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Tiki themed hors d'oeuvres for the vegetarian?
What about a wrap? Here's one from DeMuth's, a wonderful vegetarian restaurant in Bath, England. This recipe serves 4, but obviously, you can make them into miniatures if you want.
4 wheat tortillas
250 g haloumi, thinly sliced
romano or cos lettuce, shredded
1 avocado, peeled and sliced
8 tomatoes, quartered
1 red pepper, thinly sliced
handful of alfalfa sprouts
8 spring onions, sliced
Deep-fry the haloumi until golden on both sides.
Warm the tortillas under the grill or in a dry frying pan.
Spread tortillas with a sauce or dressing (Yoghurt and Mustard dressing recommended, but you may want to find a sauce more fitting to your tiki theme), cover with shredded lettuce, then avocado, tomatoes, red pepper, alfalfa sprouts and spring onions. Cover with the hot haloumi cheese, roll, cut in half and eat.
Yoghurt and Mustard Dressing
125g plain yoghurt
2 T double cream
1 T Dijon mustard
1 t apple juice concentrate
What would you eat if you couldn't chew for a week?
Just to back up Erinlovestoeat, it is VERY important that you don't clog your digestive system with foods like cheese, bread, etc. Start with salads, fruit and steamed vegetables for the first day. Then ease into the rest, slowly increasing the quantity of cloggy foods as the week moves on. I believe, though I am no expert, that it takes approximately 3 days for your digestive system to get back to what it was. It may seem silly, but you will regret it if you start out the first day with a cheesy pizza.
Vegetable Tartare
Hello, Madelyn. Thank you for your feedback. This is just what I was looking for. I agree with the texture issue, which is why I asked your opinions; however, there is starch with the two potato things. For the vegetable tartare (not my name for it, Hillary :) ), the vegetables do not have to be mushy because it is a brunoise not a purée, hence it depends on the veggies used. The one that I ate was crunchy and fresh. Plus, the potato crisp goes with it. But for the main dish, I agree that texture is an issue. I'll look into doing something besides the mashed sweet potatoes. Any ideas...? Just plain rice? The braised vegetables shouldn't be mushy unless I overcook them...yuck! ;(
Regarding my vegetarian guests, it's me the only vegetarian who will be present, so this menu suits me and my guests won't have a problem with the lacto-ovo element.
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Topping Potatoes
I love the skins nice and crispy. I like them topped with chili & cheese (cheddar, jack) with just a little bit of shredded cabbage...yummy! But everything mentioned above sounds wonderful too!
Tiki themed hors d'oeuvres for the vegetarian?
What about a wrap? Here's one from DeMuth's, a wonderful vegetarian restaurant in Bath, England. This recipe serves 4, but obviously, you can make them into miniatures if you want.
4 wheat tortillas
250 g haloumi, thinly sliced
romano or cos lettuce, shredded
1 avocado, peeled and sliced
8 tomatoes, quartered
1 red pepper, thinly sliced
handful of alfalfa sprouts
8 spring onions, sliced
Deep-fry the haloumi until golden on both sides.
Warm the tortillas under the grill or in a dry frying pan.
Spread tortillas with a sauce or dressing (Yoghurt and Mustard dressing recommended, but you may want to find a sauce more fitting to your tiki theme), cover with shredded lettuce, then avocado, tomatoes, red pepper, alfalfa sprouts and spring onions. Cover with the hot haloumi cheese, roll, cut in half and eat.
Yoghurt and Mustard Dressing
125g plain yoghurt
2 T double cream
1 T Dijon mustard
1 t apple juice concentrate
What would you eat if you couldn't chew for a week?
Just to back up Erinlovestoeat, it is VERY important that you don't clog your digestive system with foods like cheese, bread, etc. Start with salads, fruit and steamed vegetables for the first day. Then ease into the rest, slowly increasing the quantity of cloggy foods as the week moves on. I believe, though I am no expert, that it takes approximately 3 days for your digestive system to get back to what it was. It may seem silly, but you will regret it if you start out the first day with a cheesy pizza.
