[lit-ideas] Re: African Peanut Soup

  • From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 00:57:14 EDT

 
<Can I have the  recipe?<< 
Sure thing -- it's a thing from a  magazine.... I have an illness....I 
collect recipes ...they all sound so  marvelous (Lemon Scented Ricotta and 
Mascarpone Cream Puffs!!).  If I made  one of my saved recipes a day for the 
rest of my 
life it wouldn't make a  dent.  I keep trying/intending to sort, alphabetize, 
type, organize,  something....but I'm driven, driven I tell you, to clip that 
next one, save that  new one, try this one. 
<<  I'll trade you for my Moroccan chicken stew 
recipe  (with the secret dried figs addition). >> 
Oh god....I salivate more than  slightly over dried figs .... fresh figs 
notwithstanding.  I was in  "Mommy's Happy Store" (a name coined by my children 
who realized I had an  instantaneous grin on my face going in there, no matter 
how foul my previous  mood.  It's run by a couple of Middle-Eastern guys who 
import food from  everywhere)  today buying coconut milk and curry paste and 
grape leaves and  ground lamb (I desperately want a *good* recipe for Dolmas) 
and 
Goya marinade  and Sasson seasoning and hummus and Turkish Delight and 
oil-cured black olives  and Aurrichio Provolone and Greek yogurt and and and  
(when 
on an  expedition to a Wondrous Store, don't give your husband the expenditure 
total  until *after* the meal .... immediately after the contented sigh you 
can tell  him the home-restaurant bill)... 
<< Or my fried cheese cakes 
with stewed plums  recipe.>> 
Fried cheese cakes?  I want  it!!   
How good is the peanut soup?
 
It's substantial and somewhat spicey .... Jim and I both  loved it.  The only 
thing I didn't like was that as it sits on low staying  warm, the rice 
inflates with moisture too much and the soup becomes too thick  .... I have to 
ponder that and figure a fix. 

Ursula (salivating  slightly)>>
Me too....after solid healthy supper I had two pieces of  raisin toast w/ 
cinnamon icing lavished with butter, a dish of death by  chocolate ice cream, 
and 
frozen blueberries with heavy cream.  Tomorrow  it's definitely rice cakes 
and tuna day......<sigh>.

 
African Peanut Soup
 
In a medium saucepan, over medium heat, heat 1 Tbsp. peanut oil and 1 clove  
garlic minced for 1 minute.  Add 1 28-ounce can chopped tomatoes,  undrained, 
1 6-oz. can tomato paste, 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter, 4 cups  chicken broth, 
1 Tbsp. balsamic vinegar, 1/4 tsp. cayenne pepper, 2 tsps. kosher  salt, and 
whisk to combine.  Bring to a boil.  Add 1 cup white  (uncooked) rice; reduce 
heat to low, cover, and cook for 20 minutes.  Ladle  into individual bowls and 
garnish with a spoonful of cooked rice, chopped  scallions and roughly 
chopped salted peanuts.  
 
Julie Krueger
 

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Subj: [lit-ideas] African Peanut Soup  Date: 9/15/05 10:27:44 P.M. Central 
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Hi Julie,
Can I have the recipe?  I'll  trade you for my Moroccan chicken stew 
recipe (with the secret dried figs  addition).  Or my fried cheese cakes 
with stewed plums  recipe.   How good is the peanut soup?
Ursula (salivating  slightly)

JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx wrote:

> I'm sure Dubbya will  tell us all tonight how he's fixing everything.  
> Please note he's  giving his speech from the relatively 
> un-touched-by-Katrina French  Quarter, in front of a beautiful intact 
> building, surrounded by lush  flawless foliage.  I think they hope that 
> people will assume this  image demonstrates how well the Govt has done 
> at restoration.  I  wouldn't doubt that the majority of viewers buy it, 
> at all, at  all.
>  
> Julie Krueger
> as demoralized as the Homeland  Security folk (but content with the 
> wonderful African Peanut soup  recipe experiment of the evening).
>
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