Slow-Cooker Pork With Noodles
This is based on a Food Network recipe. It made a FANTSTIC pho-type meal. It’s a long prep time because of the slow cooking, which we did in a crock pot, but it was well worth the wait and made a good amount of left-overs. We used wide pho noodles for our recipe. We also finished the rim of our bowl with Don’s Hot Sauce, which REALLY brought the meal together. Usually with pho we like a chili-garlic sauce, but Don’s citrus hot sauce worked perfect. Ingredients: 3 cups low-sodium chicken broth 1/4 cup soy sauce 1/4 cup Chinese rice wine or dry sherry 3 tablespoons packed light brown sugar 4 cloves garlic, smashed 1 2 -inch piece ginger, peeled and sliced 2 pieces star anise Kosher salt 3 pounds boneless pork shoulder (Boston Butt) 1 head bok...
Don’s Hot Sauce
On the top of Don’s “List of things I want to cook” is his own home-made hot sauce. This is his first attempt, and the results were great. The goal was to make a citrus-based, medium heat sauce. This was a ‘eat once it is done’ sauce. In the future he’ll work up a more complex sauce. The orange was from a local tree, and the lemon from our own tree (until our orange tree begins producing). Everything else is from Publix. Ingredients: 20 dry Arbo dry chilis 2 dry ancho chilis 1 cup white vinegar 2 TBS agave sugar 1 tsp onion powder 1 tsp pepper 1 tsp salt Juice from 1 orange (we used a local valencia) Zest from 1 lemon (we used our own lemon tree) 5 large garlic cloves Directions: Put all the ingredients into a blender or food...
Don’s Chicken Croquettes
This started out because we had a pound of ground chicken in the fridge, and no plans for dinner. Don looked around to see what we had, and created this. It turned out to be fantastic and will be on our list of quick and easy favorites. Ingredients: 1 lb ground chicken Olive oil Soy margarine 1 egg 1/4 block of cream cheese (light would be fine) 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese, finely grated 3 tablespoons bread crumbs (we used gluten free breadcrumbs) 1 tsp crushed red pepper flakes 1 clove minced garlic 1 tsp ground pepper zest from half a lemon handful of basil, chopped handful of parsley, chopped twig of oregano 1 leaf of sage, chopped a few stems of dill * note on the herbs, we grow ours in the garden and always have access to them, use dry if you don’t have...
Simple Peas
Normally something this simple wouldn’t make the FoleyIsland Recipe page, but there isn’t a week that goes by that we don’t use our ‘go to’ veggie. The simple petite pea. We always have a bag of organic petite peas in our freezer. Ingredients Frozen Publix organic petite peas Onion powder Dried basil Fresh ground pepper Margarine (we use Earth Balance soy margarine) Saran wrap Directions Pour peas into a bowl Dust lightly with onion powder Slice a THIN knife full of margarine (1 tablespoon?) on top of the peas Sprinkle on dried basil, maybe 1 teaspoon. Sprinkle on a pinch or two of fresh ground pepper. We always have a small cup of fresh ground pepper on the counter. Cover with Saran wrap Microwave for 2 minutes for a large bowl, 1...
Paradise Mac & Cheese
Don’s been working on a perfect Mac & Cheese for a while, and lately he’s been impressed when a new restaurant in the area started serving a bacon mac & cheese. Thus he added bacon to his ‘ham mac & cheese’ he had been working on. Bingo, he now has what he thinks is the best Mac & Cheese he’s ever had…and as an extra benefit, it’s gluten free. We usually have all the ingredients around, except the Velveta. Normally I would avoid using a processed food, but it really is smooth, and the other cheeses take over, so you get the creamy texture without the obvious flavor. Ingredients Box of gluten free elbow macaroni. We like Muellers Small box of Velveta (smallest they make, maybe 8 oz?) 1/2 cup of parm cheese....