Chicken with Black Bean Sauce Recipe
This chicken with black bean sauce recipe will surely beat PF Chang’s! Too bold you said? I think not. (This is America, right?) I just think that PF Chang’s ‘Chinese’ food isn’t very Chinese – it’s what I called Americanized Chinese. Nice decor, but food, not so much. Sorry, PF.
Enough bashing. On to the chicken with black bean sauce recipe. So I’ve grown up with this recipe, though not really knowing or understanding what the black bean sauce consists of. I just know that I like it and it goes great with chicken and fish. Lo and behold, it turns out that those Chinese black beans are actually soy beans that have been fermented, making them black in color. Well, duh! It makes so much sense now (thanks Google). Fermented black beans are salty, a bit pungent and somewhat spicy. No wonder I like them! (Remember what I said, look to Andrew Zimmern for inspiration. Or are you thinking ignorance is bliss?)
So now that you know what the black bean sauce is, please don’t shy away from this recipe. You know you’ve had chicken in this sauce and you liked it right? So try now to make chicken with black bean sauce at home! Your chicken will turn out so good thanks to those little black beans!
Grilled Salmon Salad Recipe
Grilling and salads, two combos that go great together. (I totally agree with busymama about grilling in the summer but still being healthy. See her grilled chicken salad recipe.) But what’s great about grilling salmon versus chicken is that you don’t really need to marinate the salmon, or let it sit for a while. (But you sure can if you’d like.)
This salmon salad recipe is very creative in that the salmon is first glazed with maple syrup and other goodies that blast the fish into a big flavor storage. So when the salmon goes on the grill, the flavors will soak in. So it’s definitely the glaze in this recipe that makes the (plain) fish so appetizing!
And for you non-salad lovers out there, just to let you know, I am okay with you skipping the salad part here and eating the fish on its own (or you can eat it with rice too). So yes, the salmon salad recipe without the greens, go figure!
Crockpot Beef Pot Roast Recipe
If you have a crockpot available, you know exactly how easy it is to throw in a few ingredients before work and let the crockpot do all the cooking for you so when you come back home you have a delicious beef pot roast ready to eat. If you don’t have a crockpot, I suggest you go out and buy one. It’s perfect for on-the-go moms who don’t have a lot of time on their hands to cook but don’t want to sacrifice on food quality and taste.
This crockpot beef pot roast recipe is quite rich in taste and is simply divine when the beef is juicy and tender after having been cooking in its own juices for 8 hours. In fact the crockpot is good for a number of easy yet delicious recipes, so be sure to check back often for more.
Summer Grilled Chicken Salad Recipe
Summer is the perfect season to be outside grilling, but grilling doesn’t mean you can’t stay healthy. Consider using the grill to whip up a delicious yet tasty summer salad rather than a fatty hamburger or hot dog (Manfood, I’m looking at your danger dogs). This grilled chicken salad recipe won’t take longer than 45 minutes, and most of that is sitting waiting for the chicken to marinate. If you plan on being outdoors, pre-marinate the chicken and you can pretty much bring everything else with you to make on the spot if you plan it carefully.
Feta Pasta Salad Recipe
I totally ran out of time today but was hungry as heck. So scrounging in my fridge, I found all the necessities to make this pasta salad. (Whew – I feel very lucky at this point.) This pasta salad recipe is very easy to make. If you don’t have cooked pasta laying around, no worries, pasta isn’t terribly hard to cook in the first place. What makes this pasta salad so appetizing is the feta and sun-dried tomatoes. These two ingredients in the recipe can just turn any boring old salad into a very satisfying dish that cures your hunger!
