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Walnut Kale and Balsamic Dip

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Dinner Tonight – French Bread with Oil, Vinegar and Walnuts
Author: Rachel Oberg – De Ma Cuisine
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Dinner tonight was fresh baked French Bread, with, I don’t even know what to call the side, not a sauce, just a mixture of yummy foods that go well together. Quick, easy, delicious.
Ingredients
  • 5 T olive oil
  • 1/4 to 1/2 C red onion
  • 2 T balsamic vinegar
  • to taste salt
  • to taste pepper
  • sprinkle nutmeg
  • pinch red pepper flakes
  • 1 clove garlic, chopped
  • 1/4 C chopped walnuts
  • 1/4 to 1/2 C chopped kale (chard, spinach, dandelion or any greens that you have on hand)
  • 1/4 C parmesan cheese
  • 1 loaf French Bread, fresh from the oven (or fresh from the store, warmed in the oven)
Instructions
  1. Saute the onion in olive oil, balsamic vinegar, salt, pepper, nutmeg, and red pepper flakes, over medium-low heat, until the onion is softening, about 5 minutes.
  2. Add garlic, walnuts and kale, cook about 3 minutes more.
  3. Serve warm, with parmesan cheese sprinkled on top (lots of it!), and scoop the mixture with hot from the oven French bread.
Notes
This would be awesome with bacon crumbled into it. (July 22, 2010)

Cooking Light’s French Bread Recipe

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Panzanella Salad

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This is my second version of Panzanella Salad (bread salad). They were both amazing. I mean, how can you go wrong with crusty bread, olive oil, parmesan, and fresh basil?! I know. You can’t. The ingredients are what I had at the time. Use what you have, and what you like!

Panzanella Salad
Author: Rachel Oberg – De Ma Cuisine
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Serves: 2
Ingredients
  • 2 C crusty bread (I used Sourdough, but French or any other stale or day old bread will work)
  • olive oil
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 15 fresh basil leaves, chopped
  • 1 fresh flat parsley leaf, chopped
  • 1/4 C balsamic vinegar
  • to taste salt
  • to taste pepper
  • pinch nutmeg
  • pinch cayenne
  • 1/4 C olive oil
  • 1/2 C summer squash, diced
  • 6 cherry tomatoes, halved or quartered
  • 1/2 C fresh mozarella
  • 1/4 C parmesan, grated
  • 1/4 C Feta
  • Also good with red onion, mushrooms, spinach… use your imagination. If you think it will taste good, try it. If it doesn’t, you know for next time.
Instructions
  1. Rub bread with garlic; cube (if it’s frozen, grate the rest into the dressing – if it’s not just grate the whole clove into the dressing)
  2. Drizzle with olive oil; broil (or toast) 5 minutes, turn, 5 min more.
  3. Chop herbs; whisk them with vinegar through cayenne. Slowly whisk in olive oil, creating an emulsion. Toss with squash through feta.
  4. Toss with bread right before serving.
Notes
July 22, 2010

 

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BBQ Chicken Stuffed Avocados

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BBQ Chicken Stuffed Avocados
Author: Rachel Oberg – De Ma Cuisine
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Serves: 2
Ingredients
  • handful crushed corn chips
  • 2 avocados, halved, scooped out of the skin
  • BBQ’d chicken with lots of BBQ sauce, removed from bones (re-heated)
  • Polenta (re-heat with BBQ sauce)
Instructions
  1. Place corn chips in the bottom of a bowl. Top it with avocado and spoon the Polenta on one side, chicken on the other.
  2. Shave pieces of Parmesan cheese on top.
Notes
Original meal: 1 pack of chicken (4 legs, 4 lg wings), 1 jar (about 2 C) BBQ sauce, sliced zucchini, squash and carrots: all in the crock pot for 6 1/2 hours on low. Served with Cheesy Polenta (polenta with a few kinds of cheese melted in).[br][br]Sunday, July 18, 2010[br] We had this for dinner tonight, re-purposing some leftovers. It was so good!

 

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Strawberry-Basil Sandwich

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It’s perfect for this time of year (fresh basil from my garden and locally grown strawberries). Part of the idea is actually from something that Tim told me he made while I was in Colorado last week (strawberries on a sandwich). Sorry, I could have taken a photo, but, it didn’t last long enough. This was so good I didn’t want to eat anything else with it!!

Strawberry-Basil Sandwich
Author: Rachel Oberg – De Ma Cuisine
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I just invented the most amazing sandwich.
Ingredients
  • 1 rustic roll (or hunk of crusty bread)
  • 1t spicy brown mustard
  • 1t balsamic vinegar
  • 1t extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 strawberries, thinly sliced
  • 4 basil leaves, fresh, torn
  • 1t red onion, diced
  • 4 slices parmesan cheese (or enough to cover the roll)
Instructions
  1. Bake roll (to crisp outside, and heat inside – don’t slice before baking) 350 degrees, 7 minutes.
  2. Prepare toppings.
  3. Halve roll; spread with mustard. Pour oil and vinegar over, press halves together (to let oil and vinegar soak in).
  4. Top with remaining ingredients.

(From June 20, 2010)

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Sweet Onion Mac and Cheese with Croutons

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Rach’s Sweet Onion Mac and Cheese with Croutons
Author: Rachel Oberg – De Ma Cuisine
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Serves: 2-3
Ingredients
  • 1/2 LB whole wheat elbow macaroni
  • Croutons: pinch cayenne
  • pinch basil
  • to taste salt
  • to taste pepper
  • 1 T Parmesan cheese
  • 2-3 T olive oil
  • 1 C cubed bread (1″ cubes)
  • Pasta: 1 T olive oil
  • 1 onion (or a few spring onions), diced
  • 1 T fresh oregano and basil (or whatever herbs you think would taste nice together), chopped
  • 1 T honey
  • 5 cloves garlic, diced
  • 2 T flour
  • 1/2 C yogurt
  • 1/2 to 1 C pasta water
  • 1/2 C cauliflower, pureed
  • 1-2 C grated cheese (mixture of any: Parmesan, Monterey Jack, Sharp Cheddar, Mozzarella)
  • to taste Salt
  • to taste pepper
  • pinch nutmeg
  • 1 C Milk
Instructions
  1. Cook pasta.
  2. Prepare croutons: Combine basil, cayenne,salt and pepper, and Parmesan with a bit of olive oil. Pour over cubed bread. Bake at 350 F for 10-20 minutes, or until toasty, flipping once halfway through.
  3. While pasta and croutons are cooking: Heat a medium-sized skillet and add 1 T olive oil. Add onions and cook over med-heat for about 5 minutes. Add herbs; 2 min; add honey; cook until onions are soft; add garlic; 1 min (don’t let the garlic burn!).
  4. Add flour; whisk in; 30 sec; add milk; whisk in; add yogurt; whisk in; add pasta water; whisk in; add cauliflower, whisk in; let it thicken, but do not boil.
  5. Turn heat to very low and add cheese; whisk in (whisking like a figure-8). Add salt, pepper, and nutmeg. Taste and adjust seasoning if needed.
  6. Pour cheese sauce over pasta and combine.
  7. Serve topped with croutons and a sprinkle of Parmesan cheese.
Notes
May 14, 2010