Monday, August 1, 2016

Korean Style Meat Jun

Ingrediments Marinade the following:
•1 pound sirloin, thinly cut
•¾ cup sugar
•¾ cup shoyu
•2 cloves garlic, minced (if you love garlic add more here)
•½ cup water

Optional:
•1 tablespoon sesame seeds,
•2 tablespoons green onions,
•1 tablespoon sesame oil

Ingredients for frying meat:
•8 eggs, beaten
•Flour
•Canola oil

For the Dipping sauce:
•½ cup shoyu
•1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar
•1 teaspoon sesame oil
•chili pepper flakes, to taste
•salt and pepper, to taste

Directions:
1.Marinade - Combine meat, sugar, shoyu, garlic and water and let marinade for 8 hours or overnight.
2.Preparing marinated meat before frying - Completely dredge each slice of meat with flour, Dust excess flour off and dip in egg mixture. Place in frying pan and cook for a few minutes. Drain on paper towels.
3.Dipping sauce instructions - Mix together shoyu, rice wine vinegar, sesame oil, chili flakes, salt and pepper to taste.



Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Cashew Nut Chicken

Ingrediments:
Chicken cut bite sized
Cashew nuts
minced ginger
minced garlic
sliced Red bell pepper
sliced onions
sliced celery
Rice wine
Aloha Shoyu
Sesame oil
Canola or Avocado cooking oil
Sugar
1/4 cup chicken stock
White pepper
Corn starch


Directions:
Take the cut chicken into a sauce pan and mix in the rice wine, sesame oil, shoyu and corn starch stir and let sit for about 1/2 hour
In a mixing cup take the 1/4 cup chicken stock and add sugar, shoyu, sesame oil, white pepper (stir) then set aside.
Place small amount of cooking oil into the wok then add the cashew nuts. Cook for a few seconds till lightly browned, then set aside.
Place small amount of cooking oil into the wok then add about 1/3 the ginger and garlic stir till browned then add about 1/3 the chicken mix. Cook for about 5-8min till pau then set aside. Do the same with the other 2/3's chicken marinated mix.
Place small amount of cooking oil into the wok then add about 1/3 the ginger and garlic stir till browned then add the veggies. Stir till pau cook.
Then add the chicken mix and cook together in the wok
Then add the remaining chicken stock mix and stir into the chicken mix in the wok.
Finally, add the cashew nuts and stir all together.
Transfer to a serving plate and serve over white rice.

Serves about 6 humans.
YouTube video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5y9V1Y1jjY&nohtml5=False




Spiral Baked Potato on a stick

An interesting way to bake a potato is to do a spiral potato on a stick. Here's the life's hack YouTube page:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XQ8-zGjfz4

Sunday, April 3, 2016

Sweet Sour Spareribs

Ingrediments:
3 lbs spare ribs cut into 1" strips
2 tbsp shoyu
1/4 cup all purpose flour
3 cloves garlic, smashed
3" ginger root smashed & sliced
1/3 cup cider vinegar
3/4 cup water
1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
1 tsp salt

Directions:
1. Have the butcher cut the spare ribs into 1" strips through the bone
2. Cut the spare ribs between the bones into bite size pieces and place in a large bowl. Add Shoyu and mix. Add flour and mix again. Let sit for about 30 min.
3. In a large pot add the vinegar, water, brown sugar and salt. Mix well.
4. Heat in a wok or frying pan on med high heat. Add 2-3 tbs oil and gently brown the ginger and garlic. Remove and place in the pot with the sauce. Then add 1/2 the meat to the wok and spread out but don't stir. Let brown for about 2 min. Using tongs (or chopsticks), turn the pieces to the meat the same way and add to the pot. Stir to mix meat with the sauce.
5. Place the pot on the stove and bring to a boil then turn heat down to low and let simmer covered for 1 hr or until tender. Stir occasionally.


