Archive for the ‘Cooking Misadventures’ Category

Pumpkin Chicken Soup

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

Im still trying to get rid of my Hurricane Katrina rations. Here’s a terrible soup I came up with today. I couldnt finish the bowl.
Pumpkin Chicken Soup - Montage

Difficulty: Easy
Time: 2 minutes prep + 10 minutes cooking

Ingredients

  • Canned pumpkin
  • Campbell’s cream of chicken soup
  • Nutmeg
  • Salt & pepper
  • 1 Cup of water
  • Some half and half or cream
  • Parsley>

Directions

  1. Put all the ingredients in pot
  2. Cook pot on low heat until boiling for about 10 - 15 minutes
  3. Serve and garnish with chopped parsley

Meatpile

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

Today, I decided to add a new section to this blog. Primarily related to my ridiculous misadventures in the kitchen. I tend to make things off the top of my head and just throw anything in there that I feel like. Today’s ridiculous invention is:

Difficulty: Easy to Medium
Time: 20 minutes prep + 60 minutes baking
Meatpile CookedMeatpile is a dish that I invented because I didnt have the right pan to make a loaf. I also didnt have any bread to make breadcrumbs, or onions. This is one of my usual heavily substituted dishes!

Ingredients

  • 1 package Jennie-o Ground Turkey (extra lean)
  • 1 package Jennie-o Breakfast sausage
  • 2 eggs
  • Small can of tomato paste
  • Heinz Tomato Ketchup
  • Worcestershire Sauce
  • Garlic Powder
  • Pepper
  • Some flour

Directions

  1. Set your oven to 350 degrees C
  2. Grease the bottom of a large baking dish (clearly to large for your meat)
  3. In a large mixing bowl, add the ground turkey, turkey sausage (squeeze them out of the casings first), tomato paste, garlic powder, pepper, some flour (just a little), 2 eggs (or one for less mushy result)
  4. Using your hands, mix everything together until it is mixed thoroughly
  5. Put the pile of meat in the baking dish in whatever shape you like. Average thickness should be 3 - 4 inches
  6. Coat the top of the meatpile in Ketchup and smooth it around the edges (see picture>
  7. Bake for 60 minutes
  8. Serve and enjoy!

It actually is not that good. It was kinda mushy. In regular meatloaf, you are supposed to use breadcrumbs. Let me know what you think!