Saturday, April 28, 2012

The Coffeepot Cookbook

by Walt F J Goodridge

By Walt F J Goodridge - Passion Profit Company, The/Nichemarket (2011) - Paperback -

54 pages - ISBN 0983580804

BOOK - AN INTRODUCTION TO COFFEEPOT COOKING : HOW I LOST 101 POUNDS WITH PORTIONED CONTROLLED MEALS

An Introduction to Coffeepot Cooking:How I Lost 101 pounds with Portioned Controlled Meals

This is much more than a book about cooking in my coffeepot. When I hit 245, my daughter, and her cousin, ganged up on me and threatened to cancel future family vacations unless I lost weight. I was being forced by them to learn to cook portion controlled meals for one person and, lose 40 pounds. This is my story. It is how I ultimately lost 101 pounds cooking in my coffeepot and kept it off.
When I started thinking about coffeepot cooking for making portion controlled making meals for one person, I discovered that many other people had addressed various cooking issues by using a coffeepot. The reasons others had engaged in coffeepot cooking are discussed in the first chapter.
As a scientist, I did not start cooking in my coffeepot until I studied everything I could find and I found contempt for the method based on the safety concerns of people who had never tried it. These fear driven comments are almost comical in the hindsight of having cooked in my coffee pot for more than two years without any personal adverse effects and having the positive benefit of adapting to portion controlled meals and losing 100 pounds. Safety concerns are addressed in the second chapter but it should be obvious that being 100 pounds overweight is less healthy than coffeepot cooking.
During those two years, I cooked hundreds of meals in my coffeepot and have been very satisfied with the results. Many of the recipes were adapted from crockpot recipes or based on my professional cooking experience and family traditions. Very simple recipes are included in Chapter three I am sure that once you enjoy cooking, you too will be able to adapt recipes to the tools available, including your coffeepot.
This book is also about my personal journey to lose 100 pounds and go from morbidly obese at 265 pounds to slightly overweight at 165. Actually, the starting point of cooking in my coffeepot was 245 but I had been 265 in the recent past. The path I took may not work for you, but the diet principles are universal. I needed to cook portion controlled meals and scale back dramatically on the amount I was cooking and eating. In my case, I chose to cook in my coffeepot and prepare much smaller portions than I had done all my life. I would only eat the carefully pre-weighed portion I put in the pot after a light breakfast when I wasn't hungry and when I came home, the meal would be cooked and ready when I was hungry.
The final chapters of this book are based on excerpts from my blog documenting my near obsession in losing 100 pounds to return to more human proportions instead of trying to compete with Jabba the Hutt in a fat man contest. If you have friends or family who might benefit from this knowledge, be sure to send them a copy of this book. This happens to be a fun way of cooking for all young and adventuresome people and the young at heart.
Have fun and enjoy fine food – just less of it!

BROCCOLI

BROCCOLI

Fill a coffee filter with six broccoli florets. Load into the coffee maker. Run six cups of water through for tender but still crisp veggies.

LEMON PEPPER CHICKEN

Place chicken breast in coffee maker. Add enough water to cover about 1/4 of chicken. Sprinkle with lemon pepper seasoning. Turn on maker and cook about 15 min per side. Add milk and butter to remaining liquid, allow to heat for about a minute, and add potato flakes for a quick side of mashed potatoes.

INSTANT RICE

INSTANT RICE

Run the appropriate amount of water, per the instructions on the rice package, through the coffee maker and then add the rice to the coffee pot. Leave the burner on until the rice has thoroughly cooked and absorbed most of the water.

STEAMED VEGETABLES

STEAMED VEGETABLES

Place carrots, broccoli, etc. in the filter basket of the coffee maker. Run water through the coffee maker several times to achieve desired tenderness.

RAMAN NOODLES

RAMAN NOODLES

Put the noodles in the carafe. Add enough water to submerge the noodles and turn the coffee maker on. After the water runs through the coffee maker, let the noodles soak in it for about three minutes, or however long it takes for the noodles to soften. Then drain carefully and add the seasoning

SOFT BOILED EGGS

SOFT BOILED EGGS

Place the eggs carefully into the carafe and let the hot water drip over them. Then let the eggs sit in the water for a few minutes.

