Saturday, October 29, 2011

Native American Chicken Soup

Zeek gave us this wonderful soup recipe!
You can cook your own chicken, but why not buy one of the cooked ones at the store?
Stock: cut meat off of the chicken and set it aside
Cook the rest of the chicken until the meat falls off of the bones. Take out all bones and skin from the pan.
In the Cuisinart blend: fresh garlic, cilantro, 4-6 tomatios, a few jalapeƱos, half an onion, a little salt, and cumin.
Add this to your stock as well as returning the chicken meat. Add 2 cans of hominy. Cook for about an hour.
Served well with fry bread!
The kids made their very own fry bread! They will publish a recipe soon.

Friday, October 28, 2011

What We Had On Our Sticky Rice


Bananas In Coconut Cream
6 bananas
12fl oz/375ml/ 2 cups coconut milk
2tbs/30 ml granulated sugar
0.5 tsp/2.5ml salt

Peel the bananas and chop into 2in/5cm segments. In a saucepan, heat the coconut milk with the sugar and salt, and cook gently until the sugar dissolved. Add the banana pieces and cook gently for 5 minutes. Divide the mixturee into 6-8 small bowls and serve warm.

How To Make a Spring Roll

  • Thank you Mrs. Webster for teaching us this!
  • 1 package Rice Paper (May brand)
  • 1 package Rice Vermicelli Noodles (Fortuna Brand)
  • 1 lb Shrimp, uncooked, de-veined with shells
  • 1/2 lb Prepared BBQ pork
  • 1 bunch Spearmint
  • 2 bunches Lettuce

    1. Bring water to a boil then add 1/2 package of noodles. Keep stirring to keep noodles from sticking together. Boil for 8-10 minutes.
    2. Drain and rinse noodles under cold water. Set aside.
    3. Rinse shrimp and add to a pot of boiling water. Bring water back to a boil and cook shrimp until they are all pink.
    4. Peel and cut shrimp in half length-wise. Set aside.
    5. Slice BBQ pork thinly. Set aside.
    6. Wash spearmint and take leaves off stems. Set leaves aside.
    7. Wash and remove stems from lettuce. Set aside.
    8. Take 1/4 of the rice papers and break in half.
    9. Place a 1/2 sheet of rice paper on top of a whole sheet at the diagonal and dip into bowl of warm water.
    10. Place on cutting board until soft.
    11. Starting towards the back corner of the sheets where there is no overlap, stack ingredients in the following order: lettuce leaf, noodles, 1-2 mint leaves, 2 pieces of cut shrimp, 2 pieces of pork.
    12. Fold nearest corner over ingredients, squeeze down and roll tight towards the middle. At the half-way point pull in corners and finish rolling.
    13. Place on plate cover tightly with saran wrap until ready to serve to keep them from drying out.

Spring Rolls!

Zeek sent us recipes from Thailand! We made our very own spring rolls with rice paper. You could put shrimp, pork, lettuce, strawberries, rice noodles, or mint in them! We also had sticky rice with a tasty banana sauce over it. We also drank mango juice and lychee juice. Everything was wonderful.

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Our First Cluster

Our first day started off great! Zeek sent us a wonderful cook he met in France at the cooking school. She taught us about flavors and how they complement each other. We tried mango with lime juice and hot pepper sprinkled on top! Cucumbers with cream cheese on top were refreshing. Would you ever think of putting prosciutto on top of cantaloupe? We did, and it was quite different! Last but not least, we had nachos! It was a great start to a cooking cluster!