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recipe: Spicy Teriyaki Chicken on Salad0

• chicken thigh
• soy sauce
• mirin
• rice wine
• Vietnamese chili garlic sauce
• ketchup
• white pepper
• black pepper
• white sesame seeds
• toasted almonds (almonds baked in toaster oven)
• raw veggies
• lettuce

1. mix soy sauce, mirin, rice wine, chili, ketchup, peppers, and sesame
2. marinate chicken, about 15 minutes
3. pan cook chicken
4. chop up veggies into little cubes
5. place lettuce, then veggies
6. slice cooked chicken and place on lettuce
7. heat marinade on stove top, add almonds
8. add warm dressing on top of lettuce

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recipe: Bacon Wrapped Pork Loin0

• pork tendeloin, sliced
• bacon
• rosemary
• oregano
• black pepper

1. slice tenderloin about 1 inch thick
2. wrape with slice of bacon, use bamboo stick to hold on
3. mortar and pestle fresh rosemary, oregano, and black pepper
4. paste top and bottom of loin slices with herbs
5. pan fry

Serve with green beans and irce.

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recipe: Chocolate Chicken with Green Beans0

• chicken thigh
• chipotle pepper in adobo sauce (embasa, 2 pc)
• soy sauce
• oregano
• dried red chili powder
• cocoa
• honey
• black pepper
• salt
• green beans
• polenta
• lettuce (no dressing)

1. slice chicken in thin strips
2. marinate in sauce of everything but beans and polenta
3. stir fry chicken
4. add green beans

Serve with polenta and lettuce

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recipe: Spicy Shrimp with Garlic0

• shrimp (10 pieces, 15-20)
• garlic, lots (6 cloves)
• hot sauce
• salt
• pepper
• oil
• white white (Chardonnay)

1. oil, salt, pepper
2. heat shrimp few minutes, flip over
3. add garlic, hot sauce on top
4. stir, flip garlic, add wine
5. cook for just a few minutes

Service with stir-fried mustard cabbage (with white pepper, ground ginger).

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recipe: Spaghetti Sauce0

• Sweet Onion
• Red Pepper
• Green Pepper
• Beef
• Spaghetti Sauce (Newmans)
• Bacon
• Chili Flakes
• Olive Oil
• Red, Black, White Pepper
• Salt
• Dried Basil

1. add onion to stick pan, cook till caramelization begins, stir occasionally
2. add beef
3. add bacon
4. add red and green peppers
5. add spaghetti sauce (half a big jar)
6. add all the spices

Serve with spaghetti

Results: One onion per two peppers is not enough onions, too much pepper, but sauce is nice and thick.

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recipe: Cauliflower and Green Beans0

• cauliflower
• green beans
• bacon
• garlic
• butter
• olive oil
• white pepper
• chicken stock
• cornstarch

1. heat the oil
2. cook the beans
3. add bacon and garlic
4. add chicken stock
5. add cauliflower
6. add butter, white pepper
7. mix cornstarch with water, just enough to coat vegetables

served with pan cooked salmon

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recipe: Salmon with Chili-Coconut Sauce0

• Salmon fillet (small piece 0.2 lb ok)
• Coconut Milk
• Honey
• Chili Flakes
• Chili Oil
• Black Pepper
• Ponzu
• Cooking Oil

1. Make marinade out of coconut milk, honey, chili flakes, chili oil, black pepper and ponzu
2. Place salmon in sauce (5 minutes seemed enough)
3. Cook salmon in pan with half marinade on top, about 8 minutes total
4. Place salmon on tray, add second half marinade and run under broiler (1 in) at high heat (500F) for about 4 min

served Friday with fries and stir-fried bok-choy, red bell with oyster sauce.

inspired by a meal at A Fish Called Coogie, Sydney

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recipe: Spicy Pork with Cilantro0

• Ground Pork (lb)
• Plenty of Garlic (8 cloves)
• Chipotle Peppers in Adobo sauce (3, Embasa)
• Cilantro
• Chicken Stock
• Oil
• Chili Flakes
• Ketchup
• White Pepper

1. Chop Garlic and Peppers, mix with chili flakes, black pepper, ketchup and oil to form paste.
2. Cook pork with some oil (in a non-stick pan). It may stick.
3. Add garlic, then chicken stock.
4. Add paste
5. While cooking, chop cilantro into smaller bits
6. When pork looks good, add cilantro, mix in, then turn off heat

Served Thursday with rice and stir-fried zucchini and carrot strips.

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Pears, Gorgonzola and Pecan Salad0

Went for light dinner on Friday night at our local bistro. I didn’t feel like anything heavy, so besides the summer roll I ordered a salad consisting of

• Pears (I think they were Asian pears)
• Crumbled Gorgonzola Cheese
• Pecans
• Loose Leaf Salad
• Vinaigrette

Quite an interesting mix. You get sweet, salty, fatty, sour all in one dish. You also get to experience soft, crispy, crunchy, leafy, juicy all together. But somehow it didn’t all come together, because there was too much vinaigrette - too much salad dressing - to be able to taste the individual contributors. Much of the time it was just juicy and sour (and that vinaigrette WAS heavy on the vinegar).

But there’s hope. I might try that at home sometime.

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recipe: Kaiserschmarrn0

• 1 cup flour
• 1 pinch salt
• 4 egg yolk, 4 egg white
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 cup milk

1. beat egg white to stiff, place in separate bowl
2. add flour, salt, yolks, sugar, milk, whisk to smooth consistency
3. add yellow on top of white, fold to smooth consistency, don’t deflate the whites
4. cook in pan with oil on medium (5), flip, then shred

Makes 2 Schmarrn.

(I think this recipe comes from Könemann’s Culinaria)

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