Friday cooking
Jan. 30th, 2026 04:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidI didn’t manage breakfast until midday, radiatore pasta with a mix of somewhat random things, including the end of some ajvar, Earth Balance, pureed basil*, pureed garlic scapes*, salt cured olives, green Manzanilla olives, fermented hot pepper*-carrot* sauce, chickpeas, and smoked sardine fillets.
The weather has me wanting hearty food, so I'd defrosted a package of beef shin meat, perhaps a pound, and realized that I wasn’t sure which type of beef stew I wanted, so I split it between two pots, a soup for dinner, and a cholent for lunch tomorrow.
The soup: onion, sweet potato*, the end of some corn* and red pepper* relish (canned 8Sept24), the end of some lemony zucchini* relish (canned 19July24), pureed garlic scapes*, a quart Ziploc of sauteed spinach* & turnip greens* (frozen 17Oct25), the canned chickpea liquid, a pint of crushed tomatoes (canned 22Aug25), some crushed Manzanilla olives, lemon juice, farro, some caramelized onion hummus, half a dozen pieces of beef, and some almonds.
The cholent: onion, potato, purple-topped turnip*, carrot*, barley, smoky tomato jam (canned 18Aug23), TVP, fermented hot pepper*-carrot* sauce (made Sept25), umami seasoning, miso, the rest of the package of beef pieces. and mustard. I wish I still had some farm share cabbage, but that was gone a while back.
* locally sourced
The weather has me wanting hearty food, so I'd defrosted a package of beef shin meat, perhaps a pound, and realized that I wasn’t sure which type of beef stew I wanted, so I split it between two pots, a soup for dinner, and a cholent for lunch tomorrow.
The soup: onion, sweet potato*, the end of some corn* and red pepper* relish (canned 8Sept24), the end of some lemony zucchini* relish (canned 19July24), pureed garlic scapes*, a quart Ziploc of sauteed spinach* & turnip greens* (frozen 17Oct25), the canned chickpea liquid, a pint of crushed tomatoes (canned 22Aug25), some crushed Manzanilla olives, lemon juice, farro, some caramelized onion hummus, half a dozen pieces of beef, and some almonds.
The cholent: onion, potato, purple-topped turnip*, carrot*, barley, smoky tomato jam (canned 18Aug23), TVP, fermented hot pepper*-carrot* sauce (made Sept25), umami seasoning, miso, the rest of the package of beef pieces. and mustard. I wish I still had some farm share cabbage, but that was gone a while back.
* locally sourced
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Date: 2026-02-02 04:49 am (UTC)Beef shin is one of my favorite cuts. I love its braised texture.
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Date: 2026-02-02 11:48 pm (UTC)(I get it partly because it does so well in long braises, and also it’s cheaper than other similar cuts from Grow & Behold.)