FFwD: Lime, Honey and Beet Salad

This was a great salad! I love fresh beets and the little hint of lime with the chives was just perfect. I roasted the beets, peeled the skin, and added everything else. Ended up sitting in the fridge for a couple days (made on Friday, didn't eat till today). The salad was just perfect for the BBQ tonight, great with grilled chicken! Happy Father's Day to everyone!

Sorry, not the best picture, but the salad looked really nice!

WW-Chinese Trinidadian Stir-fried Shrimp with Rum

Couple days late again, I am pretty sure that will be common this month, we are in the process of moving so my schedules are all crazy!

Anyway, this was a really yummy dish! I think I put too much shrimp in at once, because my wok got a little cool and the veggies didn't cook very fast. Oh, well, I knew better than to overload the wok. The dish turned out really good anyway!

Wokking away

So yummy!

Thanks to Robin for hosting this week!

FFwD: Olive Oil Ice Cream

Since I flaked on last weeks recipe, I really wanted to do this weeks and that went double because it was Olive Oil Ice Cream! That really intrigued me. I don't have an ice cream maker, so I googled it and found the process to make it without an ice cream maker! A bit more time consuming, but well worth it! The recipe calls for a fruity olive oil, I was pretty sure my olive oil was a bit too peppery and my search for an infused olive oil turned up empty at the grocery store, so I infused my own. I used lemon peel and vanilla bean, it was so easy!

As the oil was cooling, I put together the cream mixture, tempered the eggs, and whisked away.

Once everything was the appropriate consistency, it all went into a ice bath to cool down in preparation for the freezer!

Once everything was cool, the bowl went into the freezer. Every 30-40 minutes, I took the bowl out and mixed it vigorously, breaking up the ice crystals. Here is what it looked like after about 2-3 hours:

It was really good, rich, complex and super satisfying! I already have some ideas of additions and adaptations! We had it for dessert the other night and every night since. I totally forgot to take a nice presentation picture, so here is the bowl with quite a bit eaten!

Yummy!

TwD:BwJ: Oasis Naan

I absolutely thought this recipe was for next week, so it is a couple days late! This bread was pretty easy to make, put the dough together in about 15 minutes and then sat it on my oven to rise and forgot about it. After about 4-5 hours (wasn't kidding about forgetting about it), I pulled it into 8 pieces, rolled into balls and pressed and pulled into disks (also didn't feel like rolling anything).

My pretty disks with salt!

Sprinkled some salt on 4 of them, left out the scallion and caraway seeds because I forgot to buy scallions and don't like caraway, and did cinnamon and sugar on the other four! I don't think I pre-heated the oven enough, because they did not get a pretty golden brown, but they tasted really good and made up dinner last night!

Thanks to our hosts this week, Maggie   and Phyl !

WW: Chinese Burmese Chili Chicken

I am running a couple of days behind this week on recipes! This was supposed to be up on Wed., but I made it today for lunch! It was really good, pretty easy (only time consuming part was cutting and measuring everything out before hand), and worked perfectly for a nice lunch. I kept the recipe the same except the Anaheim chili. My grocery store has a couple of baskets with different chilis in them, but no names on the chilis, I figured it would be my luck to pick a ghost pepper or something equally lethal, so I just left out  the chile!

Some of the ingredients

Chicken and onions cooking away

Final product! Yummy!

Lots of thanks to our host this week, Cathy and everyone else!

TwD:BwJ: Lemon Curd Cookies

This was our free choice week! I decided to use up some stuff I had in the freezer. I had half a recipe of rugelach dough and some lemon curd. Added some ricotta and lemon sugar and we were in business! Rolled out the dough, spread a mix of lemon curd and ricotta over it.

Rolled them up (and ate the filling that fell out!), put in the freezer and waited a bit. Probably didn't wait long enough because the filling started coming out, but oh well, cut them into too big of rolls and coated them in lemon sugar.

And into the oven they went! Well.... they kind of melted and spread out... looked a bit funny and fell apart easy, but they tasted awesome!!! Like lemon cheesecake cookies, they were a hit all around!

FFwD: Lyonnaise Garlic and Herb Cheese

This was a super yummy and easy recipe! Put the ricotta in a bowl and in the fridge. Waited a couple hours, chopped up some herbs, shallot, and garlic, mixed it together and back in the fridge!

Close-up of yumminess!

I ate it with some crackers, carrots, and cucumbers. Can't wait to see how it tastes tomorrow after a night of marrying the flavors! I really enjoyed this and plan to make it again, maybe with some different herbs! Happy Memorial Day everyone!