Monday, March 28, 2016

Spaghetti


Ingrediments:
Spaghetti noodles
hamburger
meat flavored pasta sauce (or Ragu)
garlic
tomato paste
can stewed tomatoes
Packet Lawrey's spaghetti sauce mixed with 3 packets water
mushrooms to match
smoked sausage or portugese sausage
2 bay leafs (optional)

Directions:
boil up noodles
cook up hamburger (add bay leaf - optional)
mix in crushed garlic
mix in mushrooms to taste
mix in 1/2 small can tomato paste
mix in 1 can stewed tomatoes
pour in complete mixed ingrediments over the noodles
(onions are optional)


Thursday, March 10, 2016

Sicilian Chicken

Ingrediments
•1 Free range whole chicken (cut into 8 pieces)
•400g - 14oz Approx 8 x baby potatoes (chats)
•8 - 10 baby shallots
•6 garlic cloves
•1 lemon (half)
•1 cup green pitted olives
•1 tbsp dry oregano
•1 cup dry white wine
•1 cup chicken stock (you can use the chicken carcass for stock, click here to see how to make it)
•Salt and pepper
•Olive oil for cooking

Directions:
1.If using a whole chicken, first break it down into eight smaller pieces.
2.Add three tbsp of olive oil to an oven proof dish on high heat.
3.Add the chicken pieces skin side down into the hot oil and cook until brown.
4.Add salt and pepper. Flip over and cook the other side. Rest aside once brown all over.
5.Peel the shallots.
6.Peel the baby potatoes and slice into three widthwise.
7.Add the shallots and potatoes to the same dish until slightly brown
(you may need a little more oil).
8.Add the crushed garlic, continue cooking a little.
9.Return the chicken keeping the skin side up on the same top level.
10.Add the pitted olives.
11.Add the white wine.
12.Add the oregano.
13.Add the chicken stock.
14.Bake in oven with lid on for 30 minutes at 350°F
15.Remove lid and bake for another 30 minutes at 400°F




Saturday, March 5, 2016

Chicken Breasts with Mushroom

Ingrediments
Chicken Breasts
Mushrooms - cut or sliced
garlic
diced onions
butter
dry white wine
chicken broth
thyme

Directions:
Take the chicken breasts and beat the bajabbers out of them till they're only about 1/2" thick
Put in frying pan and cook for about 3 min. using low-mid heat in canola oil on each side and
Salt lightly and maybe a little pepper to taste
Then after removing the chicken:
fry up and stir together some diced onions, sliced mushrooms, in minced garlic, butter, wine sauce and all purpose flour
stir together and add about 3/4-1 cup chicken broth
Now add the butter and some thyme to the sauce mix
Serve over mashed potatoes or rice

In the alternative - use cream of mushroom soup instead of the home made wine sauce mix

Thursday, March 3, 2016

Vienna sausage Pasta

Ingrediments:
spaghetti noodles
vienna sausage or hot dogs
Rooster sauce

Directions:
stick the noodles through the vienna sausage or hot dogs like the image below
Simply boil them in water till the noodles are cooked
strain the water out and put in a fry pan
start cooking them in the fry pan to brown the sausage or hot dogs while adding rooster sauce if you want to localize it. Otherwise, add cheese.

It will look like this, before you add the rooster sauce.



If you want to color it up a bit, you can add different colors of bell pepper. Or if you want, you can add a little hamburger to the mix after you boil the noodles. Add a small amount of hamburger after the cooking, frying and adding the rooster sauce. (keep the hamburger uncontaminated with other flavors)

Monday, February 15, 2016

Chicken Fettuccini Alfredo


INGREDIMENTS
• 1 chicken breast
•1 tbsp of table salt (for pasta water)
•2cloves of garlic
•1 tsp dried oregano
•1 cup chopped or hand torn fresh basil
•35g - 1.2 oz butter
•1 cup of full cream (regular or heavy cream)
•250g - 9oz fettuccine
•60g - 2oz Parmesan cheese
•Salt and pepper

