Spicy Spam Kebabs

Ok, so this is a recipe for the Hawaiians out there. Spam is like the be all and end all to pretty much every meal and or snack time in Hawaii. It IS an aquired taste (a taste I miss actually), but in Hawaii, you gotta eat the SPAM! :) Just found this recipe from an advertising link in my gmail. How do they know I like spam?



SPICY SPAM KABOBS

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Serving Size : 4 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Main dish

1/4 c. Lemon juice
3 tb. Minced onion
1 tb. Olive oil
1 t. Dried leaf thyme
1 Garlic clove, minced
1/2 t. Whole oregano leaves
1/4 t. Red pepper flakes
16 Pea pods
1 cn. Pineapple chunks packed in light juice, drained (8 oz)
1 cn. SPAM Luncheon Meat, cut into 24 cubes (12 oz)
1 Red bell pepper, cut into 1″ pieces
4 c. Hot cooked rice

Combine first 7 ingredients in 9x12″ dish. Wrap pea pods around
pineapple chunks. Alternately thread SPAM cubes, pineapple chunks,
and bell pepper pieces on eight skewers. Place in dish with marinade.
Cover and marinade 2 hours, turning occasionally. Grill kabobs over
medium-hot coals 10 minutes, turning occasionally. Or, broil 5″ from
heat source 8-10 minutes, turning occasionally. Serve with hot cooked
rice.



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No-Knead Bread

No-Knead Bread

Adapted from Jim Lahey, Sullivan Street Bakery
Time: About 1½ hours plus 14 to 20 hours’ rising


3 cups all-purpose or bread flour, more for dusting
¼ teaspoon instant yeast
1¼ teaspoons salt
Cornmeal or wheat bran as needed.

1. In a large bowl combine flour, yeast and salt. Add 1 5/8 cups water, and stir until blended; dough will be shaggy and sticky. Cover bowl with plastic wrap. Let dough rest at least 12 hours, preferably about 18, at warm room temperature, about 70 degrees.

2. Dough is ready when its surface is dotted with bubbles. Lightly flour a work surface and place dough on it; sprinkle it with a little more flour and fold it over on itself once or twice. Cover loosely with plastic wrap and let rest about 15 minutes.

3. Using just enough flour to keep dough from sticking to work surface or to your fingers, gently and quickly shape dough into a ball. Generously coat a cotton towel (not terry cloth) with flour, wheat bran or cornmeal; put dough seam side down on towel and dust with more flour, bran or cornmeal. Cover with another cotton towel and let rise for about 2 hours. When it is ready, dough will be more than double in size and will not readily spring back when poked with a finger.

4. At least a half-hour before dough is ready, heat oven to 450 degrees. Put a 6- to 8-quart heavy covered pot (cast iron, enamel, Pyrex or ceramic) in oven as it heats. When dough is ready, carefully remove pot from oven. Slide your hand under towel and turn dough over into pot, seam side up; it may look like a mess, but that is O.K. Shake pan once or twice if dough is unevenly distributed; it will straighten out as it bakes. Cover with lid and bake 30 minutes, then remove lid and bake another 15 to 30 minutes, until loaf is beautifully browned. Cool on a rack.

Yield: One 1½-pound loaf.

No kneading is an idea I can definitely get on board with! I likey!

Apple-Raisin Betty

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Doesn't this just look awesome? It looks so incredibly simple too! Yum!

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I adore barley. My husband puts barley in his turkey soup (which he of course, has no recipe for) and it is awesome! So I love the idea of barley in a good soup!

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Looks like an excellent Meatball recipe for pot lucks or a casual party.

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5-quart slow cooker:

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Can't wait to try this one! Although, you have NO IDEA how hard it is for me to find Mexican food (like canned green chilies, and sometimes even corn tortilias) in Canada! It looks good though!

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This looks like a great Thanksgiving meal. OR even a great leftovers meal. I'm sure you could use roasted turkey instead of ground turkey. I definitely want to try this!

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Again, I cut off the part where it says to cook this in a 5-quart slow cooker.

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The following recipe is from:
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Which, by the way, is an amazing cook book, with awesome pictures. The next few posts will be from this cookbook.

Five-Spice Beef Stew

I accidently cut off the part where it says to cook this in a 4-5 quart slow cooker.

My Recipe Box

I love to cook.

Ok, so maybe I don't love it, but I love food. I do enjoy baking, and especially eating the treats. This blog will be dedicated to a bunch of recipies I've found over the years. If I've tried it, I'll tell you so. If my husband hates it, I'll tell you so. If I love it, and will eat it again, and again, you can bet I'll tell you so.

I love borrowing recipe books from the library, especially ones with pictures! Having said that, my husband is an AMAZING cook. Sometimes I can show him a recipe, with or without the picture, and if he has any interest in it, he'll take the ingredients and make them his own. He also has a very special talent where he can taste something, and say "it needs a pinch of marjoram". I couldn't even tell you what marjoram is, but I would love to learn. Crappy thing is, he doesn't like me in the kitchen when he's cooking. So, maybe I can teach myself, or take a cooking class sometime. But for now, I'll put a collection of recipies here. :)

Aloha!