This month, a miscellany. (If you would like to be on or off of this monthly cooking thread ping-list, please send a private message.)
-JT
We recently visited our daughter in Oregon. She’s a world traveler, and loves all sorts of cuisine. While we were there, she had gotten some cabbage on sale, so several of our meals had cabbage in them.
She’s vegetarian/pescatarian but her fiancé is a meat eater, like us. So she often substituted seafood where we had meat.
One dish was like a Mexican type of chili. https://sunbasket.com/recipe/pinto-bean-and-hominy-pozole-rojo-with-queso-fresco
You can add chicken or pork if you’d like, but we sometimes do a vegetarian meal when we don’t want to feel weighed down. We made a pot of this last night, and it was nearly as great as hers was.
Another that we haven’t made yet is called Okonomiyaki (Japanese cabbage pancakes). They were really great too. Served alongside grilled salmon or grilled skirt steak (teriyaki type marinades). I haven’t made this recipe yet, but will be trying sometime this week. https://recipes.otafukufoods.com/recipe/simple-okonomiyaki-kansai-style/
I have a question that I’m hoping someone here can answer.
Our oven died a few weeks ago, and until we get a new one, we bought a nice toaster oven. It’s excellent for a lot that we do.
The only problem is that most of the prepared, frozen things that we buy instruct that they should NOT be done in a toaster oven.
Is this because of the container they are in, and if so, if I just put them in something else, will they do ok? (I can’t imagine that foods are manufactured for a regular oven, but instruct against a toaster oven, would have any other reason...)