Archive for October, 2008
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Peru Com Bacon is a Brazilian dish that I first tried at the Rodizio Grill in Colorado. Tender chunks of turkey are marinated, wrapped in bacon, and broiled to a spicy sweet sizzling perfection. This is a copycat recipe that my mom developed. I served this with ...
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
This recipe comes from Cooking Light. As we like our food spicy, I've upped the amounts for the rub to get a more thorough coating, and my version is below. It makes a wonderfully sweet and spicy chicken. I lack a broiler pan, so I just use ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
I got this recipe from Culinary Concoctions by Peabody, a wonderful sweet-focused blog by a fellow northwest dweller. I made a couple changes, some intentional and some inadvertent :-P The bars came out great, despite myself. Shaun thought they would be better ...
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Sunday, October 12th, 2008
This is comfort food at its best. The recipe comes to me from my husband's folks.
Homemade Chicken Noodles
Makes a whole lot
Ingredients:
1 whole chicken, ~ 4-5 lbs
4 gallons of water
1 dozen eggs
10-12 cups of flour
Salt
Pepper
Chicken bouillon cubes (I prefer Wyler)
Warning: This is an all-day evolution, but it’s worth it!
Clean ...
Posted in Food, Pasta, Poultry | 3 Comments »
Saturday, October 11th, 2008
Egg Bread, aka Toad in a Hole, aka Egg in a Nest, aka Egg in a Basket. This simple and tasty breakfast has many names and is popular the world over. After getting home from an overnight sleep study in a lab where I had something like 25 ...
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Tonight for dinner we did dim sum. Some Ling Ling Chicken and Vegetable Potstickers, Ajinomoto Gourmet Pork Shumai Dumplings, and some homemade Asian Turkey Meatballs. We also had some steamed jasmine rice to round out the meal.
Asian Turkey Meatballs
Makes 15 meatballs
Serves 5 for an appetizer
1.25 lb ground turkey
3 ...
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Last night's dinner was a cheater's quick way to make shrimp fra diavolo - a spicy shrimp pasta. A homemade tomato sauce wouldn't be much more effort. We tried out Garofalo organic whole wheat spaghetti (from Costco) with this meal, and it was quite good.
Shrimp Fra Diavolo
Serves 4
Pasta:
1 ...
Posted in Easy, Food, Italian, Seafood | No Comments »
Sunday, October 5th, 2008
After a big lunch of pizza while watching football after seeing my folks off to the airport, neither one of us were feeling very hungry when dinner time rolled around. Shaun just had some snacks, and I constructed myself a quesadilla. You can really put just about anything ...
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Saturday, October 4th, 2008
So Shaun is back from taking the LSAT, so we had a nice dinner tonight to celebrate no more LSAT studying. Tonight is the last night my folks are here as well. I made raspberry chipotle glazed pork tenderloin, roasted butternut squash (with cumin this time, which came ...
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
My parents came back from their week out on the Olympic Peninsula bearing many freshly picked blackberries and blueberries for us :) I'll have to come up with something good to do with them! Since they'd had a late lunch and I had a ...
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