Cucumber Gyro Sauce

Ever enter a restaurant,

and wonder what sauce is that?

It's so delicious..

How do they make that?

I was at an Indian Restaurant last year

with my girlfriend...

We wonder what sauce it was

that tasted so delicious..

We could ask the chef but then..

we realized that it's cucumber sauce as

stated in the menu..

So I hunt for the recipe of it online..

I've tried several and tasted/tested several..

and I came out with this one..

a combination of all the recipe..

Indeed, a very very simple Gyro Cucumber Sauce..

Ingredients:

2 cups Plain Yogurt

1 jalapeno pepper (any color but I use green, unseeded)

a handful of cilantro (clean & rinse)

1 cucumber (peeled and unseeded)

1 lime (need the juice)

salt and pepper to taste

1 tbsp Olive oil

Methods:

1) Chopped the jalapeno pepper and cilantro using electric chopper

2) Dice 1/4 of the cucumber into small dice

3) Chopped the 3/4 of the cucumber

4) Mix all the above blended veges into the plain yogurt.

Gently stir them. Add salt and pepper to taste

5) Add olive oil into the mixture and stir gently

6) Squeeze the lime and stir the mixture

7) Let it sat for 30 minutes in the fridge

Now, it's done..

 You can taste it and eat it with your salad..

MOTD: Polenta-Lasagna..

My meal for TODAY.. Yummmmsss...

Clockwise: Jalapeno potato chips, salad with tomatoes and tabouleh, and Polenta-lasagna..

Whats in the Polenta-Lasagna??

Well,.. sssshhh... I'll tell ya later..

Right now!! Let's enjoy this meal... Does this meal makes you wanna eat the screen??

Enjoy!!! 

MOTN: Quinoa & salad

I'd a long day today... 
Anyway, as am too exhausted, I decided to cook quinoa.. which is an easy cheezy.. unlike cooking rice.. quinoa only takes like 6 minutes to cook..

How to cook quinoa?
--> 1 cup of quinoa = 2 cups water...

Thats the only thing you need to know and cook it for 5 minutes until the grains are fluffy!!

Quinoa comes in two color:
here, I mix both colors (inca red and inca normal). I think they do have black ones too..

I like my food to be colorful.. Somehow, if my food is not colorful and interesting.. I kind of not interested in eating.. hence, my food has to be colorful.. ;)

Then I saw this salad (bleow) while I was at Walmart a few days ago.. They look so awesome and fresh that I decided to give it a try.. Indeed, they are fresh salad.. At the same time, I bought a bunch of mixed-red roses.. I love roses.. *wink wink*.. and the person who bought that pink roses at the corner too.. Love it!!

Anyway, enjoy!! and have a spiffy night!!..

Tabouleh Salad

I kept looking at the balsamic vinegarette that my boyfriend bought for us, it's unopened yet. He asked me this question before he left for his flight: "Would you use this?"  He such a wonderful boyfriend that I could ever ask for..  I told him that I'll find something to do with it while he's gone.. I missed him..

So after looking at this bottle for a week unopened. I decided to go to the grocery store and bought a few vegetables to make tabouleh. The vegetables I bought: cucumber, parsley, red bell pepper, and tomatoes. Then I bought the wheat germ or bulgur (I think thats what it's called)

Anyway, tonight I made this tabouleh.. I reckon I already put up the recipe here.. The only different is that I use this Balsamic Vinegarette and fine grain kosher salt and organic primerose with flaxseed oil..

Here is the delicious tabouleh. I like my veges to be sliced and cut coarsely instead of fine. Some people prefer the veges to be finely cut.. It's up to you how you want to cut/sliced the veges.



Tabouleh





Dinner plate
peas & carrots couscous, chicken chard soup, poached eggs, & tabouleh

 

Dinner Tonight

What to do if you have so many bread in the fridge.. I've normal bread, sourdough bread, and pita bread and wheat bread.. All of them I put in the fridge to make it last longer after their due date!!.. Why so many breads.. well, my boyfriend bought 2 different types of bread and I bought two different types too.. So it's like raining bread at home!!..

