BBQ glazed pork & Pineapple upside down cake

Really easy and simple.. just pan fry some pork chops, then put some bbq sauce on them until it thickens up into a glaze. :) 

After dinner we enjoyed a pineapple upside down cake with whipped cream.

Happy Culinary Experiences!

~HeatherRenee

Sorry no new posts..

I haven't been feeling that well, and it's been errand days, so I haven't been in the kitchen as much. We had pork chops with pepper rice and corn last night, but I honestly wasn't feeling well enough to take a picture of it. I'm sure I'll make it again (probably a couple more times LOL!) in the year. :)


Hope ya'll had a great week, and there will be more food yumminess to come! :) 

Happy Culinary Experiences!

~HeatherRenee

Homemade Lasagna!

I will post the recipe later.. right now, it's family time.. but I wanted to post this so I wouldn't forget! :D

Homemade Shake-N-Bake Pork Chops

I loved shake and bake when I was a kid. But, as an adult I haven't really ever made it because it was so expensive. I'm cheap, what can I say??  But then I got to thinking tonight, it really can't be that hard. So, this is what I tried tonight...

Recipe:
1 box stuffing (I used pork flavor because that's what I was making)
handful of fried onions (the kind used on top of green bean casserole)
couple spoon fulls of flour

Add all ingredients into a food processor and blend until very fine. Put into baggy (yes, I love using baggies!) and add pork. Shake shake shake. Then bake like you normally would. :)
Turned out really good, and I'll be putting this in my recipe book. :D 

Happy Culinary Experiences!

~HeatherRenee

Egg Rolls for All!

We love Chinese food. It's probably our family's favorite all time food. Even the boys use chop sticks when we go to Chinese restaurants. :) So anytime we catch the egg roll wrappers on sale at the store, we buy them. 


But, for Christmas I got a pasta machine. This little baby will press the dough really really thin, as I found out with my ravioli, when I made some of them too thin. It got me thinking.. I bet I could make my own egg roll wrappers. It would be so much cheaper (wrappers at the store are over $3 a pack!) and lets face it, homemade usually tastes so much better. (I say usually because, lets be honest, there are some things that are good.. just not that many...)  And in this case.. as RW would say "It's a Keeper!". 


I am going to post the recipe for the wrappers and the filling :) (Gluten Free Wrapper Recipe at the end! ) 

Recipe for Wrappers:
Ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 large egg
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup ice water
Cornstarch


Preparation:
Sift the flour into a large bowl.
Lightly beat the egg with the salt. Stir in 1/4 cup of water. Add the egg and the ice water to the flour. Stir in as much of the remaining 1/4 cup of water as needed to form a sticky batter.
Turn the dough out onto lightly floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 5 minutes.
Cover the dough and let rest for at least 30 minutes.
Knead the dough briefly, then cut in half. Turn out onto a lightly floured surface.Roll each half into a cylinder. Lightly score so that you have 12 equal pieces. Roll each piece out into a 3 1/2-inch square.

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I used my kitchen-aid. Put the flour in, then the other ingredients and used my bread hook. After letting it rest, I used my pasta machine and put a little bit of dough at a time. When I got a thin enough sheet (usually setting 3 on the machine) I would then put it on a floured counter and then stretched the dough to make it more wide (as the pasta machine made it thin and long).  I will say this.. FLOUR IS YOUR FRIEND! Use plenty of it when rolling and stretching out the dough. You do NOT want the dough to stick to anything.  I also tripled the recipe, because it freezes well, and it would save time the next time I want to make egg rolls. :) 
                  
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Recipe for inside of egg roll:
Ground chicken or pork (I used left over cooked chicken, that I shredded)
Coleslaw mix 
Soy Sauce
Ground Ginger


Directions:
Cook meat until done. Add in rest of ingredients and cook until soft. Let cool, then wrap up in the egg roll wrappers. 
Fry in oil until done. (I used my deep fryer). 


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I served it with pork fried rice. :)  

Happy Culinary Experiences!

~HeatherRenee

Gluten Free Recipe!!

Ingredients

1/2 cup cold water + 1/4 cup cold water (added tablespoon by tablespoon)

1 egg (whisked in to 1/2 cup cold water) + 1 egg for sealing egg rolls

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 cup rice flour

1/3 cup tapioca starch (+ more for dusting)

1/3 cup corn starch

1/3 cup sweet rice flour (+ more to avoid sticky dough)

1 teaspoon xanthan gum

1 teaspoon gelatin

Directions:

Put rice flour, salt, tapioca, corn starch, sweet rice flour, xanthan gum, and gelatin in a food processor until evenly combined.

Whisk together egg with ½ cup cold water until well blended.

Turn on food processor and slowly pour egg/water mixture into the dough.

Open the food processor and scrap down the sides. Make sure the dough is evenly processed. At this point, check to see if the dough will easily stick together but is not sticky. If the dough does not come together to form a soft dough, turn the food processor back on and slowly drizzle water in by the tablespoon (maybe up to ¼ cup more of cold water will be needed). If the dough is too sticky, add a tablespoon of sweet rice flour at a time until the dough forms a soft dough.

Divide the dough into 2 Tablespoon/small ice cream scoop balls. While working with one ball at a time, keep the remaining dough in a bowl under a damp (but not wet!) towel.

Press each ball into a small disk.

At this point, you can either use a tortilla press, a pasta roller, or some serious arm muscle and a rolling pin. Roll the disk into a super flat (think lasagna flat) round or square. (If using your pasta roller, roll to the level 3 thickness. (1 being the thickest setting on my Kitchen Aid pasta roller attachment.) Don’t get the wrap too thin or it will rip when you are rolling the egg rolls together with their stuffing.

Continue flattening each ball.

Store the flattened egg roll wrappers on wax paper or parchment paper and cover with a damp (not wet!) towel. Set aside to make your filling.