My Fifty-fifth recipe for the new cookbook - Peking Raviolis -100 Meals You Never Thought You Would Eat Pureed - Recipes for Head and Neck Cancer patients
A couple of nights after the great falafel excursion. My wife called on the way home from work and asked what we wanted from the Bamboo Restaurant. Now normally, I order Sweet and Sour Chicken, because I know that it purees well, but I've been trying to test out appetizers. Although, my children only eat the vegetarian ones, my wife indulged me, and got pork.
I've tried to stay strictly on whole meals in this blog, but there are times when friends are doing an appetizer only kind of dinner - then what do you do?
3 raviolis makes two cups of puree
MAKING PEKING RAVIOLIS
My inability to make Peking Raviolis from scratch is right up there with making Falafel - I leave it to the experts and order-out.
PEKING RAVIOLIS
It's pretty straight forward. Raviolis of any style have a great ration of stuffing to starch. Very easy to puree. The only difficult part is to decide - steamed or fried.
Steamed puree easier and there is less worry about chunks in the puree. Fried taste better. So it matters more are you drinking it or pouring it down the G-tube.
GREEN TEA
My secret is that leftover Peking raviolis from the refrigerator are great pureed in hot green tea. I posted on line that green tea is an excellent cancer fighter, and my friends gave me a lot of teas. Both loose and bagged, so I have a lot of options when it comes to which variety to choose from . . .
FROZEN
Frozen from the grocery store is another option. The major issue is that I recommend over-cooking them to make sure that they are soft enough to puree
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My Fifty-fourth recipe for the new cookbook - Falafel
1 to-go container makes a full blender of meals
A NIGHT IN CAMBRIDGE MA
You figure that I would be able to make falafel. My issue is that my wife won't let me have a deep fryer, and making it in a skillet just isn't right. So I turn to the experts.
After my daughters dance performance in Central Square Cambridge, it was suggested that we stop in at Moody's Falafel Palace. They make some of the best falafel dishes in the area. More importantly they are open until 3AM on the weekends, but I digress. There were about 9 of us and many had never had falafel before so they were in for a treat. What they didn't know is that there are no tables nor chairs. So we had to bring it back to the house. WELCOME TO MY WORLD!! I wouldn't have been able to eat it there anyway.
The best part about having them make it instead of making it myself, is that it because a REAL TREAT. Some times you just want to order out just like everyone else. I'm just glad this group isn't the pizza and beer crowd and enjoy non-traditional american food.
MOODY'S FALAFEL DINNER
The dinner includes falafel, hoummos, and Syrian salad. The dressing for the syrian salad is on the side which is great because it gives you the ability to blend in to the right taste. It gives you a balanced meal.
MAKING IT AT HOME
If you just want falafel by itself, about 3 fritters makes 2 cups of food. Favorite side dishes to blend in are hummus, tabouli, and baba ghanouj
BAKLAWA
Baklawa OK so I bought some under the guise that I would share. But who was I kidding. Yes it purees up nicely, although it might take a llittle longer because of the nuts
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