Saturday 25 May 2013

Chicken Easy

Here's an easy way to bring back that yesterday, cooked-all-day-taste in a lot less time, with a lot less work, but with all the same goodness.
Serves: 4
Cooking Time: 2 hr 15 min
What You'll Need:
  • 1 chicken (4 to 4 pounds), cut into 8 pieces
  • 1 (10-3/4 ounce) can cream of chicken soup
  • 1 tablespoon prepared mustard
  • 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
  • 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
  • 1/2 cup water
What To Do:
  1. Place chicken pieces in a large pot.
     
  2. In a medium-sized bowl, combine soup, mustard, pepper, onion powder, and water; mix well. Pour soup mixture over chicken.
     
  3. Bring to a very slow boil; cover, reduce heat and simmer 2 hours, stirring occasionally, until chicken is tender and no pink remains. Serve hot.
Notes
Serve over hot cooked rice, noodles, pasta, or with bread for dunking. For a different taste treat, try 1/2 teaspoon of either dillweed, caraway seed, dried tarragon, or oregano. Fresh celery or carrot chunks are a nice addition, too.

Sunday 12 May 2013

New Look Newsletter









A brand new look Recipe Newsletter so go now and subscribe at GarthsRecipeNewsletter@gmail.com
Now in its fourth year.

Southern Sweet Iced Tea Speciality (Specialty - USA)
Try the following or just go to McDonalds, far easier.

12 cups cold water
15 cups boiling water
3 1/2 cups sugar
1/4 tablespoon baking soda
4 family-size tea bags

Directions:

1 Gather supplies for tea.
2 Realize that you are missing a measuring cup, and your pitcher is broken.
3 Find replacement tools (coffee pot works great for measuring cup, and glass beer jugs for pitchers, and an automotive funnel to compensate for lack of a pitcher with a wide opening).
4 Carefully measure 2 cups water using coffee pot, bring to a boil.
5 Prepare 2 cups of sugar, funnel into large beer jug.
6 Pour boiling water into coffee pot, realize you are now down to 1 cup of water-oh yea, vapor-- ooops.
7 Fill pot back up, bring to a boil again.
8 Carefully pour boiling water into coffee pot till you hit the 2 cup mark.
9 Add in Two"family size tea bags" and a pinch of baking soda, place lid on coffee pot, place beer jug on top to cover most of the holes.
10 After 15 minutes, remove tea bags, do not squeeze into pot, discard.
11 Use funnel to add lukewarm teawater to sugar mix, ponder how bad of an idea it is to try to dissolve 2 cups of sugar into 2 cups of warm water.
12 Cap beer jug, shake furiously, realize it is only halfway dissolved, fret.
13 Pour mixture back into the coffee pot, stir vigorously.
14 Decide the lukewarm water is what is killing you, place pot onto the coffee machine, turn on to heat water.
15 Remove occasionally to check water warmth, stir often.
16 Pour concentrated mixture into funnel aimed into another beer jug, with 6 cups of cold water.
17 Cap, and shake well.
18 Serve over ice.
19 Cough due to sever sugar content, resolve to make the next batch better.
20 Add water to put, bring to a boil.
21 Measure 1 1/2 cups of sugar, and pour into ceramic beer stein.
22 When water is boiling use coffee pot to measure two cups.
23 Gently pour into beer stein, stir vigorously till sugar is dissolved, do a small victory dance.
24 Add a pinch of baking soda, and two family sized tea bags.
25 Use a lid from a small pot, place upside down onto the stein to allow mixture to steep.
26 After allowing to steep for 15 minutes, use funnel to pour into beer jug#2, with 6 cups of cold water.
27 Cap, shake well, serve over ice.
28 Loudly proclaim victory over the tea, and decide that next round, you might just go for 1 1/4 cups of sugar.

Sunday 28 April 2013

Chicken Kebabs

Just the right thing for these warm sultry, balmy summer evenings, well the Kebabs will be good anyway

Chicken Kebabs

Calories 192; Total Fat 6g; Carbohydrates 3g

Marinating these chicken kebabs all day or overnight in a simple blend of yogurt and lemon juice makes them succulent and juicy, but the active cooking time is only about half an hour, so they're a great quick dinner. Brightly coloured turmeric is a potent antioxidant and a traditional Ayurvedic remedy for allergies. For a nutritious side, thread small pickling onions, red-pepper chunks, and mushrooms on a skewer and brush with olive oil to grill alongside the chicken. Then toss some halved, pitted fresh peaches on the grill for dessert.


Nutritional Information

Amounts per serving plus the % Daily Value (DV) based on a 2,000 calorie diet:
  • 192 Calories (10%)
  • 6g Total fat (10%)
  • 2g Saturated Fat (9%)
  • 125mg Cholesterol (42%)
  • 134mg Sodium (6%)
  • 3g Carbohydrate (1%)
  • 0g Fiber (0%)
  • 30g Protein (60%)

Saturday 27 April 2013

Welcome to new members

Welcome to Garth's Recipe Newsletter, The Newsletter comes out every month on or around the 1st and has been published for the last 4 years. It is packed with recipes, food tips, articles on wine, herbs and spices and often restaurant reviews from around the world and a monthly quiz plus lots more.

Most importantly it is FREE, so go ahead subscribe at GarthsRecipeNewsletter@gmail.com
Also if you would like it I would be quite happy to send you the last 3 editions for you to get an idea of what it is. It is just meant for fun and simple reading and I invite your comments, although not too rude I hope.

Try some of the recipes and let me know what you think of them.

Here is a nice simple recipe to get you going and it is fat free so Good and Healthy


Fat Free Stuffed Tomatoes

Yield: 4 servings



      8                 tomatoes

    200 gms        red lentils or similar.

      1                 onion (cut in thin strips)

      1                 carrot (diced)

      1                 celery stick (diced)

      1                 cube of vegetable flavour

      1 pinch        ground Cummin

     3 tbsp         broth or balsamic vinegar or wine, etc for "sauteeing"

      3 tbsp         bread crumbs

      1 sprig        fresh coriander or substitute

      1 pinch       Salt/pepper (to taste/optional)



Boil lentils (salt to taste). Put vegetable cube in and boil for 15   minutes. At the same time, saute the onion. When brown add carrot, celery and cook by moving the mix with a spoon (I use a wooden spoon). Add red lentils, bread crumbs and incorporate with vegetables. At this point is a good idea to test for taste with salt, pepper and cummin. At the end, add coriander, mix and put aside.

 

Cut the top of tomatoes and remove core, ( I save it to use as a sandwich   spread), drain juice and fill them with stuffing. Bake for 45 min on Low.


Bon apetit!!!