Baked Talapia with Pak choi and Mushrooms

Bake the whole Tilapia and eat with the pak choi

Sautee the mushrooms

Add the pak choi

Cook till pakchoi is wilted

Golden Shallow Pan Fried Shrimp

Season Shrimp
Lightly coat in flour
Fry in hot Canola Oil
1 minute each side

Sooooooo good

African Food

I discovered at the party that it consists of entirely too many carbs....

I had fish and something else, but the spread was really good.

Fried Tilapia

I didn't dredge in flour.

I just seasoned it and fried as is...
I let it sit in the 2 tbsp of lemon juice and seasonings for about 15 minutes before I fried it
I let the napkins soak up any excess Canola oil
Delicious

Baked and Roasted Eggplant with lamb and peppers

Cut up whole eggplant into cubes.

Add seasoning to taste
Add cut up seasoned lamb
Cut up sweet peppers and add

Add two tbsp canola oil
Bake at 325F for 40 minutes

Mix and broil at 450F for an additional 15 minutes

Serve.
Very delicious

Eggplant croquettes

So I am figuring out more things to do with eggplant.
These pics are kinda dark :(

So I baked one cubed eggplant at 325F for 30 minutes or until soft
Seasoned to taste
Added 1tbsp butter


When cool drain if there is still liquid

Add one can tuna
2tbsp mayo
2 tsp mustard

Pepper to taste
1 1/2 cups of bread crumbs


Form into croquettes or patties

Fry till golden

Serve with meat or eat on their own

Satueed cabbage with nuts and raisins

Season as desired with salt, pepper etc
BUT... you need to sautee with 2 tbsp of canola or olive oil
Add 1/2 cup or nuts and raisins

Spicy sweet Curried Mangoes

This is a popular side in Trinidad.
We eat it with roti, on its own, or as a side with other dishes.

For this recipe
Three large semi ripe (not ripe, not green) mangoes

3/4 cup sugar
4 cups water
Garlic
Crushed, dried red pepper flakes to taste
1tbsp salt
1tbsp lemon juice
1/2 tbsp chili powder
1 cut up jalepeno pepper

3tbsp green curry

Method
Wash and chop mangoes with a chopping blade, through the seed.

Leave the skin on.

Remove the inner portion of seed

Heat 1 tbsp of curry powder and crushed red pepper in pan

Add mangoes and stir

Add sugar

Add chilli powder and garlic
Add water and then the rest of the curry
Add Jalepeno

Bring mixture to a boil stirring occasionally
Then simmer until mango is very soft. (Approx 1hr)


Serve. Sauce will be thick yet runny.

Golden Roasted Lamb

Less spices

Different spices to the African Roasted Lamb

Roated lamb with Pak choi and Honey roasted peanuts

This is absolutely delicious

African Roasted Lamb

Satueed with Pak choi


Add Honey Roasted Peanuts

The liquid in the pak choi seeps out when you are sauteeing..Not to worry it boils down enough.

No extra seasoning is needed because the lamb that was pre-roasted is heavily seasoned.... remember its the African Roasted lamb I made before.

Clotted Cream

I always read about clotted cream in my Enid Blyton books when I was younger. I always wanted to try it.
So I did.
It is just as I imagined.

It tastes like thick kinda evaporated milk.
I didn't want to eat it with bread so I just scooped out gobs of it with my fingers and sucked on it.
It is heavenly and lovely
Try it when you can :)

Honey Barbeque Baked Chicken

I used a whole cut up chicken
Seasoned it and baked for 1 hour at 325F

Then I added the BBQ sauce and honey
I put it back in the oven for 15 minutes
Yum
Tender
Sweet

Savory

Another soup

Well you know that salad that I made (see previous post)?
It was huge and I couldn't eat it all.
So I decided to put it in a soup..
That was a great idea.
I used a Campbell tomato soup
Added 2 cans of water to it
Crushed red pepper flakes ( 1 tbsp)
One cup of Pak Choi leaves

The rest of the salad

I let it come to a boil and then simmer for 10 minutes.

It was soo good and hearty

I loved that soup.

Comedy Club food

You can eat there before the show.
I didn't order food.

They came around with samples of a spinach and artichoke dip, and a Phillipino appetizer which the owner's mother in law makes and brings to the restaurant.

They were excellent.

A big salad

Cabbage

Mushrooms

Parmesan
Corn


Black Beans
Raisins


Dressing:

Mayo
Lemon juice
Honey
Pepper flakes
Other Seasoning
Pinch of Salt