Chicken Thighs with Soy & Ginger

It seems like we eat a lot of chicken around here & I guess we do!! So here is another chicken dish. This recipe is from the New York Times Cooking by Martha Rose Shulman.  It is very good & you should make it!

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Chewy Chocolate Cookies!

Chewy Chocolate Cookies! The deep delicious flavour of this cookie comes from using cocoa powder. It is easy change this cookie up a bit, using the batter as the base, you can add chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, or chopped nuts.

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Chocolate Chip Cookie Baked in a Skillet

This is such a quick way to make chocolate chip cookies! My niece, who is 9, & I made this together one time when she was over visiting. It was a last-minute decision ….we really wanted dessert to enjoy together so this worked out perfectly!

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Nacho Bake

I think this is a good day to revisit my post with a recipe for the Layered Nacho Bake. You can make this as a vegetarian dish using ground round or only vegetables & cheese…or use some ground beef… all options are delicious! Perfect to nosh on while watching the Oilers play..or your fav team! Or good for a Cinco de Mayo party! Any reason, any time, any way…. this is cheesy & delicious.

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Greek Pasta Salad

I love pasta salad, but the problem is sometimes I find that the pasta is quite tasteless & worse for me is if it is undercooked…or overcooked I suppose!  I realize I don’t love the vegetables in there either…I am not being critical of other peoples pasta salads…I just wanted to make mine a bit different & see how it turned out.

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Kamish with Cranberries

Here is a recipe for Kamish ( like biscotti) with dried cranberries . I love it! I have so many different recipes for Kamish….my moms, my grandmother’s, Goldie’s Kamish, https://marilyndishes.com/2017/02/22/goldies-kamish/, my aunt’s, Murray’s aunt’s & the list goes on.  I used a basic recipe for kamish, left out the coconut, chocolate & almonds & added the cranberries. They turned out really well. I have to put these in the freezer & only take some out at a time otherwise I could eat them all. I hope you give them a try!

Here is the recipe

Kamish with Cranberries

Ingredients

3 eggs

1 cup  oil

1 cup sugar

1 tsp vanilla

3 cups flour

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 cup dried cranberries

Method

Preheat oven to 350f

Line a baking sheet with parchment paper

  1. In the bowl of a mixer, combine the 3 eggs, oil, sugar & vanilla & beat well until fluffy. Scrape down the sides of the bowl often so that everything gets mixed well
  2. In a separate bowl or your measuring cup, combine the flour & baking powder. Use a whisk or fork to stir this around to incorporate the baking powder into the flour
  3. Add the flour to the egg mixture & mix well
  4. Add the cranberries. Mix briefly just to get the cranberries mixed in. You can mix this by hand if you want to
  5. Divide the dough into 2
  6. Put the dough onto the cookie sheet & form logs with the dough about 2 inches thick and as long as they need to be to get the right width. You can put both logs on one cookies sheet but make sure there is some space between them
  7. Bake at 350 for approx 25-30 minutes. Turn the oven off
  8. Take the baking sheet out of the oven & slice the logs while they are hot
  9. Separate the cut slices of kamish so that there is a bit of space between each slice & put the cookie sheet back in the hot oven. This dries out the kamish. Just leave them in there until the oven cools
  10. Store in a cool place.  They last for a long time  If you are not going to eat them soon, they can be frozen

Enjoy!

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Vegan Chocolate Cake

Don’t let the word Vegan scare you !!! This cake is delicious. it does not have any eggs or diary which is why it is vegan of course. But, everyone ate it & did not even realize, not that it should matter really, but you know how it is, some people are leery of new things. At first there were a few skeptics, but once they tasted it …. they were won over by the rich chocolate flavour of this cake.

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Frozen Roll Cinnamon Buns

 

This is pretty easy! I do like making my cinnamon buns using a bread recipe. here is link to a recipe Jacki and I make, J & M Cinnamon Buns

This recipe is prepared the evening before you want to cook them, put in the fridge overnight & is baked in the morning  

Go get some frozen bread dough buns, a box of vanilla pudding mix & have some butter, cinnamon & brown sugar ….I always have the last 3 items on hand, but if you don’t, grab them too. Then follow the directions here, or some of the frozen buns have this recipe on the pkg…. my bag does. I thought this was just a recipe I had in my book but I guess it comes from somewhere!!!

Here it is    *** look at the notes underneath the last picture!!!!

This recipe is the Sunrise Cinnamon Raisin Buns…but I am not putting raisins in! & the recipe I have written down is the same as the one on the bag….

Ingredients

20 frozen dough rolls

1 cup brown sugar

1/c c vanilla instant pudding

2 tsp cinnamon

1/2 cup melted butter

 

Method

Spray a bundt pan.Put the frozen rolls in the bundt pan

  1. Put the frozen buns in the bundt pan
  2. Mix the brown sugar, vanilla pudding & cinnamon together
  3. Sprinkle the buns with the sugar mixture
  4. Pour the melted butter all over the buns
  5. Cover with a damp cloth & let sit on the counter at room temperature overnight
  6. In the morning, preheat your oven to 350F
  7. Bake the cinnamon buns for 25 minutes
  8. Let cool for 5 -10 minutes then turn out onto a plate

Enjoy!

 

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All done!  

**** I mixed the butter in with the sugar/cinnamon which I would not do again! have to follow the recipe haha   These are still good but the cinnamon is not all over ….I don’t think we will have a problem eating them though!

Gefilte Fish in the Instant Pot

UPDATED FEB/23

I have been making gefilte fish from scratch for years, but only make it twice a year. Rarely do I buy the pre-made frozen logs, though I like to have one on hand in the freezer “just In case”.

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