Auntie Mary's Irish Stew

Auntie Mary was good enough to send her recipe for Irish stew! This recipe fills the crock pot!! Really fills it!! (We even googled... can crock pots boil over...it didn't.. phew!!) Thanks for sharing a family recipe Auntie Mary!!

Here are the list of ingredients from Auntie Mary's e-mail:

This stew ain't got nothing on Auntie Mary's stew!!

I told ya it was FULL!

After all day cooking!!

Signapore Noodles

Jonny found an awesome new blog for cooking - this one is called Budget Bytes. Here is the recipe that we followed: Click HERE

The Singapore noodles at the Yaletown Brew Pub inspired us to try and make our own.

Here is the picture of the ingrediants I took shopping with us:

Here are our ingredients all chopped up:

Jonny had a wok and a frying pan going!

Mmmm... I really like these noodles :-D

OK.. it doesn't look too good in this picture but it is one of our favourites!

Slow Cooker Pork Stew

THIS is the recipe that we used for our slow cooker pork stew. Jonny made this one all by himself too. This was simple to prepare and simple to cook. It was very filling - hearty!

Before 

After

Pre-stomach!

Chicken Salsa Burritos

This is the recipe that Jonny used to make the chicken for our burritos. We were trying to make our own Mondos - Taco del Mar style. I think we succeeded because we ate a lot of them this weekend. We used refried pinto beans instead of normal beans and they were tasty and fluffy and cheaper.

Jonny took the chicken out and pulled it with a fork then put it back in the sauce to simmer. 

We added refried pinto beans, rice(long grain brown), lettuce, cheese, and hot sauce to the chicken. We tried both whole wheat and flour tortillas - large! 

Delish!

Slow Cooker Carnitas

Jonathan and I made CARNITAS in the slow cooker this morning. Jonathan found an awesome blog where a woman used her slow cooker everyday for a year and blogged it. This blog is going to be our new resource for slow cooker meals.

 These are the ingredients

 It was pretty simple to prepare for the slow cooker. We doubled the meat, salt, garlic, and cumin but we didn't anticipate doubling the meat so we didn't have a second lime and orange.

 This is what it looked like after cooking all day in the slow cooker. It smelled GOOD!

 Jonathan pulled the pork with a fork!

 More pork and pulling with a fork!

 We decided to eat ours like Mondo Burritos from Taco del Mar. We added rice, lettuce, cheese, refried beans, sour cream, and Valentina sauce.

The verdict: We will make them again! YUM!

Awesome Easy Pad Thai

PAD THAI!!!

Here is the link, since I can't seem to load it up onto this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dIc3HwGgdo


A couple notes:

a. apologies for the camera work. I used Lukes cam, and its tiny, and takes me a sec to get used to.

b. It's not terribly clear on the directions, here they are written out:



soak the tamarind in 2 tbsp of water overnight, or whenever you remember

before cooking, add the 4 tbsps of fish sauce, 4 tbsps sugar, and the chili flakes (I used Sambal) to the tamarind mush.

I also like to squeeze half of the 1 lime into the sauce mix, then the other half over the finished product.



With a little oil, cook the meat that is cut into strips in a big pot.

Everything will be added in on top of this, so the big pot is important.

Add in the chopped onion, and garlic, and cook for 4 or 5 minutes, until onion is a bit clear.

To this, add the half a loaf of extra firm tofu, chopped in little sticks, and the mushy sauce mixture.

Remove from heat, the sugar in the sauce can burn.



Add 1/2 pack of rice noodles to boiling water for 2 minutes.

Transfer them into the sauce/meat/tofo mix and stir the sauce through over heat.

Make a space in the bottom and crack the egg in, mixing it up as it cooks.

Then add the green onions, bean sprouts, and peanuts, and squeeze the other half of the lime over it.



c. check out my new stove!

Nasi Goreng

Click Here!
If you want to get the recipe that I used to make my Nasi Goreng! (Indonesian Fried Rice)

Yay! I made food again!! I made brown rice in the cooker on Monday before I went to dance. Then, when I came home I threw it in the fridge. (You have to use cold rice to make fried rice) Today, Wednesday, I skipped yoga and went to the Asian market upstairs at Seymour and Robson. I was trying to find oyster sauce and kecep manis - sweet soy sauce and after Googling a picture I found them! I like that grocery store.

I made some changes to the recipe. I didn't use onions - just cause I am not a huge fan. I added some frozen peas. I didn't use salt and pepper. I didn't have tomato ketchup so I didn't add that. I fried an egg for on top and I squeezed cock sauce all over it. (It was actually a bit clogged at the top and I squirt it all over my sweat pants and my arm!)

Here is the picture of my Nasi Goreng: