Cashew Chicken With Couscous
Couscous is easier than you think! Grill healthy! Here is the recipe: http://www.kutv.com/content/lifestyle/recipes/default.aspx
Archive for May, 2007
Chai Popsicles
Description
Strictly speaking, these aren’t chai popsicles; they’re tea-with-milk-and-sugar popsicles, but if you use chai tea or concentrate, well, there ya go. This sounds very weird, by the way, but it’s actually extremely refreshing–a popsicle for adult palates that children might like too.
Ingredients
- Strong tea, cooled
- Milk or milk substitute
- Sugar or other sweetener
Instructions
The amount of tea you’ll need will depend on the size of your popsicle mold. Mine calls for about two cups of liquid.
Use half milk, half tea and sweeten it to taste. I used about two heaping spoonfuls of sugar and it was just right. Pour into mold, freeze. Yummy, really!
Notes
I’ve gotten best results with Earl Grey, darjeeling and chai blends or concentrates, but just choose anything that tastes good with milk and sugar.
Technorati Tags: Cold Marinated Summer Squash
Summary
| Yield | 4 |
|---|---|
| Prep Time | 1 hours |
| Recipes | Vegetables |
| Seasons | Summer |
Description
This is a great way to take advantage of the incredible piles of summer squash–zucchini, crooknecks, patty pans, what have you–that inevitably build up in the gardener’s kitchen.
Ingredients
- Summer squash
- Olive oil
- Rosemary, basil, thyme or herbes de provence
- balsamic vinegar
- Salt and pepper
Instructions
Cut the squash into large, bite-sized chunks. For the average zucchini-like squash, this means cut in half and then in lengths about as long as a finger joint. Parboil the squash in lightly salted boiling water for about a minute, until the skin color brightens. Drain and place in a bowl big enough to toss everything like a salad.
Dress with good quality olive oil (the best you can afford is what you should always use on salad-y things) and balsamic vinegar. I don’t give quantities because you should adjust to taste and the amount of squash you have. Let’s say for a good-sized bowl of squash chunks, a quarter-cup of oil and a quarter-cup of vinegar. That’s probably a lot, but better to have too much than not enough and you can always use what drains to the bottom of the bowl again in a salad as a vinaigrette.
Chop the herbs well, but not too finely; if using dried herbs, crush them between your hands. Fresh, use a good handful of assorted herbs; dried, use about two teaspoons–cup your palm, fill the little hollow, that’s about enough. Add to the squash. Season with salt and pepper; taste, and adjust the seasonings. Store covered in the fridge til cool.
Delicious the first day, better the second.
Notes
Experiment with different varieties of summer squash, including mixes, and with different varieties of herbs for different flavors. Our favorite is yellow crookneck with lemon thyme.
Crisp Ginger Oatmeal Cookies
Add to: | | Kananich, 05/28/07
Crisp Ginger Oatmeal Cookies
Ingredients (use vegan versions):
1 cup old fashion rolled oats
1/4 cup whole wheat flour
2 tablespoons sugar substitute
1 teaspoon cinnamon, vanilla extract and canola oil
1/4 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice and almond extract
1/2 teaspoon ginger spice and baking soda
1 dash salt
2 tablespoons brown sugar blend (substitute)
2 tablespoons ground flaxseeds
10 tablespoons water
cooking spray
Directions:
Preheat oven to 375. Bake time is 12-15 minutes.
Mix oatmeal, flour, sweetener, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice, ginger, salt, and baking soda in a bowl.
Combine all the other ingred…
Protein Chocolate Chip Cookies
Protein Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients (use vegan versions):
1 cup unbleached white flour
1/2 cup vanilla soy protein powder
1/2 cup wheat germ
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
8 tablespoons margarine (1 stick), room temperature
1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
1/2 sugar - turbinado works fine
1/4 cup molasses
2 teaspoons vanilla
1/3 cup water
3 teaspoons Ener-G
8 - 12 ounces chocolate chips
nuts, optional
Directions:
Preheat oven to 375°.
Measure the flour, protein powder, wheat germ, salt set aside.
