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Ready to Cook Ham

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Around Christmas and Easter, and a few other times, you can find ready to cook hams in the grocery. They come in a shank portion and a butt portion. I go with the shank portion because it has less gristle and is easier to carve. A ready to cook ham has been wet cured and needs to be cooked to reach an internal temperature of 160.

Ham also definitely falls under my budget meals category. This 8 pound ham cost just over 10$. Sometimes it’s more than that, I’ve paid double or triple, but this is still a good price. An 8lb ham serves about 15 dinner size servings, and the bone provides a wonderful base for blackeyed pea soup or vegetable soup. The price per serving of this meal was literally about $1.25. Of course we’ll need to be committed to eating ham sandwiches for the next while, but who doesn’t love a jambon-beurre sandwich?

8 lb ready to cook ham
water

In a glass pan, place rinsed ham, then add about an inch of water to the pan. Cook in an oven preheated to 325. Needs to cook for about 18 minutes per pound to an internal temperature of 160.

To carve, slice thin slices down to bone, then cut along bone to free slices. Turn ham to other side and repeat. Save shank bone in freezer for later use.

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Tortilla Soup

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Everyone seems to have their own version for tortilla soup. Some are thick, some are thin, some are creamy, some are brothy, some are red, some are green. This one’s mine. Without the fried tortilla strips, this soup wouldn’t be much. It would still taste good, but the tortilla strips make the meal.
I don’t think I’d ever had tortilla soup before I moved to Texas, but it is prolific here. You can adjust the spiciness to your liking, and optional toppings include avocado strips, cilantro, fresh lime, and shredded cheese.
For the fried tortilla strips, take caution in heating your oil to the proper temperature. Frying at lower temperatures results in extra oil absorption, 375 really is the perfect temp. I generally use canola oil for frying, for reasons I’ve discussed here. But you could also fry in another oil with a high smoke point like peanut oil, grapeseed oil, sunflower, or safflower oils to your liking.
Chicken Tortilla Soup
1 whole chicken
4 split breasts with skin
5 stalks celery chopped
1 large or 2 small yellow onions, diced (not sweet, or maui, but yellow – white will work if you can’t find them)
3/4 of a 1lb bag of baby carrots
4 cloves whole garlic
1-2 tsps crushed red pepper
1 diced yellow onion ( this is not a repeat it’s for a separate step)
2 tsp oregano leaves
2 cloves garlic
4 bay leaves whole
1/2 a jalapeno, seeds removed and finely chopped
1 1/2 large cans diced organic tomatoes – get the most expensive kind at the grocery – it doesn’t cost that much more – but adds alot – if you can find the ones in glass instead of canned – even better
10 tortillas
a whole bunch of canola oil
I use an 8qt stock pot – but really I wish I had a bigger one

I use a leftover roasted whole chicken. I roast a lot of chickens, and we only eat the breasts so this is essentially a whole chicken sans breasts. Before I roast it I add 4 garlic cloves, 1 lemon quartered, 2 tsp salt, and 1/2 tsp pepper to the inside. After I make it and serve it, I throw the whole thing in a bag in the freezer and it will keep for several months if needed.

Pull the chicken from the freezer, put in pot, add split breasts, cover with water and add 1 1/2 tbsps salt. Cover, bring to a boil, then turn heat to medium and cook for at least an hour – the longer the better. Add celery, onions, carrots, garlic, and red pepper. Cook for another hour at least. Really you can’t overcook this, use as much time as you can gather.

Saute onion in a separate pan in olive oil – about 2 swirls. Keep it on medium high, but watch it to make sure you don’t burn your onions. Cook til soft and translucent, probably 10 minutes. Halfway through, season with salt, pepper and oregano. Add garlic, jalapeno, and bay leaves, saute for 3 more minutes. Add tomatoes, season with salt and pepper and cook for 4-5 more minutes. Turn off heat.

Remove chicken from soup to a large bowl. The longer you’ve cooked it the more it will be falling apart, so you will need to carefully go through the soup with a slotted spoon to get all the pieces. Discard everything but your split breasts. Pull the bones and skin from the split breasts and shred the chicken. It will be very easy and just fall apart.

