Lettuce Wraps

I have been craving lettuce wraps like crazy lately. I searched for recipes, and then took the stuff I liked from several and combined them to fit my tastes. What I came up with was super tasty and I got lots of compliments on it.

Chicken Marinate
3 tbs lime juice
1 tbs curry powder
2 tsp honey
1/2 tsp coriander
1/2 tsp cumin
1/8 tsp salt
2 tbs crushed garlic

Mix all together and marinate for at least 4 hours.

2 heads lettuce, romaine or butter
4 chicken breasts

1 pkg mushrooms, diced
1 lg onion, diced
1 can water chestnuts, diced
1 bunch green onions, just the green partsB sliced
1/4 c hoisin sauce
2 tbs crushed ginger
2 tbs crushed garlic
2 tbs soy sauce
2 tbs rice wine vinegar
2 tsp sesame oil

Toppings
Fried rice noodles
Thinly sliced carrots
Hoisin sauce
Sweet chili sauce
Chopped cashews

Remove chicken from marinate and discard the remaining marinate. Rough chop the chicken and place 1 breast at a time in the blender and pulse until its nicely chopped up. Heat pam or cooking oil in a large skillet and brown chicken. Remove chicken and set aside. Add onions and mushrooms to the same skillet, cook until onions are soft. Add garlic, water chestnuts, and ginger, stir and add soy sauce, rice vinegar, hoisin sauce. Bring to a boil. Turn off the heat and add the sesame oil and green onions.

Scoop into lettuce leaves and top with your favorites.

Cheesy Chicken Potato Soup

So, I am trying to get back into doing the house-wife duties... Having a little trouble, 5 out of 7 of the meals I made this week were NASTY! But I did make some really yummy soup, its so darn cold here all I can think about is hot chocolate and warm soup. Most the time I want to wear my coat and gloves in the house! I don't think Rikard mentioned this when he asked me to move to this country, its just not right...How cold it is!

Anyway onto the recipe!


Ingredients:
 - 4 medium potatoes diced
- 1 qt. Chicken broth (you can use water, I just like the richness of the broth)
- Butter (as much as you want... I prefer at least a stick)
- 4 Tbs. Flour
- 1 Cup Milk
- 1 1/2 Cup shredded cheese (We don't have orange cheese here in this country so I used a pizza mix so what ever you have in the fridge)
- 1 Onion Diced really small
- 2 Sticks Celery
- Paprika
- Salt and Pepper
- Chopped Chives

Directions:

- Boil the potatoes in the chicken broth until tender, don’t drain.
- In frying pan cook onions, celery and butter until soft.
    -Add flour and mix
    -Add milk and stir until it thickens and remove from heat.
    -Stir into the potatoes and broth.
    -Add shredded chicken.
- Season with paprika, salt, pepper, and season salt.


I added ½ cup of sour cream just to make it a little creamier. Rikard says it’s the best he has ever had… and really simple. By now I am sure he is getting sick of all my soups but I am tackling Chicken noodle tomorrow! YUM!

Love,



Dawnie

Baked Beans (Dena's)

I hope you don't mind me just taking your stuff and posting it, but these are so yummy and every time I make them I get a request for the recipe. So here goes, please feel free to tweak this post however you want to :)

1 lb ground beef
1 onion diced
2 cans beans (one dark one light kidney beans work well)
1 can tomato soup
Mustard powder ~ 2 tbs
Brown sugar ~ 2 tbs
S&P to taste

Adjust the mustard and sugar to how ever you like things to taste. As usual, I also add some garlic.
Brown beef, drain and add onions (and garlic if using) cook until onions soften. Add the remainder of the ingredients and heat through.

Baked Oatmeal

Ok, I cannot claim this as my own, but it is way too yummy not to remember. Dawnie even made it for Rikard while he was here for Christmas and they loved it. I got this off a friends Facebook suggestion; so thanks to Susan for sharing.
http://www.mrbreakfast.com/superdisplay.asp?recipeid=1893



Baked Apple Oatmeal
(6 servings)

3 cups rolled oats (quick or old-fashioned)
2 cups chopped apples
2 cups milk
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup melted butter
1/3 cup applesauce
1 large egg - beaten
1 and 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3/4 teaspoon salt
Prepare a 2-quart baking dish with a light coating of cooking spray.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

In a large bowl, combine the oats, baking powder, salt and cinnamon.

In a seperate bowl, mix together milk, egg, applesauce, butter, and brown sugar.

Stir the liquid ingredients into the dry and pour into prepared dish.

Bake for 20 minutes.

Stir the oatmeal, fold in the chopped apple and bake 20 more minutes until top is lightly browned.

Spoon into serving bowls and serve with milk and a little extra brown sugar.


You can replace the apples with equal an equal amount of blueberries or other fruit.


Mr Breakfast would like to thank DixieChick for this recipe.


Here's what I did to make it friendly to my kitchen. First I omitted the butter, exchanged cows milk for coconut milk (this was just because I had coconut milk - in the future I will probably use almond milk) I added more cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla and left out the chopped apples and used more applesauce instead. If I were not trying to get my kids to eat it I would have used chopped apples, but what they don't know is in there they will usually eat. It was delicious, but needed some milk poured over the top. I also think you could omit the sugar with the additional applesauce it was plenty sweet.
Enjoy!