fast ,easy ,delicious . no time in the kitchen: January 2013

Thursday, January 31, 2013

chicken terriyaki in crock pot.

I found that extremely easy easy recipe on Pinterest . After trying it I was not to happy with it. Here is my version of it. It is still pretty easy. Your mother said she made that recipe and you really like it.

ingredients

6 chicken thights
1tbls oil
1 tbls butter
1/4 cup sugar
1 cup teriyaki sauce
3 tbls vinegar
1 tb minced ginger
2 cloves garlic
1 cup corn stach
1 cup water
soy sauce

preparations

heat up the oil and the butter.
Make sure the chicken thights are dry. salt them and pepper them and brown them in the hot butter and oil
add the chicken to the crock pot
add all the ingredients but the water and corn starch

Cook for 4 or 5 hours till the chicken is cook
In a small pan mix the corn starch in the water and cook till thick about 5 minutes mixing all the time

Add to the chicken.

serve on steam rice
Steam broccoli will be delicious with the sauce too..

I brown the chicken before because when you "braise " any meat I think it is better to brown the meat before. it seems to develop a better taste. but if you are short in time just add the chicken directly to the crock pot.
I added powder ginger because ginger root will not be a thing you will always have on hand
Add some soy sauce has needed

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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

cabbage and sausage

easy to make and comforting on a cold day. Jesse and Jermy love this.

Ingredients

1 kielbasa( or other kind of sausage)
1 piece of salt pork or bacon cut in small pieces
1 onion
1carrot
1 head of cabbage .
8 potatoes
2 cups of white wine or 2 tbs of wine vinegar
olive oil
butter
Italian seasoning
salt and pepper

Preparation

Prepare vegetables
Peel onion and carrots and cut in small cubes
Clean the cabbage. Take the core and the old exterior leaves out. cut in quarters.

Peel potatoes cut in small pieces

Brown the salt pork( or bacon) in the olive oil
Add the carrots and onions cook a few minutes
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add the sausage cook a few minutes

,add the white wine and cook 5 more minutes

,add the cabbage and potatoes and water to barely cover

add salt pepper and the bouquet garni.

cook for about 40 minutes or till the potatoes are cook.( or put in a crock pot on low for about 7 hours or on high for about 4 hours.

notes : if you don't have a bouquet garni just add bay leave, Thyme, rosemary what ever herbs you like. If you don't have any fresh herbs you could add a little bit of "herbes de Provence "or" Italian seasoning". It is about the same thing and you can keep a jar in your kitchen at all time.

I like to have sour cream and mustard with it. and cornichons or pickles

tips

_ some people like me and Jesse do not like the feeling of onion pieces in their food . But onion really bring a delicious flavor to food and I do not know how to cook without them. but they can be chopped very very fine so you won't even detect them in the food or like Tricia do, you may grate them

-In some of my cooking I use wine it is not indispensable but it does bring a little some thing to the food . Do not use cooking wine it is nasty but you may keep in your refrigerator a bottle of white wine and use it when you need it. You can find some wine very cheap for cooking but still good . usually if a wine is not good to drink it is not good to cook. Your mother use some wine very cheap but not bad to drink I know it because I did drink some!
When in a rush it some time hard to use every thing from scratch but it is good to keep from any food that has been process.

-when making braised food like sausage and cabbage it is important to cook the food slowly, use a medium heat and never boil the food

-when a recipe ask for browning a piece of meat before cooking it is important to do it on a very hot stove in a mixture of oil and butter it must be done fast and the meat must be nice and brown. It is a good idea to make sure that the meat is nice and dry it will brown better. You may dry it with a paper towel or simply live it out of the refrigerator for a while.