Experimenting with Food

Tonight was another night in food experimentation. We had salad (nothing experimental there), steak in garlic/horseradish sauce, paprika roasted potatoes, and steamed nutty broccoli. It was nummy!!!!!!

1. Steak in garlic/horseradish sauce -- I roasted 10-15 cloves of garlic (enough to cover the bottom of an 8-9 inch baking pan) at 400 degrees for about 35-45 minutes. I then food processed the garlic and three teaspoons of horseradish together. I salted the meat and slathered the sauce on either side. Tonight I pan-fried it (didn't feel like heating up the grill), so more of the sauce came off than I wanted, but was yummy. This will be amazing on the grill!


2. Paprika roasted potatoes -- I cut about four potatoes into quarters (more than we needed for one meal), put them in a baking dish cut sides up, and sprayed the cut sides. with olive oil (I have a hand-pumped sprayer for oil). I lightly dusted the cut sides with salt, pepper, and a little tumeric, then heavily dusted (almost coated) the cut sides with paprika. A final spray of oil to keep the spices from burning and into the 400 degree oven they went for 45 minutes. Oh my!


3. Nutty broccoli -- I decided that plain steamed broccoli wouldn't hold up well with all the strong spices in the meat and potatoes. So I added lemon to the water for steaming and grated some nutmeg over the broccoli. Freshly grated nutmeg, ah that's the ticket. Turn the burner on high and set the timer for 10 minutes (yes, from the moment of turning on the water). Once it was done, I grated a little romano cheese over it. While it was yummy, the romano didn't go well with the meal, though it was wonderful with the nutmeg.

All in all, I think the recipes are keepers.

Of course, Buster (the Buick) is in the shop again with a hole in a water hose. It should be a quick fix, but wasn't considered a problem when they inspected the hoses two weeks ago while they replaced the water pump. *sigh*

S