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Convalescence foods
Jun. 2nd, 2008 10:11 pmConvalescence food #1:
Homemade veggie stock, heated with a tablespoon of miso paste. Yummmm, miso broth.
Convalescence food #2:
Canned low-sodium chicken stock, cooked with a handful of rice until the rice was very soft. Yummy, but too filling on a convalescing stomach.
Convalescence food #3:
Pastina cooked in veggie stock with a pat of butter and some salt and pepper. Not bad, but not my mother's pastina, which is cooked in chicken fat with onions.
Convalescence food #4:
Savory Bread Pudding
Cube up enough non-sweet bread (I used onion-poppyseed that had gone stale) to fill a 9-inch-square baking pan
Over the top of that, pour a mixture of 4 beaten eggs, 2 cups of milk, some salt and pepper, and, optionally, some poultry seasoning or, if you want a stuffing vibe to it, something with some sage in it, like Costco's organic no-salt seasoning
Turn on the oven to 350F. Using the back of a wooden spoon (or, if you're lazy, as I am, the whisk you just beat the eggs with), push all the bread down into the liquid until it's all smooshed in there, and let it sit until the oven's preheated. Optionally (yeah, like butter's an option here), put a few pats of butter on the top. Bake for 40-45 minutes, until the top is puffy and starts to brown.
Yummy.
Homemade veggie stock, heated with a tablespoon of miso paste. Yummmm, miso broth.
Convalescence food #2:
Canned low-sodium chicken stock, cooked with a handful of rice until the rice was very soft. Yummy, but too filling on a convalescing stomach.
Convalescence food #3:
Pastina cooked in veggie stock with a pat of butter and some salt and pepper. Not bad, but not my mother's pastina, which is cooked in chicken fat with onions.
Convalescence food #4:
Savory Bread Pudding
Cube up enough non-sweet bread (I used onion-poppyseed that had gone stale) to fill a 9-inch-square baking pan
Over the top of that, pour a mixture of 4 beaten eggs, 2 cups of milk, some salt and pepper, and, optionally, some poultry seasoning or, if you want a stuffing vibe to it, something with some sage in it, like Costco's organic no-salt seasoning
Turn on the oven to 350F. Using the back of a wooden spoon (or, if you're lazy, as I am, the whisk you just beat the eggs with), push all the bread down into the liquid until it's all smooshed in there, and let it sit until the oven's preheated. Optionally (yeah, like butter's an option here), put a few pats of butter on the top. Bake for 40-45 minutes, until the top is puffy and starts to brown.
Yummy.