Showing posts with label Household 6. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Household 6. Show all posts

Thursday, August 18, 2011

HH6 Challenge- GPAC Crock pot Singapore Chicken


There's no hiding how I feel about crock pot meals. I just don't like so many of them. There are very few that I like. I do like the crock pot for cooking meat to shred, chili, stews and some soups. But for the most part things just turn out to be a mushy or over cooked dish. This months challenge from Household 6 cooking club was to create an original crock pot meal with 5 ingredients or less. Salt and pepper don't count. I'm assuming that water does not either.
I chose Singapore Chicken. I love it. Except we call it Khao Mun Gai. Literally "rice (with) fat (of) chicken". It's one of my favorite dishes my mom makes. Comfort food for sure. I have a set of pictures to blog for the original recipe and three awesome sauces. For the original version I use cilantro and spring onions in the chicken also. But that's another post. This isn't an original dish, but I've never seen it adapted for a crock pot. It may have been somewhere but it's new to me and original.
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

HH6 Cooking Challenge- Spring Rolls


It's already time for the Household 6 cooking club challenge! Months are flying by and pretty soon the kids will be in school again! Bittersweet.  We've been busy. With birthdays (two so far this month, one at the end of this month and one next month! We also had my sister in law and her family visiting from Uganda. It was so fun and such a blessing for the girls to play with their cousins! Summer giveaways are in full swing, one each week so far! Check out the latest one, and keep checking back for new ones! This week is the  Dropper Stopper giveaway, open until 7/22/11.  Click, enter and share!
This is my monthly challenge post for HH6.  What/who is HH6? Glad you asked! HH6 is-
Military spouse food bloggers taking on a culinary challenge/theme every month. Email saraplicious@yahoo.com to join and receive the monthly challenge/theme and blog roll.
You can find HH6 on Facebook, HERE. I missed last months cooking challenge. It was a crazy month. Wait. This month is crazy too. Sigh. I had a cool idea for last months challenge too. I have it on my to do list. This months cooking challenge 

Since it's getting hotter and hotter as we head into full summer, the challenge is to cook a meal without using heat - oven, stove, microwave, anything.  Bonus points if your meal isn't a salad!

As soon as this idea was posted I kinda knew what I wanted to do. So I started tonight's dinner. And realized I didn't have the thinnest rice vermicelli there was to have. SIGH. Remember this part, it's kind of relevant. I wasn't about to make a grocery store run so I did without. I also used frozen cooked shrimp. Not sure if that was a no no. I hope not.  DH says it's cheating, I say it isn't because I personally didn't cook them. I  made Spring rolls, Som Tom/Papaya Salad- which is a salad, but there you go, and a dipping sauce. 
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Monday, May 23, 2011

HH6 Cooking Challenge #3 Pizza challenge

Our May theme for the Household 6 cooking club to create an innovative pizza without tomato sauce. It's funny I don't really like tomato sauce on my pizza I always ask for very light sauce and pick a non tomato sauce when I can. I made a primal friendly pizza- though I did add cheese and the sauce has sour cream. It is a pizza with shredded pot roast, sauteed mushrooms, onions,  muenster and sliced tomatoes. The crust is gluten and legume free. The sauce is a sour cream horseradish sauce. I drizzled the sauce on top before serving. The crust recipe is one I came up with. It's pretty good for a GF crust that doesn't have standard GF flour mixes. It doesn't have a chewy bite that gluten gives so don't expect that. This crust works for me but two youngest girls didn't like the crust at all. For cheese, I love the flavor of muenster and I'm staying away from pre shredded cheeses since they have starches in them to keep them from clumping together. *for true primal/paleo pizza leave the dairy off!*

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Friday, April 22, 2011

Palak Paneer and Cilantro Naan


Thanks to Brandie of The Country Cook for coming up with Household6 Cooking Club's  challenge/theme for April.  She gave us a task to create a meal or a dish from a country you have been stationed in, lived in, visited, or would like to visit (America excluded). It can be a main dish, side dish, dessert or drink or all of the above. Tell us the story of why you chose it and if it has any special meaning to you or your family.
  
This challenge was so difficult for me to narrow down. I wanted to pick so many countries. Japan, Spain, France, Thailand, Laos. I was going to do Laos then decided on India. I've never been to India, but I would love to go. Walk up and down the open air markets, the smell of spices in the air. The hustle and bustle of people, so much to see and do. So I made this meal for my family. What about you? What country would you have picked?

Indian Meal
Chicken Tikka Masala
Palak Paneer
Whole Wheat Cilantro Naan
(I also made some coconut flour pancakes so I could have some bread to soak up all juices from the meal.)
I also put out the candy coated fennel seeds- which we all love, even Pixie loves them.
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Monday, March 21, 2011

HH6 Household 6 Cooking Club #1

I recently joined a cooking club. Household 6 Cooking club, it's group of military spouses that love to cook. I know what you all are thinking- wait, you're not military anymore. Well, we kind of are in a round about way :). Semantics. This cooking club/group has challenges once a month. Which sounds like fun! Here is the facebook page HERE. Once a month there will be a challenge or theme. After we've completed the challenge we blog. Seems simple right? I think this will be a challenge to me. I end up blogging whenever and whatever most of the time and I'm always backlogged. So wish me luck! 
The March challenge is to create a concept MRE. What's an MRE? A Meal Ready To Eat, read more about them HERE. The concept is just that, a concept. No need to figure out how to dehydrate or preserve, just what would you want to see in an MRE. I've never had an MRE. I've only collected the little bottles of Tabasco sauce that comes in them because DH would bring them home with him. 
What would I love to see in MRE form (besides a salad bar).

Roasted Tomato Soup
Comforting, creamy.

Roasted Leg of Lamb 
I love lamb.



Standard in all MREs
Cotton Candy Multivitamin- I'm not talking about a multivitamin that tastes like cotton candy, I'm talking about big fluffy stuff. I don't even like cotton candy but it would be a fun way to take a multivitamin right? Try not to think about all the junk and nature that would get all up into this mess, and just enjoy the thought of something soft, fluffy an delicate out in the field.


Black, White and Spice! 
An all purpose seasoning salt I created for Love Abounds before I retired the store.

 Hot Chai
I like my Masala spices intense in chai,and ginger comforts the tummy.
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