Awesome Trick

So, last night I made curry, and it was way too salty.

I learned on the internet, though, that if you make a sauce that's too salty, and you don't want to add water or vegetables to even it out, you can use dough balls!



So, you just drop the dough balls into your sauce for 10-15 minutes and voila! 
I thought this would be a good tip for our blog that's based on doing things by taste and not by recipe, because sometimes you get things wrong when you're cooking this way. 

Hope you get to use this!






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Pumpkin Soup

Pumpkin (kabocha) cubes
Diced onions
Celery
Ginger grated
Cumin, coriander, salt, pepper
chicken broth (4 cups)
Cooked in a crock pot on high for like 4 hours and then blended
put cilantro and lime juice on it before eating.

You'll like it, and it will erase the awful memories of pumpkin soup you have. Plus you'll get rid of pumpkin you had for some weird Asian dish. :)

"It tastes like a really good soup broth"
-My roommate

Chicken Tikka Masala (I finally did it, okay?!)

A little bit= about a teaspoon 

SAUCE: 

A little bit of garlic, ginger, and about half an onion chopped up.

Fry these in oil until the onions get a little brown.

Add a little bit of turmeric, garam masala, coriander, and cumin. 

Let it cook for a minute or two.

Put in about a tablespoon of tomato paste and let it cook for a little longer.

Dump in a can of diced tomatoes, with a little bit of sugar, salt, and pepper.

Let it simmer for about 5 minutes.

Add chicken broth (like 2-3 c) to the mix. Let it simmer for about 30 min.

(Cook chicken in oven during this time.)

CHICKEN: 

Marinate small pieces of chicken in spices (same ones you're using in the sauce + salt and pepper.

Add a few spoonfuls of yogurt to marinade, and let the chicken sit for a couple of hours. 

Put oven on broil, and cook chicken with the oven rack up as high as possible, until it starts to char. 

For a cleaner cook, cover the bottom of the pan with tinfoil.

CHICKEN and SAUCE: 

Once the chicken is done, stir it into the tomato sauce. Add about a half cup of cream to the sauce and turn the burner off. Add a few tablespoons of butter and some cilantro on top. 

NAAN BREAD:

Add a tablespoon of yeast to a couple of cups of warm water. Let it sit for a few minutes, until it gets bubbly.

Add a couple tablespoons of oil and yogurt to the yeast mix. 

Then, mix a few cups of flour into the mix. Add a little bit of salt and a little bit of baking soda. 

Let the dough sit for like half an hour. 

Then, shape into balls.

After 10 minutes, flatten them out, and let them rest for 10 more minutes.

Flatten them again, waiting 5-10 minutes between each time you flatten them. For more bubbles in your naan, fold it in half before you gotten it.

Cook them on a really hot surface for a few minutes each, getting them to bubble up if you can. 

Serve curry on top of basmati rice.

Not-Your-Average-Grilled-Cheese

By: Bronte Baird


So good. Just trust me on this one. It tastes like Summer!

Take your pick of strawberries or tomatoes (I think the strawberries taste better). I did half and half to test out both. 

Grilled cheese but with cream cheese, fresh basil, and strawberries. 

Grill slowly at medium heat. 

Purple Cabbage Soup

This is a fun idea that needs perfecting if you want to try it and change it with any of your suggestions that make it better.

Purple cabbage, potato, onions- diced and cooked in chicken broth

basil leaves, salt, pepper, garlic

...I think that's all I put in it.

Boiled until cooked. Cooled, Blended.

Topped with cheese.

It's really cool because when it is cooler in the fridge it's more of a blue color- and then when you heat it up it becomes a brighter purple. Fun for kids- so I'm hoping to perfect it so it tastes really good too. 

Japanese Noodles- Copycat Recipe

When I lived in Iwakuni there was this Udon restaurant out by the Kintaikyou Bridge where we used to eat out a lot. One of the days I had this plum-ginger-lemon Udon that was so good I decided to try and make it when I got home. It doesn't taste exactly the same- but it's pretty close. I've shared it with many friends and I've yet to hear of someone who doesn't like it- plus it only takes about 10 min. to make. The combination may sound strange- but it's delicious. I'm also including pictures of the ingredients so if you choose to venture into the Asian Market to find them you wont be lost. 

Boil noodles- the best are Udon (the fat kind) but you can also use somen (skinny kind)

Udon soup packets- mix one in with the boiling water (same water you cooked the noodles in) 

Green onions

Seasame Seeds

Lemon

Plum Paste

Ginger paste (or shredded ginger)

-Squeeze the lemon and stir everything together before eating. 

Plum and Ginger paste

Udon soup packets

Sesame seeds

Orange Cream Salad

This is soooo good.

1. Oranges cut in small chunks ( filet orange ;))
2. Mexican Crema ( like sour cream)
3. Brown sugar

This might work out with a garnish of mint?