White Chocolate and Cheese Parfait by Warren Laine-Naida
Our topic for #Digiblogchat on Twitter for July 21, 2020 was Quarantine Cooking. We had so many interesting replies and recipes that I thought a summary might be nice. Join us on Twitter for #digiblogchat every Tuesday at 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time! Here are the questions, followed by some of the answers.
Q1. What’s the best dish or cocktail you’ve created during quarantine?
Q2. What were some strange ingredient substitutions you’ve made?
Q3. What recipes or cooking ideas didn’t work out?
Chinese Chicken Salad
Q4. Do you have any recipe that you’d like to share?
Justine (@jpretorious) shared this recipe with NO stale fried noodles: A4) Chinese chicken salad nomnompaleo.com/chinese-chicke #DigiBlogChat
Q5. How often do you get take-out food (or do you only cook at home)?
Sandy Connoly (@sandyconnoly) explained A5. Not often, but we are tonight @Applebees
And Maricar (@MaricarJagger) said A5. It’s been a time to work on some home cooking and to use fish from our fish market that stayed open.
White Chocolate and Cheese Parfait by Warren Laine-Naida
Q6. What have you baked lately?
Chef Warren Laine-Naida (@WarrenLNaida) shared his recipe for White Chocolate and Cheese Parfait. (This looks luscious!)
Beth (@AdventureGlass) said A6. no No baking when it’s so hot outside.
And Justine Pretorious (@jpretorious) mentioned A6) Banana Bread with Blackberries and the rasberry oatmeal bars. My hubby loves his pastries!
Poppyseed cake
Not to be outdone, @maricarjagger baked this poppyseed cake for a friend. It turned out very well, delicious especially with some raspberry coulis (another secret weapon in my cooking arsenal)
Q7. What’s the simplest meal you’ve made?
Q8. Any tips for making fresh produce last longer?
Larry (@LazBlazter) said A8. Grow your own if possible and pick it when you are about to eat.
Roast Chicken with Lemon Butter and Garlic
Q9. What’s your laugh-out-loud go-to meal and why?
Omneya @Omneya_Nabil said A9: My specialty roast chicken with lemon butter and garlic. It’s the first dish I ever cooked with my roommates at my college dorms. We always take photos and send them to each other when we cook this dish.
Justine said A9) Frozen cauliflower pizza because it only takes 12 minutes :)
Pampered Chef Chopper
Q10. What’s your favorite, most-used kitchen appliance?
Beth (@AdventureGlass) said A10. Pampered Chef Chopper – love that thing #digiblogchat
And several people mentioned that their coffee maker was their favorite! There was also a vote for a refrigerator.
Thanks, Carol! I’ve just seen this.
Thanks for being on the chat and for your comment, too, Maricar! That was a fun chat!
A1: too many!!
A2: lentils & walnuts to replace ground beef (we’re vegan and whole-foods based so no ‘fake’ substitutes)
A3: My miso portobello mushrooms (too salty!!)
A4: We don’t use any recipes.
A5: We ONLY cook at home
A6: Muffins, bread, cinnamon rolls – we bake weekly
A7: Roasted veggies with kale and homemade tahini dressing (Only prep time is to cut veggies) Plus, we can change the veggies to make it a new dish as desired.
A8: We grow our own, buy as needed and only as much as we can consume before it goes bad…no waste in more than a year.
A9: Sweet potato and roasted black bean with corn salsa – a main dish when served with rice.
A10: my 10″ cast iron skillet. Some weeks it’s the ONLY pan used for cooking.
Hi Robert,
Thanks for all the #Digiblogchat answers. I’ve been writing a blog post from that chat about holiday recipes. I’ve got one of your recipes ready to add to that post, too.
Happy New Year!
Carol