Thursday, February 26, 2015

Fish Sauce

Ingredients:
Fish Sauce (3 crab picture)
1 lime
warm water
sugar





Mix and taste.

Lotus, Carrot, Potato Pork Soup

Lotus soup with carrot, potato, pork.


Ingredients:
Pork necks
Carrots, peeled and cut.
Potato, peeled and cut
Lotus, peeled and cut


Boil pork neck bones to ride of impurities and rinse.

Get new water, boil water, and add pork. Boil for 30 minutes. Next add vegetables, reduce heat.

Vietnamese Pork Chops

Recipe is from my Mom.
Can be made with chicken, beef, or pork chops and be eaten with rice, in a french sandwich, or vermicelli noodles.

Warm water
1 TBSP honey
garlic whole, minced
fish sauce
dark soy sauce
sugar, salt

Thin pork chops- Poke wholes with fork
If using chicken, do not poke holes.

Saute lemon grass (usualy frozen) with olive oil and add to the marinade. Once marinade is made, taste and then add the meat.

Grill or pan fry.

 This is com suon below:



Pizza Sauce (Copy-Cat Papa Murphy's)

Made some home-made pizzas tonight. My favorite pizza is Papa Murphy's and I wanted to re-create the sauce from them. And it was a hit! John said he loved the sauce!!!! Definitely a keeper!

(I made 3 cups for two 16 inch pizza and the rest of the sauce was used for dipping)

This recipe yield's 1 cup of pizza sauce.
1 (10 3/4 ounce) can Tomato puree
1/4 cup of water
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon olive oil
1/4 tsp lemon juice
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp oregano
1/8 tsp basil
1/8 tsp thyme
1//8 tsp garlic powder

Directions:
Combine all ingredients in a small saucepan over medium heat.
Bring to a boil.
Reduce and simmer for 15-20 minutes.