WHAT IS FOR LUNCH!??!?! A thread to discuss most important decision of the work day!
I need to get a good recipe for this. I use the Serious Eats recipe adapted for an Instant Pot. I can post it if you like.www.needlesandgrooves.com
I made it, didn’t have the CA red beans. The kidneys beans needed more time
Caldo Verde
Portuguese soup with garlicky sausage, potatoes, and greens (usually kale). I usually make it with kielbasa since I live in an area with a large Polish population. This is in my normal rotation but I haven't been able to get my hands on any acceptable sausage.
A couple of slightly different recipes that use the same basic ideas:
Caldo Verde (Portuguese Potato and Kale Soup With Sausage) Recipe
Kale Soup With Potatoes and Sausage Recipe
Though kale probably originated in the dry heat of the Mediterranean, it became a fixture in the kitchens of northern Europe In Scotland, according to the author Elizabeth Schneider, "to come to cail," was an invitation to come to dinner Recent devotees extol the virtues of undercooked kalecooking.nytimes.com
I made a giant batch of the Serious Eats version of this a couple of weekends ago, but withheld the meat for my vegetarian wife. I've tried it once with Trader Joe's soyrizo, but the flavor wasn't right. It's still pretty good without the sausage, although I do drop in a big dollop of Hungarian paprika paste to make up for some of the loss in flavor. My wife doesn't love the texture of mushrooms, but I wonder if maybe cooking some down into a duxelles-like consistency and then dumping that into it would work to amp up the umami.Caldo Verde
Portuguese soup with garlicky sausage, potatoes, and greens (usually kale). I usually make it with kielbasa since I live in an area with a large Polish population. This is in my normal rotation but I haven't been able to get my hands on any acceptable sausage.
A couple of slightly different recipes that use the same basic ideas:
Caldo Verde (Portuguese Potato and Kale Soup With Sausage) Recipe
Kale Soup With Potatoes and Sausage Recipe
Though kale probably originated in the dry heat of the Mediterranean, it became a fixture in the kitchens of northern Europe In Scotland, according to the author Elizabeth Schneider, "to come to cail," was an invitation to come to dinner Recent devotees extol the virtues of undercooked kale
Caldo Verde
Portuguese soup with garlicky sausage, potatoes, and greens (usually kale). I usually make it with kielbasa since I live in an area with a large Polish population. This is in my normal rotation but I haven't been able to get my hands on any acceptable sausage.
A couple of slightly different recipes that use the same basic ideas:
Caldo Verde (Portuguese Potato and Kale Soup With Sausage) Recipe
Kale Soup With Potatoes and Sausage Recipe
Though kale probably originated in the dry heat of the Mediterranean, it became a fixture in the kitchens of northern Europe In Scotland, according to the author Elizabeth Schneider, "to come to cail," was an invitation to come to dinner Recent devotees extol the virtues of undercooked kale
Forgot to mention that I've also taken to replacing the meat with cannellini beans. SE's version doesn't call for the balsamic or for the tomatoes, but those sound like worthwhile additions as well.
Seitan doesn't seem to bother her. I think it's a mental block from the wasteland years of vegetarianism in the late 90s where she got served one too many slimy portobello 'burgers.'
Oo. Haven't ever tried this, but I'm interested. Got a direction to point me in?
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Oo. Haven't ever tried this, but I'm interested. Got a direction to point me in?
Also on the topic of kale and tomatoes, last night I made this, which has become a go-to family pleaser recipe template at our house:
Recipe: Sukuma Wiki (African Braised Kale with Tomatoes)
Yesterday Cambria shared a family recipe for African peanut stew, a celebratory dish made with beef, spices, and rich peanut butter. The classic side dish for this meal — and indeed, nearly any meal throughout much of eastern Africa — is sukuma wiki, braised greens with a very apt meaning to...
It's not much more than just some braised kale, but it's a good foundation for a meal to go into our regular rotation.
I usually start by frying up some chickpeas in the pan I'm going to cook the rest in, and then I set them aside and add them back in at the very end. I also usually start some farro in stock up at the same time as the chickpeas, and then whatever cooking liquid is left over from the farro ends up being the liquid that goes into the kale pot toward the end of the recipe. With the chickpea/grain addition, this ends up being a pretty hearty dish either as a complete meal, or a good accompaniment to some roasted chicken or something.
Oo. Haven't ever tried this, but I'm interested. Got a direction to point me in?
Also on the topic of kale and tomatoes, last night I made this, which has become a go-to family pleaser recipe template at our house:
Recipe: Sukuma Wiki (African Braised Kale with Tomatoes)
Yesterday Cambria shared a family recipe for African peanut stew, a celebratory dish made with beef, spices, and rich peanut butter. The classic side dish for this meal — and indeed, nearly any meal throughout much of eastern Africa — is sukuma wiki, braised greens with a very apt meaning to...
It's not much more than just some braised kale, but it's a good foundation for a meal to go into our regular rotation.
I usually start by frying up some chickpeas in the pan I'm going to cook the rest in, and then I set them aside and add them back in at the very end. I also usually start some farro in stock up at the same time as the chickpeas, and then whatever cooking liquid is left over from the farro ends up being the liquid that goes into the kale pot toward the end of the recipe. With the chickpea/grain addition, this ends up being a pretty hearty dish either as a complete meal, or a good accompaniment to some roasted chicken or something.
That sounds like a winner, and probably a lot more flavorful than the coriander/turmeric/cumin combo in the one I posted, which is fairly subtle.
