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Shrimp stir fry

Shrimp stir fry recipes are special dishes crafted in accordance with the family tradition that influenced much of the Asian culture. This article will cover the spring asparagus and shrimp Stir Fry recipe that has become so famous and is a specialty of a Vietnamese cuisine in Seattle. Many people assume that the Vietnamese food is highly influenced by French traditions. While this may be true to some extent, the Chinese also influenced the Viet cooking in many ways. If you could remember, Viet Nam was a colony of China for nearly 1,000 years. And there legions of Viet Nam-Chinese people were the ones who help shape the Vietnamese food for generations. Apart from this, there were interactions through trade routes and neighbors of Viet Nam in addition to culture as a factor in the mix too.

This recipe is actually a mixture of Vietnamese cooking cultural perfection that this restaurant has mastered through the years. In the name of the family tradition, the restaurant owners still recognize their experience as a family legacy.

For some who have tried to cook the dish, fresh asparagus is highly recommended by the canned asparagus. The soy sauce and oyster sauce and the fish sauce is a combination trio umami seasonings that combines Viet and southern Chinese cooking. The method of frying garlic and onion until golden is a good approximation of Viet Nam, where it is estimated very caramelized shallot and garlic goodness. And adding the sauce twice is really a method for layering restaurant taste. There is no velvety sauce, since I use cornstarch, a Viet-Chinese approach to stir frying. Let's start cooking then. The original recipe can serve as a main dish 2 to 3 p3ersons.

INGREDIENTS:

1¼ pounds fresh asparagus, Woody ends are broke away, and the stems cut into 2-inch long pieces.

½ teaspoon sugar

1 ½ tbsp fish sauce

2 teaspoons soy sauce

1 teaspoon oyster sauce

4 tablespoons and a half a teaspoon of vegetable oil, separated accordingly

1 tablespoon minced garlic

8 to 10 ounces, peeled deveined large shrimp, or can a few more if you want

1 onion, thinly sliced

1 tsp cooking Shaoxing wine or sherry

¼ TSP grated coarsely ground pepper

THE PROCEDURE:

Wash the asparagus with water, then drain and set aside.

For sauce stir fry, combine in a small bowl and mix together the sugar, fish sauce, soy sauce, oyster sauce and ½ teaspoon of vegetable oil. Stir to mix until it is quite smooth and set aside near stove.

To start stir frying, heat a wok or a large skillet over medium high heat in American stove. Then once it is hot, add 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil in wok and wait until it starts getting pretty hot. You can then add the garlic and stir fry for about 15 seconds, until garlic begins to Brown a little.

Here you can add the prawns and cook for about 30 seconds. Add 1 tablespoon of your prepared seasoning, combine, and cook for about 2 minutes until the shrimp are almost cooked. Then, please transfer them to a plate and set aside.

Then rinse and wipe clean your wok. Heat the Pan again by high heat, then add the remaining 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil. Then you can add the shallot, cooking them for another 1 minute until slightly browned.

You can then add the asparagus and sprinkle remaining seasoning sauce that you have prepared. Stir fry the asparagus until it is tender but slightly crunchy, about another 3 to 5 minutes.

Add shrimp to wok and continue stir frying to reheat them. Turn off the heat from the stove and add the rice wine and stir to mix a little.

Serve immediately while hot.

Enjoy this Viet shrimp stir fry recipe at home and continue to stir frying too.

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Preparing delicious dishes kyklopteroy ROE

Almost everyone thinks that the caviar is too expensive. Well, you could purchase quality caviar from the market at affordable prices too. The trick is to know what to buy and how to prepare it at home. For example, kyklopteroy ROE is affordable. Kyklopteroy ROE is perfect to serve as a side dish or appetizer before the main course. The price of caviar varies depending on the quality. However, if you're too specific, you can use kyklopteroy ROE in small quantities and use other ingredients, increase the quantity of plate. Listed below are some recipes for preparing kyklopteroy ROE cost-effectively.

Recipe 1

Ingredients needed are:

Potato-1 largeButter-100 crab-55 gramsFresh gramsWhite pepper and salt-tasteWhipped-2 spoonsLumpfish ROE mayonnaise-25 gramsFor dip-chervil, 1 sprig

Preparation: Preheat the oven to 170 degrees c. wash the potato and dry it thoroughly. Place the potatoes on a baking sheet. Then prick the potatoes and using a metal skewer, runs through the potato. Bake for 1 and a half hours. Once baked, cut in half lengthwise and from each potato half, take out the flesh into a bowl. Keep the skin.