Spicy Okra Recipe
Don’t be terribly shocked that I’m not cooking okra in gumbo. So okra is probably most popular in the southern United States and more synonymous with gumbo, but that doesn’t mean you can’t cook okra in other ways. You can be picky like me, but don’t let your pickiness come in the way of trying out new foods or recipes. I’ve learned this through many life lessons, and boy am I glad I’ve opened up my palette to new things! (Though I am still no Andrew Zimmern, and okra probably isn’t a bit bizarre by his definition’)
Anyway, this okra recipe is a family homemade traditional, tried-and-true, and perfected. (So yes, my palette’s already been accustomed to this cooking style of the okra, so okay, maybe I cheated a bit on this one.) Cooking okra with chili paste and dried baby shrimp or anchovy just spices the flavor up a few notches! If you can’t get dried baby shrimp or anchovy, you can skip this ingredient. But if you can find it, definitely try it out. The smell of the shrimp or anchovy might intimidate you at first, but once you bite into the okra, you’ll appreciate the flavor of the okra much more.
So there you go, you’ve got my family’s okra recipe. You’ll never know if you’d like it if you don’t try it! (Look to Andrew Zimmern for inspiration!)
Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe
Love peanut butter? Then you’ll love this easy peanut butter cookie recipe. Don’t fret if you’ve made cookies before but not with peanut butter. It’s basically just one more ingredient. Peanut butter cookies act as a great baking ’starter’ recipe for those who want to venture a bit further into baking. It fun and easy to make and in less than a half hour, you’ll be enjoying the sweet satisfaction of eating your own warm and delicious peanut butter cookies.
Stir Fry Chicken Recipe
For my own health, I decided to stir fry some chicken breast this time. (Yes I know, I had too much pan fried foods lately. They’re so good though!) Stir frying chicken breast is not only good for you, but it’s rather tasty too, especially when you add in mushrooms and carrots.
This stir fry chicken recipe calls for marinating the chicken breast for a bit, just 30 minutes or so. Chicken breast is white meat, so it’s a bit tougher and drier than dark meat. (I don’t need to remind you, right?) Therefore, marinating the chicken breast will definitely add some flavor to the chicken. Don’t skip this step! (You can, but you might end up paying for it with dry chicken. Don’t say I didn’t warn you, tsk tsk!) I use corn starch in the marinade so that it will prevent the chicken from going dry. You also don’t want to overcook the chicken either.
So, stir fry some chicken breast up with this easy recipe. Let my staple food become your staple food. Hooray! (Or not, I won’t be offended.)
Pan Fried Steak Recipe
I’m probably giving you the impression that I like to pan fry food. Well, you’re almost right. It really depends on my mood and what I got to work with. If I’m in the mood for something a bit crispy on the outside, but nice-and-juicy but not totally-drenched-in-oil on the inside, then I’ll go for pan frying. Each of my pan fried recipes is a bit different. (Check out my pan fried chicken recipe and pan fried salmon recipe.) I have to admit though that the main driving force for me to pan fry steak this time is that because the heat outside was way too unbearable for me to use my grill! Why on Earth would anyone want to stand outside grilling steak while sweating and getting a sunburn? No thanks, I’d rather stay inside and chill in my A/C’d kitchen.
Anyway, this pan fried steak recipe is unique from my other pan fried recipes. The technique for pan frying steak is to actually bake it beforehand, so that the steak will semi-cook evenly in the oven. This way, you can save the best for last by pan frying the steaks to perfection without worrying about unevenly cooked steak. Be careful though, you don’t want to dry out the steak by frying it too long either.
Also, what’s so great about this pan fried steak recipe is that the pan fried steak is topped off with mouth-watering black pepper mushroom sauce. Don’t be afraid of the ingredients for the sauce, just try it out. You’ll like it!
Souped Up Instant Noodle with Egg Recipe
Manfood is remember during time study for bachelor degree in hunting with specialty in big game that Manfood often resort to eat instant noodle for meal due to lack of time between class and hunting homeworks assignment. At first Manfood enjoy instant noodle but quickly it blanded Manfood’s tongue. So Manfood put Manfood ingenious peanut brain to work to cone up with easy souped up instant noodle recipe for more enjoyment.
It only call for secret ingredient of egg which any manfood can handle but it make such world of difference to instant noodle, it actually become quite tasty meal between all big game Manfood have to eat since what Manfood hunt and catch Manfood must eat. Ask Professor who ask show bone for proof.
