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Recipe of the Week

Recipe of the Week: Spicy Beef with Sweet Chili Sauce

October 12, 2009 by Brian


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Ingredients:

Marinade:

  • 1/2 cup of hoisin sauce
  • 1/3 cup of vinegar
  • 1 teaspoon of crushed red peppers

Sweet Red Chili Pepper Sauce:

  • 2 cups red chili pepper hot sauce
  • 4 tablespoons white granulated sugar

Spicy Beef:

  • 2 lbs of thin sliced beef (rib eye) cut into 1-inch pieces
  • 1 teaspoon of ginger minced
  • 1 teaspoon of garlic minced
  • ½ green bell pepper cut in thin strips
  • ½ red bell pepper cut in thin strips
  • 4 cups of red cabbage cut in thin strips
  • 1 cup of green onions cut diagonally
  • 1 tablespoon of sesame oil
  • 1 package rice noodles

Instructions:

  1. Marinate the beef in the marinade for 30 minutes
  2. Mix white granulated sugar with red chili pepper hot sauce and set aside
  3. Cook the rice noodles and keep hot
  4. Heat sesame oil in pan over high heat
  5. Add the cabbage and green onions; stir-fry for 4-5 minutes
  6. Add the ginger and garlic; stir-fry for 1 minute
  7. Add the green and red bell peppers; stir-fry for 3-4 minutes
  8. Add beef and stir-fry for 4-5 minutes
  9. Serve over rice noodles
  10. Garnish with sweet red chili pepper sauce


Tips and Modifications:

For the veggies out there…  Omit beef and double up on the vegetables and oil, and then add the Marinade in the last minute of stir-frying.



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Recipe of the Week: Sour Cream and Salsa Chicken

October 5, 2009 by Brian

We love to cook… It’s fun, relaxing and typically very rewarding. Every once in a while something doesn’t come out the way we were expecting, no worries there… because we have several restaurants all within a couple of blocks of us.

Today marks our first Recipe of the Week. Every week we plan to bring you a recipe.

All of our recipes are “from scratch.”

That doesn’t mean necessarily mean they are healthy… What it does mean is, they taste very good.

We made this Sour Cream and Salsa Chicken the other night and it was fantastic.

Ingredients:

  • 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
  • 1/3 cup taco seasoning
  • 4 cups salsa
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 1 cup guacamole
  • 1 cup shredded cheese (Your favorite)

Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 180° C (350° F)
  2. Place chicken breasts in a lightly greased shallow baking dish
  3. Season with the taco seasoning mix
  4. Pour the salsa over the chicken
  5. Bake for 45 minutes, or until chicken is tender
  6. Remove the chicken from the baking dish, stir sour cream into salsa, then return chicken to baking dish
  7. Serve chicken and sauce over Mexican rice or with warm tortillas
  8. Top with guacamole and shredded cheese

Zoë enjoying the left over sour cream before dinner


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The Expat Cookbook – That’s What We’ve Been Up To

September 16, 2009 by Brian

It has been a couple weeks since we’ve posted a blog. We apologize for leaving you hanging (because we know you live for our blogs ☺), but we’ve got good reason!

We’ve been hard at work putting the finishing touches on our latest project, The Expat Cookbook.

The what? The Expat Cookbook… There are a lot of foods here that you just can’t get or are pretty expensive to buy. We never realized how much we took for granted Ranch Dressing and Hot Sauce. Since, we’re both very good cooks, creating The Expat Cookbook just made sense.

You can check it out through www.ExpatCookbook.com. It’s an eBook, so you can download it and use it right from your computer or print it out if that’s what your heart desires.

Try the recipes… Let us know what you think…

Have a great day and great eating to you!!!

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