Vegetable Tartare
Hello, Madelyn. Thank you for your feedback. This is just what I was looking for. I agree with the texture issue, which is why I asked your opinions; however, there is starch with the two potato things. For the vegetable tartare (not my name for it, Hillary :) ), the vegetables do not have to be mushy because it is a brunoise not a purée, hence it depends on the veggies used. The one that I ate was crunchy and fresh. Plus, the potato crisp goes with it. But for the main dish, I agree that texture is an issue. I'll look into doing something besides the mashed sweet potatoes. Any ideas...? Just plain rice? The braised vegetables shouldn't be mushy unless I overcook them...yuck! ;(
Regarding my vegetarian guests, it's me the only vegetarian who will be present, so this menu suits me and my guests won't have a problem with the lacto-ovo element.
Vegetable Tartare
Thank you very much for your help, Pooch. I will look up raw food recipes in Google & see what I find.
Vegetable Tartare
Hi Pavlov! Thank you for your response. They're brunoise. I've seen it made with a homemade mayonnaise type sauce, but other times it's been with a lemon & olive oil type sauce. The sauce is always cold as this is a cold appetizer. I'm trying to substitute it for a salad, since it's still winter here.
Vegetable Tartare
Hello renzata. It's raw vegetables that are finely chopped and bound together with some sort of sauce. It's starting to appear in more and more restaurants accompanying a meat or fish dish.
What would you eat if you couldn't chew for a week?
I would eat pastina every second of the day. Maybe mix a little egg in the broth for some protein.
What would you eat if you couldn't chew for a week?
Mostly Asian:
- Rice Congee. Flavoured with chicken soup is my personal favourite.
- Pho. Bring your own kitchen scissors to cut the noodles. You'll have to stick to plain though.
- Fried turnip cake. With XO sauce (er.. maybe not with your throat healing). Again, scissors.
- Dun dan
- Savoury cream of wheat. I basically mix in an egg white, a table spoon of beef bovril and chuck the yolk in after so it's nice and runny. I actually didn't know it was meant to be eaten sweet until much later in life....
- Panna cotta! Om nom nom nom.
Topping Potatoes
I'm with y'all: the skin is the best part.
My favorite baked potato is simple: just a pat of butter, kosher salt, and ground white pepper mashed into the potato flesh. When I'm in the mood I substitute truffle oil for the butter. Always save the skin for last.
In grad school a frequent dinner for me was a microwave-"baked" potato, which I'd top with a soft fried egg, salt, and pepper. The yolk made a lovely sauce for the fluffed potato.
Topping Potatoes
I coat the potato with olive oil, then add kosher salt to the top. Leftover pot roast and cheese make the best easy meal--and it uses up leftovers.
Topping Potatoes
sounds weird, but i think they are the best with cottage cheese, salt and pepper. mm.
Topping Potatoes
I love baked potatoes, skin and all. But I keep the toppings simple, don't want to overpower the potato itself. Butter, salt, maybe sour cream.
I'll also take a refrigerated left over baked potato, tear off a chunk, sprinkle it with salt, and eat it cold.
What would you eat if you couldn't chew for a week?
Carioca--can you believe I've never had vichyssoise before? With you and everyone else recommending it, I've a feeling I'll be trying it for the first time very soon.
klizco--my version of that is lemon Italian ices and endless DVDs of The (American) Office :)
beckyleeprice--I'm so glad you found it too! I'm sorry you're also stuck not chewing, and I hope you recover fast!
There are a lot of great suggestions here already for interesting and nutritious meals, but here's my two cents as well. Protein and veg are also things I miss really badly (especially because pain medications can slow down your digestive system... if you catch my drift). My solution to that recently has been stuff like steamed/boiled veggies thrown into the food processor (you can get these precooked, if you're feeling really low), or smooth leafy vegetable dishes like creamed spinach. You also might want to google "green smoothies," which let you get fruits and veggies in at the same time--I like to do about half a cup of spinach with some frozen berries and half a banana, all whizzed in the blender. And as for meat, see if you can mince it small enough so that you can swallow it without chewing--I put minced chicken in broth and drink it with a straw, so the whole thing goes down easy.
Not to pimp myself out, but I'll probably be posting more ideas and such on my blog, if you'd like to check it out--but in any case, I completely sympathize, and I hope you feel better soon!
