Beth Rogers

Modified recipe Scallop pasta with lemon and herbs #acouplecooks - used whole bag of baby spinach, subbed pasta water with splash of cream for milk, added lemon juice. Yummy quick meal!

Korean Fire chicken and cauliflower with cheese adapted from @nytcooking version of Maangchi’s recipe #cheesebuldak #maangchi #nytcooking #spicy

New nail stamping kit March ‘24 called Sky Dancers @hellomaniology with butterfly and dragonfly wing designs on the stamping plates. Used transparent polish mixed with glitter polish for base, then stamped the wings on soft gel tips. Love how they look but can’t do a darn thing with these long nails. 🤣🥴😳. Thank goodness the adhesive is temporary. #hellomaniology #nailsdesign #nailstamping

Eastern North Carolina chopped BBQ - a simple spicy vinegar sauce that pork (or turkey) is cooked and then sauced with. The meat is chopped - not shredded - and there’s no tomato based ingredients. #choppedbbq #instantpot #airfyersweetpotatofries #kalesalad

fontina, caramelized onions, mushroom with a drizzle of fig balsamic pizza. Modified from @epicurious recipe #pizza #fontina #mushrooms #caramelizedonions

Haven’t made sourdough bread for several years - NY had several bakeries that had thin crisp crust, chewy interior artisan loaves I prefer, but still looking here for similar. Been keeping starters going for at least 20 years but wasn’t sure it was strong enough to do bread unassisted by commercial yeast. 1 1/2 days in making but turned out great. #tartine style bread #ryesourdoughstarter #nokneadsourdough

Modified @joannebchang Currant Spelt scone recipe to make cranberry white chocolate scones. Subbed in dried cranberries for currants, added a bit of white chocolate chips, slightly decreased butter and increased buttermilk to be same as her original currant scone recipe. Tips for successful modification of a recipe: make the recipe as written so you know what it is supposed to look and taste like. Sub similar types of ingredients (other dried fruits but not dried for fresh fruit), don’t make major ingredients changes without knowing how that ingredient’s properties affect recipe and adjusting the other ingredients accordingly. If you replace whole grain flour for AP flour, applesauce for butter and eggs, artificial sweetener for sugar, you will have a different result than the original recipe. May have a tasty new recipe but don’t go rating the original based on all the changes. #joannebchangrecipe #flourbakeryandcaferecipe #cranberrywhitechocolatescone

BEC - bacon, egg, cheese on a hard roll. S,P, K? Salt, pepper, ketchup? This classic deli breakfast sandwich is found in metro NY area and was one of my favorites. I carried 4 Rockland Bakery rolls back to the Midwest after a visit to NY. While they also might be called Kaiser rolls, these are different than the ones by same name elsewhere. They have a thin crispy crust that is flaky when you bite into them, hence “hard roll”. Many gas stations would have grab and go “buttered hard rolls” in plastic wrap for the commuters quick breakfast with coffee, but if you could spare 5 extra minutes, you could get a BEC, EC, SEC warm and wrapped in foil. #rocklandbakery #baconeggandcheese #hardrolls

Seared Salmon and Lentils Adapted from Ina’s Salmon and lentil recipe- used red lentils and added spinach #inagarten #barefootcontessa #salmonandlentils

Filipino sotanghon for New Years, a soup that uses bean thread noodles, aka glass or cellophane noodles. Chicken and shrimp are the usual proteins in the soup with onion, garlic, ginger and dried mushrooms. Fish sauce -patis adds umami, and I also add Sazon with achiote for color and flavor as well as carrots. This was our traditional after church on Christmas Eve dish growing up. Noodles represent longevity for the New Year and are usually part of Filipino Media noche. Sotanghon was also our “good for what ails you” Filipino penicillin soup. Bean thread noodles are gluten free and a vegan version can be made with extra firm tofu, vegetable broth and mushroom powder instead of fish sauce. #sotanghon #noodlesfornewyears #filipinofoods

Leftover turkey soup from @nytcooking - turkey, farro, chickpea with middle eastern flavors. Perfect for this first snow day! Barahat spice mix (used recipe on same website) can be subbed with garam masala or ras el hanout. Sub chicken for turkey. Sub farro with rice for gluten free, sub turkey with tofurkey, sweet potato or winter squash to make vegetarian or vegan. Here’s the original recipe: /2023/11/20/dining/leftover-thanksgiving-turkey-soup.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Bk0.srjb.mdOYvNRN_Ci-&smid=url-share #leftoverturkey #farro #chickpeas

A modified version of Korean Dakgalbi (stir fried chicken with veggies and gochujang) where the “leftovers” are turned into fried rice. Rice was crisped separately to make nurungi, (scorched rice) not unlike Persian tahdig or Puerto Rican pegao. #milkstreetrecipes #dakgalbi #chicken #gochujang #sweetpotato #cabbage