Penne w/ Butternut Squash and Ham
Don’t remember the exact recipe, but it involved boiling some butter nut squash like you make mashed potatoes. There’s some parsley, garlic, scallions, and ham in there too, baked until the bread crumb topping was the way I wanted it to be. My kids liked it too. Ham and butternut squash — yummy.! Taste as good together as PB&J.! Read More →
Mel’s Chicken
This dish turned out to be a favorite for my entire household. My wife and sister in law both love it, and I like to make it as a healthy leftover for dinners for the kids. Ingredients 2 packs of thinly sliced chicken brests. 3/4 box of corn flakes About a quart of buttermilk. 2-3 tbsp of brown sugar. 2 to 3 tsp kosher salt 1-2 tsp peprika 1-2 tsp pepper A cup of dry oatmeal, steel cut or minute ready, doesn’t matter. Some garlic salt, some... [Read More...]
Lemon Cashew Chicken
Yummy Score : 4.5 out of five. Time : 10 minutes prep, 15 cooking. Ingredients : 1 pack of sliced chicken breasts (super thin) 2 egg whites 1-2 TBSP brown sugar 3 tbsp Sesame seeds 1 lemon Kosher salt 1 cup of cashews Four baby onions 3 tbsp lemon curd soy sauce (maybe) Prep : Heat the wok, as usual, the hotter the better. Chop the onion fairly small. Whip the eggs a bit in a cereal sized bowl. Prep the chicken by slicing the pieces into thin strips.... [Read More...]
Cooking Monkfish
I just tried the monkfish recipe from my roasting cook book tonight. It was a very interesting couple of days.. Firstly, like usual, I photocopied my ‘menu’ and asked Carol to get all the stuff. Well, Mel did the shopping for us this week, not Carol. Carol’s used to me saying ‘if you can’t find something, find something close.’ Mel’s not. Mel gets to the supermarket and says ‘do you have monkfish?’... [Read More...]
My first cooking post
As many of my friends know, I really like to cook. I don’t know why I never really talk about it to anybody but my wife, so I figured I’d let out a few blog posts on the matter. Firstly, let me set the stage. With respect to cooking, I’m just a normal guy , as amateur as they come. By no means can I say I can really cook. Like everything else we do in life, it’s all about knowing the basics and that’s something that I... [Read More...]