Chew on That--ha, totally! Though I've never been a very observant Jew, so sometimes pizza sneaks in anyway... :) Although your Passover talk has reminded me of the deliciousness of matzo brei... maybe that'll be mushy enough for today!
eggyzhe--I miss peanut butter and bread so much! Your meal sounds like heaven. I have a lot to look forward to...
What would you eat if you couldn't chew for a week?
Butternut squash soup. I'm not sure how long it would take for me to be sick of it, but a week sounds like heaven. I'd also drink v8. Split pea soup.
I love pureed vegetables. Fruit juices....no. For protein I'd nom on hummus...which I can seriously eat with a spoon....
First meal after back on chewing....an apple I'm guessing. Or...no. Some nice, thick chewy sprouted grain bread....Yeah. An apple sliced up with crunchy 100% peanut butter on dense, chewy sprouted grain bread. I may just wear out my jaw...I know the last time I had one, It took me well over 15 minutes to finish it with the intense chewing.
What would you eat if you couldn't chew for a week?
I love the before and after meals - it reminds me of Passover! But in terms of the lack of chewing, you want something with sustenance that doesn't get old. When I had my wisdom teeth removed, I certainly got sick of the milkshakes. In all honesty, the dish that made me the happiest was broccoli cheese soup with hunks of crusty bread cut up and soaked in the soup! :)
What would you eat if you couldn't chew for a week?
I am so glad I found this page! (googled "what to eat when you can't chew") I'm on day 4 following dental surgery and really won't be able to chew properly for MONTHS. I'm already getting sick of dairy, have been eating yogurt, homemade pudding, creamy soups, and drinking chocolate silk, also eating ice cream, but like many on here I'm worried about getting enough protein and of course am craving veggies. Keep the ideas coming. Somehow the thought of putting cooked meat, etc. in the blender really makes me sick but maybe I'll get over that.
Topping Potatoes
What is the point of baking a potato if you're not going to eat the skin! Yummy! I love to cook up ground beef and mushrooms split the potato and fill with the mixture then top with Worcestershire sauce... Sometimes I like to fill the potato with queso fresco and salsa verde... Or just some good ole pulled pork and bbq sauce!
Topping Potatoes
I love the skin, too. Recently, I've become addicted to harissa, a spicy moroccan condiment. I tried a baked potato with greek yogurt mixed with harissa, sliced scallions and lots of salt and pepper. YUM!
And after that admission--which probably made a few of you gag...
The idea of tuna&mayo on a baked potato is worse, though, I think.
Topping Potatoes
Butter Butter and more Butter. I'm the Paula Dean of baked potatoes. And the skin is the best part. I finish off the inside of the potato saving the skin for last. Then I butter the skin (yep, more butter), add some salt and pepper and...heaven.
What would you eat if you couldn't chew for a week?
I love buying the cheap Maggi powdered chicken broth for when I'm out of commission ... Overcook a smidge of white rice in that .... mmmm. And lots and lots of ice cream, of course. Last time I had a wisdom tooth out I took the rest of the day off work, rented Pedro Almodovar movies and ate chocolate ice cream all day long.
What would you eat if you couldn't chew for a week?
Vichyssoise.
Just had all my wisdom teeth out, and that's what I had. For sustenance. And some gazpacho to count as salad. if you live in NY near Fairway, they have pretty good ones.
Topping Potatoes
Bacon and guacamole. And an over-easy egg if I want to get really serious. Lord, I need it to be lunch-break.
What would you eat if you couldn't chew for a week?
MadelynRodriguez--thanks for the recipe suggestions, and ohmigod, that pizza looks so good. It helps that I'm craving greens something fierce nowadays... I'm the kind of person who, although I have a sweet tooth, will try to dump as much vegetables on everything I eat as possible, and spinach pizza is one of my favorite methods! But maybe I'll wait a few days, like Tconrastas said.
Hungrysailor--ha, I know exactly what you mean! My boyfriend's only meal suggestion post-surgery was his constant joke of "meat smoothies," which I kept saying, "Eww, gross!" to... until I realized that the trick of blending up chicken and rice and putting it in soup was basically the same thing. I feel like I'm doing my own "Will It Blend?" series. Luckily I haven't grossed out everyone too much yet :)
Gingercookiewithlime--thanks for your comments with regard to the sloughing--that's the part I'm most worried about right now, so it's good to have some suggestions on how to deal with it. And it's nice to hear that those suggestions involve eating food that's not the consistency of babyfood! Good call on the tongue scraper, too--I won't gross anyone out with the details here, but it'll be a nice alternative to brushing my teeth, which is really hard to do when you can't open your mouth much and it hurts to spit.
