Dinner tonight: a casserole based loosely on Chiles Rellenos.
Dinner tonight: a casserole based loosely on Chiles Rellenos. For no sane reason, I dragged myself around trying to find real Mexican cheese, in which endeavor I was more successful than I'd have hoped, otherwise using researched as acceptable substitutes. So cheese mix consisted of chihuahua, fresco, telleme, and ricotta. The telleme was suggested as a sub for asadero, the ricotta for requeson.
There were two main departures from real CR. One, obs, no egg white fluffy dip and fry coating. Two, filled with combo of black beans and cheese. Cheese, or fancy concoctions of ground meat and spices, etc. are the two forms of which I am aware. So beans were prepped with cumin, oregano, cilantro, chopped onion, chopped garlic, lime juice.
Poblanos (fresh from farmers market) were roasted, peeled, deseeded and stuffed with prepared beans and mix o' cheese. Placed into casserole dish, covered with simple tomato sauce (based on something you might serve with real CR), and Moar Cheez (just chihuahua and fresco mix). Baked then eated. The one on the end has no cheese in or on because my dad can no longer eat cheese (looks sad).
The more cooking for future meals consisted of a thai influenced 'pumpkin' curry. Have I mentioned I am completely jazzed about finding the little vietnamese grocery? Turns out, I could have gotten the real deal southeast asian squash there, but I got kabocha at the farmers market already. Where I had also acquired organic purple potatoes.
Red curry paste, coconut milk, a little extra minced up lemon grass, chunks o' onion, chunks o' potato, chunks o' squash (I precooked it a little bit so it wouldn't have too different of a cooking time). Finished off with fresh thai basil. It turned out this pretty golden orange color, which looked pretty cool with chunks of very orange squash and purple potatoes in it.
There were two main departures from real CR. One, obs, no egg white fluffy dip and fry coating. Two, filled with combo of black beans and cheese. Cheese, or fancy concoctions of ground meat and spices, etc. are the two forms of which I am aware. So beans were prepped with cumin, oregano, cilantro, chopped onion, chopped garlic, lime juice.
Poblanos (fresh from farmers market) were roasted, peeled, deseeded and stuffed with prepared beans and mix o' cheese. Placed into casserole dish, covered with simple tomato sauce (based on something you might serve with real CR), and Moar Cheez (just chihuahua and fresco mix). Baked then eated. The one on the end has no cheese in or on because my dad can no longer eat cheese (looks sad).
The more cooking for future meals consisted of a thai influenced 'pumpkin' curry. Have I mentioned I am completely jazzed about finding the little vietnamese grocery? Turns out, I could have gotten the real deal southeast asian squash there, but I got kabocha at the farmers market already. Where I had also acquired organic purple potatoes.
Red curry paste, coconut milk, a little extra minced up lemon grass, chunks o' onion, chunks o' potato, chunks o' squash (I precooked it a little bit so it wouldn't have too different of a cooking time). Finished off with fresh thai basil. It turned out this pretty golden orange color, which looked pretty cool with chunks of very orange squash and purple potatoes in it.
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