Add the crab and butter to the potato. Season with pepper and salt. In a separate bowl, mix mayonnaise with kyklopteroy ROE. At the back of the potato skins, put the crab and potato mixture. Then top with kyklopteroy ROE and mayonnaise. Garnish with Chervil. Serve the dish immediately.

Recipe 2

Ingredients needed are:

Pasta-50 gramsChopped, smoked salmon Cream-150 gramsSour-150 milliliterChives-1 spoonLumpfish-50 gramsSalt ROE and freshly ground pepper for seasoning

Preparation: Cook and drain the pasta. Stir in cream, smoked salmon, along with the chives. Serve in soup bowls, topped with 1 tablespoon kyklopteroy ROE. Season with pepper and salt. Serve this dish right away.

Recipe 3

Ingredients needed are:

Eggs-oil-60 milliliterPlain 2Olive yogurt-125 milliliterGrated 125 milliliterMilk-lemon zest-1 spoonSelf-growing flour-375 teaspoonCreme milk gramsSugar-1-250-1 smallLumpfish gramsSmoked trout caviar-for service

Preparation: First Preheat the oven to 180 degrees c. Grease then mini-muffin pans. In a bowl, Combine the oil, eggs, milk, yogurt and lime zest. In a large bowl, stir in the sugar and flour. Pour the wet ingredients and combine well. Spoon this mixture into the muffin pans. Bake for 12 minutes or until cooked. Keep aside to cool completely. Cut off a small piece from the top of all muffins, scoop out a little of the mid-section and discard. Fill it with a little trout, Creme Fraiche and caviar some kyklopteroy. The guest will love this concoction.

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Posh Poached Eggs for the big 3-0

 
I'm a relative newcomer to the Random Recipes challenge, but it's become bit of a fixture for me. I don't have any sort of pattern or routine to my blogging (you may have noticed), but I find myself looking out for the announcement post every month, and then getting my random recipe selected more or less straightaway in order to have a fighting chance of working it into a meal plan somewhere. You see while I'd love to spend hours in my kitchen designing dishes, tweaking recipes, arranging food beautifully on a plate and taking gorgeous photos, the reality is that the food that goes up here is what I've cooked to feed us, there's no room to re-make and take a better photo (or to take a photo at all if we were all so hungry that it got eaten before I'd got the camera out...).




This month, the 30th month of the challenge, the selection criteria for the recipe was the number '30' (Dom, you're so original!). 30th book on the shelf/ves of cook books, 30th page. 



At the time I made the selection, '30' gave me Posh Poached Eggs in a Cup from Leon - Family & Friends. If I made the choice another time, it would be different because the books don't stay in the same order, or even on the same shelves, depending on what I've been up to in the kitchen.

So, Posh Poached Eggs. "That'll be easy to squeeze in somewhere", I thought.

We ended up having it for lunch yesterday, the kids and I, another sultry day (the rain didn't reach us till late last night) when the last thing I wanted to do, really, was make a cheese sauce - or even poach an egg. The things I do.

So you make a cheese sauce using gram flour and butter, quite a lot of cheese and some truffle oil. I didn't have gruyere or truffle oil in the house, so cheddar and some nice olive oil had to do.

You fry some thin slices of chorizo till they are nice and crispy, and poach some eggs, then layer it all up in a cup.



It's delicious. Even Blue, who, as I have bemoaned before, normally avoids cheese sauce with a barge pole, and isn't massively keen on poached eggs, enjoyed it. Result.

The only thing I'd say is that the recipe in the book makes a huge amount of cheese sauce. More than you could possibly use feeding the 4 specified in the recipe, however hungry. The rest of it is in the fridge covered with greaseproof paper. Pasta bake for dinner tonight, then.
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Tarragon chicken and a hankering for France

I may have mentioned before once or twice how much I love France.

Indeed there was a time as a post-grad law student when, unsure of my destiny and only certain that I had failed the land law component of the C.P.E. conversion course that non-law graduates had to sit, the only thing I could think of doing was to decamp to France and see what happened.

Fate intervened, I met the Husband and passed land law by the skin of my teeth (events related only by the fact that the Husband was in the same pub that I was celebrating the end - but not the results - of said exams), so my other life as an English woman in France never happened. May be, Sliding Doors-esque, my other self is currently sitting on the terrasse of a sprawling proprietee somewhere in the Midi, a herd of goats and some chickens milling around, while the Husband, assuming a slightly more unreliable "Kevin-Kline-in-French-Kiss" air about him than he currently sports, grows grapes and olives and the children run about tanned and bilingual...

I still have friends in France and we go back occasionally - we haven't been to my preferred corner of Languedoc for a few years, although we had a great holiday in Normandy last summer. I love French towns and cities as much as the countryside: Paris for sure, but also Lyon, Toulouse, Nantes, Aix en Provence, Carcassonne and my favourite of them all, Perpignan. I would gladly go back at any opportunity. May be next summer.




