This is easy, fast and super duper yummy. Like -"Hey let's make this again tomorrow" kinda yummy. Like as in "you will spend the entire meal discussing how delicious the meal is", kinda yummy. From my favorite noodle book.
Ingredients:
6 ounces of thin vermicelli rice noodles, softened for 15 minutes in hot water and then cooked for about 3 minutes in boiling water until just tender. Rinsed under cold water and drained. 1 1/2 Tbsp. vegetable oil 500g medium shrimp, peeled, deveined and rinsed 1 1/2 cups frozen peas, thawed 1 cup fresh Thai basil, cut into thin strips (you can use regular basil as well) 2 red onions, sliced thin
Seasoning Ingredients:
1 1/2 tsp. crushed red pepper 2 stalks lemongrass, trimmed, tough outer eaves discarded and chopped into fine pieces 1 1/2 inch piece of fresh ginger, peeled and finely chopped 1 1/2 tsp. ground cumin 1 1/2 tsp. ground coriander 1 tsp. salt 1/2 tsp. fresh ground black pepper
- process all of these seasonings to a coarse powder in a blender. Set aside.
- mix these coconut sauce ingredients together and set aside.
Directions:
1. Arrange your cooked and cooled rice stick noodles on a platter or serving plates.
2. Heat a heavy skillet (or a wok) over medium/high heat. Add the oil and heat for 1/2 minute. Add the seasoning coarse powder and the onions, turn down heat to med/low and stir fry for 3 minutes until onions are tender. Add the coconut sauce and cook for 3 more minutes.
3. Add the shrimp, turn up the heat to med/high and cook for about 3 minutes (until the shrimp turn pink). Add the peas and basil, toss and spoon over the rice vermicelli stick noodles. Serve immediately.
1/2 cup water 1 1/2 cups pcked spearmint leaves 1 English cucumber, washed and diced 1 clove garlic 3 Tbsp Maldon salt 35.3 oz container of Fage yogurt xanthan gum as needed
- thoroughly blend first 5 ingredients - add yogurt and combine thoroughly; remove half this mixture - at highest speed, add xanthan gum, bit by bit, to achieve desired consistency; remove - repeat with remaining mixture
1 liter bourbon 2 qts cider vinegar 1 cup molasses 1 cup prepared coffee 7 cups brown sugar 15 oz organic ketchup 3/4 cup tomato paste 3/4 cup honey 3 Tbsp kosher salt
2 Tbsp Sriracha
2 pods star anise
1/2 tsp vanilla powder
minced pulp from 3 pineapples
- combine all ingredients in a large, nonreactive saucepan and bring to a boil, stirring often
- reduce heat and simmer one hour, stirring occasionally
I saw the photo of this recipe on one of my super-favorite blogs…Life’s Ambrosia… and thought I need to have this now! Well, it was 6:30 am. I am reading my blogs and stuff in bed on my magical iPod, sipping the lovely coffee Garth brings me every morning with kisses. I am totally spoiled and my DH is my hero….jealous? Should be….he is a good guy.
Anyway…not a time for ravioli and anyway we didn’t have them in the house. Garth put ‘ravalloli’ on his list, and they magically appear.
(Photo courtesy of Life's Ambrosia)
The thing is we do not eat fried foods. Hmmmmm, I think..... I oven-fry potatoes for french fries, fish, zuccini and what not. No hot oil necessary if I oven fry them.
So…what I have done is combined Des and Kirsten’s recipes to come out with ‘DesKir’s Oven Fried Ravioli’. Try it and report back….we liked it.
You will need: • 1 large egg • 1/3 cup whole milk • 1/4 cup Panko bread crumbs • 1/4 cup dried bread crumbs • 1/2 teaspoon dried basil • 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano • 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt • 10 refrigerated store-bought ravioli • shredded (fresh) Parmesan cheese for sprinkling on top
Preheat oven to 375. In one bowl whisk together egg and milk. In another bowl combine panko, plain bread crumbs, basil, oregano and kosher salt. Dip each ravioli in egg/milk wash and then in bread crumbs. Then repeat the process to double coat the ravioli.
Place ravilois on greased baking sheet and lightly spray the tops of the raviolis with Pam or olive oil mister.
Bake for 10 minutes or until golden brown Serve with marinara sauce (or not…they are yummy just as they are).
