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Post by cristina on Aug 22, 2009 5:29:45 GMT
I put creamed corn in my beef stew dumplings - mmmmm! Tell me about creamed corn in the beef stew dumplings, please. *Reclines as she awaits a story of food erotica....* ~C (seriously, breaking my spell, I have never heard of creamed corn in the dumplings.) |
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Post by imec on Aug 22, 2009 5:31:37 GMT
Just substitute creamed corn for some of the milk. A little bit of old cheddar is nice too...
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Post by cristina on Aug 22, 2009 5:40:47 GMT
Just substitute creamed corn for some of the milk. A little bit of old cheddar is nice too... This has never occurred to me. Thank you! I'm actually still working on cooking for fewer as children flee the nest. Everything I want to do, food-wise, feeds 6, and yet there are just 2 of us now (including the one who refuses leftovers.) Your recipe sounds nice, so long as I can figure out what to do with the rest of the creamed corn. ;-) |
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Post by imec on Aug 22, 2009 5:44:41 GMT
Well, I only make stew in the winter - a time when I also make soups and other things in large batches for the freezer (that way, my family has all sorts of stuff to eat while I'm travelling). Things like leftover creamed corn usually find their way into a soup or casserole of some sort.
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Post by auntieannie on Aug 23, 2009 10:39:57 GMT
oooh, Imec! a man according to my heart!
Yes, Cristina, cook your meal for six and freeze in portions?
Or maybe you could start a thread and we would help you adapt the recipes for two?
Also, you don't need to tell "the one who refuses leftovers" that there are leftovers in his plate... or you could leave him to cook for himself?
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 23, 2009 15:54:33 GMT
If you eat fried food, creamed corn would work in hush puppies or some other kind of fritter.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2009 16:18:10 GMT
Also, you don't need to tell "the one who refuses leftovers" that there are leftovers in his plate... or you could leave him to cook for himself? I knew somebody who threw all leftovers into the trash immediately. I am still hoping that there will be a famine some day. (And yes, I will eat dumplings when the time comes.) |
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 23, 2009 16:26:37 GMT
*cringe*
Boy, if there is one thing I think "is all in their heads", it's people who won't eat leftovers. Okay, maybe they were traumatized by a wet tossed salad or re-fried liver or something in their childhoods, but to refuse something simply because there was an excess of it for one meal is infantile and criminally wasteful.
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Post by cristina on Aug 23, 2009 19:31:48 GMT
Yes, Cristina, cook your meal for six and freeze in portions? Or maybe you could start a thread and we would help you adapt the recipes for two? Also, you don't need to tell "the one who refuses leftovers" that there are leftovers in his plate... or you could leave him to cook for himself? I do freeze portions, however I have limited freezer space so I really am trying to cook in smaller quantities. Really, its more a matter of retraining myself. And the one who won't eat leftovers is my 14 yo daughter. She might also be the single pickiest eater that I know so I have put her in charge of cooking at least twice a week. I do eat leftovers, though, so food rarely goes to waste.  |
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 23, 2009 20:47:49 GMT
Oh, she's fourteen. I thought you were talking about a full-fledged adult male. That's a great idea to have her cooking a couple of times a week. It will probably broaden her food horizons.
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Post by cristina on Aug 24, 2009 3:26:54 GMT
Oh, she's fourteen. I thought you were talking about a full-fledged adult male. That's a great idea to have her cooking a couple of times a week. It will probably broaden her food horizons. Her Dad isn't crazy about leftovers either, except for lasagna maybe. Perhaps there is an anti-leftover gene? My older daughter hates leftovers as well. Older son, not so much (but he's a starving artist and has adapted appropriately.) And having youngest daughter in charge of cooking has been fun. She does peruse the cooking magazines that I subscribe to and has selected some dishes that I thought were yuck upon reading, but that turned out to be rather tasty. Now, if I could find a similar tactic for keeping her room tidy... |
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Post by lagatta on Aug 24, 2009 12:33:51 GMT
cristina, I doubt that will kick in much until she is about 25 or so and has special friends over she wants the house to be nice for. Special friends and sweethearts before that will probably be as messy as she is.
I'm congenitally messy, which drove my mum to distraction. I don't mean that my flat is messy now - it is very neat and clean as I write, but this is not at all spontaneous for me (see various hoarding threads).
Odd, lasagna is one thing I don't like leftover much as it gets kind of gloppy - though of course I'll eat it if there is a bit leftover. I make very small lasagne, just enough for the number of people eating.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2009 18:44:32 GMT
The only good thing I can remember about that person who threw away the leftovers was the offer after every meal "take anything you want because it's all going in the garbage."
It must be confessed that he was a German future millionaire (not millionaire yet because his parents were alive and well and kept his funds limited because he had taken the unappreciated decision of moving to Paris since he hated Germany).
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Post by cristina on Aug 24, 2009 19:05:59 GMT
lagatta, I suspect she is congenitally messy as well since her brother and sister both were more organized by this age. Back to the topic of dumplings, I did make beef stew with dumplings over the weekend (although I had no creamed corn so I couldn't try out imec's dumplings). I thought the stew was delicious but daughter wouldn't touch it.  |
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Post by lagatta on Aug 25, 2009 1:40:36 GMT
kerouac, you still haven't replied about the rather dainty and not at all stodgy Chinese and Souteast-Asian dumplings on offer at pleasant, reasonably priced little restos very close to your place.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2009 21:12:18 GMT
You mean what the French Chinese call ravioli? Those aren't dumplings. Those are pasta that fell in the broth.
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Post by lagatta on Aug 25, 2009 23:21:51 GMT
Yes, in French they are ravioli chinois, but in English I've usually heard them called dumplings.
In Italy as well ravioli and tortellini are very often served in broth rather than with a tomato or cream sauce on top.
I love those ravioli chinois and have had excellent ones a stone's throw from your place.
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