Archive for January, 2010

Grandma Ople’s Apple Pie


2010
01.31

Made this from a recipe found at allrecipes.com. Best apple pie ever. The method of pouring the “goo” through the lattice really makes the top crust crispy and sweet. Nutmeg and cinnamon were added and weren’t on Ople’s original recipe. Perhaps they were out at the general store when she sent Opie to fecth’in her some greedients.

  • 1 recipe pastry for a 9 inch double crust pie
  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter
  • 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
  • 1/4 cup water
  • 1/2 cup white sugar
  • 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
  • 8 Macintosh apples – peeled, cored and sliced
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/4 tsp nutmeg

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). Melt the butter in a saucepan. Stir in flour to form a paste. Add water, white sugar and brown sugar, and bring to a boil. Reduce temperature and let simmer.
  2. Place the bottom crust in your pan. Fill with apples, mounded slightly. Cover with a lattice work of crust. Gently pour the sugar and butter liquid over the crust. Pour slowly so that it does not run off.
  3. Bake 15 minutes in the preheated oven. Reduce the temperature to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Continue baking for 35 to 55 minutes, ensuring apples are soft and crust is crispy.

Curry Chicken Cheese Wraps


2010
01.28

So what do you make when it’s time to clean out the fridge and you’re sick of turkey and fried egg sandwiches? Hell…I’m not sure, but here goes…

Ingredients

  • Sun died tomato wrap (or your favorite varietal)
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 2 lbs of cubed Chicken
  • 1 1/2 tbsp curry powder
  • 1 tsp garlic powder
  • 1 tbsp chili powder
  • 2 tsp cumin
  • 1 tsp salt
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Easy Chicken Wings


2010
01.26

Hanging out on a cold rainy Sunday and watching the Jets get the best of the Colts…well at least so far, and decided some wings and twice baked potatoes would really do the trick. Holy shit are you kidding me? 2 ingredients? Sounds like a great recipe for a beer soaked football game!


The wings recipe comes from the 2009 Jan 28th, Washington Post recipes section.

Ingredients

  • 4 lbs chicken wings and/or drumettes
  • 2 6-ounce bottles hot pepper sauce. (Louisiana or Trappy’s brand work well)
  • fine sea salt for garnish

Directions

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Italian Sausage Meatloaf With Blue Cheese, Fresh Herbs and Potato Gravy


2010
01.19

Wow that title is quite a mouthful but it is kind of hard to quantify this dish with a short one.

Italian Sausage Metloaf with Potato Gravy, originally uploaded by balyho0o.

So I was totally craving something  hearty like meatloaf and mashed potatoes so I surfed around the web and took my inspiration from a couple of different recipes which use Italian Sausage to help bring things to life. This one from allrecipes.com had some good ratings and some helpful comments and this one was the catalyst for the blue cheese, which was fantastic.

Sadly the potatoes were meant to be something like this but because I used baby reds, which don’t quite stand up the way a Russet or Gold might, what I ended up with was more of a potato gravy. ..and it was so damn good! I just love it when accidents turn in to amazing discoveries. It was a bit “gluey” but was oh so rich and yummy. Really hit the spot.

Meatloaf Ingredients:

Chicken Enchiladas


2010
01.13

Chicken Enchiladas, originally uploaded by balyho0o.

Is it STILL winter. OK well it’s only the start of January and already I’m longing for spring. What better way to dash those wintery blues than a nice spicey Tex Mex dish and a glass or two of vino? Anybody?…I didn’t think so. So anyway, I started out with a pretty standard recipe and tweaked it a bit to my own liking. notice the absence of sour cream, replaced by the goat’s milk yogurt. I really like the way this tases as opposed to bland ole sour cream. That is unless you have access to some nice mexican sour cream or Crema Agria, which has a nice rich flavor as well.

Ingredients

Chicken Kebab with Garlic Aioli and Fresh Tomatoes


2010
01.08

Was looking to try to make a garlic aioli after a dinner in Miami at a little Mediterranean place where I just couldn’t get enough of the stuff. The Whole Foods near me now carries a great flat bread bread that helped this come together nicely.   I only had bottled lemon juice and jarred garlic and I’m sure it would have been that much better had they been fresh. Was also missing some nice fresh parsley.

Chicken-Kebab

Potato Chowder with Talapia


2010
01.03

2010_01_03_4517, originally uploaded by balyho0o.

Chicken Korma


2010
01.02

Started out with a popular version of this Indian standard from allrecipes.com and made a few modifications. Using some leftover homemade broth I found that it needed salt at the end but came out quite tasty.

Chicken Korma

Ingredients

  • 1/4 cup cashew halves
  • 1 cup chicken broth
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