Recipes-Main Dishes
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Jay’s sweet spicy fish and sauteed bok choy
That was dinner tonight in our household . I hate it when Jay makes the fish .. take that as a compliment . Why do i hate it ? Because i cannot stop with just eating 1 plate !! I always end up getting 2nd plate with it . It was and always is , so yummy , it was hard just to stop with 1 plate . Jay used catfish , and put green onions , garlic , sambal oelek in a jar , soy sauce , yellow onion , thai chili pepper and sugar . As simple as that , but it’s so delicious !! I cooked the…
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Chicken and Sweet Leek Pie
I put a chicken pie in my menu this week and finally got to try it tonight . It was taken from Jamie Oliver’s cook book . It looks delicious and it seems like the preparation was pretty easy . It was not easy , especially when you have boneless meat , it took me a while because i had bone in meat , i chose to use chicken legs , and i had to de-boned all of them to make enough for it . Wasn’t hard at all , in fact i thought this was quicker than making chicken pot pie . I cut bunch of thyme from my…
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Chicken Tortilla Soup
I don’t think i ever had chicken tortilla soup until few weeks ago . I thought they’re good , similar to Chili , but i think i prefer tortilla soup better . The recipe here is so easy , although it took about 1 hour to simmer , so that the taste blends better , so worth it . Perfect day for a chicken tortilla soup , since it’s a little bit cold over here . Anyway here is the recipe : 4 chicken thighs , boneless , cut into bite size vegetable oil salt and pepper, smoked paprika Cut the chicken thighs into bite size , salt pepper…
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Red Robin’s Honey Mustard Poppy Seed Dressing
The first time i visited red robin was few years ago back when we were still living in Wichita , Kansas . But since then , although they have couple of red robin’s restaurants around our area , we barely went there . It’s just hamburgers anyway , that’s what i think . Until few months ago , we set a playdate for the kids over there , and i ordered their crispy chicken salad with honey mustard poppy seed dressing . I always love honey mustard , so i thought this was a good choice , i didn’t regret it , it was great !! And i found the…
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Slow Cooked Chicken Teriyaki
I ran to this recipe online , it was adapted from Rachael Ray’s website , she’s famous with her quick 30 minutes meal . Well this one wasn’t a quick 30 minutes meal , and i am not really into her recipes either . But this one caught my eye .. easy and it’s like forget it and let it cook by itself . It doesn’t call for too much ingredients , but one thing that you must have , it’s the teriyaki sauce itself . Although in my opinion , you can always make your own teriyaki , this recipe also similar to my Indonesian Ginger Chicken recipe ,…
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Pasta con Fruitti Di Mare ( Seafood Pasta w/ simple tomato sauce )
It was one of the lazy cooking day , i have been slacking with cooking for a while . We’ve got too much leftovers from cooking the previous days . We finally finished the leftovers from 2-3 days ago of cooking . So it was about time to cook again .. i was going to make shish kebab but changed my mind , and ended up with seafood pasta . I make my own sauce for the seafood pasta , ever since i learned how to cook and found out how easy it is to make your own pasta sauce , i never use store bought pasta sauce any more…
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Lemon Garlic Pasta Cream Chicken w/ Focaccia Bread
This morning after working out , i decided just to make focaccia bread , it’s raining and we had nothing else to do today anyway . So , i put the dough in the bread machine , letting it go , actually you could made it manually , by hand , but to save time and less messy i just let the bread machines take care of the dough . It didn’t take long , about 1 hour and half and the dough was ready to be baked . I put some herbs in the dough , thyme , garlic , basil oregano and black pepper . On top of…
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Coconut Chicken
This is another easy dish to make for weekdays. The fact that it comes with a dipping sauce or just a sauce to spice up the chicken itself , is yummy , the sauce is made from pineapple preserve , i think you can always make your own pineapple sauce if you have fresh pineapple on hand , or when pineapple is in season , but the preserve is just comes in very handy . And i thought at first pineapple preserve with jalapeno and green onion was kinda strange combination , but it turns out to be delicious and perfect pair for the chicken cutlets . Instead of using…
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Spicy Fish Soup
I was going to blog about this couple of days ago since , the soup was made few days ago , but i kept forgetting about it . But this was about the fish soup , korean spicy fish soup . Bought red snapper , that was already cleaned and gutted by the fish monger , which was excellent , meaning i don’t have to make a mess in my kitchen , i don’t have to look around if there is any flying scale , or scale landing on my hair .. eww .. yes .. gross .. I love fish , but it’s just scaling the fish was the…
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Garlic Rosemary Roasted Chicken Legs
Since we have so many chicken legs / thighs in the freezer , i’ve been trying to circle my dinner menu this week around that . And tonight i ended up with this garlic rosemary chicken legs , so easy and less mess . I love quick fix dinner that does not require too much mess , esp. when i have to handle everything myself . My dishwasher was already busy going , so i refuse to make a complicated dinner that require a lot of washing dishes or making too much mess on the stove . This was great .. just dredge , dip and roll , and bake…
