Monday, 27 October 2008

bookmarked recipes 28 delayed....

My laptop is away being fixed so the round up is being delayed until next Monday. Sorry for the confusion and hassle.

Ruth

Monday, 20 October 2008

Bookmarked Recipes 27

Let's have a look at what people have been recreating from their own Bookmarked Recipes this week.



Happy Cook of My Kitchen Treasures starts off our round up with Saffron and vanilla poached pears from Tartelette.



Neema has recreated Cauliflower and peas korma from Rak's Kitchen



Lisa from Food and Spice made Usha's Rice Crackers: See them here



Jin Hooi from Smell and Taste are my memory has sent in some Portugese Egg Tarts using Rasa Malaysia's Recipe.



Sumarajesh of suma's cuisine has sent in spicy chicken biriyani from Srivalli's blog.



Amanda from Amanda's Cookin has made Raspberry Coffee Cake from The Taste of Home Cookbook. Amanda is running a contest where you make a recipe from some specific sites then blog about it - perfect for bookmarked recipe people!



Deeba from Passionate About Baking...& beyond used a recipe from La Cuisine de Helene's: Apple Crisp.



Arika from My Yummy Life has recreated Stroganoff from Blogchef.net



Jen the http://beantownbaker.blogspot.com>Beantown Baker got a recipe from I [heart] food 4 thought: Peppery Lemon Brown Sugar Salmon



Siri's Corner made fried egg sambal from Hooked on Heat



Dell of Cooking and the City has copied a recipe for Sweet and Sour Meatballs from Super Food Ideas Magazine.



Gloria from Canela's Kitchen has made Lemon and poppy seed muffins using Noelle Haddad's recipe.



Becke the Columbus Foodie served up some Indian Cashew Chicken from this month's Cooking Light.



Usha from Veg Inspirations has sent in Wheat and Chickpea Crackers from Aparna's My Diverse Kitchen.



Finally my entry: Garlic and Chili Chicken with Basil from a local school cookbook.



Thanks everyone for your submissions!!! It's always exciting to see what people have been making and recreating as well as meeting some new bloggers.

Remember if you want to take part here's all you have to do....
1. Pick a recipe from a book/magazine/blog/website/tv show and make it. (Note you can only submit 1 recipe per week)
2. Blog about it
- include where you got the recipe in your blog post (including a link to their website if possible)
- include a link to this post or this blog in your blog post
- include the logo (see above) for Bookmarked Recipes in your blog post
- include a photo of your recreation on your blog post
3. Email bookmarkedrecipes[AT]gmail[DOT]com with the following information:
- Your name and where you're from
- The name of your blog
- The permalink for your entry
- A photo of your entry
- A note of where you got your recipe from

Saturday, 18 October 2008

Garlic and Chili Chicken with Basil

It's been a while since I blogged about something I've cooked or baked so here goes.....

For our first anniversary we were given a cookbook published by one of the local schools. I have had a few recipes from it bookmarked for a while, but forgot I had this book until recently. I decided to make the recipe for garlic and chili chicken with basil because I had all the ingredients to hand and the recipe was also submitted to the book by one of the girls in my youth group whose mum happens to be an awesome cook! How could I resist?

I'm glad I made this, it was delicious and moreish, and was a great way to use up the chili I had. I'm looking forward to making more dishes from this book



Garlic and Chili Chicken with Basil

Ingredients

600g chicken breast, diced
1 small red chilli, deseeded and sliced
1 small green chilli, deseeded and sliced
2 cloves of garlic, crushed2 tsbp olive oil
1" ginger, peeled and finely sliced My addition to the recipe
2 tsbp lemon juice
1/4 cup oyster sauce
1 red pepper, chopped
1 cup chicken stock
2 onions, diced
2 tsp cornflour
4 spring onions, sliced thinly
1/4 cup fresh basil leaves

Recipe
1. Combine chicken, chillies, garlic, lemon juice, oyster sauce and ginger in a bowl and leave to marinade for 3 hours.
2. Heat half the oil in a pan or wok. Stir fry the chicken until browned. Remove from the wok.
3. Heat the remaining oil in the wok and stir fry the onion and pepper until soft.
4. Return the chicken to the wok and add the cornflour and stock. Stir until the mixture thickens slightly.
5. Stir in the basil and spring onion. Serve with rice.

Tuesday, 14 October 2008

Bookmarked Recipes 26

Let's have a look at what people have been recreating from their own Bookmarked Recipes this week.



Teresa from I'm Running to Eat! starts the round up with some beautiful Grilled Greek Chicken which came from a blog called Dinners for a Year and Beyond



Deeba from Passionate About Baking...& beyond has recreated a fantastic chicken curry with fenugreek from Quick Indian Cooking.



Happy Cook from My Kitchen Treasure copied a recipe from Sigs blog Live to Eat - Popcorn Chicken which looks incredible.



Giz from Equal Opportunity Kitchen has made one of my favourite dishes - Honey Sesame Chicken. She found this recipe on a blog called "My Kitchen Snippets".



Pam from sidewalk shoes has made delicious pork chops with blueberry sauce using a recipe found in a Cuisine at Home magazine.



Arika from My Yummy Life has made a very creative dish from Mario Batali's Molto Italiano - Cavolo Ripieno.



Tami from Tami's Kitchen Table Talk made a recipe I'm still trying to find my favourite version of: chocolate chip cookies using a recipe called "Design Your Own Chocolate Cookies" from The Cookie Bible.



