueberry and Almond Mini Muffins
I think that is it for February Baking. Next month there will be even more with DS's birthday, Pi Day, and St Patrick's Day! Pretty sure DS will be baking with me next month!
This is something I have been wanting to try for a while. It was our delayed Valentine's Day and weekly baking project for my son and I.
First - Made a box of yellow cake. Where it said water we used milk (powdered to save the milk for coffee) and instead of oil we heated a cube of butter.
Baked in preheated oven following the directions in the box.
Then - When the cake was done, removed it from the over and used forks to poke holes evening around the top of the cake. Mixed together a can of coconut milk and a can of sweetened condensed milk, then poured it on the still warm cake. Used a spoon to move the syrup so it was a little more even.
Then - into the frig to cool down. Once cool, added a container of cool whip and topped with coconut.
Served after our lunch meal. Wow! Delicious! We had a quarter of the cake today - will see how it ages. Perhaps it will be easier to cut when it has been in a frig for longer amount of time.
Catherine's Plate has a lot of variations on poke cakes - and more recipes. I used My Fitness Pal to get the nutritional information. I was sure it was going to be double the amount of calories and fat, so I'm pleased with the counts as they came out.
(Be sure to click on the links to see how pretty these cookies can be!)
The cookies came together very nicely. I think I could have/should have used a bit more of the crust batter. Inji makes hers with equal parts so to make these I used the same amount of the crust and the date filling.
Making a weekly cookie was my son's idea, but this week he couldn't make time to make the cookies with me. I made one roll of cookies just to test the method out.
I decided to try to use the remaining ingredients to make a cookie crust for a pie. I was intending to fill the crust after it was baked with vanilla pudding and whipped cream, but the pie rose up and looked so nice! I decided to serve with some whipped cream and a few chopped pecans.
I had rolled the crust on parchment paper, but it fell apart when I tried to transfer it to the pie plate. So instead I used my fingers to shape the crust.
Then I took a medium spoonfuls of the date paste and flattened in on top of the crust.
I took the remaining crust batter and put in on in small pieces on top of the date paste. I used a fork to spread the crust and to add a design.
Baked in toaster oven for around 9 minutes at 200 degrees C. I left it in the oven after the timer went off for a few more minutes. I then removed it from the oven and left on trivet to cool a bit. Then I put a knife down the side in one place to see if the crust was done. It did appear to be done. So I put the pie in the frig to do a quick cool down.
I divided the pie into quarters and took a third of a quarter as a slice on the plate. Added whipped cream and pecans. Crust was so flaky and nice, the date filling sweet and tasty!
Looks pretty doesn't it?
I may experiment with dried apricots and other fillings later.
Date filled pie - very well received!
ADDED FEB 22 2021: I made crust with filling of apples/sugar/cinnamon - but it was too much liquid. Next time need perhaps to prebake the apples before adding to the crust. The crust baked fine, but the liquid made it impossible to slice and serve - had to scoop it out!
L - B&A leftover Chinese, J Oatmeal with nuts and dates
D - Doordash - Rubio's B Corn Bowl with Blackened Salmon, A Classic fish Burrito, J Balsamic Vegetable Salad with Grilled Salmon - shared Cheese Quesadilla
Walked AM with Penelope and Buffy, Exercise Jil 90 min, Afternoon Quilt shop online FB
Tuesday, Feb 2 2021
L - B&A Sardine and Lemon Celery Salad with Steamed Eggs and Buttered fingers of toast, J Oatmeal with nuts and dates
D - Pizza and salad
Writing Zoom Group, Chat with Ellie, Texts with Kathleen, Zoom Hormones’ Impact on Cognitive Health & Alzheimer’s Lisa Mosconi, PhD
Wednesday Feb 3, 2021
L - Left over Pizza for B&A, Oatmeal for J
D - Picked up from Chili's J Ribs, B Chicken fingers with honey chili sauce, A Hamburger
Walk with P, Exercise with Jil, Zoom Power of Science Lecture Series: Kay Tye, Zoom Online Braising class with Milkstreet, Cutting and Sewing Bow Tie Blocks
Thursday, Feb 4 2021
L - grilled cheese sandwiches with chili J had oatmeal with nuts
D - Casamiasd Dinner - Marinated artichokes, chicken with prosciutto, cheese, wine sauce, nutella tart with warmed raspberries with grand marnier
Zoom Lauren Quilting Class, MilkStreet Knife Skills (had to take phone call and leave the class so glad they sent the video so I can watch later), casamiasd.com Cooking Class
Look for dates!
Cheese was in the chicken folds
Artichoke hearts come peeled in a can!
