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Soba Noodles with Shrimp and Cilantro

11 Mar

It’s Thursday night, one more work day and the weekend will be upon us once again. To celebrate this last night before the weekend, I decided to cook up a dinner. I’ve wanted to make a soba noodle dish for a while. Finally, I got my hands on a great recipe, thanks to my Food and Wine magazine subscription.

This was a last minute decision, so after work I stopped by an Asian market to pick up the missing ingredients. I spent at least 30 minutes looking for tamari and agave syrup (as listed in the recipe) and still came up empty handed. So in the interest of time I decided to wing it and got honey and garlic sauce instead. Besides the sauce substitution, I also opted for a frying pan to cook the shrimp (in the interest of time, as well as due to lack of a grill). Other then the above mentioned substitutions, I pretty much followed the recipe (conveniently provided in the link above).

Now that I’ve gone on and on about how tonight’s dinner came about, here is the actual dinner itself.

Soba-Noodles-with-Shrimp

To report, dinner was delicious, even with all the substitutions.

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Latkes…a little late for Hanukkah

21 Dec

I know I am a little late for Hanukkah…well let’s be honest a lot late…but I finally had time to prepare potato latkes. Might I add, this is my very first time making latkes. I am happy to report that this endeavor was a thorough success. See for yourself…

Latkes_1

Along the way I found out that unlike myself, most people use a meat grinder to shred potatoes for latkes. I on the other hand…did it all manually…with a regular grater…yep, pretty proud of myself. Although, I think it’s time to look into a food processor. Any suggestions for a food processor would be welcome!

Now let’s get to the task at hand, the recipe. I recently acquired an iphone (very cool toy). With this acquisition I discovered the world of recipe apps. At this point I have about 3 or 4 recipe apps, and mind you, I’ve only had the phone for a couple of weeks.

The recipe for these latkes came from the Epicurious app. This recipe can also be found on the original website. The recipe for these delicious latkes can be found here. I will avoid rewriting it as I didn’t divert from the original.

Here is one more look at these delicious puppies…

Latkes

Hope you take the time to try out these latkes (they are worth it).

Happy Holidays!

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Sweet and Sour Chicken

17 Sep

Ask my husband what his favorite dish is at a Chinese restaurant and he’ll tell you it’s sweet and sour pork. Well, at home I make a variation. The variation being…the other white meat.
Sweet-and-Sour-Chicken
I bet you’d like to know how to get this delicious tender meat on your plate. Well here is how:
Ingredients:
Skinless chicken breasts
Flour
Vegetable oil (for frying)
Kikkoman Sweet & Sour Sauce
How to get there:
Cut chicken breasts into cubes and toss with flour. Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan. Add the flour-tossed chicken to the frying pan. Cook until chicken is fully cooked through. Toss with the sweet and sour sauce and serve.
Sweet-and-Sour-Chicken
It’s that easy!

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Delicious Garden Fresh Eggplant

10 Sep

Hopefully you remember my coworker U, who so graciously brought me home grown tomatoes. Well, a few days ago she brought me an eggplant from her garden.
Garden Fresh Eggplant
I’ve never actually made anything with eggplant, so I decided to make my Mom’s recipe, which I love. The recipe calls for the following ingredients:

1. Eggplant
2. Vegetable oil (for frying)
3. Mayonnaise
4. Garlic (mashed)
5. Tomato slices
6. 1 hard boiled egg
7. Shredded cheese (I used low moisture mozzarella)

Slice the eggplant, fry in vegetable oil until the slices soften. Remove onto a paper towel lined plate. Cover the fried eggplant slices with another paper towel to soak up the excess oil. In the meantime mash two cloves of garlic with a garlic masher and mix with a table spoon of mayonnaise. Brush each eggplant slice with the mayonnaise mixture, cover with a tomato slice. Brush each slice of tomato with the remaining mayonnaise mixture. Top with grated egg and shredded cheese. Chill slightly and serve. Yum!