meal 4: when dirty south meets yuppy Italian

Meal 4 : JAMBALAYA RISOTTOS !!!!!

let me take a look back my life....age 16, shipped out to Nebraska for my sophomore year in high school(thanks mom, how did you know i always wanted to be a cowboy? and i loved to live in the middle of fucking nowhere.......) age 17-18, spend my last 2 yrs of high school in the dirty south, aka Vicksburg MS, aka the southern hospitality !!!!age 19 to....present, @CHi town baby!!! anyways,the two years in the south, it made me become a huge fan of the southern food , people, spices and their hospitality.Not going to lie i do love those pricey and fancy food, but sometimes home cooking are just as good as fancy Bristol food, and nothing can beat good ol New Orleans' Cajun style!!!!, nways, as here is my version for Jambalaya i call it "when dirty south meets yuppy Italian" risottos.

i didn't realize how much stuff goes in this dish wow.....................

ingredients: (servers for 4-5 maybe??)

* shrimps (no Shells)
* bacon ( cut in to small pcs)
* basil (finely chopped)
* boneless chicken breast or thigh....
* 2 tbs butter
* 2 Bay leaf (1 finely chopped, 2 leave the whole leaf)
* 2 tomatoes ( skinned and finely chopped)
* can of diced tomato
* 2 tbs tomato paste
* 2 cups chicken stock
* 2 cup of short grain rice
* 1/2 onions (finely chopped)
* 1 green & red pepper
* 1/8 cup of Chardonnay
* salt
* tony chachere's cerole salt
* pinch chilli poweder (just for the kick)


Step 1 who doesn't love Bacon???
in a small skillet cook the bacon drain 60% of fat out when the bacon is close to half done, then cook onions, green/red peppers , basil and chopped bay leaf in the skillet w/ bacon and its' grease, once the veggies been sauteed , add butter in to the skillet, then coad rice with the veggies and bacon, pour the white wine w/ it. and once the rice evenly mixed w/ the ingredients set it aside.

Step 2, chicken , shrimp and the sauce!!
preheat a pot w/ olive oil , cook chicken and shrimp (don't have to cook them 100%) then add the rice(from step 1) and chicken stock in to the pot, season w/ Creole salt and chili powder for your preference, set the fire to low, and let it cook for about 30 mins.

Step 3 plate it and Enjoy!!!

MEAL 3.5 KATSU 2 WAY

So u know sometimes shoe companies will have .5 between shoes and try to make extra money such as Tmac2.5, or Air Jordan 10.5, so here's my meal 3.5, 2ways to eat katsu!!!

1. Katsu pita/ sandwich/ burrito (what ever you like )

Ingredients:

a) Katsu
b) Lettuce

c) Mushroom

d) Mayo/ Sriracha sauce / Tabasco

e) salsa

f) pita, wrap, or french baguette

So in hot pan, saute' mushroom w/ butter, season it with salt and pepper and set it aside. mix mayo, Sirracha sauce and Tabasco, bout 2:2:1 if you like spicy, change it to 1:1:1, spread the spicy mayo on the pita/ wrap / baguette, n place katsu,(cheese, if you want to) lettuce, mushroom, top it off w/ salsa . it's a sandwich, so be creative.

2. "ZING" sauce Katsu with mushrooms and mashed potatoes

Ingredients:
a) Katsu

b) Ketchup / mix with a half tea spoon of brown sugar.
c) Worcestershire Sauce
d) 1 Potato

e) 1/4 cup of cream or milk.

f ) 1 table spoon of butter
g) pinch of salt, pepper

1. skin the potato, and cut it into small pieces( will help to cook potato faster). Boil a pot of water w/salt, after the water boiled throw the small pieces potatoes in and let it cook for about 20 mins, once the potato looks soften, drain the water out, add cream and butter, start to mash them, season it w/ salt and pepper, if you want you can add a little bit Cajun spice to spice it up for a little bit.

2. Heat up a skillet and add ketchup and Worcestershire Sauce (bout 1part of ketchup and 2 part of Worcestershire sauce) mix them up evenly while heating the sauce up. Its done once the sauce get thicken.

3. plate it and enjoy!!!

MEAL 3.0 "MISO kATSU PORK"

who doesn't like fried food? i think everything taste better after you fry them, bananas, Twinkies and pork cutlet .....etc, you get the point...nways, i love katsu because you can eat it in so different ways, treat it like steak, or just eat it w/ rice and some ketchup, or use it for a good OLd sandwich, or eat it with curry, and who knows maybe katsu burritos?? But the best thing is it's sooooooooo easy to make, and you prob won't need 30 mins to cook them (how you like them apple, Rachel Ray) that reminds me i need to save money to get a deep fryer hahah.

Ingredients

• 2 pc pork chop boneless with a little fat


• salt/ fresh grind pepper


• Miso paste


• glaic powder


• white pepper


• punko flakes ( or you can use bread crumbs, or crush a pack of gram cracker)


• 1 egg


• 2 table spoons of milk

step 1 prepping the meat

use the Meat Tenderizer beat up the meat evenly, (It's the hammer look a like thing in the kitchen department), rub salt, n pepper on the meat and let it sit for bout 10 mins then put miso paste evenly on both side. Break the egg, add milk in the bowl and mix them together. Place punko on a flat plate and mix garlic powder and white pepper powder with it. dip the meat in the eggs mixture and start breading!! make sure you get enough breading on it, more breading = more crunchy texture.

