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Teriyaki Pork Butt Steak with Asian Noodles

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This teriyaki sauce is absolutely delicious! This sauce is a great mix of sweet and savory, and would go great as a glazing for any fish, chicken, or pork. The pork is delicious and of course the main part of the dish, however, the real star of this dish is the Asian noodles. The noodles are filling, the onion adds a great subtle flavor to the dish, and the cabbage adds great texture, and while the flavor of the pepper is also subtle, the color it brings to the side is delicious! For this recipe, I used the second half of the pork steak I had from yesterday’s post, peanut pork curry. That gave us enough pork for 3 servings, however with how much pasta I made, we had 5 serving total. The pasta was also great on it’s own, and if you were to serve this for a big family, I would recommend cubing the pork, then tossing into the noodles. This recipe can easily make enough to serve 5 adults.

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What You Will Need

  • 1 Pork Boston Butt Steak
  • 2 Tbsp oil
  • 1/4 cup soy sauce
  • 2 Tbsp Corn Starch
  • 1 cup beef broth
  • 4 Tbsp Brown Sugar
  • 1 Clove Garlic, minced
  • 1/2 tsp Ground Ginger
  • 1/2 tsp Mustard powder
  • 1 Tbsp Vinegar
  • 1/2 red bell pepper, seeded and sliced
  • 1/2 onion, sliced
  • 1 cup cabbage, sliced
  • 8 Oz spaghetti, cooked and strained
  • Side bowl
  • Wok
  • Frying Pan

Directions

1. Cook your spaghetti until very al dente, and rinse under cool water. Place wok over medium heat, place frying pan over medium high heat. In side bowl, mix together broth and corn starch. Once smooth, add soy sauce, brown sugar, garlic, ginger, mustard, and vinegar, mix until smooth.

2. Add 1 Tbsp oil to frying pan, when add Steak. Cook on each side for 5 Minutes. Add your sauce mixture and cook for 3-4 minutes until sauce is thick. Remove from heat.

3. Add cabbage, onion, and peppers. Add 1 Tbsp oil and cook until onions begin to turn translucent. Add Noodles to wok and cook until hot. Pour thickened sauce over pasta, stir, then remove from heat. Slice pork steak. Plate pasta, then top with pork.

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Peanut Pork Butt Steak Curry

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This Peanut curry is a nice twist to your classic curry. The peanuts perfectly compliment the flavors of the curry powder, and whether you like your curry spicy or mild, this curry with be a treat! When I made this recipe, I used half a bone in pork butt steak. Because of this, I had the bone and rim of fat, and so I added that with the veggies and cooked it with everything until I added the corn starch slurry, then I pulled them before the final ten minute of cooking. I also only used half my steak, because it is just my husband and I in our household, and I wanted to use the other half for the recipe I will be posting tomorrow. Finally, my curry powder is also very weak in flavor, so I tasted the curry at the end and added extra cumin, turmeric, and mustard powder at the end, to my taste. This curry recipe made 4 adult sized servings.

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What You Will Need

  • 2 tablespoons creamy peanut butter
  • 1/2 Cup chicken broth
  • 1 tablespoon cooking oil
  • 1 pork Boston butt steak
  • 2 Large potatoes, 1/2 in cubes
  • 1 large onion, cut into small wedges
  • 2 carrots, peeled and sliced
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 2 teaspoons curry powder (or to taste)
  • 1/3 cup water
  • 1 teaspoon cornstarch
  • 3 cups cooked rice

Directions

1. Make a peanut sauce by mixing chicken broth with peanut butter, then stirring until smooth. Add oil to a wok on medium high. Add pork and potatoes and cook until browned, then remove the pork from wok and slice. Reduce heat to medium-low. Add onions, carrots, garlic, and curry powder, then cook for 5 minutes until veggies are soft, add oil as needed.

2. Add peanut sauce to veggies and add steak. Simmer covered for 5 minutes. Meanwhile, make a slurry by mixing water with corn starch, and stir until smooth. Add your slurry to the wok, increase heat to medium, and continue cooking for 5-10 minutes while sauce thickens. Remove from heat. Serve curry over rice.

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Slow Cooker Stuffed Cabbage with Sausage and Rice

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Stuffed Cabbage, or pigs in a blanket, I’ve made before in the slow cooker. Last time, I used just beef, and that was very good. This time, to make it more traditionally, I added rice. Rice was originally added to stretch the filling to get more food cheaply. I also added some pork sausage. This added more spice to the stuffed cabbages. I also added beef broth to thin the sauce and cover the stuffed cabbages. It was another way to add more flavor than just water. I did make 10 stuffed cabbages with this recipe, but I made them very large, to the point where 1 to 1 1/2 stuffed cabbage was enough for 1 adult portion. These stuffed cabbages also freeze well. To freeze, transfer to a freezer safe container, cover with sauce, cover, label and freeze. Then they can be microwaved to reheat.