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Kegiatan ESC berkisar seputar diskusi mengenai berbagai topik yang berbeda setiap minggunya. Selain itu pada bulan mei 2010 akan diadakan Speech Contest dengan cakupan Universitas.
Untuk bergabung, Anda hanya harus datang ke Balai Bahasa UPI setiap hari Rabu pukul 16.00. Acara pertemuan mingguan ini bersifat gratis.
Butuh info lebih lanjut? silakan add akun Facebook ESC di Esc Esa atau esc_esa@yahoo.com.
As a primary need, education holds an essential role in human life. Even though it is commonly associated with the formal schools, nowadays parents have more options in educating their children. One of them is homeschooling. This newly raised education method successfully becomes an alternative in the midst of the students’ boredom on a bunch of dead lined-assignments, rigid schedules and the obligations to attend daily classes on formal schools.
Unfortunately, even though homeschooling has been implemented by many families and successfully produced brilliant graduates for years, the effectiveness of this home education method is still being debated. Controversies often raised in society on this topic, due to the misunderstanding among the people. Therefore, it is essential to look deeper on what homeschooling is, how homeschooling implemented and what benefits the students can gain from this education method.
Basically, homeschooling is a concept of education which enables the children to study freely, with no limitation in place or time. Not as the formal school students who have to attend the classes every day, a homeschooled student is flexible in the schedule and the learning subjects, because it is designed to meet the student’s needs and interests.
As an education method, homeschooling has a very long history. Lines (as cited in Romanowski, 2003) stated that in the earliest form, the contemporary homeschooling movement began sometime around mid-century as a liberal alternative to public education. At the time, the schools were so rigidly conservative that the families slowly began to enroll their children into private schools while others began homeschooling. Many parents in western countries educated their children themselves in order to pretend the children from the effects of environment with negative behaviors. They put a big concern on their children’s morality and religion.
Although there are many reasons why families opt for homeschooling, Calen (as cited in Romanowski 2006) classifies homeschoolers into two categories: ideologues and pedagogues. The ideologues emphasize on the beliefs and values that are taught to the children. They have a strong concern for the children’s moral, ethical, and spiritual development. On the other hand, pedagogues respect the intellect and creativity of the children and believe that breaking from the traditional formal teaching will lead the children to a better understanding and learning. They believe that home is the best place to study because the schools often unwilling or unable to serve children with unique learning styles or scholarly needs.
In Indonesia, even though homeschooling has been well-known for several years, the movement of this education method grows slowly. It happens mainly because of the people do not get enough information about homeschooling; so they consider that it is ineffective way of education.
Furthermore, this option raised pros and contras in the society. In the midst of significant growth of this education method, many people, including the educators are still trapped with several myths about homeschooling. Some people are worrying about the legitimacy of the homeschooled students, some are afraid about the curriculum, and many others underestimate the quality of the home educated students itself.
Considering the legitimacy, many parents in Indonesia still assume that education is only about going to formal schools. This mainstream has been developed among the society for years. Most of the parents assumed that a homeschooled student could not continue his study to university.
In fact, Indonesian government has admitted Homeschooling as an informal education through the UU Sistem Pendidikan Nasional (National Education Systems Regulations). In Indonesian education system, homeschooling is categorized as informal education and regulated in UU 20/2003 about the national education system section 27 verse (1): “..Kegiatan pendidikan informal yang dilakukan oleh keluarga dan lingkungan berbentuk kegiatan belajar secara mandiri...” (…Informal education activities conducted by the family and environments in term of independent learning activities….) (Republika 2006). Regarding the regulations, Seto (Bur 2006) stated that The students are able to continue their studies in University and get the same status as the formal schools through Ujian Persamaan Paket A (for the 6th grade kids), Ujian Persamaan Paket B (for the 9th grade), and Ujian Persamaan Paket C (for the 12nd grade). Those evaluations can be conducted in collaboration with the formal schools.
This evidence successfully breaks the assumption that a homeschooled student could not continue his education to the formal higher institution.
Those parents also concern about the curriculum and the learning materials. They consider that homeschooled students are lack of materials and skills. This assumption is one of the major causes why people avoid homeschooling.
This problem comes from their perception that education-including the teachers, the materials, curriculum, and evaluation- should be handed by formal institutions, and the more money they spend on the institutions means better education for their children.