Add tomato and onion mixture to stock, then add shredded chicken. Stir and let simmer for 20-30 min then taste and adjust seasonings.

In a large, heavy bottom skillet add about an inch to an inch and a half of canola oil. Heat until 375 – this is vital, if you don’t have a thermometer, heat for 8 min on high then start testing with teensy pieces of tortilla. You want it to instantly bubble heavily when added. Cut tortillas into strips. Add about 10-15 at a time to oil and turn occasionally, frying until golden. Remove to plate covered with paper towels and salt immediately with sea salt. Repeat. Watch your heat, at some point, you will have to reduce the heat from high to med-high. You can tell when the tortillas start browning nearly immediately or if your thermometer reads over 400.

Serve soup with tortilla strips on top. You can also garnish with avocado slices and cilantro if you so choose, but I never go to the trouble, of course, I don’t really like those.

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Last week Central Market had whole chickens on sale for an absurd price. Actually whole chickens are often very inexpensive and provide the base for an additional soup meal. You know how people always talk about how much money you can save cooking at home instead of eating out? If you ate like this every day, you would. I like to experiment, so I’m not sure that we save any money in the long run, but we eat well and I can control everything that goes into our bodies. This dinner fed the four of us, plus leftovers for the kids school lunches for a grand total of about $8. And I could have made that under $5 by using bulk rice or lentils or another bulk grain instead of the Near East boxed couscous. That link is to the Roasted Garlic and Olive Oil flavor instead of the Herbed Chicken shown in the picture. We grabbed the wrong box from the grocery likely while trying to wrangle small toddlers from tearing open the dried beans to pour all over the aisle.

Cabbage costs absolutely nothing, like 79 cents or something. The secret to mine is sauteing in a tiny bit of bacon grease. Yumm. Cabbage is a cruciferous vegetable, like broccoli, kale, and brussel sprouts. If you clicked on that link and read any of it, it seems to prevent nearly every kind of cancer with amazing results.

Make sure you save your chicken carcass for a soup base, I’m making tortilla soup with mine.

Whole Roasted Chicken

3.5 lb whole chicken
1/2 of a small lemon, cut into quarters
4 cloves of garlic, peeled and crushed a little
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp fresh ground pepper
paprika
olive oil

Preheat oven to 400. Rinse chicken, remove any giblets and pat dry. Put salt and pepper in chicken cavity. Place lemon and garlic cloves inside chicken cavity. Place chicken on a rack in a roasting pan. Drizzle with olive oil, then sprinkle with paprika, kosher salt, and fresh ground pepper. Cook for approx 16 minutes per pound, though check to ensure chicken reaches an internal temperature of 160. Let rest for 10 minutes then carve and serve.

Sauteed Cabbage

1/2 head of green cabbage, sliced thinly
1/2 tbsp bacon grease
kosher salt and fresh ground pepper

In a cast iron skillet, warm the bacon grease over medium heat. Add cabbage and saute until cabbage turns a bright green and softens about 7 minutes.

