Food-Side Dishes
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Poulet Basquaise & Gougère
Tonight was a french night at our household . Although i started cooking this really late , i think it’s perfectly worth to try ! Poulet Basquaise is Chicken Basquaise , it almost tastes like Chicken Cacciatore , without all the italian herbs . Instead we used a lot of vidalia onions , green and red pepper , enough tomatoes , thyme and bay leaves , i also added a little of mild peppers and chipotle chili powder .It turned out very yummy , it does take a little time to cook the ragout , which is onion , green and red pepper , tomatoes etc .. But once everything…
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Home made Chicken Taco w/ Guacamole
So here is a recipe for a yummy home made chicken taco , no you don’t need to get a packet of seasoning from the grocery store . Simply , mix all these ingredients together for a taco seasoning . And everything will come together perfectly !! I used hard shell because my son and i love the hard shell tacos , and i also made a guacamole to add to the taco , it’s up to you whether you want to add guacamole or not . For taco seasoning , in a small bowl mix : 1 tbsp. of mexican chili powder 1 tbsp. of chipotle chili powder 1/2…
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Pecan Crusted Rainbow Trout
Today’s dinner menu is another seafood , we chose rainbow trout fish . It was basically pretty easy to make , just a little mess . Instead of using panko bread crumbs to make it crunchy , the recipe calls for pecan , which tastes pretty good . I also had the fish with warm quinoa salad with toasted almond . For the fish : 1.5 lbs of trout fish 1 eggs 1/4 cup of all purpose flour 1 tbsp. of lemon pepper 1 tsp. of garlic powder 1/2 tsp. salt 1 egg 1 cup of pecan , chopped 1. Mix the flour and lemon pepper , salt together .…
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Caprese Salad
For lunch i made this super easy , and refreshing salad , although i have to admit , it’s not my favourite , since i am not really a cheese person , and although this salad actually has fresh mozzarella cheese , i think i would do well without the cheese . But then again it wouldn’t have called caprese salad .. LOL .. All you have to do just slice 2-3 tomatoes , cucumbers , and fresh mozzarella , layered it on top of each other and made balsamic reduction . Balsamic reduction is only balsamic vinegar that’s been cooked for a little bit , until the amount of…
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Tomato Basil Bruschetta
I love this appetizer , i can snack on these things more than just 1 or 2 pieces . They’re absolutely delight to our eyes because of the red , green and white color , and deliciously yummy in our mouth . Not to mention it’s super easy and quick to make , this would be a great choice if you have a lot of guests , and a very good appetizer . I happen to grow basil in my garden , and during summer time , i love making bruschetta , use roma / plum tomatoes , freshly chopped basil , and voila .. you have a yummy appetizer…
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Classic Potato Salad
Potato salad is one of american classic get together food , it is also one of my favourite salad . I am not a potato person , meaning , i hardly eat any potatoes , and if you serve me baked potatoes or mashed potatoes , i probably wouldn’t even finish 1 serving , that’s how much i dislike or care less about potatoes . But if you serve me , yummy delicious tasty potato salad , oh .. i would not be able to stop eating them !! I hardly make any potato salad at home , just because it would only be me who eats them , my…
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Summer salad w/ Basic Vinaigrette
Few days ago we had a get together with some friends , and she brought salad . And when we tasted it , it reminds me of acar timun , it’s almost like pickled cucumber back in indonesia , as a condiment when we eat fried rice of chinese noodle or anything you can think of . So i kinda thought .. why not putting together salad and used the basic vinaigrette , it probably will turn out to be like that . Although with basic vinaigrette, it needs vegetable oil , while acar timun in indonesia is only vinegar , sugar and salt. The two has the similar taste…
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Baked Yellow Plantains ( Maduros Asados )
I had never tried plantains before . To me , plantains are huge banana , king banana , it reminds me back in Indonesia that we have what we call Pisang Agung , it’s huge , long and skinny . Of course back in Indonesia we have few varieties of bananas , unlike in US , what they call banana is just banana , almost looks like ” pisang ambon ” back Indonesia . Over there we have pisang raja , pisang ambon , pisang susu , and many many more . This picture below is what we call Plantain , they’re big , more than normal size of bananas…
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Salami , Roasted Red Pepper Calzones
I made pizza last week , and i froze the other half of the dough , a good way to use the left overs pizza dough , either you make another pizza , or make calzones . I ended up using it for calzones . I thawed out my frozen pizza dough in the fridge this morning , by late afternoon it was pretty much ready to be used . The pizza dough i used freezes very well , and i can use it as if it’s a just made fresh today . For the filling , i put some salami , added some mushroom , roasted red pepper ,…
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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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Spring Rolls
It has been a while since i made home made spring rolls . So today i got busy , i made couple things , it made me feel like i was in international house of flavours LOL . So the spring rolls was easy enough , had ground pork , i chopped the chicken and also shrimp and prepared the veggies . It wasn’t so messy , except when you use water as the glue for the spring rolls , it’s going to make a big mess because the last 2 rolls i used water for the glue , and when i deep fried them , oil popped everywhere…
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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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Bruschetta
Made these wonderful appetizer over the summer , in fact it was so good who knows how many times i made them . Everything was on season , tomatoes was cheap , basil was grown in my own garden , the taste was so delicious , and not to mention it was so easy to make . Although i make my own french bread , but if you’re short in time , just grab the baquette from the store and you’ll have these snack / appetizers in minutes ! 6 roma (plum) tomatoes, chopped 3 cloves minced garlic 1/4 cup olive oil 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar 1/4 cup fresh basil,…
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Simple salad with homemade croutons
I usually buy croutons from the store , tonight when i was about to make salad , i just realized that we ran out of croutons , so i thought it shouldn’t be too hard to make , should it ? I grabbed about 4 slices of bread , cubed them , and then i mix some olive oil with salt , pepper and garlic powder , i mix the bread cubed in the olive oil , and then spread them on a cookie sheet , bake for 10 minutes at 400 F , the result ? Not too bad at all !!! I am sure you can always mix…
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Choux Pastry with Meat Filling ( kue sus isi ragout )
How to make kue sus isi ragout , choux pastry with ragout filling . This is very easy appetizer or light snack to make ,