Added leftover cheesecake and powdered sugar to finish the plate!
Friday, Feb 5, 2021
L - Failed Salmon Cakes (they broke apart), salad and peas
D - MilkStreet Moroccan Chicken with Green Olives, Broccoli rabe with Garlic and Olive Oil and Couscous
Wal with P Exercise with Jill, It took about 3 hours to do the Milk Street meal - Bernie helped too!
Saturday, Feb 6, 2021
L - Leftover MilkStreet meal and Chicken Fingers with honey chili sauce and zucchini
D - Doordash DZ Akins J turkey sandwich with pasta salad, B beef salad, A matzah ball soup
T - Made date filling and date tea cookies. I couldn't taste the dates. Bernie could but he thought 77 calories for each was too much....
Made a few more quilt blocks, walk in am alone, walk in afternoon with B
Sunday, Feb 7, 2021 L - Leftovers from last night DZ Akins. for A an egg, cheese, turkey, jam sandwich to go along with his soup. D - Door Dash - Marie Calendars J Turkey Dinner, A Frisco Burger, B - Salmon Dinner
Did some filing and paperwork, thought about quilt project background, B and I watched Fisherman's Friends, listened to audible book, wrote emails
Monday, Feb 8, 2021
L - J left over turkey dinner, A&B fried rice with egg, pork, peas
D - roast pork, mashed potatoes, brussel sprouts
T - date pie, whipped cream and pecans
Walked with P and Buffy, Exercise 90 min Jil,
Tues Feb 9 2021
L - White Bean Chili with Roasted Corn
D - Costco Salmon with basil butter, string beans and zucchini, salad
T - Date pie, ice cream, whipped cream and pecans
Great walk with Buffy, Chat with Ellie, Expressive Writing Class, phone calls, looking for lost wallet with driver's license and credit cards - in the house somewhere, DH drove me to mammogram and DEX appt, nice chat with Barb in Florida, watched news - decided I would watch the impeachment proceedings.
Found refrigerator magnet photo of our little Pumpkin. We took her to Petco when she was very young for the photo. We have been finding photos like this. In my next time would pay for the plain photo too as these to not age well.
Wed Feb 10, 2021 B - J yogurt and jam L - White Bean Chili with Roasted Corn D - Costco Salmon with pasta, alfredo sauce, airfried broccoli
T - Date pie, ice cream, whipped cream and pecans
Walk with Buffy chat with Penelope, Phone calls and emails, paperwork
Thu Feb 11 2021
L - White Bean Chili with Roasted Corn, with pork, spinach and corn bread swirls D - Costco Salmon with pasta, alfredo sauce, airfried broccoli T - Date pie, ice cream, whipped cream and pecans
Fri Feb 12 2021
B - J yogurt and jam
L - Beef and Bean Stew topped with Alfredo Pasta
D - Costco Meatloaf and Mashed Potatoes, Salad
Sat Feb 13, 2021
B -
L - Beef and Bean Stew/Soup and salad
D - Costco Meatloaf and Mashed Potatoes, Salad
Sun Feb 14 2021
B - J yogurt and jam
L - Yam and Cream Soup, yogurt and self rising flour biscuits, cheese, deli turkey,
June's eye swollen and a little red all weekend so not much done. B working on clearing out the office, A working on script for his class. Didn't feel well enough to do the Valentine Cake with Alex.
Monday, Feb 15, 2021
B - J egg sandwich
L -Leftovers: J sweetened baked tofu, B&A Roast Beef Beans - and rice, peas and carrots
D - Easy Chicken Enchiladas, carry in beans, rice, sour cream, guacamole
Canceled exercise with Jil as my eye is not 100%, but feeling better so did am walks. First with P on the phone and then with Buffy. Called doctor and left another message.
Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
B - J only chips and melted cheese L - Mujadara (Lentils and Rice with Caramelized Onions) Adapted recipe from Claudine + salad and naan
S - J only yogurt and a little jam
D - left overs chicken enchilada, rice, beans, sour cream + salad
T - coconut poke cake
Mujadara (Lentils and Rice with Caramelized Onions) + Salad and Naan
left overs chicken enchilada, rice, beans, sour cream + salad
These were really good chips - used for the lazy enchiladas!
But they also tasted really good on their own!
Second day of cake - still great - so far aging well.
Eye felt better. Doctor called but I said didn't need appt. They told me to put eye drops in every hour for a while. Walked B in am, chatted with Ellie, I LM at BT and KLS as no answer. KLS sent a birthday gift - very nice selection of quilting tools.