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What You Will Need

  • 10 Large Cabbage Leaves with Middle Stem Removed
  • 1 lb of Ground Beef
  • 1/2 lb of Ground Pork Sausage
  • 1 Cup Day Old Cooked Rice, Cold
  • 1/2 Medium Diced Onion
  • 2 10.5 Oz Cans of Tomato Soup
  • 1 6 Oz can of Tomato Paste
  • 2 Cups Beef Broth
  • 1 Tbsp Garlic Powder
  • 1 Tbsp Italian Seasoning
  • Slow-Cooker
  • Strainer
  • Mixing Bowl
  • Large Dutch Oven of Water
  • Thongs and Wooden Spoon

Directions

1. Bring dutch oven of water to a boil. Add Prepared cabbage leaves and boil for about 2 minutes until soft. Transfer to strainer and let cool. Place burger, sausage, and rice in a mixing bowl, add onion, garlic, and Italian seasoning. Mix by hand. Add 1 can of tomato soup to bottom of slow cooker and stir in 1/2 can of tomato paste. Place Slow Cooker on High.

2. Once cabbage is cooled, form about 1/3 cup of meat mixture into an elongated patty. Place patty on cabbage leaf and roll, tuck under ends, then place into slow-cooker. Repeat for remaining leaves, or until out of filling. Place down first layer of pigs, then spoon each with a layer of soup from a new can. Mix remaining tomato paste with remaining soup. Place your second layer of pigs, then top with remaining sauce. Add beef broth, and carefully stir. Cook covered for at least 2.5 hours or until internal temp of 165 F is reached, best if cooked on high for 6 hours for cabbage to become fully tender.

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Review: Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Original recipe can be found here.

I found this recipe for chocolate chip cookies and I just had to try them. I grew up making Betty Crocker cookies from their bagged mix. I really enjoyed them and I found this recipe be be similar in many ways, but also different. The recipe I made was a recipe from scratch and is standard, cream together butter and sugar, then mix in remaining ingredients. This created cookies with a crackled top. I also made my cookies about twice the size the recipe expected. This recipe didn’t say how big to make the cookies, and I guess I went a little large. Since I went large, about 2 Tbsp of dough per ball, my cookies took a bit longer. The recipe says 8-10 minutes for about 1 Tbsp balls, I found 12 minutes to be about right to keep some moisture in the cookies while still cooking the inside completely. My second batch I baked for 15 minutes, since I was waiting for a bit more browning, but that never came. They were delicious when slightly warm, but once they fully cooled, they were very crunchy, and needed to be paired with a glass of milk. So note with this recipe, not to over cook these cookies! However, this was the easiest cookie dough I’ve ever worked with. This recipe made 24 cookies 3-4 inches in diameter.

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What You Will Need

  • 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • pinch of salt
  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips, or 12 Oz bag, to your taste

Directions

1. Heat oven to 375 F. In a large bowl, add softener butter, sugar, and brown sugar. Beat until light and fluffy, and scrape down sides of bowl. Add egg and vanilla and beat until smooth. Add Baking soda and a pinch of salt and briefly mix, then add your flour and mix until fully combined. Add in chips and stir until evenly dispersed.

2. Add 2 Tbsp balls onto 9×13 pans, 2 inches apart. Bake for 11-12 minutes, and not longer. Remove from oven and let cool for 4 minutes before remove from tray and transferring to a cooling rack or serving tray.

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Grilled Ham and Cheese with Mustard

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Grilled sandwiches are always great this time of year, and grilled ham and cheese is a classic. But that isn’t the reason I made this recipe. This recipe is different because it uses a new way to grill your sandwich. Instead of smearing mayo or butter onto your bread, this sandwich was made by adding oil and butter into the pan to accomplish the same thing. This is a special technique because normal butter would begin to burn very quickly, so butter and oil is used to give you more time before the butter is so hot it begins to burn. Otherwise, mustard, ham and cheese is a great sandwich to try this technique with and you won’t be disappointed! The recipe below is enough to make 2 sandwiches, enough for 2 adults.

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What You Will Need

  • 1 Tbsp Butter
  • 2 Tbsp Oil
  • 4 Slices of Bread
  • 1 Cup Shredded Mozzarella
  • 1 Cup Shredded Sharp Cheddar
  • 4 Slices of Ham
  • 2 Tbsp Yellow Mustard
  • Frying Pan
  • Spatula

Directions

1. Assemble your sandwich, by layering with bread, cheddar, ham, mozzarella, mustard, then top bread. Heat pan over medium heat. Add oil and butter and heat until butter is melted.

2. Add sandwich and cook on the first side for 3-4 minutes until browned, flip your sandwich and cook for another 3-4 minutes until browned, and press on the sandwich. Remove from pan and plate.

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