Salmon, roasted broccoli, rice, and seaweed salad. I was asking a friend about salmon recipes and she suggested I try this one. Good suggestion. I loved this! Aya and Ellie liked it too. This was exactly what I was expecting.
RECIPES:
Sake Salmon
3/4 cup sake (or Japanese cooking wine)
2 Tbsp sugar
1/4 cup soy sauce
1 tsp vegetable oil
lemon zest from lemon rind
salmon (4 filets)
2 tsp sesame seeds
Combine sake through oil and marinade with fish for 30 min. After 30 min, pour marinade in small sauce pan and bring to a boil. Boil for a few minutes until sauce starts to thicken. Pour half of the marinade on fish and bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes. Pour on remaining marinade and bake for another 10 minutes or until fish is done. Garnish with sesame seeds.
This was my first frozen lasagna. While grocery shopping without a plan or a list, I came across the frozen Stouffer’s lasagna and it was calling my name. It was 7 bucks well spent.
My friend Haniyyahrecently welcomed her second child into the world (on her own birthday too!) and was in town visiting. We were invited over to her family’s place to meet the baby and for an amazing Pakistani meal. They made patties, karhai chicken, begaray chaval, palak keema, and salad. I was even treated to Pakola which is a type of cream soda flavored soft drink that looks like Mountain Dew. I liked it.
The patties had ground beef with spices in a pastry type shell that we dipped in ketch-up. The karhai chicken was awesome! A little spicey but nothing crazy. Ellie loved that one. Begaray chaval is a rice dish and palak keema is ground beef and spinach. I’ve actually made that before. But it was nice to have them make it so I could know if I actually make it right.
The food was so good we ate so much. And for dessert, Haniyyah’s brother-in-law, Saqib, made baked Alaska. (Drool) This was a homemade chiffon cake, topped with strawberry ice cream, and then homemade meringue. Before you serve you take a torch to the meringue to make it golden. I had two pieces.
It was a great night of catching up with friends while enjoying a fantastic meal. I’m ready for the next one!
RECIPES:
Ground Beef Patties
1 lb ground beef
1 small onion sliced
1 small onion chopped
1 tsp minced garlic
1 tsp minced ginger
1 tsp corriander powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cumin powder
2 roma tomatoes, chopped
2 serrano peppers
3 pepperidge farm puff pastry sheets, cut into 18 rectangles
1.) Fry the sliced onions in 2 tbsp oil. Once they are caramel colored add the garlic, ginger, red chilli powder, corriander powder, salt and cumin powder. Fry for 1 minute.
2.) Add the ground beef and tomatoes and chopped onion. Cook until the beef is browned and done.
3.) Defrost the puff pastry sheets and allow time for the beef to come to room temperature. Pre-heat oven to 425 (per the puff pastry sheet instructions).
4.) To each cut rectangle add about 2 tbsp of the beef. Fold the rectangle in half onto itself, and seal the edges with a fork.
5.) Apply an egg wash to the surface of the puff pastry patty just before baking. Bake for 15 minutes, or until golden brown.
Karahi Chicken
1 whole chicken, skinned, cut into 12 pieces
1 can diced tomatoes
1 cup chopped cilantro
4 serrano peppers
1 tbsp minced ginger
1 tbsp minced garlic
1 tsp red chilli powder
1 tsp black pepper
1 tsp salt
1 tsp cumin seeds
1.) In a wide frying pan fry the cumin seeds, ginger and green chillis in about 4 tbsp of oil. Set the chillis aside after they have been fried.
2.) To the oil add in the garlic, red chilli powder, black pepper, salt, cumin seeds and chicken. Cook for about 10 minutes.
3.) Once the chicken has turned a white-ish color add in the tomatoes. Cook for about 15-20 minutes more until the chicken is cooked
4.) Garnish with fried cerrano peppers and chopped cilantro. Serve warm
This was excellent! There were a lot of steps and a lot of prep. Well, actually, it was hard to tell if this was a lot of prep or if Ellie was extra active because it seemed to take forever to get this in order. Having to run to the grocery store in the middle for a forgotten ingredient with an un-napped two year old didn’t help either. But the strenuous was well worth it!
This was my first time using tomatillos too! They look like tomatoes on the outside, but once you’ve sliced them open, they look like some strange alien fruit. At least I thought. The sauce and the bean puree had great flavor and the plantain mixed with the pork added just a slight bit of sweet. I’m assuming chicken could be used as a substitute if needed. I really liked this one.
This was awesome! Labor intensive, but well worth it. Plenty for leftovers too. I used turkey bacon, but everything else I followed the recipe as best I could. I even splurged and bought the expensive Gruyère cheese. I was hoping to use ziti noodles, but my grocery store only had mini ziti, so I used penne instead. Oh well. Maybe next time. If you’re not a huge kale fan, I think this would be equally good with spinach.
Salmon, roasted broccoli, rice, and seaweed salad. I was asking a friend about salmon recipes and she suggested I try this one. Good suggestion. I loved this! Aya and Ellie liked it too. This was exactly what I was expecting.
