Caryatid's Recipes

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Shep'tards' Pie [WW: 8 points]

(Invented Saturday, 11/3/07)

Ingredients

• Tyson frozen chicken strips
• Market Basket frozen peas
• One can of Campbell's Cream of Mushroom Soup, 98% fat free
• Market Basket instant mashed potatoes, flake style

Instructions

1. Nuke chicken in baking dish;
2. Scatter generous layer of peas (into same dish), still frozen;
3. Glob and distribute can of soup on top of that -- taking care not to cut self or chew up spatula on sharp can edge;
4. Combine ingredients for mashed potatoes as listed on box -- oops, out of milk; compensate with extra water and another spoon of light butter; add Goya Adobo for a kick of garlic, delectible saltiness, and that little dash of ghetto class; schmear admixture on top of all the rest;
5. Bake in oven that you just remembered to start preheating, make a rough guess at about 275 deg.F, for about 40 minutes -- ooh, top is looking crunchy and delicious at the 20 minute mark, add cover to keep moisture;
6. Pat self on back with oven mitt (after safely placing baking dish); enjoy!

Comments

Outcome delightfully easy and tasty. I shall rinse and repeat. --Caryatid 12:38, 8 November 2007 (EST)

Über-Tubers Bliss [WW: 10 points]

(Invented Monday, 1/28/08)

Ingredients

• 2 potatoes (I used large white ones, but substitute at will for great justice.)
• 2 cloves of garlic, diced
• 1 small onion (It was a little-ish yellowish one; pester not the artiste for details!), chopped
• 4 tablespoons-ish Extra Virgin Olive Oil
• Sea Salt (or Kosher, why not?)
• Ground pepper
• 1 tablespoon rosemary, ground (Unless you LOVE the sensation of chewing on evergreen needles.)
• Goya Adobo (Um, yes. Always.)
• Cinnamon (Lots. I'm a Portugee! I'm allowed carte blanche!)
• Nutmeg (A little, or slightly more. Potently delicious crapola.)
• Cheddar, shredded (I used orange, pre-shredded, low fat cheddar. Cuz I'm ghetto, lazy, and prefer to consume my spare daily points in the form of CHOCOLATE.)
• Grated Parmesan cheese

Instructions

1. Boil potatoes in water, 20-25 minutes, or 'til tender.
2. Pre-heat oven to 350 deg F, while cubing 'tatoes.
3. In a roasting pan (later to be covered if you don't fear the DEATHWRAP known by the naive as aluminum foil), drizzle a little oil, then add potatoes, more oil, and all the non-cheese ingredients. Mix about; insert in pre-heated oven.
4. After 20 minutes, stir about and sprinkle cheese atop the 'tato glory.
5. After 10 more minutes, remove. Be patient, it's freaking hot. Now EAT, with or without condiments of choice.

Comments

OMG the Cordon Bleu owes me an honorary degree for this delicious bastard.

Deep Chocolate Vitamuffin-clones [WW: 1 point each]

(Ripped off online, tested & revised 5/25/08)

Servings: 24

This has been put through the recipe builder several times, for inexpensive "vitamuffins" that are truly decadent with about 3-4g fiber per muffin. Enjoy!!! (And please, vary and experiment with substitutions.)

Ingredients

• 1 ¾ cup whole wheat flour
• ¾ cup unsweetened cocoa
• 1 ½ tsp baking powder
• 1 ½ tsp baking soda
• 2Tbs + 2tsp Fiber Supplement (clear)
• ¼ tsp table salt

• 1 cup sugar
• ½ cup Fat-free Half & Half
• 3 egg whites
• ½ cup unsweetened apple sauce
• 1 ½ tsp vanilla extract
• 1 ½ Tbs vinegar

• 1 cup hot water
• ½ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips (or substitute other thingy of similar nutritional value)

Instructions

1. Preheat oven at 350 deg. Prepare 24 cupcake papers / silicone cupcake tray / cookie sheet (for ‘vitatops’).
2. Mix all dry ingredients together.
3. Then add all wet ingredients except for the hot water and chips.
4. Then slowly stir in hot water (until batter consistency is right; you may not use the full cup), and chips. Do not over mix.
5. Bake at 350 degrees for about 10-12 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
6. Let cool for 10 minutes.
7. Enjoy fresh or freeze and microwave 30-60 seconds for a delicious chocolate 1 point treat!

