Recipe: Creative Cooking Green RIce

Mr. Big Food cut this recipe in half, and cooked the rice in carrot stock for added goodness.

“This dish may be prepared and frozen. Bring to room temperature before baking.”—The Creative Cooking Course (1982)

CREATIVE COOKING GREEN RICE

Makes about 12 servings

10 oz broccoli, cooked, drained, chopped

2 C milk

1 stick butter

1 onion, chopped fine

2 eggs

2 recipes Basic Boiled Rice (or other boiled rice—see recipes in thi section)

1 tsp salt

2 C grated Cheddar cheese

Preheat oven to 350°. Place half the broccoli and ½ C milk in blender container and process until puréed. Process remaining broccoli with another ½ C milk. Melt butter in a small frypan, add onions, and sauté until golden. Beat egg with remaining 1 C milk. Combine all ingredients and pour into a well-buttered casserole. Cover casserole and bake 35 minutes. Remove cover and bake 10 to 15 minutes longer. 

Served with Creative Cooking Chicken Sauterne

Recipe: Broccoli Vinaigrette

This was from an early Spring Supper. Explanation for the post-it-note (TM) here.

BROCCOLI VINAIGRETTE  
Serves 6 

20 oz broccoli, cooked, drained, chopped, and chilled (can use frozen, cooked according to package directions, drained, and chilled) 

1 ½ C Italian dressing (preferably homemade—see recipes in this section) 
2 hard-cooked eggs, chopped 
2 oz jar chopped pimento, drained 
8 black olives, chopped 

Just before serving, moisten broccoli with Italian dressing, and garnish with combined eggs, pimentos, and olives.

Recipe: Broccoli with Fried Onion Rings

BROCCOLI WITH FRIED ONION RINGS

Serves 4-6

20 oz broccoli, cooked and drained (can use frozen)

1 can cream of mushroom soup

1 can French-fried onion rings

Preheat oven to 350^o. Place drained broccoli in a lightly greased 2 quart casserole, cover with soup, and top with onion rings. Bake covered for 20 minutes.

Recipe: Broccoli on the Grill with Lemon Juice and Garlic

The Grill

The broccoli

Tender on the outside, crispy on the inside and oh so tasty! Timing is everything. Times given in the recipe are predicated on a hot chicken fire.

BROCCOLI ON THE GRILL WITH LEMON JUICE AND GARLIC

1 lb broccoli florets (defrosted if frozen)
2-3 Tbsp olive oil
1 lemon cut in half
4 cloves of garlic, sliced
 
Heat olive oil with garlic on the grill for five minutes. Stir in brocoli and cook under covered grill five minutes. Stir broccoli. Douse with juice from 1/2 lemon and cook 10 minutes with grill covered. Stir. Squeeze juice from remaining 1/2 lemon over broccoli and grill 10 more minutes under covered grill.
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Mr. Big Food made this recipe up on the fly.  Danged good for just winging it.

Lima beans

Last evening as we were preparing a truly delicious-- and simple-- meal, I looked in the pantry and asked Mr. Big Food, "Do you know we still have dried lima beans from last year's garden?"

Mr Big Food responded, "Yes. Good thing, too."

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Via Instapundit:

CHANGE: Corn and soybeans hit record highs, stir food crisis fear. “Corn prices crossed into uncharted territory above $8 per bushel — about three-and-a-half times the average price 10 years ago of $2.28. Soybeans punched past $17 for the first time — also three-and-a-half times the 2002 average. Analysts said that while forecasts for continued dry weather are expected to sustain the rally, corn prices could be vulnerable to any move by the government to lower the amount of corn-based ethanol blenders are required to mix with gasoline. Even as chatter about a possible revision of the ethanol mandate has escalated, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, the former governor of top farm state Iowa, has ruled out such a move.”

Related: World Braced for New Food Crisis.

The drought in the US, which supplies nearly half the world’s exports of corn and much of its soyabeans and wheat, will reverberate well beyond its borders, affecting consumers from Egypt to China.

“I’ve been in the business more than 30 years and this is by far and away the most serious weather issue and supply and demand problem that I have seen by a mile,” said a senior executive at a trading house. “It’s not even comparable to 2007-08.”

David Nelson, global strategist at Rabobank, added: “Today the [US crop] disaster is real, whereas to some degree the big run-up in prices in 2008 was speculatively driven.”

Oh, goody.

 It's not too late to think about putting in a fall garden. More here, and here.

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HOLY COW! IT'S RAINING!