DIRECTIONS
1.Remove the skin from chicken breast if any. Trim off any fat or grizzly bits.
2.Slice the breast thinly following the angle of the grain (widthwise).
3.Add a large pot of water to the heat, salt and bring to the boil. (should taste like sea water)
4.Add frying pan to heat.
5.Slice and add the butter to frying pan on moderate heat.
6.Once butter is melted, turn heat on full and add the chicken slices.
7.If water is boiling add pasta or as soon as it boils. (read pack for cooking times)
8.Turn over your chicken pieces once slightly caramelised.
9.Once chicken is cooked, turn off heat and transfer pieces to a bowl. Keeping the juices in the frying pan.
10.Add garlic to the same frying pan and turn on heat.
11.Add the oregano.
12.Add the cream.
13.Season with salt and crushed pepper.
14.Add some grated Parmesan cheese (about two thirds)
15.Strain your pasta. (you may want to keep some water aside incase sauce becomes too thick)
16.Add the chicken to the sauce with all the juices and butter in bowl.
17.Add the cooked pasta and mix well.
18.Chop the fresh basil and add to sauce just before serving.
19.Using tongs, grab a serve of pasta and lower it into the serving plate by spinning the plate creating a spiral little pasta mount.
20.Top with the remainder of Parmesan cheese and garnish with a few fresh basil leaves.



Sunday, January 24, 2016

Pot Roast or Pot Roast Stew

Ingrediments:
Pot Roast - Chuck Roast
1 can beef broth or use water with 1 heaping tbs beef bullion
baby Onions
Carrots
Small potatoes (mixed blend)
2-3 sprigs of Rosemary & Thyme


Directions:
Brown onion halves in a thin layer of oil, then remove from pot. Cut the carrots into bite size stew bites as well as cutting the small potatoes in half. Cook up or (brown) the potatoes & carrots, then remove them from pot. Salt & Pepper the chuck roast then brown on both sides. Remove the meat from the pot and add beef broth. After about 1min re-add the chuck roast back into the pot. While cooking, add the vegetables back into the pot. Now add the rosemary and thyme. Cook in oven 275* for 3-4 hours. Here's one picture with celery and one without.





Or you can make Pot Roast Stew
Ingrediments:
Pot Roast - Chuck Roast
Lipton Onion Soup (comes with 2 packets in the box. Use only 1)
3/4-1 cup water
1/2 lb. baby Onions or 1/2 round sweet onion
1 lb. baby Carrots
1/2 carton of Mushrooms
1/2 Onions

Directions:
Take the onion soup and pre-stir with the water it in the measuring cup. Then cut up your pot roast in bite size chunks and put it in the slow cooker for 3hrs. Pour the water/onion soup mix onto the meat and stir it up. After about 15min before you're ready to eat, cook up the mushrooms & onions in either oil or butter. Micro-wave your carrots for 4min on high and add them into the slow cooker. Then after the remaining time has finished cooking, you're ready to go.


Here is a picture of the Onion Soup mix.




Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Cajun Pasta

Ingrediments:
olive oil
Chicken
Portugese sausage
Spam
Mushrooms
Onions
Red bell pepper
Green bell pepper
Cajun powder
Cayanne pepper
Onion powder
Paprika
Garlic powder
salt
pepper
Garlic cloves
Chow fun flat type noodles
2-3 cans Chicken broth
Cream 7 Parmesan cheese if desired.

Directions:
Heat up the olive oil in a stew pot and add diced chicken, portugese sausage, spam and stir till cooked.

Then add in 3 garlic cloves, sliced onions, sliced red & green bell pepper, mushrooms.
In a separate bowl dry mix together the cajun powder, cayanne pepper, onion powder, salt, pepper paprika, garlic powder, and dry mix together. Then add the dry mix onto the body of the meats & peppers.
Add in about a pound of spaghetti noodles and chicken broth enough to cover the whole meal.
Boil as you would boil regular spaghetti noodles if by themselves. This will blend all the flavors together.
Continue to stir and let simmer for about 10 minutes.
(Extra if desired you can stir in cream parmesan cheese in the mix or just add parmesan cheese after)

This meal serves 8. Finally a meal where no rice is required.


Monday, January 11, 2016

Stuffed bell peppers

Ingrediments:
Bell peppers
hamburger
spice for the hamburger (spice to flavor)
onions
rice
Kernel corn
Salsa
cheese

Directions:
Top off the bell peppers and gut them (they will serve as a bowl for the hamburger mix. Bake them in the oven at 350* for about 10min. Fry up the hamburger, mix in the onions, then spice, then rice, then corn, then salsa and keep stirring it all together top off with a little cheese. Then Take the mix and stuff it inside the bell pepper. top off with a little cheese then bake it in the oven at 350* for about 10 min.

Finally - Top off with sour cream and avocado.