Showing posts with label Theme. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Theme. Show all posts

Sunday, October 17, 2010

October: Pumpkin Appetizers and more!














Thanks for everyone that showed up to the first cooking meeting of Food at UCLA. We ended up creating 5 total dishes because we had some leftover ingredients after creating the pumpkin bread, pumpkin soup, and stuffed pumpkin. The other two dishes were roasted pumpkin seeds and pumpkin cookies. Some of the recipes posted earlier were modified and will be e-mailed in the next newsletter.

In other news, a website for shall be up and running within this month!

Here's a few pictures of our success!


















Healthy Pumpkin Bread



















Pumpkin Soup



















Stuffed Pumpkin


















Pumpkin Cookies

Sunday, October 10, 2010

October: Appetizer Recipes

Here is a list of recipes that we will be making Friday, October 15, 2010. RSVP by Thursday, October 14, 2010. There will be a limited space of 10 people.

Pumpkin Bread provided by Cynthia


Ingredients
1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree
5 egg whites
1 cup applesauce
...2/3 cup buttermilk
1 to 1/2 cups white sugar
3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger

Cook: 350 degrees F, 50 minutes, 3 9x5 loaf pans

Pumpkin Soup (Modified from AllRecipes.com)
Enough to feed an army

Ingredients
6 cups chicken stock
4 cups pumpkin puree
1 teaspoon chopped fresh parsley
1 cup chopped onion
1/2 teaspoon chopped fresh thyme
1 clove garlic, minced
1/4 cup heavy whipping cream
Fresh black crushed pepper and salt

Directions
1. In a pot, heat oil, add onion, garlic, and pumpkin.
2. Sautee for about 1-2 minutes until fragrant.
3. Add stock, salt, thyme, pepper, and bring to a boil then simmer for 30
minutes.
4. Puree soup in a blender.
5. Serve with drizzle of heavy cream and garnish with parsley
6. Heat stock, salt, pumpkin, onion, thyme, garlic, and peppercorns. Bring to a
boil, reduce heat to low, and simmer for 30 minutes uncovered.

Baked Stuffed Pumpkin (Modified from CountryLiving.com)
Serves 4

Ingredients
4 ounce(s) sweet Italian sausage
1/2 cup(s) chopped onion
1 (1 1/2-pound ) pumpkin, peeled, seeded, and cut into 3/4-inch pieces
1/2 cup(s) chopped Granny Smith apples
1/4 cup(s) white wine
1 cup(s) Israeli couscous, cooked
1/4 cup(s) dried cranberries
1 tablespoon(s) extra-virgin olive oil
1 teaspoon(s) fresh thyme
1 teaspoon(s) fresh oregano, chopped
1/2 teaspoon(s) salt
1/4 teaspoon(s) fresh ground pepper
4 small (1-pound) pumpkins, hollowed out

Directions
Make the stuffing:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Decase and crumble the sausage meat and place it in a large saucepan over
medium-low heat.
3. Cook the sausage until it is almost done -- about 8 minutes. Remove the
sausage from the pan, increase heat to medium
4. Add the onion and 2 cups of the chopped pumpkin. Sauté until the
pumpkin begins to soften -- 5 to 7 minutes.
5. Add the chopped apple and sausage and sauté for 3 minutes.
6. Add the wine, cook for 2 minutes, remove from heat, and set aside.
7. Combine the couscous, dried cranberries, olive oil, thyme, oregano, salt,
and pepper in a large bowl. Add meat mixture to the bowl and toss to
combine.

Bake the pumpkins:
1. Evenly fill the hollowed-out pumpkins with the stuffing mixture.
2. Place the pumpkins in a shallow baking dish.
3. Cover the dish with aluminum foil
4. Bake for 25 minutes
5. Remove the foil and bake for 10 more minutes
6. Serve immediately.

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Theme for October

The theme for October is going to be ......














Pumpkin!!!

These big round orange things are commonly seen during Halloween, when people carve them for decorations.

As for food, pumpkins are in season from September to March. This plant is high in potassium and vitamin A and can be used in a multitude of dishes from soup to pies.

If you have an interesting recipe with pumpkin e-mail us at foodatucla@gmail.com!

For the first week of October, we are going to gather recipes for the food items posted below.

October 3-8: Restaurant Outing Dine LA
Restaurant: TBA

October 10-16: Main Course
Stuffed Pumpkin
Pumpkin Soup

October 17-23: Desserts
Pumpkin Ravioli
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October 24-30: Desserts
Pumpkin Soufflé
Pumpkin Cupcake