OATMEAL - VIDEO

OATMEAL

Put two packets of instant oatmeal into the carafe. Add an individual packet of honey, an individual packet of fruit jam, and a pinch of salt. Put an herbal tea bag (e.g. orange flavored) into the filter basket. Pour 8-10 ounces of water into the coffee maker, turn on the machine, and the oatmeal will be ready in about 5 minutes.

EGG SALAD SANDWICH

Recipe:
2 hardboiled eggs, chopped with knife in bowl.
1 Tablespoon mayonnaise
2 Tablespoons Dijon Mustard
1/2 onion chopped fine
1/2 celery stalk chopped fine (optional)
salt and pepper to taste (I skipped the salt)
Line roll with lettuce, stuff with egg salad and garnish with paprika.

Step 1, Put the eggs in the pot.

Step 2. Let cook all day

Step 3, select your roll

Step 4, Mix the ingredients.

Step 5, Line roll with lettuce, stuff with egg salad and top with paprika

serve, enjoy.

NEW ENGLAND CLAM CHOWDER

New England Clam Chowder

can of New England Clam Chowder

Milk

Gather ingredients, put condensed soup in pot, add a can of milk, and thoroughly mix with spoon, fork or whisk.

cook, 7 hours

SAUERKRAUT & KIELBASA

Sauerkraut and Kielbasa

Ingredients:

7 oz Tin sauerkraut
Garlic clove minced
½ Small onion chopped
1 Bay leaf
1 Potato blanched & cubed
1 Tsp Brown sugar
5 oz Kielbasa ½ inch slices

Combine the ingredients and turn on the coffeepot and let cook covered as below. The temperature got to 170 Fahrenheit which is a very safe for a 6 hour slow cooking method.

CHICKEN CURRY

CHICKEN CURRY

Ingredients 1/2 stick butter
1 can Chickpeas
1/2 tsp ginger
1/4 tsp thyme
6 oz chicken without skin (bones are optional)
1 clove garlic
1 splash Hot Sauce.
1 Tablespoon Chief Curry Powder
1 potatoe cubed
1/2 onion chunked

The first step was to place the cubed potato and salt in the coffeepot with the two boned skinned chicken thighs and run 6 cups of fresh water through the coffee pot to blanch the potato and chicken.

after about 15-30 minutes drain and seprat the potato and chicken.

Gather all the rest of the ingredients Together.

Cube the chicken and chunk the onion.

Put the butter in the coffee pot and return to the coffeemaker hotplate, add onion, chopped garlic clove, ginger, thyme, curry powder. Add a splash of hot sauce. Stir into paste. Add can of chickpeas with liguid and layer the chicken and potatoes on top. Let simmer all day.

SAUSAGE & PEPPERS

Sausage and Peppers

First step was to gather the ingredients.

can of tomatoes

bell pepper

onion

sausage link

poked the sausage with a fork and put it in the coffee pot and put 6 cups of water in the normal place and turned it on to blanch the sausage and remove some of the fat. The water was poured off with the excess fat and all the other raw ingredients chopped coarsely and put in the pot with the sausage and tomatoes where it cooked for a few hours. Sprinkle with a small amount of basil and oregano.

cook an hour, serve.

KIELBASA & BAKED BEANS

Kielbasa and Beans

Cut the Kielbasa in ½ inch slices and put in coffee pot. Add 6 cups of water to the coffee pot and turn it on. Let the hot water drip on the Kielbasa in the glass pot in the normal manner. This will extract some grease and precook the Kielbasa. Dump the water and add a can of baked beans.

add a splash of mustard and ketchup and a teaspoon of brown sugar. An hour later eat

MAC & CHEESE

Mac and Cheese

Step 1 was to put the pasta in the pot

Step 2 was to add a teaspoon of salt to the dry pasta

Step 3, Water was added to the coffee maker and it was turned on to drip on the posta. Cooking time was twice as long as the box said about 20 minutes

step 4, add butter.
step 5, drain water off pasta
Step 6, the butter 1/2 stick and milk 1/2 cup are put in the coffee pot.

step 7 put a layer of pasta, a layer of cheese, repeat
Step 8, the filled pot is covered with aluminum foil and placed on the coffee maker hot plate.

