recipe adapted from Ming TsaiFor soup in the winter, I tend to lean towards oriental recipes for health benefits as well as for superb flavor of ingredients that oriental soups provide. For one, they help to fight off colds. I feel like I'm really feeding my children when I cook this way. I try to keep an ongoing oriental soup each week, changing out … [Read more...]
Hibiscus-Peanut Butter Shredded Beef Rolls Deep-Fried in Peanut Oil
exclusively Skirt in the Kitchen[This deserves a good beer or your favorite hard liquor with a milk-vinegar slaw for a vegetable side.]It took me 3 days to decide how I was going to make this, and then changing it towards the end as I was experimenting with ingredients and measurements. I am happy with the result. The mixture of these ingredients actually come … [Read more...]
Fat Tuesday Beignets
It is, indeed, New Orleans' Fat Tuesday. I love New Orleans! Someone else knew how fond I am of the southern city-- Before a close friend of ours passed away a few months ago from cancer, he badly wanted to see New Orleans one more time. He invited my husband, our children and me, to go with him and his son with a small group of friends for a 3 or 4 day … [Read more...]
Papple ‘n Ice Cream
exclusively Skirt in the Kitchen[This is made for ice cream!]My little boy named this, a cross between popcorn and apple, since I didn't know what to call it. Of all three of my kids, he's my popcorn kid-- he prefers popcorn and pepperoni pizza, his favorites-- and he happens to adore apples. He wants to own an orchard full of apple trees, and he wants to run it and … [Read more...]
SKIRT IN THE KITCHEN MUSIC THEME
So far, this makes the 7th music theme for Skirt. Here are the key words on the previous music themes: Crazy, dance, garden, leather, fire, woman. If said smoothly, it could flow together as-- "crazy dance-garden leather-fire woman"! "She was a crazy dance-garden leather-fire woman" might sound more accurate in a sentence using these key words. For … [Read more...]
Music Monday – Blake Shelton – Doin’ What She Likes
Sunday Song – Capital Cities – Safe & Sound
Susan Nuyt (Short Video Clips) – “Crochet a Theme”
I never know what songs are going to attach to these videos until it happens, lol... but it's about fingers in motion when it comes to crocheting and sewing. This is one of those good, thick and rugged meat string hot pads that I adore making and having in the kitchen as well as giving away to close family and friends. If you haven't received one from me, you'll get … [Read more...]
Kale Crunch Stir-Fry Salad with Japanese Sweet Potato
exclusively Skirt in the KitchenThis is something I would like to have made with my mother or with my son, Caleb-- It's their style of cooking, this kind of arrangement, what they particularly enjoy eating together when it comes to vegetables. All of us cook like my father; after all, he did teach us; he set in his way of doing things with food and techniques that he … [Read more...]