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Monthly Archives: November 2009
A Rare Saturday Post
Remember my post about Tequila Lime Chicken Tacos? I made fluffy tortillas from scratch (and oooh, were they ever good!) based on a recipe from one of my favorite bloggers: Suzanne McMinn of Chickens in the Road. (She has a lot of really good recipes, including one for what she calls “Grandmother Bread” that’s an easy bread recipe that is in my pile of recipes to make.)
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Chicken Souvlaki & Greek Lemon Rice
One of the recipes I picked out a little while ago was for Chicken Souvlaki Skewers. It was really fast and easy, which made it an excellent candidate for having on one of my class-nights where I’d get home at some random time between 630p and 830p. (Planning meals around my tax class was interesting to say the least.) While I was at class, my husband decided to look for a Greek-style rice to accompany it, which he found in the The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook.
All I can say is, “Wow!” It was fantastic and oh-so-simple. This is definitely going into the repeat-meal category for when we need a quick and tasty meal.
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Sveicieni Latvijas dzimšanas dienā! (91st Anniversary of Latvian Independence)
I thought about what I wanted to do for the holiday and eventually came up with this cake. In the South, red velvet cake is a tradition. I’ve never made it, much less had it, but I knew it’d give me the deep maroon of Latvia’s flag. The white was a little trickier.
I found a recipe for a Silver-White Cake in my Good Housekeeping cookbook. It used no egg yolks so that the cake would come out white as snow and after some fiddling, I had adjusted the recipe so I would get some white and some red velvet out of it. It came out beautifully, the colors perfect.
I think my little Latvian Independence Cake came out well. My husband liked the flavor too — tangy and not-too-sweet.
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Ramen Salad
You see, there is a very popular salad called “cheese salad” that this mimics for far cheaper. (Personally, I prefer ramen salad to cheese salad, in large part due to the texture of the noodles.)
I tried a bite, not really expecting to like it, but I was pleasantly surprised. It was really good, in that broke-food kind of way. (Satisfying, cheap and extremely unpretentious, much like grabbing fries from McDonald’s when you’re having cravings.)
It may sound weird, but really, trust me. It’s good. It’s also an extremely cheap, filling side (or, in a pinch, a full meal) but not really low-cal. Quite frankly, it’s “Bachelor Chow.”
Rutku-burkānu salāti (Daikon-Carrot Salad)
Some weeks, it’s difficult to decide on a recipe from Latviešu ēdieni. Many of the recipes are very difficult to source affordable ingredients for where we live, primarily herring and other fish dishes. And considering how often herring is used in Latvian cooking, that’s a lot of recipes. Luckily, there are a lot of veggie-heavy salads that we can make for a quick and easy side for our meals.
This salad is creamy yet crisp and goes well with beef and pork.
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