Considering this problem, we have to look deeper on how homeschooling implemented. Basically, homeschooling curriculum is designed differently in each family, depending on the children’s interests and talents. But it does not mean that the parents ignored the standardized materials; they still give what the formal schools student learn, but sometimes the materials are given in the different ways. Whereas the formal schooled students learn a particular material on a particular lesson in a scheduled time, the homeschooled ones learn them in more thematic way, with flexibilities in duration or place. For example, Staehle (2000) teaches her children using her economic background, conveying mathematic, English and Economy in the same time. As she said:
I found my various backgrounds, including my time spent in the business world really helped foster concepts that are applicable to the real world. For example, instead of doing rows and rows of calculations, I asked each child to devise a product. They then learned about costs, including labor, raw materials, overhead and advertising. They then priced their products, wrote an effective ad campaign and designed additional products to add to their product line. They also performed consumer math using store circulars and they learned fractions through baking. Math suddenly made sense to Nicole. Her math calculation score on the Iowas rose by forty percentile points and her self-esteem soared as well. She has since moved on to algebra and geometry.
This flexibility enables the students to elaborate their understanding on the materials better.
Considering the materials, nowadays parents can get them easily through the internet. Many websites provide free e-books to download. Some homeschooling sites even give special reviews on these e-books. Also, many homeschooling trainings and seminars are held to help the parents with their problems. These events can be an effective medium of sharing between the parents to improve their home education methods.
Those things can answer the parents’ questions on homeschooling curriculum and materials.
Another crucial myth of homeschooling is about the students’ achievements and behavior in society. They still consider that the homeschooled students are lack of social interactions and skills for life, also withdraw themselves from the society they belong to. This happens due to the misunderstanding of what homeschooling is really like and the assumption that school is the only mean to educate and to socialize children. In this old stereotype, it seems like homeschooling is all about the children wake up in the morning and study until the afternoon in their homes, without any interactions with the outside world. In fact, the homeschooled students also involve in many society activities, attend some group discussion, and join events in their environments (Romanowski 2006).
Furthermore, through one of the researches conducted in America by Lay (as cited in Romanowski 2006) considering the relation of homeschooling and the students’ citizenship shows that homeschooled graduates are actively involved in the political process and are more engaged as citizens compared to general U.S. populations. This proof dispels the myth that homeschoolers withdraw from society and civic responsibility.
In addition, a research by Knowles in 1991 on the homeschooled adults provided evidence that homeschooling develops an individual’s self-reliance and independence. The research showed that none of them are unemployed or welfare, even nearly two-thirds were self employed because the home education prepared them to be independent persons (Romanowski 2006). These evidences show that homeschooling does not only give the students learning materials, but also successfully develops the students’ skills and behavior.
Moreover, homeschooling gives more benefits instead of disadvantages for both the children and the parents. Miranti (as cited in The Jakarta Post 2006) claimed that homeschooling gives families the opportunity to become closer. In addition, homeschooled siblings have a tendency to be more kind and respectful to each other. Staehle (2000), telling her experience in home educating her children, stated that the sibling fights between her children, Nicole and Evan, were replaced by appreciation of the other’s abilities during the process of homeschooling.
She also found some interesting facts that her children have special talents. This is evidence that homeschooling enables the parents to control their children’s development and they really get to know them. This home education method enables the parents to supervise the content and the progress of lessons in a more satisfactory way regarding to the children’s interests and talents.
Academically, homeschooled students get a better education than the formal schooled students. This due to the methods used in homeschooling itself. People in general might think that in homeschooling the parents play a crucial role as the teacher for the children, so that they have to master all subjects and preparing for it must be hard especially for those who are busy with their works. This classical thinking is definitely wrong, since homeschooling doesn’t mean that the parents have to educate the children themselves. As Sheehan (2002) experienced, the homeschooled students have more independence in learning. They not only learn from their parents, but also from some other people, including their peers.
One of the unexpected benefits of this home education method is that most of the homeschooled students have a very satisfactory achievement. Romanowski (2006) found that homeschooled children generally score at or above the national averages on standardized tests such as SAT and ACT. Even, on 1997, 1,926 homeschooled students scored higher than the national average in English, reading and the overall composite of the ACT. Besides, they are more ready to face the university environment. Calloway and Sutton (as cited in Romanowski 2006) found that homeschooled students perform satisfactorily in college level academic settings.
To conclude, from the early rising of this home education method, homeschooling has gained controversies, mainly on its effectiveness. However, some evidences presented, including several research successfully dispel this mainstream. These evidences even show that the students gain many benefits through homeschooling. Therefore, we have to consider this home education method as a beneficial one.
