Myr got sick as she was coming back from Peru so she wanted comfort food. In our house this usually means an Asian chicken soup. I found a Cooking Light recipe that was close to what I wanted and with only a few tweaks I developed what I was looking for. I saw some fresh bamboo in the Japanese store that I just couldn’t pass up. Another recipe called for using marinated chicken, instead of the shredded cooked chicken of the Cooking Light recipe. Continue reading
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Karl’s Clay Pot Oyster Chicken
The reason that most of my recipes start with “Karl’s …” is so I can tell the ones I downloaded from the internet (usually for reference) from the ones I have changed enough to call my own. This is one of those occasions where I had a dish in my mind (a faded memory of some dish served at a Chinese banquet), but how it was made and what when into it was a mystery.
One search technique I used for this recipe was Google Images. Using the search “clay pot chicken” brought up hundreds of pictures that I could then scan for ones that “looked” like what was in my memory of that dish in China. However, the recipes I found on the internet did not come close to what I was looking for. I had to be creative. I took an ingredient from this recipe. Oyster sauce as the marinade base seemed a good choice, I was also making Ma po Dofu for this meal so I did not want to use Hoisin (another common marinade ingredient in clay pot chicken).
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Karl’s Salmon Teriyaki BBQ on a Cedar Plank
Serve with Wild Rice Pilaf and Mesclun, Cucumber and Tomato Salad.
Karl’s Salmon Teriyaki BBQ on a Cedar Plank
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Karl’s Crawdaddy Corn Chowder II
We love the crawdads at Crawdaddy on King Street in San Jose, but at $10 a pound (unshelled) it gets very expensive to make a meal of them. Crawdaddy has 4 levels of heat: mild, medium, hot, and fire. We once got their hot and the only thing we have ever had that was hotter was real Thai soup. Their mild is spicy enough for most palettes. To stretch this special treat I use 2 pounds of crawdads as a soup base (which produces about ½ pound of meat) and comes with about 2 cups of their boil sauce which has lots of garlic. To boost the meat content I also add some langoustine and shrimp. The soup with Olive Oil Garlic Bread and Tomato and Cucumber Salad is this meal:
Olive Oil Garlic Bread
Tomato and Cucumber Salad
Karl’s Crawdaddy Corn Chowder II
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Karl’s Aegean Kakavia (beautiful fish stew) with garlic toast
Karl’s Aegean Kakavia
Adapted from Jamie Does…
Original recipe calls for potatoes, but I replace it with garlic toast (recipe follows).
Original Note: What’s great about this recipe is that you can use whatever fish you like. Sea Bass, Wrasse, Pickerel, Pollock, Bream or Red Mullet all work well. You could even use lobster if you have it and feel like splashing out! Just talk to your fishmonger and get him to recommend a few of his freshest fish. Greek fishermen make this out at sea, using whatever they’ve hauled into their boat that day, and cooking it in seawater. That’s how I learnt to make this. Because their water is ready salted they don’t need any seasoning at all to achieve a perfectly delicious stew. Genius! Try to use a mixture of fish, so you get all sorts of different flavors and colors in this wonderful stew.
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