Step 9, About an hour later when the cheese is melted and starts flowing, the pot is stirred and the Mac and Cheese is served.

CHICKEN CACCIATORE

CHICKEN Cacciatore

2 chicken legs

Can Diced Tomatoes

Medium Onion

Garlic clove

Medium Pepper

Mushrooms (Optional) Can

Bay Leaf

Oregano

Basil

Step 1, blanch the chicken in the coffee pot by passing fresh water through the coffee maker.

Step 2, drain the chicken and add the chopped onions, peppers and garlic to the coffee pot.

Ad the tomatoes and all other spices and let cook all day.

rinse pot out, add angel hair pasta with a tsp salt.

add water cook 3 minutes.

drain pasta.

put on the plate, covered with the Cacciatore and liberally sprinkled with Parmesan Cheese.

HOBO STEW

Hobo Stew

1 medium potato

5 oz. lean beef
1 small onion or 1/2 large
1 medium carrot sliced long ways and cut to pot size.
Salt and pepper to taste.

Like always I put the potato into the coffee pot a with a teaspoon of salt and and add 10 cups of water to the coffee maker to blanch the potatoes. Drain the salt water after 1/2 hour and put the meat, carrots, onions and potatoes back in the pot with the meat on bottom and the carrots next. Add about 1 cup water and don’t forget to add the salt and pepper. Put it on the coffee maker to cook all day.
Serve in a bowl.

VEGETABLE SOUP

Vegetable Soup

Recipe:

5 oz. Baby spinach leaves
1 medium carrot diced
1 stalk celery diced
1 clove garlic diced
1 can vegetable broth 16 oz
1 can (14.5 oz) diced plumb tomatoes with basil and oregano
1 small bay leaf
½ tsp basil
1 shake oregano – be careful this is a strong flavor but adds a lot
1 thin slice scotch bonnet pepper

put all in pot
add broth
cook until veggies are tender.

POT ROAST CHICKEN

Pot Roasted Chicken

Recipe:
1 potato
1 whole Cornish Hen wash inside and out with lime juice
1 celery stalk diced
1 small onion coarse chopped
1 garlic clove minced
salt and pepper to taste
1 carrot cut to length that will fit in pot and quartered long ways
1 bay leaf
1 thin slice of fresh scotch bonnet hot pepper

Method; As usual, the potato was cubed and placed in the coffeepot with a teaspoon of salt. Fresh water was put in the normal place and the coffee maker turned on to blanch and precook the potato.
Meanwhile the Cornish Hen was washed inside and out with lime.
Next chop up the celery, onion and and garlic mix in a bowl and stuff the cavity of the bird. Cover with salt and pepper or if you like it, seasoned salt.
Drain the potatoes and put them in the bowl with the excess celery mixture. Then stuff the bird into the empty Coffee pot. Cover the bird with the carrot pieces and dump the potatoes and excess celery mix in the pot.
The pot was covered with foil to hold in the heat and placed on the hotplate of the coffee maker.

cook 6 hours, serve.

BLACK BEAN & BROWN RICE CHILI

Black Bean and Brown Rice chili

Recipe:
1/2 onion chopped
4 oz Spam
10 oz can of Black beans drained and washed
1/2 of a15 0z can of crushed tomatoes
1 chicken bullion cube in 12 oz water
1/4 cup brown rice
1/2 tsp crushed garlic
1/2 tsp cumin
1/4 tsp oregano
thin slice scotch bonnet pepper
Salt to taste
1/2 tsp paprika

This is simply an all in the pot recipe and stir before serving or whenever you feel like tasting it

CHICKEN SALSA

Chicken Salsa

Recipe and Ingredients:
2 chicken legs
1 oz Cruzan Gold Rum
1/2 pkg. taco seasoning
1/2 C. salsa
1 T. cornstarch in 2 oz water
2 T light sour cream
1 can red beans

cooked Rice
1. Place the chicken in the crockpot with rum
2. Sprinkle the chicken with the 1/2 package taco seasoning and top with salsa. (See Tips Page for splitting a package in half.) Add Can of Beans
3. Cook on coffeepot hot tray 6-8 hours.
4. Start making rice on the stovetop
5. Remove chicken from crockpot.
6. Dissolve cornstarch in 2 oz of water and stir into the salsa mixture.
7.Stir in the sour cream and heat a few minutes until thickened.
8. Serve sauce and beans over rice and put more sauce on chicken.

