Monday, June 24, 2013

Month 5 day 13: Souffles

Today I made:
Spinach Arugula and Parmesan Souffles, Cooking Light June 2011


Experiments weren't working as planned this morning so I decided to come home and make souffles for lunch. I only had 2 eggs and I'm leaving soon for a conference and don't need leftovers anyway, so I halved the recipe and made two personal-sized souffles. It's kind of a lot of pans for two servings, but oh well. I had a bunch of arugula left over from the salsa for the fish, so I used that in place of spinach.

This recipe is weirdly ordered. For example, step 2 is to cover the ramekins with breadcrumbs. They will then be set aside for about half an hour, and there will be a lot of waiting time when this could be done at a later point. Step 3 is to cook spinach. Again, this will be set aside and not used until later. Step 5 is the step that should come first, which is to mix egg whites with cream of tartar and let sit for 15 minutes at room temperature. And that's basically the last step... so if you were following along with the recipe as written, you now just watch an episode of Arrested Development while you wait for things to sit. Really this should all be in reverse order-- let the egg whites and cream of tartar sit, meanwhile make the white sauce, which needs to cool for 10 minutes. While that's cooling, you can easily do the spinach part, and then everything is ready to come together at the same time. BAM!

Anyway, I love when I get a chance to use my Le Creuset ramekins. I only have two, (another reason why it was good to half the recipe) but they are so cute!

The souffle didn't really rise or anything, but it is still light and airy just because the egg whites have been whipped. I got hungry soon after, but I guess that is to be expected since really this was just one egg with some things mixed in it.

For dinner I fried up a sausage (left over from the polenta dish) with some bell peppers and had it with pasta. I grated some robusto cheese on top. It was surprisingly good for having so few ingredients. Just trying to clean out the fridge before the trip!

So I think this is it for Month 5! It was a short month, and while many of the later recipes tasted good, I am sick of them after eating them for several days in a row :-P

June's best recipes:
I think we would both have to go with the Mexican dinner! G might put in a plug for the next day's frozen hot chocolate too. Why not make it with Abuelita and serve the two together?

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