Jin Hooi from smell and taste are my memory baked some tasty white chocolate marshmallow pistachio brownies based on this recipe from The Crepes of Wrath



Maggie from Dog Hill Kitchen made a super tasty dish - Sesame Crusted Oyster Mushrooms with homegrown mushrooms and got the recipe from the blog Brownie Points



Gloria from Canela's Kitchen sent in a very tasty run raisin applesauce cake using a recipe from Good Housekeeping magazine, February 2002



Ning from Heart and Hearth has made some delicious looking Cream Cheese Spiral Biscuits from 500 Fabulous Cakes and Bakes.



Divya Kudua from Easycooking has recreated something from Deeba's blog - Vanilla Cupcakes



Becke the Columbus Foodie made some delicious and comforting Brat, Beer and Cheese Soup from Penzey’s catalog.



Thanks everyone for your submissions!!! It's always exciting to see what people have been making and recreating as well as meeting some new bloggers.

Remember if you want to take part here's all you have to do....
1. Pick a recipe from a book/magazine/blog/website/tv show and make it. (Note you can only submit 1 recipe per week)
2. Blog about it
- include where you got the recipe in your blog post (including a link to their website if possible)
- include a link to this post or this blog in your blog post
- include the logo (see above) for Bookmarked Recipes in your blog post
- include a photo of your recreation on your blog post
3. Email bookmarkedrecipes[AT]gmail[DOT]com with the following information:
- Your name and where you're from
- The name of your blog
- The permalink for your entry
- A photo of your entry
- A note of where you got your recipe from

Monday, 13 October 2008

Monthly Mingle: Sensational Sides Round up

This month Meeta from What's for lunch, Honey? has given me the honour of hosting her Monthly Mingle. Side dishes are so often neglected in our house, and I'm sure I'm not alone in saying that, which is why the theme for this month's mingle is Sensational Sides the idea being that whoever wants to take part makes a great side dish using whatever ingredients you like.



There has been a flood of fabulous dishes for this mingle. check them out....

Sangeeth Raghunathan from Art of cooking Indian food has made Baingan Bhartha



Mona from Zaiqa-Modern Hyderabadi Cuisine made Baghare Baingan



Lisa from Lisa's Kitchen has submitted Cheese and Sage Damper Bread



Nags from Edible Garden made Aloo Gobi



Ivy from "Kopiaste.. to Greek Hospitality" has made some Bulgur Pilaf with Vermicelli as well as some other side dishes



Srivalli from "Cooking 4 all Seasons" made some Pepper Chicken Curry



Sushma from "savi-ruchi" sent in Bhindi Besan (Okra & gram flour sidedish)



Sia from "Monsoon Spice" made Paneer Makhani/Paneer Butter Masala



Usha from "MySpicyKitchen" has submitted Broccoli Moong Dal Stir Fry



Soul Chocolate from "My Gourmet Kitchen" has sent in 2 dishes: Steamed Oysters and Mini Pizzas



Sweatha of "TastyCurryLeaf" served up some Potato Goulash



Cham from "Spice-club" sent in Nilgiri Chicken kurma



Sharon the newlywed from "Culinary Adventures of a New Wife" made a Asian Cucumber Quinoa Salad



Rupali jain from "North Ki Rasoi Se..." sent in Paneer Achari



Mansi from "Fun and Food" made 2 dishes: Instant Khandvi and Healthy Brown Rice & Barley Salad




Hetal from "Isha's Kitchen" made Potato (aloo) Fry



Yasmeen the "Health Nut" served up Shahi Badami Khorma



Miri from "Peppermill" has entered in Prawns in Spicy Tomato Sauce - a South Indian side dish very popular with rice or breads



Priya Suresh from "Priya's Easy N Tasty Recipes" has been busy and made 8 entries!!!!! One of which was Pepper Prawns



Divya Vikram from "Dil Se.." made Baingan Bharta



Shifali Katyal of "Recipes and More" made Yummy Nutrela



Mahima Jagtiani from Olives and Basil sent in Grilled Cheesy Shitake and not so fiery chillis.




Arfi from Homemades made some Orange and Avocado Salad with Orange and Mustard Dressing




Vandana Rajesh from cooking up something nice sent in a tomato chutney



Tigerfish from Teczcape - An Escape to Food sent in Shrimp-egg "cookie"



Soma Rathore from "eCurry" made some Palak Paneer: Spinach with Indian Cheese



Chris from "Mele Cotte" sent in Roasted Applesauce



Sireesha from Mom's Recipies sent in Aloo Baingan /Aubergine and Potato Curry



Deeba from Passionate About Baking sent in an assortment of favourite side dishes



Dell of Cooking and the City made a Tomato & Bean Salad



Srimathi the foody.guru from "Few Minute Wonders" sent in Healthy Mutter Paneer Made Easy



Siri from Siri's Corner served up some Paneer Bhurji



Sudeshna from "Here I Cook" made Malabar Chicken



Jude from Apple Pie, Patis, and Pâté sent in Whole Pumpkin Baked with Cream and Cheese



Sunshinemom from "TONGUE TICKLERS......" sent in Dhingri Badaami



PG from My kitchen stories made Pumpkin baked with Potatoes



Anna from "Morsels & Musings" sent in Acar (Indonesian pickle)



Jen from "Real Good Taste" made Couscous, Shopska Style



Supriya from "Queen of my kitchen" served up roasted veggies & pasta



And finally Meeta our Monthly Mingle Queen has made Fig, Pear & Bacon Wraps



That's all folks! Thank you all for such great entries! You made it a fantastic round up.

(PS if you're looking for the bookmarked recipes round up, check back tomorrow)