Anyway, slowly but surely the bread started to be gone.. I find a way to make the bread delicious to my taste... This was my dinner a few hours ago.. Pita bread with baked beans & salad.. Then I top it off with beef casserole.. yummmsss!!

I wish my boyfriend is here.. He would enjoy these meal.. and I won't be eating all alone.. :(

Anyway, the casserole was easy peezy to make.. The recipe for making the casserole is in my blog.. Just substitute the cream of mushroom with celery condensed soup and add uncooked ground beef. I didn't cook the beef because it will be cooked in the oven..

Well, it was very  very delicious!!! Yummms...

Enjoy!!

Too many Tomatoes.. Make Taboule

I have too many tomatoes!! What do I have to do with them?? They are perishables!! Well, I decided to make Taboule, mediterranean salad!! Bewarned! This salad is slightly bitter because of all fresh vegetables. If you decide to detox your whole body internally, I would recommend homemade Taboule like such!!

Ingredients:

6 or 8 tomatoes (unseeded, diced)
1 cucumber (unseeded, diced)
1 small size bell pepper (red color is recommended, diced, unseeded)
1 jalapeno pepper (unseeded, diced)
1 tbsp bulgur or Near East Tabouleh (soak in warm water for 1 hr)
1 whole bunch of parsley (cleaned and chopped)
1 tbsp lemon or lime juice
1 tbsp Hemp seed (optional)
1 tbsp salt to taste (you can sprinkle this gradually to taste)
1 small shallot (diced)
1 tbsp Hemp Oil or Olive Oil

Methods:

1. Unseeded and cleaned all the vegetables and diced them in small pieces not too coarse.
2. Pile all the vegetables into a bowl and gently folded them so that the veges are all mix and happy being together!!... lol
3. Add the chopped parsley. Make sure that you don't overchopped the parsley!!
4. Pour the lime or lemon juice. Mix the mixture gently!
5. Sprinkle the oil and mix the veges gently.
6. Then add the soaked bulgur. Personally, I use the "Near East" ready mix Taboule, but u still need to soak the wheat. You can find this at specialty stores or at the mediterranean stores or at Harris Teeter or sometimes at Food Lion.
7. Mix all the veges until they are all HAPPY!!
8. Finally, add salt to taste!

If your taboule is very bitter, add more salt until it's saltish enough to your taste and it doesn't taste too bitter, but not too saltish!! If you like it without the salt, that is fine too, but bewarn, it's very bitter due to the parsley.

Spinach Meaty Eggs Borek

Last night, I decided to make Borek. I did put up pictures of this a few months ago but I didn't write the recipe. The recipe ingredients are easy. All you need for this borek:

1) Ground beef (cooked)
2) Shallots slice thickly
3) Spinach (fresh cut into three lengths)
4) chilli paste
5) Vietnamese/Thai Chilli (small ones cut into small pieces or pound them)
6) Salt and pepper
7) feta cheese (which I forgotten to add into my borek)
8) egg wash (3 eggs+almond milk)
9) Filo dough (4 layers, then 6 layers)
10) hemp seed (1 tbsp optional)
11) casserole dish pan or aluminum foil pan
12)minced garlic (1 or 2 tbsp)
13) Other spices to your taste





For the methods on how to do this, please watch my video. You can change any part of the ingredients to your own taste or your own desire.



It's so yummy!!! Once it baked, you have to cut it while it's hot then let it remain in the oven with the oven temp. turn off.

Anyway, enjoy the meal!! If you have any questions, just write it in my comment form below. Thank you for reading and watching!!!

Chicken soup with couscous

Made this for dinner last evening.. It's couscous.. I thought of making normal white rice, but I decided to make couscous. It's more fluffy and lightweight compared to rice.. and it's suitable for sick person to eat... like me.. as am either having a cold or a flu right now.. So this food is great for person or persons who is/are sick... ;)

Enjoy the view!!

