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Yeah another “TAKE THE CHIX OUT BABES!” meal. But completely different than what I’ve made until now. My constant search for chicken recipes never ends. Though very often I threaten Cookies with his all time favourite meal GRILLED CHIX 😛 buaaahahaha you need to see …
Roasted Cauliflower Since I got my halogen oven I can’t stop finding dishes I can make in it. Since I’m trying very hard not to eat too many carbs, so I decided this recipe for roasted cauliflower with cayenne pepper would be great. Found to …
New Love
As I mentioned a couple times before, I try to prepare some vegetarian meals from time to time, always looking for new ideas, cos lets be honest – I’m a carnivore and I like “my piece of meat.” Thought as scientists and Cookies says – “it’s healthy for you!” I can’t disagree, so I hunt for ideas that suit both our palates. This time I made zucchini rolls with feta cheese and as a side dish I choose some awesome looking green mexican rice. And as you can see the whole dish is spectacularly gorgeous 😉 and it tastes as good as it looks, believe me, we both were astounded how a mix of delicate, almost sweet baby zucchini contradicted the salty flavour of feta and the basil taste of pesto.
Grilled Zucchinis
Ingredients
2 – 3 baby zucchinis
a box of feta cheese
green pesto
oil
Green Mexican Rice
Ingredients
3 tbsp oil
200g basmati rice (2 bags)
½ cup chicken stock
1 bunch parsley
1 tsp cayenne pepper
1 medium onion
1 long green pepper
1 tsp garlic powder or 1 garlic clove
Salt to taste
Preparations:
Start with rice, cos with zucchini you won’t have time for paying attention to anything else. Cook rice 4min less than the instruction calls. drain and set aside.
Chop onion and pepper, set aside. Roughly chop parsley (you can add cilantro as well) and put into blender, add cayenne pepper, garlic powder or clove slightly chopped or mashed, and in the end add bouillon. Mix good until its nice and green. Heat oil on a pan with high sides, add onion and then fry for a minute. Add pepper and fry for another minute stirring often. Add rice and coat it good with oil, onion and pepper, fry together for another minute or two. Poor in green mixture and stirring, cook until the rice is greenish and soft. Set into warm spot.
Now the zucchinis. Cut the ends, take either veggie peeler or cheese cutter and slice long slices of the zucchini. Set on the board, pour oil into small bowl, using a kitchen brush smear one side of the slices with oil, but not too much! Put it on a hot grill pan and grill until pretty dark stripes shows, flip it and now work starts. Brush whole slice with pesto, add some feta cheese on one side and wait until grilled – I believe its max 2 min. Take it slowly of the grill and set on the board, roll it straight starting from feta end and place on the plate vertically. Repeat until you use all the pieces of zucchini and most of the feta, or even all.
Serve with hot green mexican rice decorated with anything you want, I had some feta left.
Enjoy a simply gorgeous and full of flavor vegetarian meal.
Until next time, take care of yourself and each other 0_o
P.S. Cookies thoughts: I love my vegetarian style meals a lot. This one really rocked. I was skeptical , but it turned out something out of the ordinary. Magda Cooks… it just right.
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Dirty Rice
Before I met Cookies I thought that American cuisine is mostly hamburgers and fried chicken oh and apple pie 0_o. I know stereotypical, but I didn’t have a chance to change that thinking. I got the chance after Cookies and I created the basic social unit 0_o. He showed me that there is billions of meals that got created by different nations living in US. I have to admit that my favourite is Cajun cuisine that comes from Louisiana. For this recipe I created Cajun seasoning on my own – cos I couldn’t get it anywhere here. Even in the Kuchnie Swiata chain, that usually has everything special or weird I need. But what do I have Internet for? I asked Uncle Google and voila, there is nice recipe for Cajun spice! Even better, a couple versions of it! AWESOME!. I chose the one that I could obtain all the ingredients. It’s easy to make your own mixes, so no worries.
