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Light Dinner For A Hot Summer

Light Dinner For A Hot Summer

I don’t know if I ever mentioned this, but I despise heat. As much as I don’t like wearing heavy jackets and scarves with caps I hate summer more. The high temperature makes my brain cook and stop working (Cookies no doubt would say, that’s 

“The Contradiction”

“The Contradiction”

After my IDWTC Syndrome last week, I didn’t want to get tired quickly with something that takes time, so I chose this recipe for chix with nice sechuan bite, that I found somewhere in the internet  It seemed easy to make, and in the end I 

Years of searching for the flavour…

Years of searching for the flavour…

Years of searching for the flavour…

Probably sounds serious… but it’s just a search for the sesame dressing I ate in a Thai Salad that was served in a no longer existing (at least in) Warsaw restaurant called “Cafe Brama.”
I think until 2010 there was one in NYC’s East Village.  As for ingredients, it wasn’t nothing special. Some iceberg lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, grilled chicken and this absolutely delicious sesame oil dressing. I still try to find this flavour. I was hoping this would be it, with this recipe for Sesame Pasta Chicken Salad, but it just wasn’t. The salad however was very tasty but it wasn’t the dressing that I remembered. Though this recipe is worth preparing. It’s filling and made with wholegrain pasta therefore it’s also diet ;-).

 

Ingredients:

2 tsp sesame seeds
250 g bow tie pasta (I had these cute little bow ties that Lubella makes)
2 tbsp vegetable oil
1 tbsp light soy sauce
1 tbsp rice vinegar
1 tsp sesame oil
1 tsp fructose (or white sugar)
1 cm of ginger
black pepper
double grilled or baked chicken breast
white pepper
handful chopped fresh cilantro or PARSLEY 🙂
few green onions
Optional: handful of roasted peanuts

Preparations:

Boil pasta along the instruction. Cut chicken into cubes or shred (though I don’t know how, the meat is soft, right? 0_o). Toast sesame seeds and peanuts on the dry pan (separate). In a jar combine vegetable oil, soy sauce, vinegar, sesame oil, sugar, sesame seeds, ginger, and pepper. Shake well.

Cut pepper into small pieces, onion into feather like strips add everything to the bowl with pasta and pour dressing over it 😉 On top, toss roasted peanuts and fresh cilantro or parsley.
I bet we could add some more veggies, like carrots, maybe next time 😉

Until next time, take care of yourself and each other 0_o

P.S. Cookies rated it OK!! #HEEL ugh…
 

Cookies 10th favourite…

Cookies 10th favourite…

Cookies 10th favourite… For this past Monday’s meal I cooked Cookies 10th favourite chicken meal. I think it’s an all time easy dinner. I spent 25 min all together in the kitchen making this dish. As much as I love to cook, I like fast 

Amazing Peanut Butter Chicken

Amazing Peanut Butter Chicken

YAY!!! Comments are available now and I now have become a Thai food “expert” Yes, Cookies sometimes shows some spark of genius and he managed to enable comments under the posts 0_o so feel free to use them – just pretty please… no trolling!!! 😉 

People never stop to amaze me ;-)

People never stop to amaze me ;-)

People never stop to amaze me 😉

On Tuesday I was so out of schedule, since we forgot to buy ground meat and beetroots for a meatballs and beetroots day, that I didn’t know what to cook… Though Cookies this time got a good idea and suggested that I use the “sun dried tomatoes that I bought for no reason”… his damn words! So I followed this idea and I needed more sour cream, so I MADE him go with me to the yard store and I was moaning the whole way (50m) how much I want strawberries for this dessert I have in mind. We got radishes instead of strawberries 0_o hahahaha just no strawberries in the yard store. Then I made him go to the other street checking if the local farmer was there but unfortunately he sold everything early and just went home. I found it out from one of my neighbours that was standing in the entrance of our building. I just voiced how unhappy I’m about lack of strawberries and just went home. About 15 mins. later I hear knocking to my door… wtf? I didn’t expect any guests. I opened the door and I just saw my 3rd floor neighbour with a plate full of nice ripe strawberries!!! I was so freaking in shock that lost my words and was standing with my mouth on the floor! She pushed the plate into my hands and said that neighbours need to help each other! I thanked her and started thinking what to do, what to do!!?? I just decided I’ll make additional portion and just take it to her ;-). So I’m rushing with the main dish and the dessert – I created such a mess… that I was damn proud of myself!! And of course, Cookies WAS MADE TO CLEAN IT, and that was my little revenge on him for rating my Monday salad only 8 out of 10. And it was freaking PERFECTION!!!

Sun Dried Tomatoes Chicken Curry without curry 0_o

Ingredients:

2 skinless, boneless chicken breasts (around 45dg – 1lb)
10dg sun dried tomatoes in olive oil
400g sour cream
1 shallot
salt, pepper, lovage and yellow poison

Preparations:

Cut chicken into strips, spice up with some yellow poison and black pepper.Tomatoes and onion cut also into strips. Pour leftover oil from tomatoes on the pan, add some more and heat up.  Put the ingredients in and fry, stirring often. When chicken is golden brown and everything smells just right and delicious sprinkle some lovage and pour the sour cream. Stir thoroughly, if it’s too thick add a little water, it has to be liquidy but not watery. Serve it with basmati rice and green cucumber salad (sliced cucumbers with sweetened with sugar (or fructose) yogurt with sprinkle of black pepper on top).

Strawberry dessert

Ingredients:  
as many strawberries as you please
walnuts, almond slices, sultana raisins – as much as to create a layer in your dish
honey
greek style yogurt
coconut flakes for decoration
2 tsp of sugar of your choice (white, dark sugar or even fructose or sweetener)

Preparations:

Take the stem of the strawberries and cut them into desirable pieces. Cut walnuts and almond slices into big pieces. Put raisins into hot water – keep couple minutes then drain. Mix walnuts, almonds and raisins pour enough honey to coat it. Add sugar into yogurt and start layering. Strawberries – honey mix – strawberries – yogurt – coconut flakes and one pretty strawberry with stem on top. Serve right away 😉

Until next time, take care of yourself and each other 0_o

P.S. Cookies gave the meal  9 out of 10 0_o!! And only because it was his idea… and he didn’t even try the dessert … such a d…