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Super Thin Crust Pizza

I grew up near the best pizza restaurant in the the free world. Agatucci’s is unlike any other pizza I’ve ever eaten and has such a place in my heart, I’ve regularly considered moving back to the midwest just so I could eat it more frequently. I periodically have bursts of intense homesickness and have to plan a trip all brought forth from just thinking about this pizza. I took seriously amateur dance and gymnastics across the street as a kid and my best friend’s grandmother lived in the neighborhood behind the restaurant. It is such a place of memories for me, it brings tears to my eyes.
If you clicked through to that link for Agatucci’s above, you no doubt read the restaurant has been handed down between four generations of sons. What lucky sons! I know restaurants can be all-consuming of your time, energy, and resources, but I envy anyone who has a “family business.” Let alone in food!
I’m going to try and go with a two picture method today to point out some unique characteristics of this style of pizza. Please try to ignore my 10 million year old oven in the background. One day, a gourmet kitchen and I will come together in bliss. And yes, I broke my oven thermometer in the pizza making process, hence its disheveled appearance in the background. My oven has a mind of its own and suddenly started heating 35-45 degrees hotter than the setting this year.
So key items to note include: toppings go nearly edge to edge, this crust is so thin, the pizza is cut in small rectangles instead of triangles, the tiger sauce in the first picture, and the baking apparatus. I used a yeastless dough recipe, cause in this style you really don’t want your crust rising at all. I’ve no idea if this is how Agatucci’s does it, it’s just my attempt at recreation of greatness. I was pleased with the consistency of the dough and the texture. I mentioned last week that I’d asked Agatucci’s how they baked their pizza and they’d told me no pan just direct in the oven. Well that wouldn’t work with my oven rack so I went in search of the pizza disc you see here. Those holes go all the way through, providing more direct heat to the crust. I’m not sure if I think it was better or not, so next time I am also going to try one on a pizza stone to compare textures. I had a hard time figuring out how to move my paper-thin rolled pizza onto the 16-inch disc, so I wound up doing some final rolling on the disc, which resulted in little hole dents in the bottom of my crust.
I tried rolling on wax paper, but the dang paper kept getting folded and torn. I wasn’t sure how to move it direct from the counter, so I didn’t go that route. What I think would actually work best would be a large silicone sheet the size of your disc that you could roll on, then pick up and flip your crust onto the surface. I guess maybe that’s the theory with the pizza peels, that you flip it and drop it, I had never used one though and was imagining trying to slide off the pizza and thinking that will never work! I would think a large cutting board would work as well.
My sauce could have been zippier, but wasn’t bad. I’m thinking definitely more garlic and possibly some kind of vinegar? I’ll update it next time I try this. The cheese was definitely not quite right. In my research, I came across a kind of cheese called provel, which is used in St. Louis style pizza, specifically Imo’s. It’s a blend of cheddar, swiss, and provolone. My sister thought it was Velveeta, and apparently, she’s not the only one. I’ve had Imo’s and I just don’t remember it making a big impression. But the cheese is consistently described as tangy, so I was wondering what a blend of mozzarella and swiss might do for my pizza? Something to try.
I meant to make my own sausage topping for this pizza but the process and research became all consuming and my husband over-ruled me and went out and bought pepperoni. So made the crust, topped to edge with sauce, topped to edge with mozzarella, then added pepperonis and a sprinkling of white onion. Serve topped with the Tiger Sauce, a garlic flavored vinaigrette purchased at Agatucci’s. You could probably call them and they’d mail it to you!
Crust:
1 3/4 c. all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp salt
3/4 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 tsp olive oil
1 1/2 tsp dark corn syrup
3/8 c. water
Mix all ingredients until thouroghly combined, shape into a ball and roll out until paper thin.
Sauce:
28 oz can puree tomatoes
14 oz drained petite diced tomatoes
1 tbsp green bell pepper, finely chopped
2 tbsp yellow onion, finely chopped
1 clove garlic, minced
1 tsp thyme
1 tsp oregano
salt and pepper
Put all ingredients for sauce in food processor and puree until smooth. Pour into saucepan and heat on lowest heat for 15 minutes. Cool before using.
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Blackened Red Snapper

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Well, I should have had the seafood watch app on my iphone. Cause it looks like I went ahead and bought red snapper which is on the avoid list due to overfishing. Seafood has gotten incredibly hard to buy, I think. There are the environmental concerns to be aware of, then there are the health concerns, then there’s the local food concept to consider as well. The fishmonger at Central Market suggested a Hawaiian fish instead of my snapper, but I don’t live anywhere near Hawaii, and it was farm raised. It’s complicated. Next time, I’ll take the extra time to go to the local seafood store and I’ll see what are options are. Anyway, it was delicious. Spicy, but delicious. Served with roasted asparagus and quinoa.

 

I used this blackened seasoning. Take note, this stuff is hot. I only blackened one side, and I thought I was fairly gentle with it, but it was hot. So use with care.

 

1.5 lbs fresh red snapper fillets
blackening seasoning
Murray River Salt
olive oil

 

Rinse fillets and pat dry. Rub fillets with olive oil on both sides, sprinkle surface with blackening seasoning, then sprinkle lightly with salt. Cook in a grill pan in a 400 degree oven for about 15 minutes depending on thickness of fillets. Cook until flesh is opaque.
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Sliced Chicken Salad

My husband wanted chicken salad for dinner and I was all, umm okay, gross. I hate mayonnaise. And he was all, what? And I realized he meant a green salad with chicken on it, not that other stuff people serve on bread and call a sandwich. This is totally not a recipe, but I’ll just give you a picture and shout out to one of my favorite salad finds.

