Refreshing Jicama Apple Orange Salad

Ingredients

1 medium jicama pealed and sliced thin

1 cored apple sliced thin

1 LARGE orange supreme (Slice out the segments*large oranges are much easier to supreme) and cut them into bite size portions.

1/2 large sweet onion sliced very thin

1/4 cup chopped scallions

1/4 cup chopped cilantro

1-2 small Thai Chilies sliced very thin

1/4 cup fresh lime juice

1 Tablespoon kosher salt

2 Tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

1 Tablespoon turbino sugar

Just forking mix and your done.

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Piri Piri Style Chicken

“REAL” Piri Piri is made with Piri Piri Peppers that are also called African Bird’s Eye Chilli(s). Most piri piri is red in color and I noticed some people actually add red food coloring to their recipes. I’ve never noticed real piri piri peppers being sold anywhere I shop and that’s why any recipe you find uses other various red peppers.

Many variations of Piri Piri are made but they all should have some sort of ground chili, lemon, oil and red bell pepper. Piri Piri is usually chicken that’s marinated in the spicy red pepper sauce with citrus.

Ingredients This will feed about 11 people If you use dark meat any leftovers will reheat very moist.

About 8 Lbs. Of Chicken (I used about 4 lbs. that were 3 whole legs and about another 4lbs. that were 8 boneless thighs) Thought I pulled out white meat but forking screwed up.

12 roasted Red Peppers seeds, skin and stem removed and then roughly chopped and the liquid released from the red peppers

7 cloves of garlic chopped

4 red Thai Chilli(s) depending on how strong they are and your spice tolerance. The 4 in mine were spicy but not too spicy I might do 5 next time.

1 Meyer Lemon – The juice and grate about 1/4 of the rhine

1/4 large sweet onion chopped

1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil

About an inch Fresh Ginger grated

1/2 teaspoon aleppo ground red pepper (pinch of cayenne if you don’t have aleppo, the aleppo is milder and fruitier in taste and I like it very much with red peppers)

1 teaspoon ground black pepper

1 Tablespoon + 1 teaspoon Kosher Salt

1 teaspoon Paprika

1 Tablespoon Basil

1 Tablespoon Oregano

4 Bay Leaves

Directions

Split up your chicken into two 1 gallon zip lock bags and place two whole bay leaves in each bag.

Blend up all the ingredients except the lemon rhine. After smooth add the lemon peel.

Pour one cup of sauce/marinade into each bag. Close up bag and let sit in refrigerator over night. You will have around 24 oz. of sauce/marinade to use over the chicken dinners.

Set oven at 350 degrees to roast. For the whole legs I lined two lightly oiled baking pans and sat some thick onions on them. Then I pulled out the chicken legs and sat them on the pan.

The legs absorbed almost all the sauce but I did wind up with maybe a 1/4 cup and basted them in the oven a few times with the leftover marinade. These took about two hours at 350 and came out like this.

To the boneless thighs I shook off whatever sauce stuck to them and rolled them in mung bean flour but really most of your flours would work for this. I like mung bean flour, it’s healthy and doesn’t add any weird taste or raw flour taste to what you cook. You can find mung bean flour at any Indian Market and at most Asian Markets.

I put the boneless thighs in a medium high fry pan that was sprayed with oil and cooked them 6 minutes on the first side and 5 minutes on the second side. If yours are smaller they will need maybe a minute less.

Put the boneless piri piri chicken together like this.

Piri Piri Style Chicken

They came out nicely flavored and super forking  juicy.  The added sauce mellowed a little the next day but was still delicious. 2nd day you might want to adjust seasonings to the sauce slightly. The Whole legs came out super tender and ultra moist too.

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These carrots come out crispy, sweet and salty and are great to top a salad, an entree or just to snack on.

This recipe is what I remembered reading from “Tasting Table.com” and is called Root Vegetable Chips. The Chef that came up with this recipe saves the pealed skins from all root vegetables that are pealed in her restaurant and turns them into the “chips” to garnish plates.

I only tried this recipe with carrots so far.

The recipe is very easy to do but I think it will vary depending on the vegetable you use and your peeler. I liked the way the carrots came out, extremely crisp.

Set your oven to 225 to bake.

Put 6 cups of water and 2 cups of sugar on medium high heat.

Using a vegetable peeler peel as many carrots as you like. (I peeled 6 large carrots)

When the pot boils add the carrot peels and let boil 1-2 minutes.

Remove the peels from the boiling liquid and dry them on a towel.

Spread the peels out on a silicone mat lined pan and sprinkle with salt. (I used a parchment lined pan and that worked well for carrots) I don’t think salt will stick to the carrots if you forking wait to salt them at the end because of how crisp they get. The salt might just fall off.

Bake around 2 hours at 225 degrees (my batch was perfect in 2 1/2 hours)

Serving Suggestion

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This recipe is a crowd pleaser. My husband forking devoured about a forking third of this casserole as soon as he could after I gave him a big slice. He kept saying I have to eat it because it’s really REALLY good!

Slightly crispy potato ends and many layers of thin potato held together with silky goodness seasoned just right. What’s not to love.

This recipe I whipped up today is very easy to make but you do need a mandolin to slice the onions and potatoes real thin. Thick slices might not come out right.

Ingredients (set oven to 350 degrees and coat your baking dish with nonstick spray)

1 LARGE sweet onion sliced very thin (about 4 cups)

About 3 lbs. of Potatoes washed, pealed and sliced very thin that you mix with onions as you slice so they don’t brown. (I used Idaho Potatoes)

1/2 cup melted butter

1/2 cup mascarpone cheese

6 beaten eggs

1/2 cup all purpose flour

Tablespoon (heaping) kosher salt

teaspoon (scant) ground black pepper

1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper

Directions

You already have your onions and potatoes mixed together in a big bowl.

In another medium size bowl combine all the other ingredients and mix well.

Mix that batter into the potatoes and onions. After combined transfer to your baking dish. (I used a half steam pan) Cover with foil and let it go around an hour till set.

When set remove the foil and it will need around 25 more minutes to brown and crisp up.

Save this recipe because you will need to forking make it.

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Where I grew up the cole slaw that my parents brought home was always a no-mayo kind of cole slaw called, “Health Salad.” It had a slight sweetness, some small pieces of deli pickles in it, and a slight lingering taste of celery seeds, and a mild slight heat.

This cole slaw is forking easy to make. You just shred, chop and mince the vegetables and then just sprinkle them with salt and sugar, let sit maybe 1/2 hour and then add the vinegar and oil. It a forking easy recipe that’s forking good and maybe forking healthy too!

Ingredients

1 head of cabbage – sliced very thin

2 carrots – shredded

1 red bell pepper – chopped into small pieces

1/2 large sweet onion – sliced very thin – cut slices in half

1/4—-1 (depending on size)- good quality deli pickle or home made pickle –  cut in small pieces, you don’t need a lot of pickle just a little through out. No more than 1/4 cup.

1 garlic clove minced

1/4 cup sugar

1 Tablespoon kosher salt

1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper

pinch-1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper (pinch if your forking wimpy or 1/4t. if you can take a small amount of heat.

1/4 teaspoon celery seeds

1/2 cup apple cider vinegar

2 Tablespoons canola oil

Combine all the ingredients EXCEPT for the oil and vinegar and stir and let sit at least 1/2 an hour. At this time you might or might not want to drain the natural liquid. Drain if you want a stronger vinegar flavor or leave the liquid if you want it mild tasting. After the half hour passes mix in the oil and vinegar. let rest at least an hour in the refrigerator and when ready to serve adjust seasonings if necessary.

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