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Various recipes that I’ve found and liked, or made up myself

Traybaked Chicken & Cauliflower

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Traybaked Chicken & Cauliflower
Recipe Type: Main
Author: Ray
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Serves: 4 servings
Quick to put together, and tasty!
Ingredients
  • 1 lg. onion
  • 2 lg. carrots
  • 1 sm. cauliflower
  • 2 lbs. chicken breast
  • 3 tbsp. balsamic vinegar
  • 2 tbsp. olive oil
  • 4 cloves garlic
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 1/2 tsp. pepper
  • 1 tsp. sweet curry
  • 2 tsp. BBQ Belt chicken & Rib rub (from Silk Road Spices)
  • 2 tsp. dried thyme
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350″F (I used roast and convection setting)
  2. Split cauliflower into pieces, and put along one edge of tray. Sprinkle with curry powder.
  3. Chop onion and carrot into chunks and place alongside cauliflower. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
  4. Cut each piece of chicken breast into thirds or quarters, depending on size. Place in tray alongside onions and carrots.
  5. Season chicken with the Silk Road Spices rub, and thyme.
  6. Drizzle olive oil and balsamic vinegar over everything, and give everything a good stir. Make sure no vegetables are covering up the chicken pieces.
  7. Place tray into oven for about one hour. 15 minutes before hour is up, check things, give it a stir.
  8. If necessary, add a little bit of water or chicken stock (1/3 cup), and give everything a good stir before returning tray to the oven.

 

Home Made Beef Pho

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Home Made Beef Pho
Recipe Type: Vietnamese
Author: ATK
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Serves: 4
Ingredients
  • 8 cups beef stock
  • 6 cups water
  • 1 1/2 lb ground beef
  • 2 medium yellow onions, peeled and quartered – divided use
  • 5″ ginger piece sliced thinly – no need to peel
  • 6 star anise pods
  • 10 whole cloves
  • 4″ stick of cinnamon
  • 12 black peppercorns
  • 1 Kaffir Lime leaf
  • 1/2 cup fish sauce (divided use)
  • 2 tsp salt
  • 2 tbsp plain sugar
  • 1 lb thin rice noodles, soaked in hot water and then quickly boiled
  • 1 bunch cilantro
  • 3 scallions, green parts only, cut on the bias
  • 12 oz rib eye meat, very thinly sliced – easier done if frozen a bit before.
  • 1 jalapeno pepper sliced thinly, maintaining seeds and ribs
  • 5 oz bean sprouts
  • additional fish sauce (to taste)
  • 1 bunch Thai (or in a pinch regular) basil
  • 2 or 3 tbsp srirarcha (to taste)
  • Lime wedges from 2 limes
Instructions
  1. Place the ground beef into a large dutch oven and barely cover with water. Bring to the boil over high heat, turn heat down and simmer for a further 2-3 minutes. Strain off and discard the water (and associated scum). Rinse the beef, clean the dutch oven and return the ground beef to the dutch oven. Add the onion, aromatics, fish sauce, salt and sugar to the pot, followed by the beef stock and water. Stir to combine as well as possible. Bring to the boil and then simmer for at least 45 minutes.
  2. Strain the beef and other solids reserving the liquid. Discard the solids. Strain the broth again, this time through cheese cloth until clear.
  3. Soften the noodles in warm water for about 10-15 minutes, then boil them for 1 minute.
  4. Layer the noodles, some thinly sliced onion (from the remaining quarter), the scallion tops, cilantro and beef into preheated soup bowls. Fill the bowls with steaming hot broth
  5. Serve accompanied by sliced jalapenos, basil, srirarcha, fish sauce and lime wedges.

Gado Gado Salad

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Saw this on the Jamie Oliver site, and had to try it out – whole family loved it!
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The only thing I didn’t have on hand was some bean sprouts, and the prawn chips.  I wanted to use up some mushrooms that I had, so I sliced them up and fried along with the tofu.
 

Shrimp Curry Linguini

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Shrimp Curry Linguini
Recipe Type: Main
Author: Ray
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Serves: 4
Quick and easy – just keep a package or two of frozen shrimp, peeled and de-veined, in the freezer
Ingredients
  • 1 pkg 26-31 Raw frozen shrimp (thawed)
  • 2 tsp mild curry powder
  • 2 cloves garlic, crushed
  • 2 carrots, julienned
  • 1 sweet red pepper, sliced thin
  • 1/2 red onion, diced fine
  • 2 tbsp cilantro stems, chopped fine (save leaves for end)
  • 1 tbsp grated ginger
  • 1 tsp orange zest
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 2 tbsp butter
  • 1 small pkg of linguini (or whatever you have on hand), cooked
Instructions
  1. Heat skillet to med-high heat and add olive oil and butter
  2. Add garlic, ginger, curry powder, and onion, cook for a minute
  3. Add shrimp, cook for a couple minutes, then add carrots, and sweet pepper
  4. Cook until shrimp is pink and cooked through
  5. Toss in orange zest and cilantro leaves.
  6. Toss with linguini and server

 

Roasted Chipotle Pepper and Garlic Pumpkin Seeds

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Roasted Chipotle Pepper and Garlic Pumpkin Seeds
Recipe Type: Snack
Author: Ray
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Serves: 1 cup
Ingredients
  • Seeds from a couple pumpkins
  • 1/2 tsp. garlic powder
  • 1 tsp. ground chipotle pepper
  • 1 tsp. sea salt
  • 2 tbsp. olive oil
Instructions
  1. preheat oven to 350F
  2. wash and rinse pumpkin seeds, pat dry with some paper towel.
  3. spread seeds evenly on baking sheet.
  4. sprinkle garlic powder, chipotle pepper, and salt over seeds.
  5. pour a couple tablespoons of olive oil over everything.
  6. stir seeds up, to evenly coat everything with the oil and seasonings.
  7. spread evenly across baking sheet.
  8. bake seeds for 10-15 minutes
  9. seeds should be golden, and dry.
  10. After the initial baking, seeds were a touch damp after cooling, so I roasted for another 5 minutes at 250F – perfect!