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

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.

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)

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

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

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)

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.