EWE: Roast Chicken

Easiest dinner EVAH!! Ellie’s Roast chicken with Pan Juices. I don’t roast chickens very often. I just forget to buy a whole chicken. If I do, I forget it is in the freezer until it’s too late to start baking it. Ah, Well!! This time, though…

The chicken is rubbed inside and out with paprika, salt, pepper, garlic powder mixed with EVOO. GArlic and lemon in the cavity. Roasted in a pan with chicken broth until done and nice and brown on top. YUM!!!

The recipe is from Ellie Krieger’s You Have It Made. (page 215)

But wait, there’s more. Check with Kayte and Gaye for their EWE dishes this week.

 

EWE: Grilled Chicken and Vegetable Parmesan

Many (MANY) years ago there was a movie titled “If its Tuesday it must be Belgium”. It was a simple romcom about a group of people (Suzanne Pleshette, John Cassavetes, Ian McShane, etc.) on a European tour. Well I’m going to use that title and change it up a bit. If its Thursday it must be Eating with Ellie Day!

This is a super easy dish to make. It is basically Chick Parm with veggies added. It was very tasty. Eggplant, zucchini, red bell pepper were the veggies in the dish. And lots of Parm and Mozz cheese.

And it is KETO friendly. 16 g fat. 10g carb. 3 g fiber

The recipe is from Ellie’s you have it made. page 211

Gaye and Kayte also eat with Ellie.

 

EWE: Ratatouille

I am always looking for a good KETO friendly side. Ellie provided that with her recipe for RATATOUILLE. In case you don’t know what that is Ellie calls it a classic, French-country vegetable stew. She also says it is very versatile, ” serve it with a fried egg on top, as a side…, as a topper for crostini, stuff it into an omelet or top it with some mozzarella for a French pizza.” Basically it can be used for just about anything. I simply chose to use it as a side with some roasted chicken.

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This stew contains eggplant, onion, bell pepper, squash, and garlic. I had a few ‘shrooms in the fridge so I threw them in as well.

VERY tasty. Definitely a repeat.

The recipe is from Ellie Krieger’s you have it made. (page 314)

Check in with Kayte and Gaye for their Ellie Dishes.

 

EWE: Green Beans

Well, my goodness but that week went by quickly. Didn’t we just have a Thursday?

And if it is Thursday we are cooking/baking with Ellie Krieger.

This week I needed a quick side. I found some fresh green beans (frozen) from the garden and decided to go with Ellie’s Green Beans with Mushrooms and Shallots.

We love fresh green beans and usually fix them just plain with onions, a few small tomatoes, bacon and maybe a small potato or two. This is much better than that. Pre-cooked Beans added into sliced mushrooms and shallots that have been sauteed in olive oil (I used 1/2 EVOO and 1/2 butter.) Very flavorful and very quick. And they are KETO friendly.

I may cook green beans this way all the time from now on.

The recipe is on page 246 of Ellie’s The Food you Crave. But I also found it on The Food Network

Check with Kayte and Gaye

 

EWE: Creamy Broccoli Slaw

This week I needed something easy and KETO friendly.

On page 128 of Ellie’s so easy I found this nice side. It is something I’ve made before, but not with slaw and not with her ingredients. While I usually use sour cream, Ellie used Greek yogurt. And instead of red wine vinegar she uses lemon juice. I subbed in some Stevia for the honey (2 tsp) and added just a touch to up the sweetness.

This is a great side that goes with anything. And if you add bacon and cheddar cheese it really amps up the protein and flavor. (Although they aren’t in Ellie’s recipe.)

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Gaye

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And if you want to join in just make something from one of Elllie’s books and post it and let us know. No themes, just cook what you want.

 

Eating with Ellie: Cauliflower Rice Pilaf

Yesterday I fixed a balsamic chicken dish from a Donna Hay cookbook. It called garlic couscous on the side. Knowing I couldn’t have the couscous ( not KETO) I served it with Ellie’s Cauliflower “rice” pilaf. Perfect.

Cauliflower rice is simply cauliflower that has been through a food processor until it resembles rice. At that point you can use it as you would any rice. And it doesn’t need as long to cook.