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A lovely lady in Austria named Sardana posted this photo on Flikr....
I went ran all the way to her blog and got the recipe.....click on the link and scroll down to February 11th.... I had a little trouble understanding how to convert some of the measurements, and I am not confident in doinking around with pastry or bread recipes. It appeared very much like an egg bread recipe I use so I went with it. Just added a bit of vanilla in place of the vanilla sugar and then the lemon zest.
Here is my recipe:
3/4 cup milk 1/4 cup water
2 egg yolks
zest of small lemon
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 cup butter, softened
2 3/4 cups flour
3 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons active dry yeast
and then follow Sardana's tehnique for forming the rolls. Let them rise 45-60 min or until doubled then
bake about 30 minutes at 350 degrees.
I thought it would be a splendid idea to use Mandarin Orange Jam/Jelly made locally from the fabulous mandarins grown nearby.
Roll out the dough....
Cut into twelve squares...and put a teaspoon of marmalade or jam in center then pinch it closed.
Brush with butter, cover with dish towel and let rise in warm spot (I let it rise for about an hour)
Sardana's instructions have much shorter rising times than I am used to. I find that altitude has a marked effect on rising times.......breads rise in one-third the time noted for lower altitudes. Considering she is in Salzburg this accounts for the shorter time.
Bake 'em up and dust with powdered sugar. When you get a whiff of the fragrance, just try to stay out of the (or keep DH's hands off)....we had to eat one right away. Heavenly.
I made my fellah breakfast. Normally I roast my acorn squash and eat it plain, but since it is Valentines day, I made it extra special for him.
Ingredients:
Acorn Squash, sliced in half, seeds removed walnuts maple syrup lean gluten free breakfast sausage butter salt, to taste
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 400°F. Place your acorn squash upside down in a shallow baking dish with 1/4 inch water. Bake for about 30 minutes (until tender). Remove squash and baking dish from oven, move rack up and turn on your broiler.
2. Add some salt to your squash halves. Combine some melted butter and maple syrup and spoon it over your baked acorn squash halves. Add some broken raw walnut pieces into the centers. Return your squash to the oven (flesh side up this time) and broil until lightly browned, basting a couple of times with your syrup/butter mixture.
3. While your squash is baking, cook your breakfast sausage in a skillet on med. high, turning frequently. (Our sausage is lean grass fed beef, directly from the family ranch.) When your sausage is nicely browned, remove from heat and slice into small pieces.
4. Add your sausage bits into the center of your baked and broiled maple squash. Serve as is, and while your at it make him a nice poached egg and some toast if he asks for it (he did)
Soft, fresh bread and a delicious savory burger. !!!!! Oh gluten free friends, you are gonna love this.
Cornbread-
Ingredients:
1 Tbsp melted butter and 1 tsp. vegetable oil 1 cup stone ground organic gluten free cornmeal 2 tsp. sucanat 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 tsp. baking powder 1/4 tsp. baking soda 1/3 cup boiling water 3/4 cup buttermilk 1 large egg, lightly beaten
Directions:
1. Adjust oven rack to lower middle position & heat the oven to 450°F. Set an eleven and a half inch cast iron skillet (with the melted butter and oil inside) in the oven as it heats.
2. Measure 1/3 cup cornmeal into a med. size bowl. Set aside.
3. In another smaller bowl, mix the remaining cornmeal, sucanat, salt, baking powder & baking soda together. Set aside.
4. When you are sure your oven is up to temperature- Pour the boiling water (must be boiling!) quickly into the 1/3 cup cornmeal med. size bowl. Stir to make a thick mush. It should stir up to resemble a soft polenta. Whisk in the buttermilk gradually, breaking up any lumps, then whisk in the egg. Stir the dry ingredients into the mixture until "just" moistened. Remove your skillet from the oven and carefully pour the melted butter/oil mixture into the the batter, stir to incorporate and quickly pour the entire batter into the heated skillet. Put that back in the oven for 15 minutes (until golden brown). Remove from oven and turn onto wire rack to cool immediately. let cool for 5 minutes and then cut into "bread" slices for your burgers.
Miso Turkey Burgers
Ingredients:
400g ground turkey thigh 1 tsp. soybean (gluten free) miso thinned with 1 tsp. water salt & pepper to taste
Directions:
1. Mix your miso mixture with the ground turkey, add salt and pepper for flavor (about 1/2 tsp each). Form into about 4 medium sized burgers.