Wed Feb 17 2021 B - J only egg muffin sandwich, A&J yogurt and a little jam L - B & A had leftover chicken enchilada, beans, rice and salad (J skipped as she had big breakfasts!) D - Garlic Worcestershire Chicken tenders, corn bread stuffing with sauted onion, steamed broccoli/cauliflower
T - Coconut Poke Cake
The eye is 99% - probably 100% but I'm still going to put the eye drops in when ever I think of it! Walked AM with Penelope, Buffy wanted to stay in bed. Exercise with Jil for only 60 min. Emptied bathroom cabinets, cleaned them and put most back. Toss a few things and have things I may toss to the side in the cabinets. Refilled soap bottles.
Thursday Feb 18, 2021 L -
D - Milkstreet, Turkish Red Lentil Soup with Aleppo Pepper Oil +salad
Milkstreet Class - Turkish Red Lentil Soup with Aleppo Pepper Oil, Wine and fixed income talk
Friday, Feb 19, 2021 L - Half red lentil soup and half brown lentil soup, bread, salad D - meatball/hot sauce and jelly, rice,
T - apple pie
Made apple pie, Jil Exercise 90 min, Phone call, walked alone,
Saturday, Feb 20 2021 L - yellow pea soup with tomato paste, onion, butternut squash, hotsauce/jelly D - chicken, rice, zucchini
T - coconut poke cake
Sunday Feb 21 2021 L - yellow pea soup with tomato paste, onion, butternut squash, hotsauce/jelly D - homemade pepperoni pizza and salad
T - apple pie and ice cream
Monday Feb 22 2021
B - June only - yogurt and jam and toast with butter and jam
L - yellow pea soup with tomato paste, onion, butternut squash, hotsauce/jelly and rice
D - homemade pepperoni pizza
T - Winter mixed nuts and p-nut butter pretzels
Walk with Buffy and P, Exercise with Jil, Listened to Audible while cleaning the kitchen, going to start making portions smaller for beans and rice and perhaps dinner too, Buffy came upstairs in the evening and was just looking around!, she enjoyed hunting for carrots in the sofa cushions and the towel, we took her for evening walk when she started barking, I attending EBHQ zoom lecture.
Tuesday, Feb 23, 2021 L - Carryin from Point Loma Seafood. B & J Scallop Plate, A Tuna Fish Sandwich D - B had cereal, J had root beer float!
B and I went to Pt Loma Seafood mainly to get the shrimp and wine needed for the MilkStreet class. We decided to also get lunch. Brought food home - it's better eating it nearer to there. The class was fun, I think I learned things I didn't know. How to cook the shrimp, and make a sauce with fresh tomatoes and chilies in adobo sauce, and the second dish was interesting too - but I will have to depend on the recipe to do that one. Too tired to cook tonight though. I would have cooked along with them but my computer froze and it was too difficult to follow along.
Wednesday, Feb 24, 2021
B - J only yogurt with cinn/sugar, and toast with same
L - Milkstreet shrimp in chipotle sauce, tortillas, rice
D - MilkStreet Thai Grapefruit sale with shrimp
Walk with B and Penelope, met mother of neighbor but I already forgot her name. She lives in PB and watches their daughter Sophie in the morning. A little nap then exercise with Jil. I was glad it was only 60 min today so tired today... Made Milkstreet shrimp dish.
Shrimp in Chipotle Sauce served in tortillas with avocado and plain yogurt - and rice with lime zest
Pan fry just one side of the shrimp. Then put into a bowl - add 2 T lime juice. The heat from the other shrimp cook the rest!
Delicious Sauce with fresh tomatoes and chipotle chili in adobo sauce.
At the end add the shrimp and cover.
Top with cilantro leaves
Thursday, Feb 25
L - Leftover shrimp in chipotle sauce with scrambled eggs
D - George's Kielbasa and Sauerkraut (Recipe in the blog), mashed potatoes and asparagus
Friday, Feb 26
B - J only egg sandwich
L - Egg salad sandwich with sliced turkey, mayo and tomatoes
D - Libby's Sausage and Gravy with 4 ingredient biscuits and peas
Saturday, Feb 27
B - A only egg and cheese english muffin, J only hard boiled egg with mustard
L - White bean Chicken and Veggie soup with mini blueberry and almond muffins (gave extras to neighbor)
D - Pasta with sauce and peas
Sunday, Feb 28 2021 B --- L - Spicy Tomato Turkey White Bean Soup Feb 2021 (R), Cheese Tomato Rice - Testing Recipe (R) D - Costco Bulgogi, Sugar/vinegar/spice cucumber strips and carrot sticks, rice
