Friday, December 27, 2013
Herring Under Fur Coat Salad Селедка под шубой
Ingredients: ( For large 12 inch plate)
12-16 oz Herring Fillet (or Smoked salmon)
7 large beets (Boiled or Baked)
4 med-large potatoes (Boiled or Baked)
3 med carrots (Boiled or Baked)
9 large eggs (Boiled)
1 med sweet onion
1 cup mayonnaise
salt to taste
Chopped Salad of Flank Steak Mango Avocado and Cucumber with Honey Lime Vinaigrette
Cornish Hens with Sausage and Wild Rice Stuffing
This recipe was given to me by Steves Aunt Melissa. Ive been meaning to make it for a very long time but it never seemed to make the menu. Now that Ive tried it I will make it more often. It was excellent! I cant wait to use this stuffing on a nice big oven stuffer chicken!
Melissas Cornish Hens with Sausage and Wild Rice Stuffing
Ingredients:
6-8 Cornish Hens
1 lb Italian sausage (removed from casing)
1 large shallot chopped
4 or 5 cloves garlic chopped
¼ c white wine
½ lb sliced mushrooms
1 pkg Uncle Ben’s wild rice
paprika
lemon juice
Directions:
Cook the sausage, shallots, and garlic in olive oil. When cooked, turn up heat and add ¼ cup white wine and ½ lb sliced mushrooms. Cook all together and put aside. Cook Uncle Ben’s Wild Rice (1 pkg) as directed. Add to stuffing and stuff hens. Rub Hen’s with paprika and lemon juice. Heat oven to 350 degrees and cover Hens with foil. After 1/2 hour remove foil. Cook Hen’s for 1 hour.
Enjoy!
Cafe Rio Chicken
Thursday, December 26, 2013
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Light Banana Bread
Light Banana Bread
Adapted from Cooking Light by Cheap Healthy Good
Ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon cinnamon
¼ teaspoon nutmeg
2/3 cup sugar
2-1/2 T butter, softened
1 1/2 cups mashed ripe banana (about 4 bananas)
3 T skim milk
3 T fat-free sour cream or vanilla yogurt
2 large egg whites
½ t vanilla extract
Cooking spray
Directions:
1) Preheat oven to 350°F. Coat loaf pan with cooking spray.
2) In a large bowl, mix together flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Set aside.
3) In a different large mixing bowl OR stand mixer bowl, combine sugar and butter. "Beat at medium speed of a mixer until well-blended." Stop beater. Add banana, milk, sour cream, and egg whites. Resume beating until well combined.
4) Pour flour mixture into banana mixture and beat until everything is well-blended.
5) Pour batter into loaf pan. Bake 60 or 70 minutes, or until loaf passes the toothpick test. (Insert a toothpick in the middle of the bread. If it comes out clean, youre golden.) Remove from oven. (SEE NOTE BELOW) Let sit for 10 minutes on a wire rack. Pry bread from pan and let it cool totally on that same wire rack. For best flavor, wrap in tin foil and let sit overnight.
Note: If using a bundt pan - bake for approx 45 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Let cool and invert.
Click here for a printable recipe for Light Banana Bread.
Khara masala stew
Ingredients
- Mutton ½ kg half boiled
- Onion 2 large thinly sliced
- Oil ½ cup
- Chopped ginger 1 tbsp
- Chopped garlic 1 tbsp
- Mixed Whole spices 1 tbsp
- Yogurt ½ cup
- Crushed coriander 1 tbsp
- Whole button chilies 10
- Salt 1 tsp heaped
- Green chilies whole 4
- Coriander leaves 2 tbsp
- Tomatoes chopped 2
- Boil mutton in 1 cup water for just 15 minutes till half done, heat oil ½ cup add sliced onion, fry till half done, do not brown, add mixed whole spices, chopped ginger garlic, white cumin whole, chopped tomatoes, yogurt, button red chilies, crushed coriander and boiled mutton, cover and leave it to cook for 20 minutes then fry well till mutton tender and oil comes on top, serve garnish with chopped green chilies and coriander leaves.
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Som tam Polamai Thai Fruit Salad
The color combination is inviting itself, isnt it? Its called "Somtam Polamai" or sweet and sour mixed fruits salad . Fresh fruits include dragon fruit, guava, Apple,rose apple,Grapes, etc. and sprinkled with broiled peanuts and shredded carrots. Great and nutritious appetizer!
The original taste of this dish should be the balance taste between sweet, hot, salty, and sour.
Easy to make tofu recipes
Tofu is one of the more healthy food, you should integrate into your diet program. It is low in cholesterol, and calories, but it may be high in protein and minerals. Also called tofu, tofu is often used in soups. It is fairly easy, to ready and with some simple and quick tested recipes you can a meal with tofu everyday in the week.
You can create it, frying pan, to it salads, you combine with meat, fish, and it is sandwich fillings of Info for. Find a set of members, you will be able with your tofu. For a single you can be produced it as a dip for your crackers and chips. All this requires is, are sauteed garlic and onion, tofu, blend in a food processor and some salt and pepper to the taste. You turn out safely, that you take so much water as possible from the tofu, initial mix above it all. This is usually a very healthy dip, which can be used for snacks and also for parties.
In recent times turn more and more people from tofu and love it, be used if I could combine. Tofu sales in the supermarket have been a steady improvement. Tofu is an excellent replacement for meat protein, because compared to meat, it contains more protein and less cholesterol. And with much new tested recipe- s, prepare tofu, you get tired not of him.
Tofu dishes are often really tasty, especially because just about any condiment or an ingredient will take off. Tofu in itself is far from tasty. So even with very little condiments, you can pretty much a tasty tofu dish. You only need to know how to be prepare you. You can easily place tofu on the top rated a plate but not actually the best way to prepare tofu set.
1 Is to make court, which is pretty easy tofu with mushrooms are combined. You must have a single significant fungi for this, because you the log part can be filled with tofu. Ready to be the tofu, filling with the addition of spring onions, crushed, a little bit of soy sauce, a little bit of oyster sauce, garlic and salt and pepper to taste. When you are done filling of the fungus, baking you that not much longer than 15 minutes. This is quite a pleasure.
If you want something to spice up your food, a chilli tofu dish can work well. What you do is cube bowl of chili powder tofu in a very mixed with soy sauce and garlic marinade. After learning to marinade for 15 minutes or so place the tofu with the marinade in a heated pan with olive oil. Prepare the tofu until they are crispy on the pages. The waste oil from the tofu, you place really with a towel cuisine should work.
It is possible, of course your plate tofu combine with other combinations. Lamp, Burger, crab meat, white potatoes, pasta, and rice would go great with your tofu dishes.
You can make even a tofu Burger. All you need is flour to make tofu and the patties on a frying pan or grill to mix. You can contribute ketchup and mustard bottles afterwards. If you want to be fancy, can barbecue sauce add great as be beautiful. These are just a few of the fast and simple quality recipea s for the tofu dishes that you make.
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Daikon Salad
Ingredients:
1 Daikon
1 bunch green onion
Dill
Sunflower oil unrefined (Best to buy in the Russian store)
Vegeta salt
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Shred daikon like strips. If you dont have a shredder you can cut it by hand in strips. Slice green onion and dill. Add to the bowl.
Add vegeta and oil. Mix and Enjoy! It taste better right after you make it.