Annabanannas--you're absolutely right--it's day three today, and it's way harder than before. The first day was actually the easiest--I was so loopy on all the various anesthetics and narcotics that I was eating and talking and laughing all day. Day two was harder, and day three got off to a rough start, but hopefully this should be the hardest it gets.
GirlFromJetCity--oh man, I hadn't thought of that, and that sounds so good! Same with peanutbutter's butter suggestion, pjracz10's chicken broth plus egg, and Skythe's milkshakes. And oh man, hungrychristel/lexophile's Nutella suggestion--yummm! Plus, what with being mostly unable to chew, I have an excuse to eat it straight from the jar!
Caley--yeah, you're totally right on that front. I'm trying to stay extra-mindful of how much protein I'm getting, because I definitely feel a difference between when I get enough and when I don't.
And janaatwg--wish I could do the alcohol, but I've a feeling that'll have to wait. Perhaps for a "hooray for being totally recovered!" party, which I think is definitely in order :)
Thank you again for all your suggestions! Please excuse me if I missed your name--I'm running on a doomed combo of only a few hours of sleep and a lot of Percocet :)
Topping Potatoes
I love potato skins, but not the ones on sweet potatoes. For the sweets I just put butter and sometimes a squirt of orange juice on them. For Irish potatoes (what we call them down here in NC), I wash the potato, put holes in it and bake for about an hour. On top? Sour cream, scallions, crumbled bacon and cheddar cheese just like I had down in Texas years ago.
I like all the other ideas as well and might try them when I get into a potato mood again.
What would you eat if you couldn't chew for a week?
@lexo: I admire your self identity! May I also suggest spreading globs of nutella on a banana...straight up. A definite "when Im blue" fixer! :D
Topping Potatoes
I just eat my baked potato with lashings of good butter; and I always eat the skin. The skin is my favorite part - I eat the potato meat (?) first, and eat the skin last. When I was a child, my father often made pork chops, baked potato, and Heinz vegetarian beans for dinner - when I was done eating my pork chop and potato meat, I would fill the skin with beans, and eat it like a taco.
Why do people oil the skins? I have never done that, and I always get crispy skins. I think the earthy flavor of the skin is delicious.
Topping Potatoes
definite yes on the skins, washed, oiled, salted, baked in the oven for an hour or so. I usually top with some butter, kosher salt, and freshly ground black pepper although recently my wife introduced me to the idea of putting canned chicken ala king on them. This is surprisingly good.
What would you eat if you couldn't chew for a week?
@howtoeateverything, on consideration I really can't stress enough the importance of making sure you're getting plenty of protein. The thing is, most liquid foods don't have much, and it is so easy to get too little and feel really weak, which in turn slows your recovery. Also, good fat. I don't have much of a sweet tooth, but I was tempted to answer the fat/calories question with lots of (melted) ice cream, which in retrospect wasn't a great idea because it's kind of nutritionally barren. Avocado, nut butters, spoons of hummus straight from the container - those were the things that really made me start to feel better physically.
Good luck with the recovery. I hope you start to feel better soon!
Topping Potatoes
I love mine baked, salt, pepper, a poached or fried over easy egg and some bearnaise on top. its so good! especially with steaks. I mash it all up and eat it together.
What would you eat if you couldn't chew for a week?
My sister just had her wisdom teeth out, and we fed her on mac'n'cheese made with really small noodles (tiny alphabet ones), which she loved. Milkshakes were her other frequent request.
Topping Potatoes
Yes to the skin! Bake 'em skin on, salted and oiled, and then ... just butter, salt and pepper. Oooh yeah!
Though the chili idea sounds good - I'll have to try that sometime!
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I love the skins nice and crispy. I like them topped with chili & cheese (cheddar, jack) with just a little bit of shredded cabbage...yummy! But everything mentioned above sounds wonderful too!