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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2010 20:12:41 GMT -5
I made a sort of version of shrimp fried rice wrapped in egg. It really started out as shrimp fried rice, but I heated the oil, sauteed the onion a bit, dropped in the garlic, and was grating in the ginger when I realized the garlic was getting fried crispy but had not yet burned. I quickly dropped in the mushrooms and as I was giving it a stir reached for the nearest liquid I thought might go well and prevent burning...a bottle of port wine. Added a half cup to the tablespoon oil, 1/4 of a medium onion very finely diced, large clove of garlic finely diced, half inch of grated ginger, and cup of thinly sliced mushrooms. Well, it was anything sounds good goes after that. I added a good shake of soy sauce, about half a teaspoon dashi paste, teaspoon and a half of Thai sweet red pepper sauce in right after the pound of raw peeled and tailed medium shrimp. As soon as the shrimp were half way done, I added the cup and a half of leftover rice from the fridge plus tablespoon of tomato paste, handful of fresh green peas, and another shake of soy sauce. When the shrimp were done the rice was also nicely warmed and coated with the sauce. Put the fried rice aside in a bowl and wiped down the pan first with a dry paper towel then rubbed it with oil. cracked a couple of eggs and whisked them, then dropped them in the pan, stirring six or eight seconds to get most of the egg cooked and coated my wok with the egg. Dropped in a serving of the fried rice mixture and wrapped it in the egg. Served a nice bit of salad greens on the side dressed lightly with a bit of apple cider vinegar, good mustard, and honey. Yummy.
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Post by deyana on Jul 9, 2010 6:37:42 GMT -5
mmm.....that sounds just delicious, gertie. I love rice, prefer it to pasta or bread any time. Rice with fish and egg always goes well together I've found.
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Post by spindrift on Jul 10, 2010 13:15:34 GMT -5
Tonight we'll be having prawns simmered in a little olive oil and lots of garlic. I made a big pot of ratatouille yesterday so we'll have that too, followed by local French cheese, rough bread and strawberries if we can manage them.
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Post by deyana on Jul 15, 2010 15:51:13 GMT -5
I've just had a nice salad.
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Post by deyana on Jul 16, 2010 12:24:13 GMT -5
Summer holidays for the kids always throw my routine out of the window. Not sure what we are having for dinner tonight. Your's sounds really good though, Spindrift. Especially the desert.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2010 12:54:22 GMT -5
Friday evening is fish dinner. Not for religious reasons (not me at least) but it is market day. We are relatively close to the Atlantic and the fishmonger is 20 yards across the road. It is nice especially with a bottle of dry Jurançon but It cannot compete with the cod from the chippie in my youth. Touch the fish with your fork and it would fall in flakes. Mustn't grumble the potatoes and peas were probably still growing last night.
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Post by deyana on Jul 20, 2010 13:03:24 GMT -5
hmmm...fish and chips wrapped in newspaper, I can just imagine it now...
I've just had a salad, with mint in it from my own garden!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2010 13:05:34 GMT -5
A steak here too, fried, so rare that it is almost extinct and a few potatoes. A light dinner because we had pork and lentils for lunch. I could smell the herbs and spices all morning.
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Post by deyana on Jul 26, 2010 22:59:34 GMT -5
Earlier on today I made a salad. It had lettuce, tomatoes, radish, fresh garlic, beans, chicken, cucumber, toped with ranch dressing. It was really good.
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Post by deyana on Aug 8, 2010 15:53:25 GMT -5
hot dogs!
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Post by rattler on Aug 15, 2010 16:59:01 GMT -5
I think Sea Bass & a seafood salad steamed rice and sourdough bread *THAT* sounds great! I had water with spaghetti (and olive oil and spices), war economy here. Ratler
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Post by deyana on Aug 15, 2010 18:45:49 GMT -5
I had some steak cooked over the barbecue.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2010 19:07:41 GMT -5
T.V. dinner
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Post by deyana on Aug 19, 2010 20:03:04 GMT -5
pizza.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2010 4:16:56 GMT -5
Sesame Cold Noodles and Microwaved leftovers
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2010 23:43:11 GMT -5
Didn't cook for the last 2 days, so tonight got to do some cooking, expecting the sister of my friend tomorrow who is coming for her first India trip. To avoid standing up for long as I have a damaged foot I will settle for a big casserole of cubed lamb, carrots, potatoes, turnips, onions, garlic pods, two cups of red wine, three cubes of beef stock, for seasoning rosemary and thyme and black pepper. The frying and sauteing would take hardly 10 minutes and then put it in the microwave and nuke it.....
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2010 0:18:51 GMT -5
Multi-bean in sofrito sauce with pita bread and a quarter of watermelon.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2010 6:45:59 GMT -5
Don't know about tonight but we just had Tandoori Chicken. We don't have a tandoor but Anne can do wonders with a frying pan. We will have place for a tandoor in Bacolod, anyone know where I can find one?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2010 7:11:58 GMT -5
Don't know about tonight but we just had Tandoori Chicken. We don't have a tandoor but Anne can do wonders with a frying pan. We will have place for a tandoor in Bacolod, anyone know where I can find one?Make one ? A quick search brought this - Here is one and anotherLooks like a summer project to me.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2010 10:24:13 GMT -5
An e-mail from the young girl from Germany who would be my guest starting tomorrow morning changed my plan, she wants to eat Indian food. So the casserole will have to wait. One good thing & one bad thing. Good thing is that I don't have to cook my cook will do that, the bad thing is that I have a fractured foot and shopping must be done, luckily I have my right hand at work always eager to help out. So I got some fatty lamb chops. The menu is potato cooked in Bengali style and the chops in Kashmiri style. Here is the potato recipe:
Humble things that you will need : Potato (small & round)- 1/2 kg. Onion Paste - of 2 big onions Ginger & garlic Paste - 2 tbsp. Tomato - 1 (medium- chopped) Green Chili - 2-3(accr. to taste-chopped) Curd - 1/4 cup Cumin Seed - 1 tsp. Turmeric powder - 1 tsp. Red Chili Powder - 1 1/2 tsp. cumin powder - 1 tsp. Coriander powder - 1 tsp. Bay leaves - 2 Cloves - 4 nos. Cinnamon - 2 sticks Cardamom - 4 Nos. Garam Masala Powder - 1/2 tsp Sugar - 1/2 tsp. Oil - 4-5 tbsp. Salt to taste Fresh Coriander Leaves to garnish
This is the way we do that:
Peel the potatoes and keep in salty water for 1/2 an hour. Boil and keep them aside. when cool, deep fry them. Heat a pan, add bay leaves, cinnamon, cardamom and cloves. when they change their colour, add cumin seeds and wait until it gets golden brown and crackle a little. Then add onion paste and stir continously until it turns light brown. Don't let it burn. Then add ginger-garlic paste and stir some more. Now add tomatoes and green chillies and stir together until tomatoes mixes finely with onion paste. After that, add turmeric, cumin, coriander and chilli powder and mix finely with onion paste. Add curd, a pinch of salt and sugar at this time. Fry the paste until oil seperates.
Finally, add potatoes and coat them with the masala paste. Now add 1 cup warm water to make gravy and let it cook a little.
Cook till the water almost dries up. There won’t really any gravy as such and the potatoes will be nicely coated with masala. If you like, you can keep a little gravy.
Sprinkle garam masala over it and garnish with coriander leaves.
I will post the lamb chop recipe later on.
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