In a large bowl, beat the margarine…
Butterscotch No-Bakes
Add to: | | Anna1111, 05/26/07
Butterscotch No-Bakes
Ingredients (use vegan versions):
3 cups quick oats
3/4 cup nuts (optional)
1/2 cup raisins (optional)
1/2 cup vegan buttery spread suitable for baking
2 cups brown sugar
1/2 cup vegan "milk"
Directions:
Combine oats, nuts and raisins - set aside.
Bring to a boil vegan buttery spread, sugar and "milk". Boil for one minute. Remove from heat and pour into oat mixture. Stir well.
Drop by spoonfuls onto wax paper or aluminum foil.
Allow to cool thoroughly at room temperature to set(about 1-2 hours).
Mustardy Potato Salad
Description
A really tasty but simple variation on the standard potato salad.
Ingredients
- 5 medium-sized red potatoes, scrubbed, with skins on
- 1⁄2 large onion, chopped
- 1 big spoonful Chinese (hot) mustard
- 1t dried oregano, or a handful of fresh, chopped
- red wine vinegar
- Olive oil
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
Cook the potatoes however you like to–microwave, baked, steamed, boiled. Cool. Chunk up the potatoes into bite sizes if you haven’t in cooking them. In a bowl big enough to toss things in, combine the potatoes and onions with the mustard, the oregano and enough oil and vinegar to moisten things. Taste, season with salt and pepper, taste again, adjust the mustard, oregano, oil, vinegar, salt and pepper to your liking. Chill. Eat. mmmm…
Fast Fruit Salad
Description
THIS IS A GREAT MAKE AHEAD TIME SAVER THAT TASTES GREAT.
Ingredients
- 1 jar maraschino cherries, drained
- 1can mandarin orange slices, drained
- 1can chunk pineapple, drained
- 1can sliced cling peaches, drained
- 1can peach or apricot pie filling
Instructions
Pour all fruit in decorative bowl after it has been drained well. Add pie filling and stir gently. Refridgerate before serving.
Venison bangers n’ mash
A nice and easy recipe for during the week - venison bangers and mash recipe (sausages & potato).
My butcher had these on special again, so I couldn’t help myself. For some reason, these sausages seem to go so unbelievably well with spicy chili flavors, even though the sausages aren’t actually spicy themselves.
Ingredients
- 500g venison sausages
- 4 large onions
- 3 cloves of garlic
- 1 fresh chili
- a small piece of ginger
- 1/4 cup of red wine vinegar
- gravy mix or stock cubes / cornflour
- 1 cup of warm water
- Olive oil and butter for frying
- salt and pepper to season
- Fresh herbs (opional)
- 4 large potatoes, butter and milk for the mash
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Easy to make
Slice the onions and add to a fry pan with the olive oil and butter. I like a 50/50 mix of oil and butter in the pan. Add the chopped garlic, ginger and chili with some fresh herbs if you have them (thyme, oregano or rosemary would work).
Cook the onions slowly over about 15 minutes. Every few minutes add a dash of red wine vinegar, over time the onions will become sticky with the vinegar.
Add the sausages, and continue cooking on low heat for another 15 mins.
Gravy up
You can cheat and add gravy mix + water to thicken up the sauce, or you can add water, stock and cornflour to the sausages and onions to create the same effect.
After another 10 - 15 mins on low heat, the meal is now ready to serve. In the meantime boil the potatoes and mash with a knob of butter and a little milk or cream (everyone has different tastes on how to mash spuds).
Serve
Serve on a pile of mashed potatoes, with a salad of your choice. A delicious meal.
Craving-Cure Cookies
Add to: | | tino_bambino, 05/22/07
Craving-Cure Cookies
Ingredients (use vegan versions):
1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
1/4 cup other dry sweetener
1/3 cup apple sauce
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3/4 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups quick cooking oats
3/4 cup carob chips (or raisins, or something else you like)
Directions:
In a large bowl, mix sugars, apple sauce and vanilla.
In another bowl, mix the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, baking powder and salt, then stir into the wet mixture.
Add the oats and then the carob chips/raisins/whatever.
Dro…