For now, I am compensating by cooking French. Tarragon is one of those classic tastes of France. My mother and I both have tarragon plants parented by a plant belonging to my French exchange's grandpere . Combine that with chicken and creme fraiche, a splash of white wine and some peas, and I could be sitting in a little bistro somewhere, the best memories I have of eating fabulous meals in France washing over me. The feel of the heat that hits you getting off the plane, the wonderful, clear light you get in the mountains, the sunsets over ancient fishing villages, the markets, the pains au chocolat, le Grand Bleu, Jean Reno, the cafe culture - all of it.

Sigh.

Tarragon Chicken
serves 4

8 chicken thighs (bone removed)
salt & pepper
olive oil
2 shallots, finely chopped
2 cloves of garlic, crushed
100ml dry white wine
300ml chicken stock
2 tsp cornflour
fresh peas - a good couple of handfuls
3 tbsp creme fraiche
2 tbsp tarragon leaves, ripped

Season the chicken with salt and pepper and set aside.

Heat a tbsp of olive oil in a large  frying pan and fry the shallots gently until soft - about 5 minutes. Add the garlic at the end of the cooking time for a minute or so.




Add the chicken pieces to the pan and brown for 2-3 minutes, turning once. Increase teh heat, pour in the wine and let it bubble up then add the chicken stock and let everything simmer for 10 minutes.

While the chicken is simmering, mix the cornflour to a paste with 2 tsp water, then stir into the cookking liquid when the 10 minutes is up. Throw in the peas and keep simmering until the sauce thickens at which point stir in the creme fraiche and tarragon and serve with new potatoes.



Best eaten outside as the sun goes down with a glass of crisp white wine...

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Camping Cake

Camping cake comes in many forms. The main thing of course is that there is cake when you are camping and beyond that it's really up to you, but in case you were needing a bit more guidance, here are my thoughts on what constitutes good camping cake.



Let's get one thing straight. Delicate doesn't cut it. If you're going camping, the last thing you need is delicate cake. You need something fairly substantial. 

Anything that includes filling or buttercream is out on grounds of practicality and the fact that in the unlikely event that the weather is good, it's likely to melt.

If it's got oats in it, you're onto a good thing - you use up a lot of energy with all that fresh air and out of doors stuff. 

Ditto fruit/veg because if you can get it in cake form, well that's got to be a bonus.

It must be 'cup of tea' cake. Cake your tea would be too wet without. I'm not suggesting you're going to dunk it or anything, just that if you've got a cake that tastes perfect with a cup of straight up builders tea, you can't go far wrong.



This cake is based on one from the Camper Van Cookbook. I like the Camper Van Cookbook, although the recipes aren't necessarily ones I'd choose to cook while we're camping. Only a very few of the recipes are actually by Martin Dorey, and I'm not sure the author of the bulk of them has done much camping - her recipes are quite ingredient and utensil heavy, and time consuming. That's not to say they aren't good recipes - what I have cooked from the book while camping has always turned out well. Lamb Burgers with spring onions and feta and Lemon Cup Cheesecakes are particular favourites, but I remember the burgers took quite a long time to put together, and with limited utensils, out in the fresh air, I think I'd be just as happy with some good sausages...


There is, however, a section of pre-camp bakes: stuff you'd make to take with you, and I cannot recommend these highly enough. They are great cakes (and biscuits) that absolutely hit the spot in the fresh air. This one is one of Blue's absolute favourite cakes, and went down very well in Suffolk the other weekend .

Sticky Ginger Treacle Cake

200ml milk
3 tbsp treacle
100g butter
75g plain flour
200g soft brown sugar
125g porridge oats
2 tsp ground ginger
2 tsp ground cinammon
1tsp bicarbonate of soda

Line a 20 cm square tin with greaseproof paper and pre-heat the oven to 150C/130C fan.


Place the treacle and butter into a small pan with the milk and gently bring to the boil till the butter is melted. Set aside to cool a little.

Seive the flour, ginger, cinammon and bicarb into a large bowl, then stir through the sugar and porridge oats.

Stir the melted ingredients quickly into the dry ingredients, pour into the tin and bake for 45 minutes.

Leave to cool in the tin, then cut into 16 squares and store in an airtight container. This is sticky cake (the name gives it away) so if you need to stack, separate layers with greaseproof paper. 




Of course, you don't have to go camping to make this cake, but I really think you should give it a go
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Featured in Foodie Crush Magazine and Summer Spaghetti with Crab and Chiles!