2. Preheat a stainless steel skillet (or cast iron skillet) on med. hot, swirl in some vegetable oil and add your burgers. Brown well for about 5 minutes on each side. Turn temp. down a bit and continue cooking until the inner temperature of the burgers reads 165°F.
3. Serve on slices of fresh cornbread with lettuce, onions, ketchup, tomatoes and anything else you like on a burger.
1 lb prosciutto trimmings 1/4 lb diced bacon 1 bulb garlic 1 stalk celery 1 onion, sliced 1 bay leaf water as needed 6 cups whole milk 4 Tbsp soy lecithin salt and white pepper to taste
- add everything to saucepan except milk, lecithin, salt and pepper and render fat from prosciutto and bacon in water to cover as needed, replacing water when pan goes dry - drain remaining fat and add milk; cook at the lowest heat possible for 45 minutes - strain through filter cone, return to clean saucepan and whisk in soy lecithin while warm - strain through chinois and chill
oil as needed 6 ea large spanish onions, large dice 6 ea chayote, medium dice 1 bunch celery, medium dice 2 cups sake 3 qts heavy cream 2 lbs smoked shrimp leaves picked from 1 bunch thyme 4 cups diced potatoes salt and white pepper to taste
- sweat onions in canola oil until soft - add chayote and celery and continue to sweat 10 minutes - add sake and reduce - add cream, smoked shrimp and thyme and simmer 20 minutes - add potatoes and continue to cook until potatoes are just cooked through - season throughout process
10 lbs peeled butternut squash, medium dice, roasted with oil, salt & pepper 3 large spanish onions, medium dice 1 1/2 cups toasted pinenuts 1 1/2 cups vanilla steeped raisins 1 cup brown sugar 3 Tbsp microplaned ginger 3 Tbsp madras curry powder 1 bunch cilantro, chopped salt to taste 1/3 cup canola oil
- sweat the onions in canola oil until soft - add nuts, raisins and curry powder and saute 2 minutes - add remaining ingredients minus cilantro and cook 15 minutes - remove from heat and stir in cilantro
I have been wanting to do a Bento Box Quilt for some time....I purchased the pattern and immediately declared it 'no fun.' I saw a tutorial that Ashley did and I was off and running. The blocks for the front are made and I am in process of cutting the blocks into units. This tutorial is a real winner, so look for it down on the right side. The link will take you to Film In The Fridge. And, please no comments about.....if Ashley does it, Kathy has to make it too. But I gottta tell you all there is not much that this talented lady does that I don't love.
Elizabeth Hartman ... has a drop-dead stunning quilt and tutorial. I'm also putting it in my tut list here, but need to talk about it a bit. She has created a paintbox combonation of blocks. 8 per week. Sort of like moving through the color wheel week by week.
Go to http://www.ohfransson.com/oh_fransson/paintbox-quilt-along/ ... for the tutorial I am going to put this on my list of quilts to make.
Seems that i am going in spurts....for 6 moths it was bags, bags, bags and stocking the SquareBag Shoppe on Etsy. Now, every quilt I like, I need to make. I have left Thimbleberries behind and am going for a more modern geometric look. Anyway, I am going to do this quilt-along.
My mother in law has been making me this cake for my birthday for a couple of years now. I adore it. I have adjusted the recipe to be less sweet because as I get older, the less sweet I seem to want my treats. Besides, I know you. You will serve this with say, coconut ice cream. Or you will make a ganache and pour it over the cake. Or some raspberry sauce.
Garbanzo beans are really high in protein. Go lift some weights now.
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups organic gluten free dark chocolate chips (I like DAGOBA 73% chocolate drops) 1 (19 ounce) can organic garbanzo beans, rinsed and drained 4 eggs 1/2 cup sucanat (you can use white sugar if you insist but I like the deeper taste of sucanat) 1/2 tsp. baking powder 2 Tbsp cocao nibs- raw chocolate (I simply crushed up some cacao beans and removed the skins) Dark chocolate for curling and garnish a bit of gluten free all purpose flour and some butter for greasing the pan
Directions:
1. Preheat your oven to 350°F. Grease and flour a 9 inch spring form pan.
2. Melt your chocolate chips in a double boiler until smooth (Or you can melt them in a microwave on medium heat for a couple of minutes stirring, frequently).
