Stir-Fried Chinese Vegetables
Prepare everything ahead of time. Found this recipe on Wolfgang Puck’s web site and it is very good. It is pretty time consuming but so worth the effort!
No-Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
These are wonderful, quick cookies. It is one of the first things I learned to “cook.” You can add more or less oats (3 cups work best for me). I have found that the weather makes a difference on the consistency, its best to make them on a nice sunny day. Also, It is very important not to boil them for longer than one minute.
Ga Gone Thai
i began with Recipezaar’s Ga Kho but was in a BIG hurry and misread the directions. That, plus my usual tweaking, left me with a wonderful dish which is even quicker to prepare. Enjoy!
Vegetable Stuffing for Cornish Game Hens
This is a slightly different stuffing, very tasty and if you don’t eat fowl just have it as a side dish. This recipe is enough for 4 Cornish hens but if you are just cooking two put the rest of the stuffing in an oven proof dish and heat for about 25 minutes. In this way you can accommodate your vegetarians friends as well.
Traditional British Ground Rice Pudding (microwave Version)
This recipe is the microwave version which was on the side of a Whitworth’s Brand Ground Rice packet along with the Baked version that I’m more familiar with. I’ve hunted for ages to try and find the old recipe I used to have when I was small and this looks like it. I’m sure my mum used to add a few drops of vanilla essence, a ‘knob’ of butter (a bit cut off the corner of a slab) and an egg white (possibly the whole egg, – can’t remember :). She also used to add a little nutmeg and a little cinnamon and mix them in before cooking. Nice served hot or chilled with jam (jelly). IMPORTANT NOTE: Although originally listing as ‘untried’, since then I’ve actually made this version. The recipe as shown here is as it was shown on the packet. No Microwave power rating was given so timings must be assumed to be dependent on your machine. ALSO A WARNING: When I made it, once it boiled, it rose up to the top of the dish. Fortunately I was watching at the time so I stopped the microwave. In the end I found it necessary from that point to cook it on the defrost setting until it was suitably thick. (My machine has only Off/On/Defrost buttons – it’s very old!). Took about the same amount of time – somewhere around 10 minutes overall. Notwitstanding that minor shock, it was absolutely wonderful to eat. Similar to semolina pudding, but much, much nicer. I added a couple of drops of vanilla flavor, a dash of nutmeg and a very small pinch of cinnamon before putting in the microwave and would recommend doing the same. Served as I did with a manually home-made coarse puree of fresh strawberries (and sweetener) and dollop of ‘sweetenered’ Greek-style yoghurt then sprinkled liberally with cinnamon. Absolutely heavenly! – I’ll be making this a lot!!
