caponata en mi estilo

 

pasta grannies Rosaria  de Sicily 

https://youtu.be/FTmYh5LO7o8

boil celery 

2 egg plants

1 green squash

2 peppers

1 onion

can of tomato

white wine

salt, pepper, italian spices, bay leaf

cod fish

shrimp ajillo to accompay

chiabata bread and mozzarella cheese.

(I do not use capers, almond powder,  nor olives)

summer salad

 Summer Salad

Ingredientes

Edamame (or black bean etc)

corn

tomatos (or cherry tomato)

cucumber

1/2 cup or less EVOO 

1 TB spoon or less Salt

1 teaspoon or less Black pepper

1 lemon (both juice and peel) 

1) defrost the frozen veggies (edamame and corn) 

2) cut veggies (tomato and cucumber) 

3) Peel lemon and get juice, too. 

4) mix all the ingredients with seasoning etc. (Please do customize = improvize as you like) 

seasoning--> start less (you can always add more) 

5) put it in the fridge to keep cold until you eat. 

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other ideas

To add more freshness, cut Italian Parsely or Cilantro, or even Basil. 

I do not like cheese, but you can add (right before you eat) mozzarella cut-ups. 

other viggie ideas --> onions, celery, kale, shredded carrots, raddish, jicama, etc. 

If you want to make this salad as a meal, add grilled chicken (salmon)  on top. 

My improvised Gyro meat.

 Gyro 

3 lbs  (90 % fat ) ground beef. / or 1.5 # beef and 1.5 # lamb

5  pieces garlic cloves

2 onions

meat

One and half  teaspoon  CUMIN

One and half teaspoon OREGANO

TWO teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon black pepper 

food processor mix really well until "almost looks like OVER-MIXED" gluey. 

spread it on to baking pan

325 F. (preheated), for one hour until center is cooked. 

take it out, let it rest completely. then cool (over night) in the fridge before slicing 

MIho'ss meatloaf

 350 F 

3 pounds of 80/20 ground beef

2 cups of tomato puree (Buy 28 oz can Tomato puree and take 2 cups, and remnaining you will use later) 

1 and 1/2 cup quaker quick oats. 

2 eggs

1/2 big onion (chopped) 

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon chicken stock powder

1/2 teaspoon black pepper

2 Tablespoon (or less or more) of garlic powder.

Mix above well.

make 5 small logs

the rest of tomato sauce

1 can od tomato paste (6 oz)

add tomato ketsup until these mix becomes 2 cups. 

put these tomate mixture on top of raw meat before putting in the oven.

350 F for 50 miutes (or until cooked) 

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baboo shoot -- spring dish

 

https://cookpad.com/recipe/2377054

chimaki

 chinese chimaki rice 

mochigome-sweet rice. 7 small measuing cups (see pic) 

1/2 chicken breast, small cut (you can do ground pork) 

any veggie (in this picture, I used baboo-shoot, carrot, fried tofu, green veggie), 

but you can use many different veggies or mushrooms etc. 

in the pan 

small cut up chicken and vegetables

3 adn 3/4 cups of water

2 Table spoon sugar

1 Table spoon Shracha sauce 

1/2 cup + Soy sauce

1/4  + cup sesame oil. 

1 teaspoon salt (you can cut this down) 

and bring them to boil.  Pour to rice.   and push the botton on rice cooker 

pork cutlet (ひとくちカツ）

 pork cutlet 

1. make your own Pan-ko (bread crumb ) 

2. cut the pork into bite-size

3. Normally you are supposed to create 3 stations ( after pounding the meat and seasoning with salt and pepper, create the 3 stations of flour, egg, and panko)

BUT I only make 2 stations.

station 1 ( salt-peppered batter  = flour and water, I omit eggs to cut down cholestrol) I might add garlic pepper. 

and

station 2 Panko 

3. Mix pork in the batter.  and put panko. 

Dedicate your right hand to wet batter pork 

and 

Dedicate your left hand to dry Panko

4. arrange the pork on the freezer pan. 

if you finish one layer, put parchment paper or saran wrap, so that they will not stick together. 

               Freeze them until you eat. 

            

When you cook, deep fry. (Try baked, if you think deep-fry is unhealty)

   Eat with tonkatsu sauce, and sliced cabbage.

My ginger pork

 

GINGER PORK

1 onion

14 oz packaged Kroger thin sliced pork 

ginger root shredded (I like a lot--> see the picture) 

2 TB spoon soy sauce

3 TB spoon sugar

1 TB spoon Sriracha sauce 

1 TB spoon sesame oil 

Mix all and store in the fridge in the ziplock bag until you cook it. 

My Kimpira Gobo

kimpira gobo

gobo --> one long big one 

ground beef --> 1/4 pound (very little or none) 

2 TB of canola oil

2 cups of Dashi (or just water) 

1/3 cup of sugar (improvise less if you want) 

1/3 cup of soy sauce (improvise less if you want) 

1 big carrot (shredded, optional) 

3 table spoon Sesame OIL (optional) 

1 table spoon Sriracha sauce (optional) 

some sesame seeds (optional) 

Preparation

1. wash,  and peel 

2. angle cut  (after cutting off the dark edges) 

3. Soak in water for (no more than) 30 minutes. 

Gobo has lots of AKU (灰汁）which is mostly Polyphenol. It does make the clear water  ugly BROWN color. 

After soaking, throw away water.

4. with 2 table spoon of canola oil, cook 1/4 of 80/20 ground beef (optional) 

5. Add Gobo, 2 cups of dashi water, 1/3 cup sugar, 1/3 cup soy sauce, and bring it to boil. 

You can also add shredded carrots. 

6. Lower the heat  (low heat) and cook until the water becomes almost gone (for about 30 minutes--depending on the heat power) 

Taste if eveything is good after almost all the water is gone 

I just tasted this recipe as I am doing this post.  (--> I would use less sugar). 

7. As a final touch,  

add..... sesame oil / sesame seeds / Sriracha sauce  (as you want). 

enjoy with warm white rice! 

Greek Spinach turn over

 

Dough (mix all- do not over mix) 

1 cup olive oil

1 cup greek yogurt

1 TB or less lemon juice

1 tea spoon sugar

1 tea spoon salt 

4 cups of flour 

after mixing it rest for at least 30 min. 

Spinich filling 

1 pound of baby spinich roughly choppedd

5-6 green part of green onion chopped, 

ricota cheese 15 OZ

3 eggs

one pound of feta cheese 

3 teaspoons of dry dill 

olive oil, salt,  pepper, garlic powder to taste--> control salt, depending upon Feta cheese. 

an egg for egg wash 

I substituted Expensive Feta cheese with Mexican chesse (Cotija and Panela)  Use less watery cheese if you want to substitute.... Mozzarella has too much water content.  Think Feta. Cotija was excellent. 

Devide the dough about 16.  Roll, and about 1 and 1/2 table spoon of spinich filling, and shape for the turn over, 

decorate the edge with fork 

cut the air pocket and egg wash 

400 F (200 C) for about 30 -35 minutes) 

Cool before eating

(I probably should have make the dough thicker, so that they do not break while baking) 

I think this recipe called for Either 1) double the dough amount, 

or 2) 1/2 for spinich.    

For this time, I made extra  pie by using left over pie dough (for apple pie in the freezer.)

And Froze this for another occasion.