Monthly Archives: September 2023

Rotisserie Chicken Salad

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This is actually my husband’s recipe. I kind of took it over after we were together, but he still is the one who mix all the seasoing and the dressing, I only do all the chopping. 🙂

Ingredients: 

2 pieces of rotisserie chicken breast, 3 ribs of celery, 2 medium onions.

seasoning: 6 tbsp sweet pickle relish, 2/3 cup mayonnaise, 2 tbsp lemon juice, 1 tsp dried dill.

Methods:

1. Peel the skin of the chicken breast, tear of chop into small pieces, chop celery and onion into small pieces, too.

2. Put all the seasoning ingredients together, mix well.

My husband loves to use the Santa Cruz Organic Real Lemon Juice, you can find it in most of the grocery store including Wal-Mart.

If you don’t like the chicken salad too dry, you can use 1 1/2 of the seaning ingredients .

3. Mix all the ingredients together.

烤鸡版鸡肉沙拉

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我去年从城里搬到了乡下，过上了远离大大小小超市的日子，日常买菜可去的就那么有数的几个超市，Sam’s Club 渐渐成为我每周一去的店之一。我老公喜欢买他家的烤鸡，便宜还个儿大，回到家可以用鸡肉做各种菜，省掉了自己把鸡肉做熟的步骤，很是省事儿。

材料：

2 块 熟鸡胸肉，2 个中等大小的洋葱，3 根西芹。

6 大勺 sweet relish（我不知道中文叫啥），2/3 杯蛋黄酱，2 大勺柠檬汁，2 小勺干莳萝。

做法：

1. 鸡肉，洋葱和西芹切碎。

鸡肉块可大可小，洋葱和西芹尽量切小块一点，口感会好一些。我个人比较喜欢多一些洋葱，如果你不喜欢，可以少一些洋葱。

2. 把剩余的材料混在一起拌匀。

我老公比较喜欢那种有机的纯柠檬汁，而不是用浓缩粉调出来的那些。图片中间的那个玻璃瓶子就是柠檬汁。Publix 和沃尔玛都有卖。

3. 所有的材料放在一起拌匀即可。冰箱冷藏保存。

如果觉得这样调出来的鸡肉沙拉太干，可以多调一些酱料拌起来。我们喜欢用墨西哥卷饼卷起来，所以不喜欢大多的酱料，因为酱料会滴滴答答的流下来。

 

Cowpea

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Cowpea is one kind of the popular vegatables on Chinese dinner table. It can be cooked in different ways, stire fry, boil, salad, braise, etc. I put some in pot roast before, and it turned out very good.

For what I know, most of cowpea plants are ivy plants, but there is one kind is growing with no ivy. Unforturnately, the seeds I had for no ivy kind didn’t grow any seedling this year. Maybe I can find more seeds later to grow them.

I have to say, cowpea has a good yield of crop. You can find the seeds at Asian supermarket if you want to plant them.

For more info., please click the link below:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowpea

For dishes using cowpea, please click on following links:

Cumin Flavored Ribs

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This rib is one of our traditional way to cook. My husband loves it so much so I cook it about once a month.

Ingredients:

rib, ground cumin, salt, pepper, ginger powder, garlic powder, ginger root slices.

Methods:

1. Pour some cold water into a pot.

2. Chop ribs along the bone, then put into the cold water pot, add some vinegar and cooking oil, and a few slices of ginger root, medium high heat bring it to boil. Turn off heat, let it sit for about 5 minutes, take ribs, rinse off.

3. Pre-heat oven to 400°F/200°C.

4. Mix the powder seasoning together, slightly coat the ribs.

          

5. Bake for about 25 – 30 minutes, until the surface of the rib start grease bubbling.

孜然烤排骨

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烤排骨里面，我最喜欢的就是这种先煮后烤的做法。这样做出来的排骨一点都不干不柴，而且肉软嫩脱骨，也入味。

材料：

排骨，孜然粉，姜粉，蒜粉，鲜姜片，盐，胡椒粉。

做法：

1. 排骨沿骨头切开，放入冷水锅，加入几片姜片，料酒和醋去腥，中火烧开。停火之后静置 5 分钟。捞出排骨用温水冲洗干净。

2. 把孜然粉，姜粉，蒜粉，盐和胡椒粉拌匀，让排骨均匀的沾上一层。

        

3. 烤箱预热 400 华氏度/200 摄氏度，放入排骨烤 25 到 30 分钟，或者直到排骨表面有些略微烤焦。

香蕉核桃面包

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前段时间去买菜的时候，看到有配好的西式薄煎饼（pancake）粉，里面掺有杏仁粉。我当时就觉得这个好健康啊，于是毫不犹豫的就买了一包回家。

做好了以后，不由的又一次感慨，健康的东西咋都没那么好吃呢 ······· 我还是继续走在不健康的吃食之路上吧。

可是那么一大包的面粉，丢到垃圾箱还是怪可惜的，我瞅了瞅袋子背面印的菜谱，发现可以用来在香蕉核桃面包。死马当活马医吧，买两根香蕉回来试验了一下，然后就让我们两公婆惊艳了一把，决定可以成为我们家早餐的一个选项。

材料：

两根香蕉，1 3/4 杯薄煎饼粉，1/4 杯白糖，2 枚鸡蛋，4 大勺黄油，1/2 杯碎核桃，1/2 茶勺盐。

做法：

1. 烤箱预热 350 华氏度。

2. 融化黄油，鸡蛋打散，香蕉碾碎成香蕉泥，核桃如果颗粒太大就再掰碎一点。

我一般是用叉子把香蕉碾成泥的，香蕉泥里面还有一些碎碎的香蕉颗粒。

         

3. 把打散的鸡蛋，融化的黄油，香蕉泥，盐和糖混在一起搅拌均匀，然后拌入薄煎饼粉和核桃碎，再一次搅拌均匀，倒入刷过黄油的 8×4 烤盘，放入烤箱烤一个小时左右。

原配方要求用 1/2 杯白糖，不过我们两个都嫌太甜了，所以白糖我减了一半的份量。

我没有用那种长条烤盘，而是用了两个小烤盘，大概烤了50分钟左右。每个烤箱都是不同的，只要用来测试的牙签或者其他 tester 拔出来的时候是干净的就表示烤好了。

Banana Nut Bread

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I decided to eat healthier, so I bought a bag of pancake mix with almond flour in it. I made one batch of pancake, and my husband and I feel we don’t like it that much. The pancake tastes ok, but not as fluffy as the regular flour one. I think I like the regular ones better.

I didn’t know what to do with the pancake mix, then I saw this banana nut bread recipe at the back of the bag. Of course I tried it, and we both fall in love with it. The bread tastes great!

Ingredients:

1 3/4 cup pancake mix, 1/4 cup sugar, 2 eggs, 4 tbsp butter, 2 banana, 1/2 chopped walnut, 1/2 tsp salt.

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.

2. Melt butter, lightly beat butter, mash banana, break walnut into smaller pieces.

          

3. Combine beaten egg, melted butter, mashed banana, sugar, and salt, beat together.

The original recipe calls for 1/2 cup sugar, but both of us think it’s too sweet for us, so I cut the sugar to 1/4 cup.

4. Add pancake mix and walnut into the mixture, mix smothly then pour into a greased baking pan, bake for about an hour, or until the tester comes out clean.

Since I used the smaller baking pan, I baked about 50 minutes.

The original recipe said that it needs a 8×4 loaf pan, I used two mini loaf pan, so the bread would be smaller, and easier to store.