Burgers Today

It’s time to prepare your kitchen for Chinese food. I thought it would be a good time to prepare the kitchen with Chinese sauces and spices since it is the new year and we are so close to the Chinese New Year. It’s the year of the OX which means growth through hard work. I know that many of us will be working hard to produce everyday food recipes with a Chinese flair.

Before we can be like the Chinese dragon and set our burners aflame, the kitchen has to be stocked with sauces and spices so that everyday food recipes will be a breeze in the kitchen.

So get out your shopping list and I hope to get you prepared with these items.

Sauces
There are more than twenty sauces that restaurants use when preparing Chinese food. You can buy some of these already made at the store but most of them need to be made at home. The ingredients that you need are:

For Sweet and Sour Sauce
cornstarch
white vinegar
ketchup or tomato paste
orange juice
light soy sauce
salt
granulated sugar
vegetable oil or peanut oil
fresh ginger

For Brown Sauce
Brown Sauce is used a lot for beef dishes and my wife likes to dip her tofu in brown sauce.
beef broth (beef bouillion cubes can be used)
oyster sauce
dark soy sauce
sugar
cornstarch

Garlic Sauce
My wife loves to use Garlic Sauce with Chinese Chicken and Seafood recipes. You will need.
rce vinegar
granulated sugar
light soy sauce
dark soy sauce
Chinese rice wine or dry sherry
chili sauce
Asian sesame oil
cornstarch
vegetable or peanut oil
garlic cloves

That’s it for today. Tomorrow I’ll tell you about more ingredients that you will want in your kitchen to prepare XO Sauce, Black Bean, Lobster Sauce, and other sauces for everyday Chinese food recipes.

2 Packages Pillsbury Crescent rolls.8ct

16oz tub of Mascarpone Cheese

Cinnamon Powder or Ground with Sugar mix

Confectioner’s Powdered Sugar

Plenty of spread able butter

2 cups flour

Flour your preparing surface vigorously and unroll your crescent roll dough.

(HAHAHA and you thought we were going to use it normally)

Butter the heck out of the dough that is face up.

Spread your Cinnamon sugar all over, as thick as you want.

Roll it back into the shape you started with as the dough came from the can.

Now use your AWESOME imagination and brain to measure thickness of your new cinnamon rolls. But careful, they will expand when they cook.

Now they are cut, place them on a cookie sheet of your choosing non-stick is my favorite

While cooking till a crisp golden brown at 325 degrees for 8-10 minutes (please keep an eye on them though.) Bring your Mascarpone and Powdered Sugar to your mixer.

No Mixer like ME? Use a good round bowl and a Wisk. Please put your Mascarpone in the bowl first and begin loosening with your Wisk slowly adding your Powered sugar.

As it comes together heat it up in a pot for two minutes and when it is done becoming gooey and yummy your new cinnamon roll are done.

DING hahahaahh

Now just pour your yummy gooiness of Mascarpone and sugar all over your rolls and let cool.

For Christmas you could sprinkler some red and green Santa’s or snowflakes on them, JUST A HINT

My wife and I went out to breakfast this morning. The establisment wanted to charge me $5 for a plate of biscuits and gravy.

Now I know I can do this recipe at home for less money and less time. You won’t have to deal with the crowded restaurant and this should come together in under 20 minutes.

So here it is! This should fill your plate with food for much less than $5 a serving.

1 Package Pillsbury Flaky or Grand biscuts
1 Package Jimmy Dean Breakfast Sausage or with sage
1 Package Grandma’s Country Home Gravy
Pinch of fresh ground coffee

Follow recipes on Biscuits and gravy mix as said. Add coffee ground to gravy half way through cooking.

When doing sausage ground and separate into small pieces. The sausage should look like ground hamburger that someone would use for spaghetti. When gravy is done, mix in sausage and simmer till bisuits are done.

When biscuits are finished, halve the biscuts onto plates, pour gravy mix ontop of biscuits. I usually serve this with fresh fruit that is in season or a side of eggs.

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My wife and I got talked into helping with catering for a children’s party. I usually don’t like doing children’s parties because of all the sugar-coated foods. Plus there never seems to be anything for the adults to eat at this party.

I’m the type of guy who plans for both the parents and the children at parties.

The parents need their energy and my wife tells me that no one wants to ruin their figure eating party food for the kids.

The following recipes were served on the new Honey Butter Ritz crackers. The original will always be my favorite but the Honey Butter Ritz is a nice addition to snack ideas.

PB Mallow Fruit Bites
The recipe usually makes two dozen or 12 servings.

¼ cup creamy peanut butter
¼ cup marshmallow crème
24 Honey Butter Ritz Crackers
1 Banana, cut into 24 slices
24 strawberry slices
Ground cinnamon

Mix peanut butter and marshmallow crème until swirled but not completely blended. Spread onto crackers. Top each with a banana slice and strawberry slice. Sprinkle lightly with cinnamon.

For the parents:
You can top the crackers with cream cheese and fruit. Actually you could top the crackers with anything that is naturally sweet. My wife likes cottage cheese and grape tomatoes