Comforting

[clevermanka]

Sleep note: The past three nights I've been too cold to fall asleep. I have to leave the mattress pad on high for about an hour while I lay there, chilled, before I even feel drowsy. Once I finally fall asleep, I'm okay (except for one night I got up to pee, but was able to fall back asleep). Replacing the down comforter with the down blanket is helping, but the blanket alone isn't enough to get the bed cozy enough for me to fall asleep. I need to either:

1. Remember to turn the mattress pad on High two hours before retiring
or
2. Put the comforter on top of the blanket, turn the mattress pad on High within an hour of retiring, and then push the comforter off when I go to bed

Since I need to remember to turn on the mattress pad under either circumstance, the first one makes more sense to me. That way I don't have to worry about piles of bedding unnecessary for the entire night. OTOH, it's a wonderful feeling to crawl under that giant comforter when crawling into bed. That thing really is a comforter.

By the time I get this figured out, it's going to be spring and warm weather.

Last night I made a pretty amazing faux curry (curry spices are verboten on the AIP). Here's what I did.

Faux Curry
1 lb ground beef
2 onions, chopped
3-4 garlic cloves (or more)
1/2 can coconut milk
1 c broth--chicken or beef
1 acorn squash, cooked
1 t ground ginger
2 t turmeric
2 T coconut aminos
2 c cooked chard (or any other leafy green--spinach would be great, I think)

Cook down the onions until golden. Add garlic. Add beef and brown. Scrape acorn squash meat from shell and put in blender with broth, spices, and aminos. Blend until smooth. Add to meat mixture. Stir until heated through. Remove from heat. Add coconut milk and greens. Stir to combine. Ta da!

Comments

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Ah, well. I bought about thirty bunches of kales and chards while they were on sale, so if I missed the last few days, it's not a big deal.

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

What can I do to keep that much?
I'd love to know because it often goes bad before we can use it all up. Do you make it all into chips?

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I wash it, chop it, and cook it down. Then I put it in freezer-safe storage containers and pop 'em in the chest freezer. If I'm feeling particularly industrious, I'll buy a giant mess of onions and garlic and cook those beforehand to add to the greens. One onion and two or three cloves of garlic for every two bunches of greens.

I do the same thing with the big bags of baby kale from Costco. Two or three onions per bag for that. When I spend a day cooking greens I usually devote four hours or so to it and I wind up with probably twenty cups of greens.

Two big bunches of greens = one sink full = one two-cup container (with added onions)

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

Just saute it in a skillet? Awesome, thank you!

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I use a big soup pot 'cos greens take up a LOT of room until they cook down. OH! I also throw in a wee bit of broth to keep things from sticking.

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

Souper, thanks :)
I just bought a big stock pot that will work fine.