Thai Shrimp Stir-Fry

I posted two recipes today, lucky you:)

This is a good dish to pair with any rice or noodle dish. It is quick, easy and delicious.

1/2 lb of raw 21 count shrimp
1/4 lb of scallops
1 Tbsp of double black soy sauce
1 Tbsp of fish sauce
1 Tbsp of dark brown sugar
1 tsp of crush red pepper
4 garlic cloves (chopped)
1 tsp sesame seed oil
2 Tbsp canola or olive oil
1 tsp rice vinegar

In a wok heat up oils and saute garlic and red pepper. Add shrimp and scallops and cook for about a minute, add soy sauce, fish sauce and brown sugar and stir-fry for a couple more minutes. Add rice vinegar just before serving. Easy huh?

Asparagus and Portobello Stir-fry

I made this up last night. I had some yakisoba noodles and some baby portobello mushrooms, but was thinking I needed a little more in the stir-fry, so I swung by the store and got some little asparagus shoots and whipped up a fine dinner.

1/2 cup asparagus (thin shoots are best, chopped to about 2 inches)
1/2 cup mushrooms (chopped portobello or baby portobello)
1/4 cup green onions (chopped to about 1 inch)
5 garlic cloves (roughly chopped)
1/2 tsp crushed red pepper
1-3 Tbsp fish sauce
1-2 Tbsp double black soy sauce
salt to taste (you may not need it)
1-2 Tbsp dark brown sugar
yakisoba noodles

In a wok, heat oil and saute mushrooms, garlic and red pepper for about 2 minutes, add asparagus, fish sauce, soy sauce and brown sugar and stir-fry for about 5 minutes. Remove veggies from wok and save in bowl. Add oil and noodles to wok, and cook for several minutes. You may need to add a little water to the noodles, I also add in a little bit more soy and fish sauce while the noodles are heating up. Add your veggies back to the wok and cook for 5 more minutes.
You done, eat up, what are you waiting for!

Otik's Famous Potatoes

My 100th post!

My buddy Mike came up with the following and it is pretty great. Even out in the snow during snow camping. If you get the reference in the title, you are officially a nerd, congrats:)

3 onions (just take the skin off, leave them whole)
6 med. Yukon gold or red new potatoes (peel and chop to bite size)
cup of baby carrots
three stalks celery (chopped into small pieces)
3 portobello mushrooms
hand full of celery leaves
small hand full of cilantro
soy sauce
salt and pepper to taste
10 cloves of garlic (cut them in half)

Oven set to 400 degrees.
In a dutch oven, put about 1/4 cup olive oil to coat bottom and sides of oven. Put cut potatoes, whole onions, garlic, carrots, celery, and mushrooms into dutch oven. Salt and pepper to taste. Don't put in the celery leaves, cilantro, soy sauce yet. Cover your dutch oven and put in oven for about 45 minutes. Take it out once or twice and stir. After 45 minutes, add soy sauce to taste, celery leaves and cilantro. Stir and put back into oven for about 20 more minutes. Serve with a good bread. If you want you can add a good cooked sausage to the dish.

Happy Birthday Asa

Today is Asa's 4th birthday. He had pancakes this morning for breakfast. We didn't have any syrup, so we used chocolate sauce instead! When I left for work this morning, he was sitting cross legged on our bed watching TV eating chocolate pancakes wearing only a shell necklace that ViviAnne and I brought back from Hawaii. It was funny. He requested tacos, a pinata and a puzzle cake for his birthday dinner. Should be fun tonight!

The pictures are from his birthday party. He wanted a puzzle cake so we baked a fish cake put together out of cupcake holders. Pretty awesome fish cake! ViviAnne made it. The pinata was great fun too, Liam ended up being the one who finally busted it open, go figure.

Import Your Blog to Facebook

Cool,
I found that through the notes section of Facebook, you can import your blog entries. Facebook will check every couple of hours for new entries and post them to your notes.

The Internets is neat.

Thinking about a tipi

I was looking at tipi's today, online. I was thinking that I should buy one. They are fun for kids, and fairly easy to set up with two people. That also travel pretty well if you have a large vehicle, which we do now, so I think I might try to convince ViviAnne to get one with our left over tax return...

We will see.