Ingredients for Cajun seasoning:
2 tsp salt
2 tsp garlic powder
2 1/2 tsp sweet paprika
1 tsp ground black pepper
1 tsp onion powder
1 tsp cayenne pepper
1 ¼ tsp dried oregano
1 ¼ tsp dried thyme
Put all the ingredients into jar, mix good. every technique is good – stirring, shaking, rolling 0_o
Ingredients for Dirty Rice
3 bags or a cup of basmati rice or any other long grain
2 chicken bouillon cubes
500g ( 1 lb will do good too) ground pork
3 tbsp oil
1 small onion
1 yellow pepper
1 carrot
1 tbsp Cajun seasoning
Preparations:
Cook rice according to the users manual 0_o I hate when in recipes they tell you how to cook rice, when no way you can have exactly the same one, grrrr. The only difference is, add 1 chicken bouillon cube to the water. Set aside and let it cool, it can be leftover from the previous day.
Heat oil in the big skillet. Chop onion into tiny cubes. Toss it into skillet, fry like 30s then add meat. Let it brown good before you stir. When meat is browned, add finely chopped yellow pepper and carrot. If the bottom of the skillet is crusting, lower the heat down. Cook meat and veggies for another 5 minutes. After that time add a glass of bouillon cube, scrub the bottom gently with all the goodies 😉 and add 1 tbsp of Cajun seasoning. Stir good and cook on high heat for as long as to boil away most of the stock. Add rice and stir good again. Lower the heat and cook for another few minutes, until rice is hot.
Serve right away hot with a bottle of beer 0_o if you please.
Until next time, take care of yourself and each other 0_o
P.S. Cookies thoughts: Totally impressed by the effort and the end result. Tasty and GOODNESS.
Coleslaw Awesomeness I remember the first time I ate coleslaw. It was very long time ago, I went with my friend Ms. Ds to the cinema, but we decided to eat something first. She proposed KFC. Since fast food chains wasn’t present in Poland when …
Lemony Chicken With Couscous Since I’m trying to diet constantly, I tend to look for recipes that at least seem to be diet, (read that: HEALTHY) then I change everything that isn’t diet, and make it diet 0_o. This time I found on the BBC …
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 found out the whole meal took exactly 18 minutes!
Actually I looked at this recipe for weeks, and was procrastinating 0_o cos it needs garlic. I know that with chinese recipes you have to be thorough with ingredients, cos you risk the food being awful, so garlic is important, BUT at the same time it is a GIANT NO in Cookies food menu, though funny shit is he will eat garlic bread without problem 0_o, wtf? He is a strange one.
Then I decided I will add some garlic powder, and everything should be fine ;-). Plus he won’t know if no one tells him 😉 right?
The recipe is not complicated at all, and like all chinese food the end result was spectacular. I completely didn’t know what to expect from it, but in the end I liked a lot! This features a nice contradiction of flavours, and textures. On one hand the spicy cayenne pepper that gives it a bite, then on the other the delicate texture of corn flour coated chicken, that gave nice juicyness to the meat, and in the end spicy-sweet onion mixed with soy sauce, and vinegar. I was nicely surprised how light the meal was. I served it with basmati rice spiced with soy sauce, and a little butter, and polish style cucumbers with sweetened yogurt.
Ingredients for 2 servings:
2 chicken breasts
1.5 tbsp corn flour
1 tbsp oil
1 tsp garlic powder (or 2 small garlic cloves)
3 tbsp light soy sauce
1 tbsp white wine vinegar
1 flat tsp fructose
4 tbsp water
1 red onion
cayenne pepper
Preparations:
Cut chicken into quite big pieces – 3-4cm. Sprinkle with corn flour, and garlic powder, make sure each piece is coated good. In the wok or just a skillet heat oil, add chicken, and fry until golden brown. While chicken is frying, pour to small bowl soy sauce, vinegar, fructose and water – mix thoroughly. When chicken is done, pour soy mixture, cover and cook for 3 min. Add onion cut into feather strips and cook everything for another 2-3 min.
It can be served with soy noodles, soba or rice – I chose basmati rice, simply cos I have it in stock 0_o and since it’s not rich with vegetables serve it with a side salad.
Until next time, take care of yourself and each other 0_o
P.S. Cookies liked it but he said: “IT WASN’T ENOUGH, WOMAN!!”
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!!! 😉 …