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Archive for November, 2007

If you're looking for an alternative apple gift, then maybe a noodle-apple pudding is in your future!

Ingredients:

• 2 eggs
• 4 tablespoons sugar
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon cinnamon
• ½ cup seedless raisins
• 4 cups cooked fine noodles, drained
• 3 tablespoons melted butter or fat

Beat the eggs, sugar, salt and cinnamon together. Stir in the apples, raisins, noodles and fat. Turn into a greased baking dish.

Bake in a 400 degree oven for 40 minutes or until brown. Serves 6 to 8.

For more yummy pudding recipes, try:

• Green Noodle Pudding
• Coconut Pudding
• Semolina Pudding (Sa-Nwin-Ma-Kin)
• Flaishig Noodle Pudding

It's true, that you can't survive on only cookies. So for that reason, we include some other dinner recipes in our blog as well!

Ingredients:

• 2 cucumbers
• 2 carrots
• 2 green peppers
• 8 small white onions
• 1/2 cup chopped onions
• 3 minced garlic cloves
• 1 1/2 tsp. turmeric
• 1/2 tsp. dried ground chili peppers
• 2 tsp. powdered ginger
• 2 tsp. salt
• 1/4 cup ground almonds
• 2 tbs. sugar
• 3 cups white vinegar
• 1 cup water

Peel the cucumbers and carrots; slice thin. Cut the green peppers in ½-inch strips; quarter the onions lengthwise. Cover the vegetables with boiling water, let stand 1 minute, then drain.

Pound or chop together the chopped onions, garlic, turmeric, chili peppers, ginger, salt, almonds, and sugar. Combine with the vinegar and water and vegetables in a saucepan. Bring to a boil and cook 10 minutes; cool and let pickle 12-24 hour before serving.

More ways to eat your vegetables:

• Frittata Di Carne E Vegetali - Vegetable-meat Omelette
• Vegetable Salad - Gado Gado
• Roasted Potatoes Brunch Recipe

It's not your usual Italian basket that you'd expect with noodles, but this recipe is equally delicious!

Ingredients:

• 1 cup flour
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 2 egg yolks
• 1 tbs. water

Sift the flour and salt into a bowl; work in the egg yolks and water with the fingers. Knead until smooth and elastic. Cover with a bowl and let stand while preparing the filling:

• 1 lb. ground pork
• 1/2 lb. ground shrimp, shelled, deveined, and chopped
• 1 tsp. anchovy paste
• 1 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/2 tsp. freshly ground pepper
• 1/2 cup chopped scallions
• 4 minced garlic cloves
• 1/2 cup chopped water chestnuts
• 3 tbs. oil
• 1 cup chopped onions
• 6 cups chicken broth

Mix together pork, shrimp, anchovy paste, salt, pepper, scallions, garlic, and water chestnuts. Roll out the dough, paper-thin, and cut into 3 inch squares. Place a heaping teaspoon of the mixture on each and fold over the dough into a triangle. Seal edges well. (You will have about two-thirds of the pork mixture left.)

Heat the oil in a saucepan; sauté the onions for 5 minutes. Add the remaining pork mixture and sauté for 5 minutes. Stir in the broth and bring to a boil. Carefully drop the stuffed noodles into it. Cover and cook over low heat for 15 minutes. Taste for seasoning and serve in deep bowls.

If you love soup and stew, try some of the recipes below:

• Manderine Soup
• Watercress Soup - Suy Yeung Choy Tong
• Cheesy Potato Stoup

If you're a real lover of seafood, then you'll be one to appreciate this recipe for stuffed shrimp! A helpful tip: Along with your fishing gift basket this year, offer up a few recipes to help them cook up anything that they catch!

Ingredients:

• 18 raw jumbo shrimp
• 1/4 lb. ground beef
• 2 tbs. chopped scallions
• 2 tsp. salt
• 1/4 tsp. pepper
• 1/4 cup flour
• Fat for deep frying

Remove the shells of the shrimp, but leave the tails. Slit the backs of the shrimp and remove vein; wash and dry. Mix the beef, scallions, 1 tsp. salt, and the pepper. Stuff the shrimp and pierce with a toothpick to close opening. Mix flour and remaining salt; roll shrimp in the mixture. Heat the fat to 370° and fry the shrimp in it for 5 minutes. Drain, remove toothpicks, and serve hot.

More Seafood Recipes:

Garlicky Lemon Scallops

Manila Style Crab Meat - Alimasag

So that fishing gift box came in handy and you've got some fresh fish on your hands! Here's a great recipe to use for a delicious meal.

Ingredients:

• 1 cucumber
• 1 carrot 1 sweet pickle
• 1 tsp. chopped ginger root or preserved ginger
• 1/2 cup minced onions
• 2 tbs. salt
• 2 minced garlic cloves
• 2 tbs. sugar
• 1/2 cup vinegar
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 carp or snapper or bass (3 lbs.)
• 4 tbs. oil
• 1 tbs. cornstarch
• 2 tbs. soy sauce

Pare the cucumber and cut in half lengthwise. Scoop out the seeds and cut into match like pieces. Cut carrots in same sized pieces. Slice pickle in julienne pieces. Combine the previous ingredients with the ginger, onion, 1 tsp. salt, the sugar, vinegar, and water. Let marinate 3/4 hour.

Clean the fish but leave it whole.

Bring 2 qt. of water to a boil in a deep skillet. Add the remaining salt and 2 tbs. oil

Carefully place the fish in the skillet. Cover and cook over low heat 20 minutes. Turn off heat and let fish steam until tender.

Drain the vegetables. Mix the marinade with the cornstarch and soy sauce. Heat the remaining oil in a skillet; brown the garlic in it. Add the marinade, stirring constantly until thickened. Taste for seasoning, adding a little sugar if necessary. Add the vegetables and just let them heat, but don’t cook them.

Remove fish carefully and place on a platter. Pour the sauce over it.

For more fish recipes, try:

• Fish Kugel
• Fish Chowder - Sinigang Na Isda
• Fried Fish with Sweet and Sour Sauce