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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.

Pad Thai

4/28/2020

Thai

Pad Thai Sauce:

1/4 cup tamarind juice
2 tbs fish sauce
1/3 cup sugar

1 box rice noodles
1 lb chicken, sliced (or prawns or tofu)
3 tbs garlic
shallots
2 tbs chilli paste

2 bell peppers
8 oz Pad Thai sauce
3 eggs
1/3 cup pounded peanuts
lime

For sauce, combine ingredients and simmer for about 30 minutes
Soak noodles in warm water
Cook chicken on high before removing from pan
Cook garlic, shallots, and chili paste in hot vegetable until fragrant
Add noodles and stir fry
Add some water to the pan as the noodles continue to cook.
Push noodles aside and add more oil, chicken, and peppers
Flip together, add sauce, and stir fry
Push noodles aside again, increase heat, and scramble eggs in more oil
Flip the noodles over
Mix in peanuts
Serve with lime

Chicken Parmesan

4/24/2020

4 chicken breasts
seasoned flour
beer batter
seasoned panko breadcrumbs

olive oil
marinara sauce
provolone cheese
mozzarella (optional)

Italian

Mash chicken to 1/2 inch thickness. Cover in seasoned flour, then beer batter, then bread crumbs.
Fry in large skillet with oil until light brown on both sides.
Remove and cool on paper towels.
Fill pan with marinara sauce and place chicken on top.
Cover chicken with parmesan.
Bake at 400 degrees until cheese is lightly browned.
Serve with pasta.

It's been a year since Naple's closed, and I was DEVASTATED. It was our favorite restaurant and where we went for most birthdays, anniversaries, and other celebrations. So, of course, I bought their cookbook!

All the prep recipes are for an impressive amount of food, so I've had to scale everything a LOT. These are the scaled recipes for Marinara and Alfredo sauces.

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.

Chicken Saltimbocca

4/11/2020

Italian

4 chicken breasts
seasoned flour
oil
4 slices prosciutto
1 tbs sage
4 slices provolone

8 - 12 oz dry white wine
3 tbs garlic
1/2 lemon, juiced
8 oz beef stock
salt & pepper
stick butter

Pound chicken to 1/2 inch thickness and dredge in seasoned flour
Brown in oil for 1 1/2 minutes on one side and 1 minute on the other.
Place prosciutto and sage on top half and provolone on the other to sandwich meats
Deglaze with wine
add garlic, lemon juice, and stock
Salt and pepper to taste
Stir in butter
Place meat on plates and pour sauce over
Serve with gnocchi cakes (or pasta)

Naples Seasoning

4/10/2020

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

Pad Kee Mow / Drunken Noodle

4/7/2020

Taken from a video from Chaiyo's.

Thai

2 tbs soy sauce
2 tbs fish sauce
3 tbs dark/sweet soy sauce
2 tbs oyster sauce

2 tbs garlic
5 chilli peppers
1 onion, sliced
2 bell peppers, sliced
1 large carrot, julienned

Thai basil
3 eggs
1 lb protein
rice noodles - chantaboon rice sticks

Combine sauces
Mash garlic and chilies
Prepare noodles in simmering water
Simmer garlic and chilies in oil
Stir fry eggs
Stir meat and vegetables into eggs
Add noodles to stir fry
Mix in sauces and continue to stir fry dish
Fold in basil

Adventures with Boys

3/2/2020

Today my boys decided they wanted egg sandwiches (with tortillas since we were out of bread) and Velveeta macaroni and cheese). Then decided the two should really be combined. With Taco Bell hot sauce. Don't ask about the pickles.