Tuna Casserole with Spinach

My meal for tonight!! I decided to cook this dish together with my spinach and the cheeses I bought from Holland, and string cheese I bought here.. It tasted so delished.. wish I have someone to eat it with.. Sometimes, it made me sad as I kept looking over his empty spot still empty.. I missed my husband... :(

Simply salad and Roasted Bell Pepper Hummus

I made this simple salad dinner to break my Ramadhan fast.. Well, I did drink some juice and chocolate milk.. and ate remaining fried rice.. But I do need my veges..

Anyway, I made the hummus.. It was so so simple, am not sure if I ever put the recipe up here but here is the recipe.. roasted bell pepper hummus..



Ingredients:

1 Bell Pepper Red
Garbanzo beans (1 cup)
salt and pepper
1 tbsp peprika
1 tbsp Tahini Sauce
1 tbsp powdered garlic
1 - 2 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp water


Methods:

1) Boiled the garbanzo beans with salt until it's soft. You can use the canned ones too but you need to drained the water from the canned.

2) Then drained and rinse the garbanzo beans and put it into the food processor.

3) Roast the bell pepper. Once roasted, throw away the seeds and carefully peel the charred bell pepper skin. Then sliced

4) Add the bell pepper into the food processor. Processed both the garbanzo beand and the bell pepper until they are smooth.

5) Add the lemon juice, salt to taste, paprika, pepper, garlic, and water.

6) Blended them smooth.. and taste it. If it's not saltish enough put more salt.

Finally, it's ready , and you can eat it with crackers or salad or by itself.. :)

Enjoy!!!

Chicken Borek (Video)

This is a video on how to make the chicken-spinach borek. This method applies to the previous borek recipe too..



Enjoy!!

Meaty Borek

This is a Turkish delish.. I ate it when I attended the Fair a few months ago. I found the recipe online.. It's delicious.. Here I add feta cheese, and am not a fan of feta cheese, but that's what the recipe calls for... Next time, I would rather not put the feta cheese..



Ingredients:

Gound beef
Parsley
Olive oil
2 eggs
Filo Dough


Methods:

1) Oil the pan using the Olive oil.
2) Lay the first layer of the filo dough, and spread the olive oil on it. Then lay the 2nd layer.. Do the same as the first layer. There should be at least 3 layers
3) Cooked the beef with a pinch of salt and pepper
4) Once cooked, put it aside in a medium bowl.
5) Beat the eggs.
6) Cut the parsley and added it into the cool cooked beef.
(Optional: Add the crumbled feta cheese into the beef)
7) Scoop the beef mixture onto the pan with filo dough. Spread it!!
8) Swizzle the beated eggs. Then add the balance of the beated eggs into the beef mixture. Pour all the beef mixture into the pan.
9) Finally, lay the filo dough on top of the mixture. Then spread the oil on it.
10) Do the same with the next layer. At least 4 or 5 layers of filo dough. Spread the oil on the top layer or spread the egg wash.

Baked at 275F for at least 50 minutes or until golden brown.

Baklava

I went for a walk today at the park in the morning, and I decided to make baklava and pasta casserole for dinner. Woohooo!!! I succeeded in making the baklava!! The problem is that I couldn't finish it all, so I decided that I should give it to my adopted little brother this Friday when I meet him at the rink. With all the sugar in the baklava, he and his buddies can bounce from wall to wall.. with sugar high!! ;)

The recipe can be found at the back of the Ziyad filo dough package.

Enjoy the view!!! *Yummms*

Meat Puff Dessert & Couscous Dinner Meal

I decided to make a special meal tonight for myself. The puff meat dessert is easy to make. I use the puff shell pastry and I follow the directions on the box. The directions would say that you don't use toaster oven, well, I used toaster oven to bake the shells at the temperature stipulated on the box for 20minutes. As for the filling, I use the curry puff fillings or any type of fillings you want to put in it!! Let it cool for 2 or 5 minutes or till it warm to touch.

As for the couscous, I just follow the directions on the box. It's easy to make couscous. Then I stir-fry the cooked couscous like Malay fried rice style. The recipe for the fried rice is in this site, so just browse through it.

It was truly a yummy meal for me tonight!! Enjoy!!