Comments

I think some time I'll toddle down to Harvest or similar, obtain carob powder, and play with some ratio of carob to cocoa.

Dual Spires Mango Rice [WW: ? points]

(Made up from my brain-meats and larder-loot; First try, 12/1/10)

Servings: 4

So named because I consumed it while watching the 'Psych' cross-over episode with 'Twin Peaks.' And because it's SO EFFING GOOD you pitch a two-pole tent.

Ingredients

• 3 oz dried mango (because that's what I had, and I SUCK at eviscerating fresh mango), diced
• Two small kielbasa links, coined and quartered
• 1 small can of sliced mushrooms; reserve the can-squeezings water
• Approx. 2 cups more of previously reserved 'shroom juice from when I made the vast vat of lunch salads for last week
• 1 c brown rice
• 1 c-ish, frozen corn

• Dried flaked garlic, hasty toss-in amount (to taste)
• SECRET AWESOMENESS INSPIRATION INGREDIENT: ground coriander, similar portion

• Unintended ingredient: moar water, whoops portion

Instructions

1. Dice mango. Holler at puppy.
2. Coin and quarter kielbasa. Holler at puppy. Throw sausage at puppy. Regret rewarding insolence.
3. Retrieve canned mushrooms from top shelf with a box of spaghetti. Swear and scream when kamikaze can aims for skull. Skin can of 'shroom with can opener in eye-for-eye merciless cruelty of revenge.
4. Squeeze 'shroom-can life-blood into rice cooker. Realize should have measured. Hell with it.
5. Measure in one cup brown rice.
6. Throw in chopped stuff. Do not cut self with knife; blood is not in recipe (optional, to taste).
7. Measure in previously saved 'shroom juice... 1 cup and a half is cited ratio for brown rice according to chart that came with rice cooker... measure 1 cup. Measure half cup, then realize that would leave a random half cup of 'shroom urine in the back of the fridge... throw it all in, then complain of botheration making a measuring cup dirty without sticking to the measure anyway.
8. Also corn. Whoops, measuring cup already in dishwasher; obviously dirty now. Use v. scientific method of small handfuls 'til it feels good.
9. Flip switch. Swear. Plug in rice cooker. Flip switch back on again.

1. Wait a thousand years of starvation. Fuss with organizing the spices -- alphabetical or thematic? Realize should have thought of actual flavors for meal. Throw in garlic. Sniff everything in rack, until arrival at coriander produces choir of angels Hallelujah from cilia on tongue; add. Enjoy auto-egotic back-pattings for the thousand years of starvation.

1. Upon rice cooker pop to warm, scoop to bowl and discover: flavor is delicious; rice is crunch-ay.
2. Add water, nuke 5 mins.
3. Wipe down microwave from explodey rice bombs; regret not putting a plate over it, even though it was considered and dismissed at the crucial moment. Dish still slightly crunchy; almost there. A little more water; nuke 3 mins.
4. Wipe down microwave again; yep, didn't learn lesson. Carry thermo-nuclear bowl to couch with oven mits. Unpause Sean and Gus; feast.

Pair with Cran-pomegranate Crystal Lite.

Comments

I really just need to accept that the rice cooker is not a magical fast slow-cooker that does rice too; I keep treating it as such by putting in the rice AND protein AND dried fruit AND, AND, AND... which then extends the cook time, increases the liquid needs, and pops from cook to warm while the rice is still somewhere in the range of "slightly less than elegantly al dente--hell, let's face it, full-on crunchy." Save that, this was INSPIRED and AWESOME and I'm a winner.--Caryatid 11:13, 2 December 2010 (EST)

TEMPLATE [WW: x points]

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Servings: xx

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Ingredients

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Instructions

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Comments

xxx.--Caryatid 11:13, 2 December 2010 (EST)