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Entree of the Week
Macademia Nut Pasta
This is really great. Unfortunately, I'm doing it from memory right now, so I can't guarantee that all the proportions are correct. If they're waaaaaay off, I'll come back and change them. Anyway, it's from an Hawaii cookbook I got a couple years ago. It's excellent!
Olive Oil
1 cup Macademia Nuts
1 cup Cream or Half & Half
Chicken, in chunks
Fresh Garlic, minced
1 lb Mushrooms, sliced
1-2 small bags Sun-dried Tomatoes
1 bunch fresh Basil
1 box Penne Pasta
Parmesan Cheese
Toast the macs - you can put them on a cookie sheet and bake them in the oven for a few minutes, just until they begin to brown. In food processor, blend mac nuts with olive oil into a creamy paste. Let it wait.
Start boiling some H2O for the pasta and set it to cook so that it'll finish about the same time as everything else - you're a talented chef - you can do it! :)
Lightly flour chicken chunks and fry or cook however you like. In big pan, heat some olive oil, add garlic and 'shrooms. Once they shrink down a bit, add the toms and basil. Add the chicken and mix 'em up. Remove them from the pan into a bowl. Let it wait.
In the still-hot pan, heat about half the mac sauce and add the cream. Mix together well. It'll be thick. The original recipe had you "flame the pan with brandy" before this step, but since I never have brandy around the old apartment, this never happened and it tastes just fine. Try it if you want! OH - and the other half of the mac sauce freezes really well for the next time you want to make this! (Doing that really saves on mess and cost!)
OK, you're almost there! Add the sauce and 'shrooms, etc. and pasta together. Mix well, sprinkle liberally with parmesan cheese. Yu-mmy!
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Yummy Treat of the Week
Ice Cream!!!
Bet you thought this would be recipes for homemade stuff, huh?! Well, maybe later. For now, we've cooked enough other stuff that we feel like just going out and buying some Ben and Jerry's! Tony is enjoying Mint Chocolate Cookie, Chuck had New York Super Fudge Chunk, Nick likes Chubby Hubby, Mom is thrilled to have Coconut Something Or Other back for a limited time, and I've been trying new flavors - Blackberry Cobbler, Blonde Brownie, and S'Mores - all very good! So, go on. Go to Safeway. Shoo! Shoo!
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Side Dish or Veggie of the Week
Fresh Squash
Here's one of Nicki's Mom favourites. It's very easy and shoudl go great with the pasta!
Squash - yellow or green
Your favourite flavoured oil - we like a Dijonnaise one we found!
Slice up that squash into little rounds! No need to peel. Heat up the oil in a big pan and add the slices. They'll cook in a few minutes and be yummy!
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Something Extra
Stuffed French Bread
This is for a Sunday morning breakfast par excellence! It's from my Disney Cookbook. I first had it while staying at the Polynesian Hotel there a few years ago.
Sourdough Bread - the whole round, not slices!
Bananas and/or optional Strawberries
Eggs - about 3 eggs per two servings
Milk
Vanilla
Cinnamon
Powdered Sugar
Oil for frying
Using a sharp knife, slice the bread into thick slices - about 1 inch or more thick. Off a typical sourdough round, I'll get four to five good slices and some smaller ends. Take a slice, hold it vertically and carefully slice into the top, making a pocket inside. Don't slice all the way through - not through the bottom, through the sides, or through the middle of the piece. Imagine a very thick pita!
OK - got that? Now, peel the bananas and slice them into thin, long strips. Take these strips and stuff them inside the sourdough pockets. They should mush on in.
Heat up your frying pan with the oil. In a nice wide, deep plate/bowl, beat eggs and mix in milk, vanilla and cinnamon. Dip the bread pieces in this, letting them soak up the mix. Fry 'em up! Not too fast - they need to cook through without burning.
For serving, sprinkle them with powdered sugar, garnish with fresh strawberry slices and optional maple syrup. One slice is usually more than enough for one person.
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