Pompano For Dinner
Fish and Chips
Egg foo young
Supper flexible, Nutritious, full of fiber, warm, yummy, fairly easy and quick as a side or main coarse.
Basic ingredients Egg, Bean sprouts, onion, carrot, you can add to your taste, cabbage, then any type or combination of chop meat or sea food. Here I have tiny dry shrimp
Wash dry chop and mix all ingredients
Scoop 1 cup of mixture, gently place in hot oil and fry until desired brownness turning a couple times, drain then serve hot. Douse with gravy if you desire it is good with or without.
Beef and Broccoli
This is one of bells favorites
Easy, Quick and Healthy I am cooking for two make adjustment as necessary for more servings.
Basic ingredients – Beef- 1 lb.
broccoli, garlic.
black pepper, corn starch, baking soda, sugar.
rice wine, soy sauce, oil, oyster sauce, water.
Slice the beef in to thin strips. cut broccoli into bite size pieces.
mix beef marinade – 1 tbs wine, 2 tbs soy, 1 tbs starch, 1 tsp pepper, dash of soda, 1 tsp oil. mix into beef set aside.
mix the sauce, 1 tbs oyster sauce, 2 tbs soy, 3 tbs water, 2 tbs starch, 1 tsp sugar, pepper to taste.
Chop the garlic as much as you like.
blanch the broccoli to desired tenderness rinse cold water drain set aside.
get the wok smoking hot with 1 tbs oil
Stir fry until browned the beef then add the chopped garlic.
add the sauce, then the broccoli.
stir fry gently mixing, turn off heat.
plate and enjoy while hot.
Omelet
Omelet
This starts with a morning cup of coffee and lends itself to what is in the refrigerator.
We love Omelets, they are so adaptable to almost anything you could think of or happen to have or could be a favorite you have planed for.
And they are so easy to prepare. Some of our favorite ingredients are
God made kale for omelets please try kale in your omelet it can be by itself or in combination. I trim the leaf from the big stem chop it microwave it 1 minute then mix in egg.
Another favorite is sardine caned in hot tomato chilly sauce.
You can use sausage, bacon, ham, pepperoni almost any flavor of chopped meat will do.
Tomato is always welcome toping, Velveeta or any other cheese you like pickled jalapeño or other pepper blanched chopped veggie of any type.
Beat the egg in bowl 2 per person, add the chopped ingredients, mix put in a warm non stick pan
cooked covered on med low heat till just wet on top turn over till just cooked, plate put toppings of choice, salsa Tabasco chili sauce there is no limits.
Be creative have fun eat yum yum.
Hot and Sour soup
Hot and Sour soup
We really like this soup, it takes planning and assembly and specific ingredients but still relatively easy. If you have any problem acquiring ingredients please contact us we can head you in the right direction. Ok the ingredients will be listed in three groups in order of assembly. Group #1 start by pre soaking the dry mushroom and fungus it needs soak 4 hrs if whole 2 hrs if sliced.
Combine and simmer 20 minutes
Shitake mushroom ¼ cup, sliced
Black fungus 1/8 cup, sliced
Stock , pork or chicken 3 cups
Fresh chop ginger 1 tbsp
Shredded carrot ¼ cup
Then add
Sliced pork ¼ cup- mix with 3 tbsp corn starch- and 2 tbsp soy sauce
Simmer 10 more minutes
add
1- tbsp dark soy
1 tsp sugar
¼ cup sliced tofu add last 5 minutes of stewing
#2 add after simmer ends
1 tbsp white pepper ground or powder for hot
1 tsp for mild
3 tbsp of black Chinese vinegar can substitute with balsamic.
#3 garnish with
Sesame oil
Green scallion
Cilantro
Serve hot
Taco Salad
This one is too easy,
Tacos and burritos are totally flexible, they can be as complicated or simple as you choose, this is a dish that is super easy, super tasty and cheap.
Basic ingredients Chips, salsa, chopped meat, onion,tomato, lettuce, red and black pepper, shredded cheese.
The meat and the cheese are totally flexible use whatever you want.
pre heat oven 350f
Brown meat with chopped onion pepper to your taste.
Spread chips on a baking sheet.
Add some salsa to meat after cooked just enough to give it some moisture.
Chop the tomato and lettuce, you can add anything you want.
