Asian stylez...some asian food photos for YOU

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Squash and Shrimp noodles

Beef stir-fry noodles

Chicken...I mean Lemon Dill Snapper and Orzo — the Amazing Accidental Dish

Hope this gets your mouth watering

So here's the funny story...I took out the piece of chicken in the morning (what I seriously thought was chicken), I mean it was the same exact color, and looking through the plastic bag it was sorta curled up in the size of a chicken breast. Anyways a couple hours later, I go check on my defrosted chicken to marinade. To my surprise it turned out to be a piece of snapper... I'm not usually a huge fish eater, unless it's Japanese cuisine...but sine it was defrosted I wasn't going to waste it. I have nothing against cooked fish, it's just not normally done properly in my house. Most people here prefer over cooked meat of any kind...

Anyways I completely changed what I was intending on making (which was a stuffed chicken bake) and looked around the pantry for something that might go well with the snapper. I found some Orzo pasta, which is sort of like a risotto thingy, but pasta instead of rice. It turned out to be a very nice dish.

Here's what I used for the ingredients:

For Snapper
2 pieces of "Chicken" haha Snapper
Couple sprigs of fresh Dill
1/2 small Lemon
Kosher Salt and Pepper
1 tbsp Grapeseed Oil

CCC Spaghettini

Chili—Chicken—Cauliflower  Spaghettini ! 
My that's a lot of C's. C if you like it! Haha. This one's got a little kick, but not spicy for you who don't like spicy. Of course you could make it spicy by adjusting my recipe.

CCC Spaghettini

Here's what you'll need to serve 3 medium portions

For Chicken and Marinade:
1 pound Chicken breast (cut approximately 2-3 inch parts)
1 1/2 tbsp Chili Powder
1 teaspoon Paprika
1 teaspoon Tumeric
1 teaspoon Onion powder
Ground Black Pepper

For Sauce and Veg
2 cups Cauliflower
1/2 Red Pepper
2 Garlic cloves diced
1 large Scallion
Fresh Basil leaves
1 cup Broth (I used chicken...but you can substitute what you want)
1 cup water
2 tbsp Grapeseed oil (or olive oil)

Other ingredients:
Parmesan Cheese
Spaghettini (enough for 3)

Potato Soup and Roast Pepper/Onion spread Baked Potato Rounds on Toast

Want to see the toast in focus? Continue reading...

Here's a light lunch I prepared. Lots of flavors and textures in this meal. I hope you try it out:)

Here are the ingredients you will need to make 6 toasts and 2 servings of soup:

For Potato Soup
3/4 Large Russet Potato cut into bite size cubes
2 1/2 cups milk
1/2 cup Chicken stock
1 teaspoon flour
1 1/2 teaspoon butter
1 teaspoon Thyme
1/2 teaspoon Chili powder
Salt and Pepper to taste

For toast and spread
6 slices white bread
6 Potato slices 1/8 inch thick made from rest (1/4) of potato
1 Red Pepper diced
1/2 white Onion diced
1 Garlic clove minced
1/2 teaspoon Thyme
1/2 teaspoon chili powder
2 teaspoons Creme Cheese
1 tbsp plain Yogurt
1 tbsp Olive oil
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper

YO MEXICO! Pork flauta with mango puree dip

Flautas(which uses flour tortillas as opposed to taquitos which use corn tortillas) are a Mexican dish consisting of a small rolled-up tortilla and some type of filling, usually beef or chicken. The filled tortilla are then crisp-fried; or in my experiment, baked.

Heck ya! I'm making some Flautas!

you know you wannn-it!

I made the tortillas from scratch, using white flour. I had leftover roast pork, so used that up as well for the filling.

Here's what you will need to make this recipe

For filling
1 1/2 cup diced left over roast pork
1/2 Onion
1/2 Red Pepper
1 Tomato
2 Garlic cloves minced
1 teaspoon cumin
1/2 teaspoon thyme
1/2 teaspoon Oregano
1 1/2 tbsp bbq sauce
1 cup water
1 cup Apple juice
Cream cheese

For Mango Dip
1 mango blended
1/8 cup plain yogurt
1 tbsp Mayonnaise
Parsley
Basil

Sweet and sour pork

Here's a little sweet and sour experiment. Saucey meat with rice is one of my favorites. So here's what you'll need for this.

Sweet and Sour Pork on Rice

For pork and marinade
1/2 pound pork
2 tbsp ketchup
1 1/2 tbsp soy sauce
2 teaspoons Rice Wine Vinegar
1 teaspoon Yellow Sugar
1 tbsp flour

Chicken Cordon Bleu...but not really

So I decided to make Chicken Cordon Blue, but not exactly. I decided to go with a dill garlic and parmesan stuffed Chicken breast. Breaded and baked.

Some shots of the end result! OH MAN...seriously was sooo good! Sorry for tootin my own horn. But you gotta try this recipe.

Dill, Parmesan, Garlic stuffed Cordon Blue with a bed of Spaghettini Aglio e Olio and Roasted garlic potatoes

Here are the ingredients used in my recipe:

For Cordon Blue hybrid
- 1 egg
- 1 large slice of white bread
- 1 tbsp Garlic powder
- 2 tbsp Olive oil
- 1 teaspoon Paprika
- l large Garlic clove thinly sliced
- Parmesan Cheese sliced thin
- 2 large sprigs of Dill
- 2 medium Chicken breasts (pound flat to about 1/2 - 3/4 inch thick evenly)
- 1 tbsp Dijon Mustard
- 1 tbsp BBQ sauce
- Kosher Salt and Pepper