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Entries from TurboChef tagged with 'Vegetables' Lunch Time. Reinvented.

Ellen Hanson (Ellen Hanson Designs in NYC) and her associates enjoy a TurboChef Speedcook Oven in their office kitchen. Tired of the daily hassle and the countless boxes, wrappers and containers accompanying every take-out order, Ellen describes how their oven has bettered the lunch break: Lunch at Ellen Hanson Designs is, as in most offices, a harried affair. We are very busy and suddenly realize we are starving. Until recently we would most often order in, but as our office has become increasingly 'green' we find we can't live with all the packaging that accompanies food delivered from a restaurant. Now someone from the office stops at the local health food store on the way to work and gets some good-looking organic produce. Shortly before we plan to eat, we pop it into the TurboChef oven. Within minutes we have a beautiful home-cooked meal with no wasteful packaging. One of our favorites is roasted cauliflower. Sometimes we pair it with quinoa and plain yogurt. It is also good with pasta, rice or roasted potatoes. Check out how easy it is to make this vegetable! Chop, slice, or break into florets a head of cauliflower. Place in a roasting dish and drizzle with olive oil to taste. Sprinkle with salt. The prep time is about 2 minutes! Cook it in the oven using the "Roast Vegetable > 1 pound" setting – 3 minutes. When the chime indicates 80% done, add walnuts and grated Parmesan to taste. Complete cooking cycle and serve hot or room temp. If you'd like to share stories and experiences with your TurboChef Speedcook Oven, we'd like to hear from you. Email The TurboChef Blog and we'll review your submission for inclusion on the site....

Posted by Ellen Hanson on April 9, 2008 10:34 AM

Tags: How To , Recipe , Simple , TurboChef , Vegetables

Out of This World Cauliflower

Wandering through Whole Foods the other day, I was stopped dead in my tracks by, of all things, a cauliflower. More specifically, a romanesco cauliflower. It sports a lime green fractal-like spiraling pattern that is absolutely beautiful and otherworldly. In my opinion, it is quite possibly the most well-designed vegetable on the face of the planet (or whatever other planet it might have originated on). I quickly gathered up half-a-dozen florets. We use a simple recipe to roast the garden variety cauliflower in the TurboChef Speedcook Oven at home. It takes about four minutes. So we decided to do the same thing with these precious little gems. A little olive oil, garlic, lemon juice, Parmesan, kosher salt and we popped them in the oven under the roasted vegetable setting. They came out just as beautiful, retaining their brilliant color while lightly browned on the tips. After a moment of hesitation, not wanting to disrupt the perfect pattern with knife and fork, we dug in. The result - milder, sweeter and more tender than standard cauliflower, the romanesco did not disappoint. It tasted as good as it looked. Since then, I've been digging around for other ways to fix these little guys. Simple and traditional steaming, roasting and boiling preparations abound, but here's a nice little preparation twist from Albion Cooks. Enjoy....

Posted by Brian Pember on February 5, 2008 8:53 AM

Tags: Recipe , TurboChef , Vegetables

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