I'm baaaaaaaack!

Ok, ok. SO! I have been TERRIBLE at keeping up with this. But, I have been sick for 5 weeks, and I was in the states for 2 weeks. SO, That's a good excuse right!? Right. I do come bearing delicious recipes though!


Tonight I made some of the most delicious pasta I have ever eaten, EVER. It's a spicy thai pasta.


You're going to need :

1 tbsp crushed red pepper
1/2 cup sesame oil
6 tbsp soy sauce
7 tbsp honey
1 cup diced carrots
1/2 cup green onions
1/2 cup cilantro, chopped
1/2 cup peanuts, chopped
Angel hair pasta

Seriously, I am the king (er, queen) of chopping things.

To get started, go ahead and get that pasta cooking. Now grab another sauce pan and heat up your sesame oil and crushed red pepper on medium heat. Keep an eye one it, because you don't want the pepper burning. Once that's done, strain the peppers out of your oil.  NOW! Mix your sesame oil (the one you just got all of the peppers out of) soy sauce, and honey. Finish up your pasta, it should be ready to strain about now. Here is the hard part! (or something) mix your sauce and your pasta. It's going to look a little liquidy, that's not even a word, but you get it.

 Throw in all of the stuff that you've chopped up, and you're done! That's literally it. Easy right!?

Now, I am going to warn you. This pasta is not for the faint of heart. SO! If you're not in to spicy things either omit the crushed red pepper all together OR if you like pizazz but only in small quantities maybe use a quarter tbsp.


We had ours with salmon that was rubbed with soy sauce & brown sugar. If you want to have the salmon also, preheat your oven to 425, lay out a piece of aluminum foil put your salmon on it splash a little soy sauce, sprinkle a little (or if you're me, a lot) brown sugar on it. Cook it for 15 minutes, and voila! If you've never done salmon before you can tell it's done by just placing a fork on the fish and dragging it to see if it flakes. Easy, huh?

And this is it. Admit it, you wanna eat it.

Enjoy!

Beef & Broccoli

Since this was the recipe requested, I'll go ahead and do it first even though it's not what's for dinner tonight! SO, maaaaybe you'll be getting two recipes today.

Here is goes!


Marinade that meat :

• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1 tbsp cornstarch
• 1 tbsp soy sauce
• 1 tbsp water
• 2 tbsp vegetable oil
• 1 lb sliced sirloin

Mix all of the above ingredients ( minus the meat) in a medium size mixing bowl. Once that is done, toss your beef in there and get dirty with it! Make sure the meat is nice and coated with your marinade, cover the bowl with some plastic wrap, pop it in the refrigerator, and forget about it for a good hour.

Create your sauce :

• 1/2 cup soy sauce
• 2 generous tbsp brown sugar
• 3 garlic cloves, minced
• 2 tbsp flour
• 1 tbsp cooking sherry (or a dry white wine, or rice wine)
• 3 tbsp vegetable oil

Mix that all up, set it aside, and try not to drink it! Yes, it smells THAT good.

NEXT, pull out that wok (or large skillet) and add a couple tbsp of vegetable oil. Let it get nice and hot, and throw in your broccoli. ( 2 heads of fresh, or about 3 cups of frozen)

[Disclaimer: If using frozen broccoli, first put it in a sauce pan, cover it with water and cook it until it's no longer well.. frozen. But don't cook it all the way!]

Cook your broccoli for a good 2-3 minutes, remove it from the pan, and set it to the side. Don't stress about it cooling off, because you're tossing it back in the pan in a few minutes.

NOW! In the same pan used for the broccoli, heat up another tbsp of vegetable oil, toss in the meat that's been getting delicious in the fridge with half of that sauce you've been smelling since you mixed it up. [prepare to be drooling]

And finally, once your meat is nice and cooked through, toss that broccoli in there, add the rest of that sauce, let it become friends, then eat it!

See? Easy pea-sy.

Enjoy!