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Summer Vegetable & Chicken Stew

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Ingredients: 3/4 lb boneless, skinless chicken thighs cutting into bite-sized pieces five cloves of garlic, minced iii medium tomatoes, diced four Serrano peppers, diced 1 medium zucchini, diced 1 onion, diced 1 ear's worth of corn kernels 2 cups diced okra five 1/2 loving cup chicken stock 1 1/2 tablespoons canola oil 1 teaspoon smoked paprika 1/2 teaspoon chervil salt freshly reason dark pepper Directions: Heat the crude inwards a large, heavy bottom pan. Add the zucchini, onion, garlic as well as pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the onion is soft as well as translucent but non browned. Add the chicken as well as continues to develop nearly five minutes. Add the remaining ingredients as well as simmer until the vegetables are tender, nearly xx minutes. My thoughts: Our local farm shop had to a greater extent than or less lovely okra they grew themselves as well as to a greater extent than or less tomatoes as well as corn from a farm a footli...

Pernod Turkey Cutlets

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Ingredients: iv boneless turkey cutlets 1 onion, quartered too sliced thinly 1/3 loving cup chicken or turkey stock 1/4 loving cup Pernod two tablespoon Herbs de Provence 1/4 loving cup "instant" flour (like Wondra) 1 tablespoon olive oil 1/2 tablespoon butter Directions: Sprinkle both sides of each cutlet amongst Herbs de Provence. Sprinkle both sides amongst flour to coat. Heat the stone oil too butter inwards a large skillet. Add the onions too produce until soft. Add the turkey chocolate-brown on each side. Add the stock too Pernod too produce until the turkey is fully cooked too the liquid reduces slightly. My thoughts: This is a peachy weeknight recipe. Not alone is it quick precisely it is actually flavorful. I intend of it equally kind of a twist on Chicken Piccata. I honey using turkey cutlets because non alone is it a alter from the commons chicken, the slightly stronger flavor tin concur upwards to to a greater extent than seasonings. The Pernod ad...

Grilled Asparagus & Mushrooms Alongside Stilton

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Ingredients: ane lb asparagus, halved horizontally 8 oz crimini mushrooms, halved iii oz Stilton, crumbled ane tablespoon xanthous mustard seed vinaigrette: iii tablespoons balsamic vinegar iii tablespoon olive oil ane tablespoon Dijon mustard salt freshly seat down dark pepper Directions: Prep grill. Whisk together the vinaigrette ingredients inwards a pocket-size bowl. Place the mustard seeds, asparagus too mushrooms inwards a resealable bag. Shake. Drizzle amongst dressing. Shake to coat. Add to a nonstick grill wok too grill until tender, tossing occasionally. Sprinkle amongst cheese prior to serving. My thoughts: Who doesn't dearest grilled vegetables? These are made fifty-fifty ameliorate amongst a fleck of Stilton only they would move awesome without it equally well. The asparagus is caramelized, deeping the flavour too the mushrooms absorbed the vinaigrette too smoke actually well.  I loved the slight crunchy pop of the mustard seeds which prov...

Papaya-Ginger Beer Baked Beans

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Ingredients: 1 tin hickory fume Spam, cubed 1 onion, chopped 1/2 papaya (cut up) iii cloves garlic, minced 1 lb navy beans 1/3 loving cup cup sriracha 8 oz ginger beer 1 tablespoon roasted ginger 1 teaspoon hot paprika 1 teaspoon hickory liquid fume (optional) 1/2 teaspoon allspice 1/2 teaspoon solid put down mustard 1/4 teaspoon cloves bounding main salt freshly solid put down pepper Directions: The twenty-four hours earlier yous desire to serve: Place the beans inward a pot (or tiresome cooker insert) in addition to fill upwards until the beans are nether most 4 inches of water. The side past times side day: drain the beans in addition to pour them into the tiresome cooker. Add all of the remaining ingredients except the spam. Cook on depression 8-10 hours or until the beans are soft. Fry the Spam inward a nonstick skillet until quite crisp in addition to nearly caramelized roughly the vii to 8 lx minutes mark. Thoroughly drain the spam on newspaper towel ...

Mango Marinated Grilled Boneless Pork Ribs

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Ingredients: 1 1/2 lb boneless pork ribs three mangos, cubed (I used Ataulfo) 1/4 loving cup olive oil 1/4 loving cup white vino vinegar 1 tablespoon ginger juice 1 tablespoon pepper sherry salt freshly reason dark pepper Directions: Place all ingredients inwards a resealable purse or marinating container. Kind of squish it a flake as well as hence the mango pause down. Refrigerate for upwards to half-dozen hours. Prep grill. Grease or spray alongside grilling nonstick spray the grill rack. Place the pork on the rack as well as laid upwards over depression rut until fully cooked. If desired, house the mango inwards a grill wok as well as grill that every bit well. My thoughts: As y'all may accept guessed, I dearest pairing mango alongside pork. While I don't similar overly sweetness things every bit chief dishes, mangos accept a sweetness tartness that tin forcefulness out grip savory flavors. Pork has a lite natural sweetness that I intend does good alongside f...

Hawaiian Inspired Curt Ribs

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Ingredients: three 1/2 lb boneless beef brusk ribs* xx oz canned pineapple rings inward juice 1 kiwi, halved marinade: 1/2 loving cup soy sauce 1/2 loving cup teriyaki sauce 1/3 loving cup ponzu sauce 1/4 loving cup lite chocolate-brown saccharide three tablespoons chili garlic sauce two tablespoons ginger juice two tablespoons sesame stone oil Directions: Rub the meat on all sides alongside the kiwi. Discard the kiwi. Place the meat together with all remaining ingredients inward a resealable handbag or marinating container together with refrigerate for 24 hrs. Prep your grill. Place a foil tray filled alongside H2O inward the grill. Arrange the coals only about the tray. Place the beef over the pan together with railroad train ho-hum together with depression for well-nigh 1 hr-90 minutes or until fully cooked together with tender. *If you lot piece of employment bone-in, piece of employment well-nigh five lbs. My thoughts: This was a fairly fabulous dinner. I...

Plum-Rainier Ruby-Red Butter

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Ingredients: iv lb plums, pitted together with quartered 8 oz pitted Rainier cherries i 3/4 cups sugar 1/4 loving cup lemon juice Ingredients: Place all ingredients inward a 4 quart tiresome cooker , stir. Turn on depression together with develop overnight (about 8-10 hrs) amongst the chapeau slightly askew to let for some evaporation to occur. The mixture should survive thick together with paste-like when ready. If the mixture isn't totally smooth, pulse it amongst an immersion blender. Prep your jars together with lids. Pour the butter inward the jars, leaving 1/4 inch headspace. Process inward a boiling H2O bathroom for x minutes. Yield: almost iv 8-oz jars Note: H5N1 peachy origin for canning data is the Blue Book take away to preserving . I highly recommend it for learning how to can. Here are some of my other favorite canning books together with supplies . My thoughts: Making fruit butters inward the tiresome cooker is a peachy choice for people similar me ...