Step 2 fry those mofo!!!

- think the title tells it all!! how long the meats get done also depends on the thickness of the meat. If you are not sure the meat is done or not use the ol'fashion tooth pick poke in the middle method to see the readiness of the meat. or you can also use folks to poke the meat couple times before you fry them, by doing this it will also help to cook the meat faster.

step 3.... how to eat them.....

TBA....."meal 3.5" coming sooon

Meal 2 : "HEALTHY" breakfast: steak eggs n potato

when i say " HEALTHY" , i meant manly Healthy, nothing is better than steak, eggs n potato in the morning for a man right? unless u get a "happy good morning" giggity!!!! well, anyways, here is my sunday breakfast after a night of drinking >_-

A:

Flank steak

1.5 cups of Red wine ( Merlot, or cab will do)

1 cup of soy sauce

1/4 can of Dr. pepper(yes Dr. pepper)

fresh grind black pepper

pinch of kosher Salt

fresh rosemary

2 cloves of garlic

B:

1 potato , partical skinned(healthy purpose??? u know after night of drinking we have to be healthy!) cut into cubic shape

1/8 of onions

1 fresh rosemary/basil

chicken stocks

C

2 cups of Beef stock

1 cup of Merlot/ brandy

4 table spoon of cream

fresh black pepper, do not grind them.

D

2 eggs( do i really need to tell you how to cook them?)

1. marinate the steak

mix A in a non metal container , throw the steak in there and let it sit for about 30 mins.

2. i say potato u say potato......potato or potato??

put some EVOO on the skillet, sautee onion fist and add the potato in to the skillet. Chop some fresh basil /rosemary and add them into the skillet, do not stir the potato too much, let it cook till turn into crispy golden brown, then add little bit chicken stock and cover the skillet for 10 mins. (so it will soften the potato inside)

3. sizzzzzzzzzling the steak!!!

heat up the pan and add olive oil and grill the steak!!!! since it's flank steak i'll say med heat, and 4-6 min each side for medium-well, if you are not sure, get a toothpick and poke the middle to see the readiness of the steak. After the steak is cook you might find the grill pan is a little bit burned, but it's ok, DO NOT wash them yet, keep reading you'll know why.

4. sassy saucey? (does it even make sense?)

ok you might think the Pan is burned, but what you don't know is that little thing on the pan is one of the best part of the meat, it contain soooo much flavor with in. So here is what we gonna do. Turn the stove on low -med fire, and add beef stock and Merlot,use a wooden whisk, and whisk the burn part slowly make it dissolve into the Stock sauce, add some Black pepper and salt to season, Cover it and let it reduce to about 1/2. then add little cream and let the sauce thicken.

5. plate it and enjoy !!!

MEAL 1 wilson's hybrid OyakoDON

it's one of my favorite Jap. dish, god knows how many times i cooked it when i was dating Shoko !!-_-, but i made a little change for this traditional jap dish, instead of cooking chicken w/ don sauce i grilled them just to get more flavor form the chicken! so here are the Ingredients

1. ? amount of RICE (why ? because i don't' know how hungry you are, I usually get a BIG bowl of it) .
2. 1 or 2 boneless chicken thigh ( I'm racist so i like dark meat)
3. 2 eggs
4. 1/8-1/4 of onion cut into slices or dice, as long as you cut the chicken the same way.
5. chicken stock or water with Hondashi / soy sauce / sake or coking wine (the ratio is about : 2:1:0.2 (bout 1 table spoon of sake, 1/2 cub of soy sauce and 1 cup of soup stock or dashiwater.)
6. kosher salt (3-4 pinches)
7. fresh grind Black Pepper
8. brown or raw sugar (1 pinch)
9. Tony chachere's Original Creole Seasoning
10. corn scratch(2 pinch)

STEP1: loving the chicken !!!

season chicken 1st since it takes a little longer to let meat get all the flavor out. Put about 2-3 pinch salt, fresh ground peppers and creole seasoning on each side of the chicken and add little bit corn scratch and add couple drop of sake on the meat. (make sure you rub the chicken nice and firm, if you don't' the seasoning will just sit on top of the meat) sit it aside after you rubbing the chicken.

STEP 2: It's all about the sauce!!!

Heat up little olive oil in a small sauce pan and saute' onions for 2 mins. Add the sauce mixer in to the sauce pan and add pinch of brown sugar, set the fire between low and medium setting, and wait till onion soak up the sauce. We can grill the chicken while waiting for the sauce, i rec'd George foreman grill / grill pan or simply a frying pan can get the job done. Place the chicken on the grill, and grill each side for bout 7-10 mins.

3. the final touch

you can mix the eggs up first or mix them in the hot sauce pot, i personally prefer mix the eggs in the the sauce pan, that way I'll get different color(white/ yellow aka the york ). Anyways, once the onion soak bout 1/2 the sauce put eggs in the sauce then mix it.

Grand opening

Just started this blog, you all know that I'm not the best writer in the world, mainly because I'm horrible at this grammar thing. But O WEll, it is what it is, if I made mistakes( which I believe that there will be plenties) feel free to correct me!

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Anyways, I'm starting this blog mainly bc food( go figure), I don't' think I'm a Good chef, but i do know some tricks to fool girls( ha) I'm not the best foodie out there, but i do have a picky taste bud and it loves all the good foods!

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This blog is my restaurant and I'm the ex. chef here, hopefully y'all enjoy the meals here, and won't need to go to hospital after the meal!

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