3. Place the rinsed beans in a blender and blend until all the beans are broken up, add the eggs and blend until smooth. Add the sucanat and the baking powder and blend. Pour in the melted chocolate and blend until smooth, scraping down the sides of the blender to be sure all the chocolate is combined.
4. Pour into your spring form pan and bake for 40 minutes (until a knife inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean). Cool on a wire rack for 15 minutes. Remove spring form sides and transfer cake to serving platter. Sprinkle with Cacao (raw chocolate) nibs and toss some chocolate curls on top just before serving.
5. Serve with almond milk and coconut milk ice cream to your sweet honey bunny on Valentines day.
I looked at the link from Feed Your Soul and flipped out! The artwork here is whimsical and sooooo lovely. I downloaded a bunch and will print them out on watercolor paper for framing! This info came from http://www.flickr.com/photos/37360130@N07/
Tara said goodbye last week I knew they were leaving....after four year and an earthquake a rest and recoup is needed. But, who do I go to now to keep informed? Folks who follow them are asking the same question.. I am familiar with Dr. Jan, so I will check out her blog.
I know that Troy will tweet and use his new iPhone photo app, so they are not lost.
The UN, UNICEF, ARC, US Army and all the rest do not do it for me. Their info is in spurts of press releases that are conflicting and non personal. The best support and information for me comes from the NGOs (non governmental organizations).....who have had a system in place for years before the earthquake.
first make your own madras curry powder- (I made a huge typing error at first and omitted several spices when I wrote down the recipe, which I have now corrected)
1. In a dry skillet over very low heat, place the coriander, cumin, mustard & fennel seeds. Roast the seeds gently, shaking the pan occasionally, until they begin to pop. Add the cinnamon, peppercorns, nutmeg, cloves, cardamom, turmeric, ginger & cayenne pepper.
2. Continue to heat & stir gently until the mixture is quite hot but not burnt. Grind in a mortar & pestle to a fine powder. Pour into a clean, dry jar, seal, & let cool before using.
Next- make your delicious curry!
Pineapple & Sweet Potato Madras Curried Chicken
Ingredients:
1 1/2 Tbsp Madras curry powder 1 tsp. tumeric 1 1/2 tsp. cayenne pepper 1 tsp. ground ginger 4 large chicken legs, skin on, thighs & drumsticks separated 4 Tbsp olive oil 1 pineapple, peeled, cored & cut into 1 inch cubes 4 cloves garlic, pressed 1/2 cup coconut flakes 1/2 cup pineapple juice 2 cans (400 Ml each) coconut milk 1 cup gluten free chicken broth 1 cinnamon stick 2 medium sweet potatoes, peeled & cut into 1/2 inch cubes 1 bunch cilantro, roughly chopped salt and pepper to taste
Directions:
1. Combine the spices in a small bowl, in a shallow container, coat the chicken with 2 Tbsp of olive oil & 1/2 the spices, & salt & pepper. Marinate, covered, for 2 hours in fridge.
2. Preheat oven to °325F. Warm the remaining olive oil in a dutch oven over medium heat. Add the legs & thighs in a single layer (batch if required). Brown on both sides, remove & set aside.
3. Saute the pineapple, garlic & 2/3 of the coconut. Stirring frequently until brown (about 4 minutes).
4. Add the pineapple juice, coconut milk, chicken stock, cinnamon stick, remaining spices & sweet potatoes. Stir to combine. Arrange the chicken evenly on top. Bring to a simmer, remove from heat & transfer to oven, uncovered. Cook for 45 minutes, basting the chicken with the liquids a couple of times.
5. Remove the cinnamon stick before serving, adjust salt and pepper to taste. Serve on top of curried jasmine rice. Garnish with cilantro & coconut flakes.
Curried Jasmine rice-
follow cooking instructions for jasmine rice but add 1 tsp. madras curry powder to water.
I had some precooked shrimp in the freezer but nothing to dip them in! Well this cocktail sauce is ready in a flash and it's extra yummy.
Ingredients:
1/2 cup thai chili sauce (be sure it is gluten free before buying) 1/2 cup organic ketchup juice of 1 lemon 2 Tbsp prepared horseradish 1/2 to 3/4 Tbsp gluten free Worcestershire sauce (see my recipe on previous blog post) 1/4 tsp. hot chili paste salt, to taste
Directions:
1. Combine all ingredients in a bowl and serve as dipping sauce with cooked, cooled shrimp.