And it is KETO friendly.

Simply cook the “caulirice” with olive oil, pine nuts or almonds (i used chopped cashews), parsley, salt and pepper, and diced onion and you have a nice side dish.

It went quite well with the Balsamic Chicken.

Also cooking in EWE are

Kayte

Gaye

We are a small group but we do enjoy cooking ‘together’.

 

EWE: Chinese Greens

If you have never been here before, EWE is Eating with /Ellie. Several of us starting cooking from Ellie Krieger’s books several years ago. And then, because of lots of things going on, it died down and we just quite. Now, we are back.

Every Thursday we chose a recipe from one of her cookbooks or from online and try it out. While we all used to cook the same recipe now we are a little looser and just find a recipe we like and make it.

This week I chose Sesame Stir-Fried Chinese Greens using joi choy. I have a big pot of choy growing on the back porch and I love using it in different dishes. This particular recipe is from her The Food You Crave. On page 258. And it didn’t take much to convert it to KETO. She uses fresh ingredients and no processed foods in her recipes so in most cases it would just be a matter of substituting one or two ingredients.

I like bok choy but not this dish. I used coconut aminos rather than soy sauce and it was very VERY salty. It just wasn’t very good. Ah, well. On the the next recipe. (You can find the recipe HERE.)

Kayte made Smokey Black Bean and Pork Stew, Peggy has Oven Fried Chicken,

EWE is open to anyone who likes to cook from Ellie’s books. Join us!

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{EWE} Picnic Day!

Summer is the perfect time for a picnic – unless you live in Louisiana.  But picnicing we went – down to the pond with the kids and a fan. And it was a perfect time because Gaye’s theme this week was Picnic Day.

Hamburgers, hotdogs, and cookies.  That was all we needed.  The cookies were Ellie’s Chocolate Chunk Cookies.  

And they were so good.  I could have eaten all 2 dozen.  Sweet but not as sweet as usual because the chocolate in them was only 60% – 70% chocolate.  Just a hint of sweet.  The brown sugar added a great flavor and texture to the cookie.

There are none left.  Wonder why?  Because they were great cookies.  Crispy on the outside.  Soft in the middle.

The recipe is from Ellie’s Comfort Food Fix (page 257).  If you want to try them, I found the recipe on Kitchen Flavours.

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{EwE} Sauce it Up!

This week Kayte wants us to be SAUCY!!  Cook anything with a sauce.  Easy enough.

I went with Ellie’s salmon in aromatic tomato sauce with swiss chard spinach.  I am not a fan of chard so subbing spinach was easy.

And totally delicious.  A nice sauce made with diced tomatoes, tomato sauce, roasted red peppers, and whole red chili peppers.  I don’t like REALLY hot food.  Spicy, yes, but not tongue burning so I left out the chili peppers.  But since I did that I used Ro-tel diced tomatoes with green peppers.  Plenty hot and plenty spicy.  And lots of flavor with the coriander and cumin.

Ellie suggested  eating this over couscous but since I am trying to stay pretty compliant with Whole30 program.  It was perfect just by itself.

The recipe is from Ellie’s So Easy (page 195}.  You can also find it HERE if you want to try it.

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{EwE} It’s a Garden Party!

This week, thanks to Peggy, we are having a Garden Party at Eating with Ellie.  And what better time than late Spring before it gets rather warm for the summer.

A Garden Party doesn’t have to be fancy.  It can be just good  food shared with friends outdoors.  In light of that I brought a simple Apple Crisp for dessert.

Not bad.  I used Fugi, Golden Delicious, and Pink Lady Apples.  The topping is supposed to be a dough of sorts but, since I wasn’t totally focused when I made it, it turned out to be a sweet oatmeal topping.  How on earth I forgot the butter and oil and water is beyond me.  I didn’t have my mis en place ready I supposed. But it was still good.  It was especially good with some Vanilla Ice Cream melting on top of the warm crisp.

I bet some blueberries would be good in this….

I will make this again – with ALL the ingredients next time.

The recipe is from Ellie’s Comfort Food Fix. {page 280} Also HERE!

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