Put the chips in oven just brown and crispy
Plate the Browned chips, top with meat and cheese, then layer the rest of salad items lettuce on the top, then whatever you want Salad dressing or salsa or Tabasco or all.
Total prep and cook 1/2 hr.
Sausage, biscuits and gravy
For two, adjust accordingly for more.
Start with a store bought country sausage or the breakfast sausage of your choice. I like to make my own
1lb Ground pork, 1 clove smashed minced garlic, tsp. black pepper, 1 table spoon sage, 1 tsp nutmeg, 1/2 tsp red pepper to taste, mix and refrigerate till needed.
you can also use bacon if you wish I also make my own, just rub generously on to pork belly or side, a mix of 1 part salt, 2 part sugar, a little maple or liquid smoke to taste put in a baking dish cover let stand in refrigerator 1 week, pour off liquid rinse then bake at 170f until meat is 140f, cut into portions, freeze unused for later, slice to liking, salt to taste, cook and enjoy.
pre heat oven to 450 f
Brown the sausage in a pan. When done, drain the oil use for rue or discard.
Make a white gravy either a flour rue & milk or package country gravy mix make about 2 cups.
Put sausage in gravy, let sit on very low heat – stir occasionally, black pepper to taste, the longer it sits the more flavor it develops.
1 Cup flour, 1/2 tsp salt, 1&1/2 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp baking soda, 2&1/2tbs Butter, 1/2 cup milk, mix dry ingredients fold the butter in, add the milk you can substitute it with plane yogurt, or butter milk, mix gently till just mixed, should be fairly sticky, spoon on to greased baking sheet abought 1/3 cup each biscuit, bake abought 8 min + or – when they are browned to your taste.
plate pour gravy on then and enjoy.
abought 1 hr. start to finish.
Tangy Italian style spaghetti
This all started in my childhood, growing up eating my grandmothers cooking. Every holiday and on every occasion anyone could think of. We were all at grandmas for the day, Her mainstays were Italian spaghetti, rosemary chicken, and a green salad. Her spaghetti was famous, her version would take all day in the kitchen, she started with fresh tomato’s. Well times have changed and so have I. But still trying to cook with love I use some of her basic guidelines, just a quicker less time consuming version, I’m Shure she understands.
Basic ingredients. Beef roast, pasta, carrot, spaghetti sauce, French bread, butter, garlic, allspice, teaspoon sugar & ground parmesan cheese.
crush and mince garlic to taste mix with butter & parmesan cheese set aside.
Chop the beef into pretty small cubes I used a cross rib roast this time
Start the meat browning with a little olive oil.
start simmering the sauce with chopped garlic & carrot, teaspoon sugar, & a shake of allspice. NO ONION.
Brown the meat well, brown color is flavor, then add to sauce and simmer.
Split the French bread and spread the garlic butter on it, preheat the oven 350f. get a pot of water boiling add the pasta. put the bread in the oven.
cook and drain the pasta watch the bread till its brown, use broil shortly if you want, its done serve and enjoy.
you can spend as much time as you desire on this dish the short simple version will take you abought 1 hr. + or – always tasty and filling.
Boneless beef rib steak
This all started with a request from Bella, on a lazy Saturday bad weather outside, so happy to have a request for something that is oh so tasty but also quick easy and fairly inexpensive.
So here we go, Uruguay grass fed all natural raised boneless prime rib steak.
I simply season with black pepper and fresh minced garlic rub in both sides and let sit while prepping abought 15 min.
I brown the Rice a Roni beef flavor, I like to heat it unevenly so some is dark brown while other is still tan and i like it with only 2 cups water not 2 and half.
Now go to simmering it .
I start a cast iron skillet heating with just a splash of high heat oil just a good medium heat for now.
Then start prepping the green salad I like green leaf lettuce.
More vitamins than iceberg and seems to keep longer also, I would use Napa cabbage if I had some but plane green works just fine we really like jicama, a crisp juicy taste that goes well in a salad.
Just tear chop slice put it in a bowl and it’s ready to go.
Now I will set the table and put the steaks in the skillet and turn heat to med high
Cook to desired doneness and serve with a pat of butter and a dash of good steak salt if u want.
Total prep and cook time 45 min. Yummy easy night for the cook.