stir fry!

The other night I cooked up a chicken stir fry with broccoli, spinach, mushrooms and lo mein noodles. First I marinated the chicken in a white wine for an hour, and then I sauteed the chicken in a pan. After the chicken was cooked through, I added the chicken, veggies and noodles (which I had precooked) and stir fry sauce (soy sauce, cornstarch and water) into the wok. I heated it all up and mixed it all together into a delicious stir fry. It was really good! Next time I would use a different lo mein noodle because these ones were a little too thick, or I would just skip the noodles entirely. Also, next time I would try to make it a little spicier.

buffalo chicken <3

buffalo chicken tenders with salad and blue cheese dressing (ranch for ADG). One of my all time favorite things to order ou-- my first time making for myself. Next time I need to shake up the salad a little--this was just romaine, boring!! But the tenders were delicious. I bread them in panko with egg whites and flour and fried them up over the stove. As my brother pointed out: not something I learned from my mom, that's for sure!

roast chicken as per ADG's request

It has been nearly a week since I updated, sorry to all my loyal QCC readers. Hopefully a double update tonight:
Last night I made my kosher roast chicken w/ roasted potatoes and GBs (green beans) for dinner last night. Adam ate all the leftover chicken today so I guess it turned out pretty good.

Dinner with Guest Chef: Dalia "Da Floozy" Miller!

Tonight, Dalia and I combined forces to make a delicious dinner! We created a salad of our very own design: the Shalia. The Shalia consists of some dark mesculin greens, red onion, cucumbers, tomatoes and hard boiled eggs tossed with some greek dressing (gazebo room shout out!!). I made some more fresh pesto and meanwhile Dalia fried some onions and made some Mrs. T perogies. We were in heaven during tonight's dinner...

saturday dinner w/ dalia!!

A beautiful pizza (we added tomato and basil to a frozen pizza), leftover pesto and a little salad

Banana Muffins!

So I figured I would bake something for Dalia while she was visiting, so I made banana muffins. Adam and I love these. The recipe is so easy and they freeze really well so they are easy to save for later. Check out the recipe--I found it online!:

-3 or 4 Large bananas, mashed

-1/2 cup white sugar

-1 slightly beaten egg

-1/3 cup melted margarine or butter

-1 teaspoon baking soda

-1 teaspoon baking powder

-1/2 teaspoon salt

-1 1/2 cups flour

Mix the mashed banana, sugar, egg and margarine together. Set aside. In a separate bowl, mix together baking soda, baking powder, salt and flour. Mix wet and dry ingredients all together, being careful not to over-stir! Pour into greased muffin tins, and bake in 350 degrees oven for approximately 20 minutes.

Shabbat with Dalia!

Tonight I made salmon, green beans (of course) and homemade pesto. I also picked up a whole wheat challah at Wegman's. Awesome Shabbat dinner--

!!טעים מאוד

So fun having Da Floozy visiting!

chicken pot pie!

Made a chicken pot pie tonight! First I roasted two split chicken breast, and then cut the chicken into pieces. Then I mixed the chicken in with a can of Cream of Chicken soup, some chicken broth mixed with a little bit of flour, and vegetables. Then I pour the mixture into a pie crust. Then i covered the pie with thinly rolled out crescent roll dough.
The pot pie turned out really well! Adam liked it and I was proud of myself for trying something totally new.

Lunch at Yelena's!

Another delicious meal at Yelana's. There are so many things to talk about on this plate: the chicken breast that I marinated in the Soy Vay, a fiery asian cole slaw that I made from a recipe my mom gave me, and my favorite green beans. Ari made delicious sesame noodles, and Yelena made the fabulous spinach salad (amazinggg). They also barbequed chicken wings, steak and yellow zucchini. Best lunch ever.

good 'ole spaghetti and meatballs

Tonight ADG made me spaghetti and meatballs and I whipped up a ceasar salad. Simple and delicious!

shakshuka. one word: YES

Uri, my new Israeli friend, was in town visiting Ari for the weekend. He (with a little help from me) whipped up the best shakshuka ever. I can't even describe how good. Ingredients: lots of onions, garlic, peppers, TOMATOES, tomatoes and more tomatoes, and finally eggs. You eat it by scooping it up on french bread. Words can't even describe...

if you be my bodygaurd...

Another delicious QCC guest post from the amazing Max Mix Chaiken:

For my second submission to QCC, we have two dishes that I combined into one: shrimp and snow pea stir-fry and yellow-rice and beans. Shrimp and Snow Pea Stir-Fry:
1. Chop up some fresh garlic and ginger and heat it up in some sesame oil in a skillet over medium heat
2. Add your shrimp (I used frozen, pre-cooked, but fresh would work great too! Traif, yes, but still delicious!)
3. Add your snow peas.
4. Sautee 3 minutes before adding a splash of soy sauce, some salt, and some red pepper flakes! Yellow-rice and beans: This is regular rice, but you add some curry powder to the water—enough to turn it yellow! When the rice is almost finished (when there are 2-4 minutes before you'll turn off the oven and the water is almost completely evaporated) add some beans! I used red in this dish, but you can use black beans, or chick peas - whatever you prefer!

Adam was really impressed with this dish and so am I! We may just have to head on over to boston to enjoy some stir frey @ chez mix!

saturday bfast

Nothing too special but as you can see this morning I made scrambled eggs (with milk--it makes all the difference) and we split a leftover bagel from break fast. yum yum

bbq at yelena's

Yelena had us over for a bbq last night. She made a delicious spinach salad with feta and hard boiled eggs--it was amazing. She made some really yummy mashed potatoes too. They also grilled lamb chops,chicken wings and zucchini.

My addition to the meal were chicken breasts that I had marinated all day in a sauce called "soy vay veri-veri teryaki". They were a hit (no leftovers)! The sauce is fantastic--not only does it have a clever name, but my mom says it can be used for all sorts of dishes, such as salmon-- and with chicken it was an A+

chicken parm!

Tonight I made chicken parmesan from scratch, along with a homemade cesear salad and some pasta! I started with skinless, boneless chicken breasts. I dredged the chicken in flour/oregano, then egg whites, and then Panko (japanese bread crumbs). I like Panko as opposed to regular bread crumbs, because Panko has a really great texture. I then cooked the chicken breasts over medium high heat for 2 minutes on each side with a little bit of EVOO in the pan. Then I placed the chicken, still in the skillet, into the oven on 450 degrees for 5 minutes. I then turned the chicken breasts over, spread 1 tbsp of tomato sauce on each chicken breast along with some mozzarella cheese, and placed back in the oven for another 6 minutes. I was nervous about trying this out but the it turned out great and adg liked it too!