Category: Sides

Bok Choy and Fresh Shitake

6/29/2020

Every Grain of Rice by Fuchsia Dunlop, pg 180

bok choy, quartered length-wise
shiitake mushrooms, halved
salt
3 tbs cooking oil

3 garlic cloves, sliced
ginger, peeled and sliced
1/2 tsp sugar
1/2 tsp potato flour

Szechuan

Blanch vegetables with oil and salt until until leaves have wilted
Drain and dry
Stir fry garlic and ginger in hot oil until fragrant
Add vegetables to oil and stir
Mix in sugar, flour, and seasoning to taste

Sweet & Sour Peppers with Pork Chops

5/28/2020

From Gordon Ramsay's series on Amazon Prime, Gordon Ramsay's Ultimate Cookery Course, episode 1. Recipe used pork chops, and I've cooking it with both pork chops and chicken, and added sun-dried tomatoes.

3-5 peppers - bell or sweet, sliced
1 medium sweet onion, sliced
2 tbs olive oil
salt & pepper
1 tbs sugar
sun-dried tomatoes

red wine vinegar
basil, rolled and sliced
1 lb pork chops or chicken
garlic, crushed
thyme
butter

Add peppers and onion to hot oil
Season
Add sugar to break down peppers and caramelize onions
Toss - keep hot enough to always sizzle
Stir in red wine vinegar
Turn down gas and add olive oil to stew 2-3 minutes
Add basil and cook 30 more seconds
Remove from pan
Season chicken. For pork chops, punch seasoning into the meat
Lay away into hot oil
Add garlic and thyme under the meat
Squeeze the garlic while cooking and add butter
Baste with butter while cooking
Let rest before serving over peppers

Fried Green Tomatoes

5/27/2020

3-4 green tomatoes, sliced
2 eggs
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 cup flour
1/2 cup cornmeal
1/2 cup breadcrumbs

1 tsp paprika
salt & pepper
oil for frying
goat cheese
pimento cheese

Prepare plate with flower, bowl with milk and whisked eggs, and plate of other dry ingredients
Dip tomatoes in flour then egg mixture before dredging in dry mixture
Fry on each side until brown
Serve topped with cheeses

I prefer Jiffy brand cornmeal but husband complains that it's too sweet.

Ginger Chinese Broccoli

5/19/2020

Every Grain of Rice by Fuchsia Dunlop, pg 182

Szechuan

Chinese broccoli
salt
4 tbs oil
2 tbs chopped garlic

1 tbs Shaoxing wine
1/2 tsp sugar
1 tsp potato flour mixed w/ 1 tbs cold water (optional)

Blanch broccoli with 1 tbs salt and 1 tbs oil until stems are tender but crisp
Heat remaining oil in wok on high
Sizzle ginger until fragrant
Add wine and sugar
Stir fry broccoli until hot, adding salt to taste
(optional) thicken sauce with flour mixture
Pour sauce over broccoli and serve

Tom Kha

5/4/2020

Thai

2 cups coconut milk
2 cups water
crushed galangal
1/3 cup sugar
1/4 cup fish sauce
1/4 cup lime juice
1 cup coconut milk

1 cup water
1/4 cup coconut milk
1 lb chicken
galangal
2 tsp lemongrass
3 chilies
kaffir lime leaves, torn

Boil 2 cups coconut milk and 2 cups water, then add crushed galangal. I have no idea where to buy this so I used a few dashes of ginger and some tamarind and it tasted the right amount of sweet/sour.
Simmer for 10 minutes. Remove galangal/tamarind.
Add sugar, fish sauce, lime juice, coconut milk, and possibly sour flavor whatever that is (I clearly skipped that last part)
Slice chicken across the meat grain
Heat coconut milk and water and boil chicken for 3 minutes.
Add galangal, lemongrass, chicken, kaffir lime leaves, chilies to soup - I'm totally using chili paste next time because crushing chilies is painful
Boil for 15 seconds and serve.

Green Beans

4/13/2020

1 lb fresh green beans
3 tablespoons butter
2 tbs garlic, minced

2 pinches lemon pepper
salt
mushrooms (optional)

Place green beans in skillet with water.
Bring to boil and simmer 5 minutes.
Drain water.
Return to stove and stir in butter (I like to use half regular butter and half truffle butter from Trader Joe's).
Add garlic and spices. Cook 3 more minutes.
Optional - add mushrooms to center of pan between butter and garlic steps.

Gnocchi Potato Cakes

4/10/2020

1 lb potatoes
1/3 cup parmesan
1 tsp chives
3/4 tbs salt
3/4 tsp black pepper

1 egg yolk
1 egg
1 tbs flour
1/4 tsp nutmeg
olive oil

Bake potatoes in foil
Cool, peel, and shred (might replace this step by buying unseasoned hash browns)
Mix ingredients with spade/paddle attachment until fully blended and sticky
Pat into 2-3 inch cakes
Steam 12 - 14 minutes
Cool and refrigerate
Pan fry in olive oil

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