OPEN FACED MEATBALL SANDWICH

Open Faced Meatball Sandwich

Jar of your favorite prepared tomato sauce.
Bread
Mozzarella shredded
Parmesan

Poke meatballs with a fork and run 10 cups of water through the coffee maker to blanch the sausage. Let cook about 10-30 minutes later drain off the water.
Drain the water and add the jar of sauce to the pot.
split the bread and place sausage on the bread, pore on extra sauce, smother with shredded mozzarella and sprinkle with desired amount of Parmesan.

OPEN FACE SAUSAGE SANDWICH

Open Faced Sausage Sandwich

Sausage
Jar of your favorite prepared tomato sauce
Bread
Mozzarella shredded
Parmesan

Poke raw sausage with a fork and run 10 cups of water through the coffee maker to blanch the sausage. Let cook about 10-30 minutes later drain off the water.
Drain the water and add the jar of sauce to the pot.
split the bread and place sausage on the bread, pore on extra sauce, smother with shredded mozzarella and sprinkle with desired amount of Parmesan.

SUMMER SQUASH

Summer Squash

Step 1 – Rough cut the onions and put it in the pot.

Step 2 – Slice a summer squash or zucchini and put it in the pot.

Step 3 – Cover with a can of tomatoes – any kind you like stewed, diced or whole.

Step 4 – Sprinkle with cheese, cover with foil, close the lid and let cook all day. The cooking time in the coffeepot is very flexible

Step 5 – Remove the foil and serve as side dish.

PORK STEW CARIBBEAN STYLE

Pork Stew Caribbean Style

Ingredients List:
Tablespoon Virgin Olive Oil
2 Small Cloves of Garlic
½ Small Onion
1 Potato
1 small Caribbean white sweet potato (optional)
½ lb pork
½ tsp Ginger
½ tsp cumin
Package Sazon or Paprika (for coloring of the gravy)
thin slice scotch bonnet hot pepper
½ can Garbanzo beans ( use whole can if skip the sweet potato) Chickpeas
½ can chicken broth
½ can tomatoes

Method:
Blanch the potatoes by cubing to ¾ inch putting in the pot with a teaspoon of water and running 10 cups of water to the coffee maker and let drip through onto the potatoes. Let stay on the hot plate for 15 minutes then discard the salty water and place potatoes in a bowl.
Add oil, chopped garlic, diced onion to the pot along with the ginger and heat on hotplate until glazed
Add the pork and stir until it turns gray on all sides.
Add all spices and mix. Then add the potatoes, garbanzos, tomatoes in layers and add the broth.
If a thicker sauce is desired about an hour before serving pour some broth into a cup and stir in a teaspoon of cornstarch or flower then add it back to the pot and completely stir the pot.

FRENCH ONION SOUP

French Onion Soup

ingedients

onion.

2 TBS butter

1 TBS brown sugar

1 can Beef broth.

bread -tasted

cheese, sliced -of your choice

1. add the onions to the butter and salute them in the coffeepot. slice and quater onions.

2. add 2 tablespoons of butter and 1 level teaspoon brown sugar.

3. add the can of broth and coloring into the onion rings.

4. cook covered for 4 hours.

5. toast bread

6. put slices of cheese on bread to melt.

The toasted cheese is floated on the bowl of soup

Friday, April 27, 2012

BLACK BEANS W/ HAM

Black Beans with Ham

Ingredients:
Tablespoon olive oil
2 small carrots sliced
1 celery stalk diced
½ onion diced
1 clove garlic minced
½ tsp cumin
½ tsp thyme
½ tsp paprika
piece bay lief
thin slice scotch bonnet pepper
4 oz. Diced cooked ham
small can (10 oz) black beans with liquid
½ can (14.5 oz) diced tomatoes
½ can (14.5 oz) chicken broth
½ can (14.5 oz) garbanzos without the liquid (optional)

Method:
Put all ingredients up to and including ham into the coffepot and put on the hot plate, stir occasionally.
add the rest of the canned products to the pot and cook covered all day.
cook 10-12 hours take off the foil cover and let it cook down while you make the rice.
Serve over white rice.