Jan asked for chicken wings for Mother’s Day dinner. She is also very fond of Sichuan pepper. To go with the wings, I made Jan’s favorite coleslaw and Japanese potato salad and rice pudding for dessert.
Karl’s Sichuan Pepper Chicken Wings
Category Archives: California Fusion
Karl’s Sichuan Pepper Chicken Wings
Filed under California Fusion, Chicken, Main Dishes, Sauces and Spices
Karl’s Apple Rice Pudding
Jan just had a temporary crown put in so she asked for one of her favorite comfort foods, rice pudding. As usual, I had to change something. Today, I decided to throw in some apple.
Karl’s Apple Rice Pudding
Filed under California Fusion, Desserts & Treats, Rice
Karl’s Japanese Potato Salad with Avocado
I love Japanese potato salad, I cannot stop trying to gild the lily. The last time I made this dish it was still lacking something, I tossed out some ingredients and added others. Being a Californian, there is one addition that I knew would make this creamy salad better, avocado!
Karl’s Japanese Potato Salad with Avocado
Filed under California Fusion, Potatoes, Salads, Side Dishes
Karl’s Cajun Deviled Eggs for a Crowd
Jan’s Ethno Breakfast has come around again. For the last one I had made two dozen curried deviled eggs with chives. I did not want to make exactly the same thing again, so I thought I would make this batch Cajun. Cajun cuisine calls for “the holy trinity”—bell pepper, celery and onions.
Karl’s Cajun Deviled Eggs
for a Crowd
Filed under California Fusion, Side Dishes
Karl’s Chicks in Blankets (AKA Sausage Rolls)
Several years ago, I posted a fancier version of pigs in blankets two ways—in one I had made homemade sausage. In America, “pigs in blankets” can refer to either a sausage baked into a bun—what the British would call a sausage roll or bun—or a breakfast sausage rolled up into a pancake. Today, I am switching chicken breakfast sausages for pork.
Karl’s Chicks in Blankets
AKA Sausage Rolls
Filed under Breakfast, California Fusion, Chicken, Main Dishes
Karl’s Cajun Chicken Tacos
I like to mix things up to keep weekday meals interesting. Taking one culture’s ingredients and combining it with cooking techniques and presentation of another culture’s dishes. This time, I am combining Cajun ingredients with a Mexican taco.
Karl’s Cajun Chicken Tacos
Filed under California Fusion, Chicken, Main Dishes
Karl’s Cajun Salsa
I had decided to blend Cajun and Mexican cuisines to make chicken tacos. Tacos call for salsa. I decided to make a salsa out of the “holy trinity” of Louisiana cooking—bell peppers, celery, and onions.
Karl’s Cajun Salsa
Filed under California Fusion, Side Dishes, Vegan, Vegetarian
Karl’s Kūbide Bierocks
I love stuffed breads, whether you call them a samsa, a pasty, a samosa, or a bierock. While making them can be a lot of work—you are first making some kind of stew, letting it cool, making the dough, and then filling the dough with the stew, before baking them all together—the payoff is well worth the added labor. Packet breads are a convenient, grab-and-go meal for lunches and I usually get two, or even three, meals for three people out of one recipe.
Karl’s Kūbide Bierocks
Filed under Beef, California Fusion, Lamb, Main Dishes, Sauces and Spices
Karl’s Lime Apples
Many years ago, when my older daughter got her braces I was left with a dilemma. I had usually put an apple in her school lunch, but with the braces she could not longer just bite into them without pain. If I simply cut the fruit into wedges and put them in a plastic bag they would turn brown and unappealing by her lunch time.
Karl’s Lime Apples
Filed under California Fusion, Vegan, Vegetarian
Karl’s Chicken Satay Lettuce Wraps with Peanut Sauce
This week’s dinner is being a bit of a challenge. Daughter Miriam has been sick and she is off all onions, garlic, and heavily spiced foods. Other diners are off, or limiting, starches. Leafy greens have also been requested, but I am getting tired of “just another green salad.”
Karl’s Chicken Satay Lettuce Wraps
with Peanut Sauce
Filed under California Fusion, Chicken, Main Dishes, Sauces and Spices
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