Brianna’s Salad Dressings. Brianna’s is made by Del Sol Foods in Brenahm, TX. Back when I was a working person, they were a customer of my former employer, Megabyte Express. I love the French Vinaigrette, but my husband is partial to a combo of the French Vinaigrette and the Blush Wine Vinaigrette. The french vinaigrette is also delicious over hot pasta. I have always been envious of people who’ve made their life’s work in the food business. How awesome would it be to create and manufacture salad dressings? I wonder if they have a factory tour…. hmmm….

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Banana Bread

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This recipe comes from my Great Aunt Marguerite, who I am embarrassed to say I can’t actually remember who she’s related to. I know she’s on my mother’s side, but past that I can’t remember. (Sorry Mom!) The sour cream is allegedly the key, though I’ve used yogurt as well and also like that. The official substitution guidelines call for adding a teaspoon of baking soda per cup of yogurt, but I don’t really remember doing that. I may have to do a food science experiment on this one. I’m not sure, but I *think* you’re adding extra baking soda because the yogurt contains more acid and the baking soda is what neutralizes it. I couldn’t google any confirmation of the acidity levels, but I may just be using the improper terms. I’ll check with Robert Shimmin and I’ll do the experiment next week.
In case you’re wondering who Robert Shimmin is, he’s a guy I went to school with. He came to our school in the 5th grade and is far and away the smartest person anyone will ever meet. And I knew/know a lot of smart kids. As an example, when studying colligative properties in chemistry one time, I was musing if fish die when lighting strikes the ocean since the salt in the water conducts electricity. Robert knew *off the top of his head* the equation to determine the radius fish would die. The guy’s crazy smart. It’s awesome. I wish every one grew up with a kid like him.
This recipe is a total conundrum for me because I don’t like bananas, sour cream, or walnuts, yet I kind of like this bread. It’s strangely addictively good. And the family likes it.
1/2 c. butter
1 c. sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
2-3 mashed bananas
1.5 c. flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 c. sour cream
1/2 c. finely chopped walnuts
Cream butter and sugar together. Then add eggs and vanilla. Add other ingredients, stir just enough to blend.
Pour into a greased loaf pan. Bake 1 hour in a 350 degree oven.
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I’m dying for summer. Borderline hysterical. I just feel like a better person with warm sunshine on my skin. Plus my Aerogarden is being totally overwhelmed by my mint. So I dubbed tonight mojito night and planned out a Cuban inspired chicken dish to complement. Not that I’ve been to Cuba, but I drove through Miami once and I read an enormous amount of food literature. Please don’t flog me if this isn’t Cuban at all. It just seemed to go with the mojito.
There’s a link to the Orange Saltburst from Austin’s own Spiceburst below. I found this company in a buy local project and loved them because I am always on the hunt for well thought gourmet food products. I highly recommend them!
It could have been spicier too. I’d definitely up the crushed red pepper next time, but if you don’t like the heat, this will add the flavor without the pain.
3 split chicken breasts
juice of 3 lemons
juice of 2 mandarins
1 c. olive oil
4 cloves garlic, crushed
1.5 tsp cumin
1.5 tsp crushed red pepper
1/2 tsp fresh ground pepper
Place chicken breasts in a large ziploc bag. Add juices, oil, and spices, shake until mixed. Let marinate in fridge for 2 hours.
Preheat oven to 425. Remove chicken from bag, letting any additional marinade drip into bag, then discard. Place chicken in a glass casserole and cook until it reaches an internal temp of 165. About 40 minutes.
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Corned Beef Sandwiches

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I’ve always wanted to make a fresh corned beef, but I’ve never seen one and didn’t really know the process involved in the “corning”. Lo in behold, at the almighty Costco, I found a fresh one a few weeks before St. Patrick’s Day. I have no idea if I’ll see one of these again, and if I do, it likely won’t be until next March. After an inspection of the packaging, and a few googles, it seems you can corn your own brisket via a brine and pickling spice mixture. I may try that out as well.

