FRIDAY, JULY 10, 2015
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Favorite Chinese dishes
safe container.
Microwave for
30 seconds, then
whisk to com-
bine. You can
add more water
if you want to
thin sauce to
your preference.
Microwave 30
seconds more
to heat thru. Set
aside till ready
to serve. (Can
Homemade Goodness
reheat if needed)
By Eileen Driver
Coat soaked
chicken pieces
Since July is the month
in crushed corn fl akes.
of my birth I decided to
make this column all about Cook in oil until both sides
are crisp and chicken is
my favorite foods.
cooked through. Serve
Yes this means there is
chicken drizzled with
peanut butter involved but
sauce over rice and with
it’s not all about peanut
veggies if you want, (but
butter because I love other
it’s my birthday and I don’t
things too. I have always
have to eat veggies if I
loved Chinese food and
at my favorite Chinese buf- don’t want to.)
The restaurants usually
fet restaurant they have a
Peanut Butter Chicken that cut the chicken into thin
strips after cooking you
I just can’t get enough of.
So I searched and searched can serve whole or cut ei-
ther way is delicious. Just
for a recipe to make it
don’t forget the sauce!
and I have fi nally found
Another favorite of mine
one that with just a little
and
a must with any good
tweaking gets me exactly
Chinese
food is Crab Ran-
what I want in a “do it
goon.
I
have
always called
yourself and save money”
them crab puffs, but either
way, without skimping on
way they are yummy. Most
the taste.
places serve them as appe-
Peanut Butter Chicken
tizers and that’s okay, but
1 ½ lbs boneless skin-
I could sit down and eat a
less chicken (breast, thigh,
whole plate of just these
combo whatever you like)
and be happy.
¾ cup milk
This recipe is baked
3 tablespoons creamy
instead of the traditional
peanut butter
fried just to make them a
1 egg
little healthier.
salt & pepper
Crab Rangoon
23 cups crushed corn
16 oz. cream cheese soft
fl akes
1 can crabmeat drained
vegetable or canola oil
2 green onions chopped
For Sauce
1 clove garlic minced
½ cup creamy peanut
2 teaspoons worcester-
butter
shire sauce
3 tablespoons soy sauce
½ teaspoon soy sauce
3 tablespoons brown
1 package wonton skins
sugar
¾ cup water or to desired vegetable spray coating
In medium bowl com-
thickness
bine
fi rst 6 ingredients
drizzle honey
until
well blended. Place a
Whisk together in large
teaspoon
of fi lling in center
bowl, milk, 3 tbls. peanut
of
wonton
fold edges over
butter and egg. Sprinkle
or
pull
them
up or however
in a few shakes of salt and
you want, but wet edges
pepper. Add chicken and
to seal completely. Lightly
soak for a few minutes.
(This is a good time to start spray baking sheet and
place rangoons on baking
cooking the rice to serve
sheet and lightly spray to
with it.) While chicken
coat. Bake at 425 degrees
is soaking put all sauce
ingredients in a microwave for 12 to 15 minutes or
The
until golden brown. Serve
with sweet & sour
or mustard sauce.
I’m not a really big cake
eater so for my birthday
“cake” I always asked my
Mom to make me a
Chocolate pie. I am old
enough ( don’t ask how
old ) to make my own now
,but my Mom still
makes them for me. So
this recipe is an oldie but a
goodie.
Chocolate Pie
Filling and Meringue
Topping
6 tablespoons fl our
2 egg whites
¾ cup sugar
¼ cup sugar
⅛ teaspoon salt
1 ½ cups milk
2 egg yolks
¼ cups sugar
2 squares baking choco-
late
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 tablespoon butter
Mix fl our, sugar and salt
in top of double boiler.
Add milk slowly and cook
till thickened stirring often
if not constantly. Combine
beaten eggs and sugar,
temper with small amount
of hot fi lling.
Add egg & sugar mix-
ture, vanilla and butter
to milk mixture. Stir and
cook until thick. Pour into
baked pie shell.
Beat egg whites until
frothy slowly adding sugar.
Beat until stiff peaks form.
Spread on top of chocolate
fi lling. Bake at 350 degrees
until meringue is golden
brown on top. Chill and
eat.
So there—you have my
perfect birthday dinner. It
may not be the healthiest
meal I have ever had or the
least expensive meal I ever
made. I didn’t make it all
from scratch, although I
could have.
But I fi gure once in a
while you just have to
splurge and if I can’t do it
on my birthday then when
can I do it? My family has
not always had money for
a lot of presents, but have
always had the tradition
of getting to pick what
we want for our birthday
dinner. I have remembered
those dinners a lot longer
than presents I received.
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