Thank you so much to the fabulous Foodie Crush Magazine for including me in their summer issue involving teen food bloggers. I am honored to have been in this magazine and to have been listed along with other inspiring and excellent teen food bloggers! Check out the link to my page:



Along with my interview I included my original recipe for Summer Spaghetti with Crab and Chiles. Here is the recipe.


Ingredients:

3 tbs. olive oil, plus more for finishing
3 garlic cloves, crushed
1 small shallot, finely diced
Sea salt to taste
Freshly ground black pepper to taste
2-3 fresh red and/or green chilies, deseeded and finely diced
Pinch of crushed red chili pepper (optional)
¾ cup white wine
1 stick of butter
1 lb. unpasteurized crabmeat, picked through for shells
1 lb. spaghetti
Reserved pasta water, as needed
¼ cup parsley, finely chopped
Lemon zest

  1. Bring a large pan filled with water to a boil. Season the water with salt.
  2. Meanwhile, heat up a large sauté pan with olive oil. Add the crushed garlic and shallots to the pan. Season the garlic and shallots with salt and pepper. Cook for about 2-4 minutes or until lightly golden brown. Remove and discard the crushed garlic cloves. 
  3. Add the chilies, white wine and butter. Bring this mixture to a boil and let the wine reduce. Taste the sauce and adjust the seasonings. Fold in the crab and take the pan off the heat.
  4. Cook the pasta until al dente (according to the package directions) in the salted boiling water. Reserve about a cup of pasta water in a bowl (you won’t use all of the water, but it is better to have the water in case you need it). 
  5. Drain the pasta and add it immediately to the sauce in the sauté pan. Return the pan to the heat and briefly cook until the pasta absorbs most of the sauce. Add some pasta water as needed. Next  incorporate the parsley. Pour the spaghetti into a serving bowl and top with more parsley, a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil and lemon zest. Eat and enjoy!








Happy Eatings!











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What is Round Table Pizza?

Round Table Pizza is just one of the few popular pizza restaurants today that have served customers for many years at an outstanding level. Famous for its scrumptious oven-fresh pies, this restaurant manages to stay successful in the business despite the trend of shifting to more economical methods of production. No wonder customers love this place for its high regard to quality and authenticity.

Labor of Love

Inspired by the company's slogan, Round Table Pizza commits itself to the highest standards in pizzeria business. Unlike the other restaurants with the same specialty, Round Table makes its pizzas from the scratch-rolling the dough, chopping the veggies and preparing fresh meat toppings. The dough itself comes from the exclusively-grown wheat which is only used for this purpose. If you are wondering what makes the cheeses so delicious, then you should know that they are made from a combination of aged cheddar, whole milk mozzarella and provolone cheeses.

Such dedication to quality is the key to Round Table's success. Other pizzerias might think that the daily manual labor is hampering the productivity of the restaurant, but not this company. Actually, it is through this time-consuming and physically taxing method that Round Table is preferred by many customers.

The Birth of an Honest Pizzeria

It was 51 years ago when William Larson founded the first Round Table in Menlo Park, California. What started out as a small pizza parlor is now a thriving chain of more than 500 restaurants all over the US. The brand is similarly successful in the international market.

The Legend Has It

Interestingly, Round Table Pizza has a curious story of the origin of its name. It was in 1961 when a friend of Larson made some sketches of the knights eating pizza at King Arthur's fabled Round Table. Soon after, the owner adopted the Arthurian legend in its restaurant theme. By 1970s, the famous three shields have started to appear in its official logo.

But the medieval theme is not restricted to the atmosphere of the Round Table restaurants. In fact, the menu includes varieties of pizza named after the characters of the Arthurian legend. There's the King Arthur's Supreme pizza that combines all three meats, cheeses and other premium garnishes. As it turns out, it is the pizzeria's ultimate bestseller. There is also the Guinevere's Garden Delight named after the English queen. It has several vegetables for toppings.

Aside from the hero and heroine of the Middle Ages, there are also some pizza themes inspired by other literary influences such as the famous Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet. The Montague's All Meat Marvel represents an all-Italian meat pizza. Another variety of round pie is the Maui Zaui which has a similar taste as a regular Hawaiian pizza, although a little more generous in toppings.

Be Your Own Pizza Maker

Round Table gives you an option to create your very own pizza. If you want to try something new on your next visit, you may skip the specialty pizzas and choose your favorite combinations of crust, meat, cheese and veggies. It is up to you to combine the ingredients as you wish. At Round Table Pizza, the toppings are generously spread over the hand-made crusts. While deciding on the type of pizza you want, be sure to test out Round Table coupons to save on your big purchase, because saving a little can go a long way!

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