The flavor was wonderful and the process extremely easy. Only exception being that I totally cut mine wrong. I *know* what cutting against the grain means, but somehow, my brain turned to a mush-like jelly substance and I just did it wrong. Oh well. So, I decided to settle for chopped corned beef sandwiches instead of my original idea.

Did you know sauerkraut used to be taken on sea voyages to prevent scurvy? Me neither. The brine keeps the Vitamin C from being oxidized during storage. It has multiple cancer-fighting compounds and other nutrients as well as being low calorie, albeit high-sodium. But variety’s the key, right?

The beer’s for tenderizing and flavor. If you can’t get Shiner Bock, you should move. But preventing that, just use any kind of dark beer you want.

Fresh Corned Beef

Water

Shiner Bock Beer

Place corned beef plus accumulated juices in a stock pot, cover with water and add 1 Shiner Bock beer. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to a simmer and cook for 3.5 -4 hours.

Slice Against the grain and serve.

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This recipe came from a Williams-Sonoma Simple Classics Cookbook, which appallingly, Williams-Sonoma seems to no longer sell. I have cooked the bulk of recipes from this book, and with the exception of a disastrous Baked Sea Bass with Fennel many years ago, this book is chalk full of solid dishes. I’ve made this recipe more times than I can count, and even have had better than average results from non-seafood eaters. In fact, I think this recipe may have inspired my friend Angela to introduce seafood to her diet.

I make my breadcrumbs from the end pieces of Orowheat Oatnut bread. I’ve linked to their site before, but after just checking again, their products page STILL seems to be under construction, so I’m not going to bother again. When we finish a loaf I throw the two end pieces in the freezer, and when I have a bunch of them, I grind them up in the Cuisinart and freeze the breadcrumbs for later use. It was a handy tip I picked up from an Austin Mama that fits in well with my efforts to reduce our food waste.

I’m also a bit of a horseradish snob. Or maybe just picky. We like the kind of horseradish we call kick-your-dog-hot. Not because we would possibly ever kick an animal, but because once, when making homemade horseradish, my eyes were watering so badly I tripped over the dog, resulting in my husband asking if the finished product would be kick-your-dog-hot. It stuck, even though my attempts at making homemade freshly prepared horseradish have not. After all the pain of grating, mine just wasn’t that hot. But, the Silver Springs Organic Brand Horseradish is the best I’ve found. Horseradish can be tricky to find in the grocery store, too. ALWAYS buy the refrigerated kind. It’s usually on a high shelf somewhere near the dairy/biscuits/butter/eggs section.

My sister found the most wonderful store for mushrooms in Dallas. Spiceman’s FM 1410 is full of fresh from the farm produce and always has an incredible mushroom selection. Plus they are full of tips. And unusually nice. People can often be so snotty about food and cooking, this is the absolute opposite experience. I may just have to move across town so I can hit the store more often.

breadcrumbs

1/2 lb small fresh mushrooms

1/4 c. butter

1 large or 2 small shallots, chopped

juice from 1 1/2 lemons

3 tbsps dijon mustard

1 1/2 tbsps prepared horseradish

1/4 freshly grated Parmesan Cheese

1/2 c. sour cream

salt and freshly ground pepper

5 sole fillets

Position a rack in the lower part of an oven and preheat the oven to 425. Butter a flameproof baking dish that will accommodate the fish fillets in a single layer without crowding.

Clean the mushrooms by brushing them with a paper towel; do not wash. Slice thinly and set aside.

In a saute pan over medium-low heat, melt the butter. Add the shallots and saute, stirring, for 1 minute. Raise the heat to medium, add the mushrooms, and cook, stirring and tossing, until the mushrooms are just wilted, 2-3 minutes. Set aside.

In a bowl, stir together the lemon juice, mustard, horseradish, Parmesan cheese, and sour cream until well blended. Add to the mushrooms, return to the heat, and bring just to a simmer. Stir to blend and season to taste with salt and pepper.

Rinse the sole fillets and pat dry. Place in the prepared baking dish i a single layer ad spoon the sauce over the fillets. Sprinkle the bread crumbs evenly over the top. Bake until the fish is opaque through-out when pierced with a sharp knife, 10-20 minutes, depending on thickness.

Serve at once.

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