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Satay Variation

Satay Variation

Yesterday, as we were debating over who is cooking so much, Cookies said, he wishes we had a good asian restaurant in the neighbourhood, cos he feels for egg rolls and sweet & sour chix… Unfortunately we don’t have even one. There are 5 or 

New soup in the neighbourhood

New soup in the neighbourhood

As I’ve mentioned probably 43,000 times before, we are trying to eat relatively healthy and different. Because of that we have couple rules about weekly meals, like at least 1x vegetarian, 1x fish, 2x meat and definitely soup for 2 days. Mostly I can rotate 

Magda’s Sweet & Sour Pork

Magda’s Sweet & Sour Pork

Sweet&sour Chix

When Cookies told me he took pork chops of the freezer I was like… WTF loin cutlets AGAIN??? I thought I won’t manage another typical meal and I started thinking what to prepare… I looked at PINTEREST for some ideas and saw recipe for pork with pineapples which reminded me couple years ago I created my own sweet & sour pork. That thought relaxed me and made me look into cooking tonight with a grin on my face.

Of course by mistake the whole meal become pork with a bite 😉 I used spicy ketchup and I mean a really spicy one which caused the sauce to be really hot, but still very eatable.

Green Pasta With Shrimps

Green Pasta With Shrimps

Cookies always says I'm a specialist in cooking shrimps 😉 but I just watch attentively cooking shows and listen to the ppl who really know what they are doing in the kitchen 0_o. One of my basic rules with shrimps comes from Jamie Oliver who 

Neverending Astonishment

Neverending Astonishment

From the moment I tried asian food I knew these flavours are for me. I love the idea of few base ingredients that builds taste and additional ingredients finishing it. This time I found easy recipe for asian egg noodles fried with pork. Original recipe 

Kabobs

Kabobs

Kabobs

One of the easiest ways to prepare meat or veggie or fruit meal is just put it on the skewers and grill or bake. I remember the first time I ate kabobs, that was long time ago, we had this funny looking electric grill that had opening top with heater that was turning completely red while cooking. My father liked to make it with pork, bacon and pepper. My mother liked it with pork, bacon and onion. 0_o And I just liked all of the versions.

Now, I make kabobs when I don’t have ideas for a dinner. It’s easy and there is a never ending amount of flavors that you can put together. This time I made… surprise, surprise… CHICKEN kabobs 0_o One of my specialties are shrimp kabobs marinated in my secret ingredients 😛 and I managed to buy not very expensive shrimps lately so I’m going to make it sooooon. Cookies is jumping up and down, as he is so excited 0_o.

Ingredients
2 chicken breast halves
½ big red, yellow or green pepper. I had red and white one.
1 big onion
spices: for lazy ones – spice for poultry.
for others: salt, pepper, tarragon, ginger, basil, red pepper

Preparations:
After you clean and dry it, cut meat into bite size chunks, set aside. Cut pepper into flat pieces, not bigger than chicken. Cut onion into slate like pieces, I usually cut onion into 4 pieces and separate layers. All the big chefs say to put wooden skewers into cold water for an hour, so they do not burn, but I always forget it and just make it.

Make the skewers by skewing prepared ingredients in this way: chicken, onion, pepper, chicken, onion, pepper, chicken, onion, pepper…. uff until you finish all the ingredients. On each of mine usually fit 5-6 chunks of chicken. Set kabobs anywhere and use spices, sprinkle with oil then grill until golden brown.

Serve with anything you like, since we love wax beans I did it again 0_o

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

P.S. Cookies thoughts: Works for me, even if it was “CHIX” again… Magda Cooks, it JUST RIGHT!

Mongolian Style Beef

Mongolian Style Beef

Mongolian Style Beef Couple weeks ago I joined Pinterest cos I saw awesome DIY ideas, that even me, a clumsy two left handed creature can do 0_o. As I spent more time on the site I found of course more categories of pins, where one