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Tonight I am making a delicious Thai dish, Swimming Rama, also known as Swimming Angel and a host of other names. It is simply quickly cooked thinly sliced lean chicken or pork, dressed in a coconut based peanut sauce served over wilted spinach and either rice or rice noodles. I made this dish as an ‘Experiment’ post nearly three years ago so this one is overdue for a real recipe. I am going with chicken breast and rice noodles for a simple, yet elegant meal perfect for this Sunday evening. Give it a try, you won’t regret the effort it requires! Save Print Swimming Rama Prep time: 20 mins Cook time: 20 mins Total time: 40 mins Serves: 1  …
Sometimes, you just feel like comfort food and for me that can be any number of dishes – goulash, chili, pasta bolognese, drunken noodles, and this dish. I love the simplicity – the preparation is where you spend most of your time and let’s face it, cutting up some vegetables and meat isn’t difficult work. The S&B curry cubes also make this dish easy and intensely flavorful. You can choose from Mild to Extra Hot to suit your tastes. I add extra vegetables into mine because why not? Veggies are good for you! Paired with a simple white jasmine rice and you have a plate full of delicious comfort. And in these crazy times, who doesn’t need that?! Save Print…
Last night’s dinner comes compliments of The Daring Gourmet where I tweaked her Slow Cooker Greek Chicken recipe by making it sous vide. Using her Greek Seasoning as the flavor driver, I figured making this dish sous vide would create a vibrant result. As suggested in the original recipe, I served this dish with rice, but not just any rice dish. I went fully international and paired this dish with a Caribbean rice – Puerto Rican Arroz con Gandules. Sounds crazy, huh? I had a feeling the flavors would compliment each other rather than compete, which they did! So setup the water bath and get cooking – this tasty Greek inspired chicken dish is simple to prepare and uniquely flavorful to enjoy! Save Print Sous Vide…
Here we are, officially remanded to our homes, and quickly finding that eating the same thing is not very fun. It is also a bit of a challenge when running to the grocery store is like a running a gauntlet of coronavirus carrying zombies searching for toilet paper. So here is my take on a simple chicken curry using mostly pantry and basic ingredients. I bought some Thai basil to make Thai Basil Fried Rice and thought this dish would be perfect for the remaining basil. This dish comes together quickly and is full of flavor, perfect for elevating a weeknight dinner after being sequestered on home arrest during this pandemic. Save Print Thai Basil Chicken Curry Prep time: 10 mins Cook time: 30 mins Total…
Based on a friend’s suggestion, I broke down and picked up an Instant Pot. I scored a sweet deal on the Instant Pot Duo Mini, a small, feature-packed cooker perfect for Cooking4OneandaHalf. Of course, I tested it per the instructions, then tested it with white rice, then with small red beans. The results were good, the time to cook was quick, and overall I was satisfied with adding this device to my cooking repertoire. So, I needed to cook something in it to really showcase the quick and tasty results so often touted by others. I decided on Chicken Noodle Soup. I know, you could claim I was working with a dish that probably has hundreds of recipes on the web – and I did…
Recently, my wife Ana surprised me with a delicious Dominican dish – sancocho. This stew of beef, chicken, sausage, potato, yucca, plantain, squash, corn, and more is a veritable ‘stick to your ribs’ type of meal. Sumptuous and satisfying, this treat is a labor of love and usually served on special occasions simply with white rice. Well, I can say this – it was a special occasion to come and find this dinner waiting for me! Now to work on the recipe… Thank you baby, te amo mas cariño mio! Enjoy…
Tonight’s dish is a Japanese favorite that I had never heard of until today. The name Oyakodon roughly translates into Parent and Child Bowl. That is pretty twisted way to reference the two primary ingredients chicken and eggs. But even if that name a bit out there, this dish is delicious. It is simple to prepare (when you use a dashi powder!) and easy to tweak and augment if desired. This dish is referenced as Japanese soul food, which really causes me a bit if discomfort. How could I never have heard or experienced of this beauty before? It truly is satisfying – the simple melding of a salty, sweet, umami filled broth soaking into the rice topped with tender, flavorful chicken thigh bits, softened and…
Tonight my experiment was to make a simple chicken and artichoke meal sous vide – something with tender and juicy chicken and a delicious sauce. This dish does just that – flavorful sous vide chicken with a silky, savory, citrus tinged sauce. I like this type of dish in various other incarnations – chicken piccata, chicken marsala, etc. And I enjoy the subtle flavors added by the artichokes and sun dried tomatoes into this simple sherry and lemon sauce. I paired it with orzo and roasted Brussels sprouts, a delightful combination all around and the sides are just as simple to prepare as the main dish. Give it a try and enjoy this tasty chicken dish – easily prepared using your sous vide cooking device! Save Print Sous…
Here is one of the bonuses of my new job – testing pre-production equipment. Tonight I used the Vesta Imersa immersion circulator to make a sous vide chicken cacciatore. Yep, you read that right and the process was simple. I placed the sauce ingredients into a large recloseable bag with a valve, suctioned the air out, and cooked it in the water bath at 185F for at least 6 hours. After the 6 hours (or more), I lowered the temperature of the water bath to 145F in order to cook the chicken. Here is a pro tip – adding ice to the water bath will bring the temperature down to the target. I placed a chicken breast in a small recloseable bag with the desired spices and…
Recently, I received an blog update from The Daring Gourmet where she had a recipe for Valencian Paella that looked absolutely heavenly. I just knew I had to try it and somehow my mind just latched onto some weird ‘Valencia/Valentine’ word association and here we are, me proposing you enjoy this dish with your someone special this Valentine’s Day. You could start your romantic dinner with a sous vide lobster cocktail while sipping champagne, enjoy this flavorful paella with a crisp viognier or a beautiful dry rosé, then finish with dessert… Heck at that point you are on your own, I got you this far! And with that, I bid everyone a Happy Valentine’s Day – whether you are single…