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Seafood and sausage pasta with essence cream sauce
After days and days of korean dishes on our kitchen and dining table , we decided that it’s time to take a break from korean food . LOL , not that we don’t love it , we do .. that’s the problem !! So tonight , i decided to go a little italian , sausage and seafood pasta with essence cream sauce . It was not hard , just like any other pasta dish , i used hot italian sausage and mixed seafood in this dish . The only thing i am not too happy is the fact that i had to use heavy cream for the sauce .. it…
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Black Bean Noodles ( Jjajangmyoen )
Lately it’s been like a korean fest in our household . It’s really like we live in korea , we cook korean dish almost everyday for the past week , not to mention to make it complete , we even made our own kim chi ! So there i was , hungry for korean famous dish , black bean noodles , i happened to have the sauce on hand , bought it on my trip couple of weeks ago to the korean market . This dish is surprisingly pretty easy and not messy to make . Just a little prep and voila ,it’s done , either you can eat it…
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Kimchi Chigae ( Spicy Fermented Cabbage Stew )
Since i made kimchi about 2 weeks ago , i’ve been trying all kinds of korean dish that uses kimchi as its base . One of them is this , kimchi stew . A little bit nervous at first since truthfully i don’t really like kimchi itself , but i like kimchijeon ( kimchi pancake ) , so why not trying kimchi stew . Add some meat in there , and water , which might be the reason why it’s not as sour and strong , but it has a very delicious broth !! You need : 2 1/2 cups of chopped kimchi ( or bite size kimchi ) 1/2…
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Jjamppong ( Spicy Seafood Noodle Soup w/ Vegetables )
Made Jjamppong tonight for dinner , it was very delicious . This dish i call , one pot meal , why ? Because it has everything you need in just 1 bowl . Not to mention it is spicy and delicious . I made the stock first , using dried anchovy , onion , kelp and dried shiitake mushroom . And let it boil for 40 minutes . The dish itself actually is not hard to make at all , just takes time with the preparation , not to mention having to wait for the stock to be ready . But anyway , the soup has tons of vegetables you…
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Star Anise Ginger Braised Whole Chicken
The other day i went to this spice place about 30 minutes from where i live , where you can buy spices as little as you need or as many as you need . Then i remembered that i need to get star anise , there was this dish from Simply Ming book that requires that . So tonight that’s what i cooked , i made chicken dish with star anise and ginger , and other root vegetables , the result .. the broth was OH MY .. it was so good !! Delicious and tasty . So here is the star anise ginger braised whole chicken Picture doesn’t do…
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My mom’s tomato soup ( sup merah )
When i was younger , sup merah , or as i called it now , tomato soup , was one of my favorite . I didn’t get to eat them too often , mom used to make them for special occasion only , such as birthdays , christmas or new year , those kind of things . I wonder why she didn’t make this more often , but now come to think of it , probably because back then , it was too much work to make this kind of soup , although now , and esp. over here in States , everything is made easy for us . Back…
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Linguine with spicy turkey sausage
Tonight i made this dish , original recipe calls for italian sausage , but since we’ve been trying to eat some healthy stuff , i ended up replacing the sausage with turkey sausage . I picked Jenny-O , hot italian turkey sausage . Turned out to be pretty delicious too , as for the linguine i stick with the regular , instead of the whole wheat , i got traumatized the last time i used whole wheat linguine because they get so dry , maybe i needed to cook them longer , but i don’t like overcooked pasta , we love al dente pasta . So anyway , i also…
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Hummus Spread and Tuna Salad on Pita bread
As i ran through my recipe book few nights ago , i found this recipe , how to make hummus . I though it seems easy , and i couldn’t actually imagine the taste . I know how garbanzo / chick peas taste like , but mashed ? and mixed with lemon juice , garlic , and sesame paste ? I don’t even know how sesame paste taste like . However , i do know how sesame seed or sesame oil taste like .. LOL , I use that a lot in chinese / asian cooking . We love experimenting with food , we love trying new stuff .. we’ve…
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BLT Sandwich with Sunny Side Egg
It’s just one of those nights , where you don’t feel like cooking because you’re too tired , you had too much thing going on .. and too cold to go outside to dine out .. That’s my night , i took a break from cooking , and choosing to fix myself a real quick dinner . My husband already took the pizza for his dinner , and my son also had the leftover pizza , for me ? Although my son said he would share his 3 pizza with me , i just don’t feel like eating pizza . Basically i am bored of pizza .. LOL .. What…
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Smothered Chicken with Mushrooms and Bacon Brussels Sprout
Tonight i decided to make a new dish , from a cooking book i just bought few days ago . It’s from one of the contestant on the tv cooking show . Was not too sure about how this dish turns out , although the picture looks great , but from the ingredients i was kinda doubting it . Not much of anything at all , but i was wrong , it turned out to be really delicious . The sauce was good , even my 6 years old was agreeing with me how delicious it was .Although i didn’t exactly followed the direction , i replaced some of the…
