Garden Fresh Stuffed Tomatoes, Steak Kabobs, and Herbed Rice

Garden Fresh Stuffed Tomatoes, Steak Kabobs, and Herbed Rice, a photo by KS Girl on Flickr.

Stuffed Grilled Tomatoes

First get good hearty tomatoes. We purchased three that fit firmly in our hands.
Because I knew I wanted an onion flavor we picked up an onion roll out of the bakery case at the grocery store, we also grabbed a wheat roll to make bread crumbs out of. When we got home we cut up the bread into cubes and laid it out on a cookie sheet to dry it out, about 30m before I was about to cook dinner I put it in the oven for 5-10m on low 200deg to continue to dry out the bread to make crumbs. When we pulled out the bread we put it in a food processor and pulsed it a few times, so we had mix of sizes. Set aside.
Warm up grill.
Cut the tomatoes in half (side to side) and carefully pull out inside, we had one top that I put my thumb through. Which I had planned on having one or two that I screwed up. No big deal. Put the tomato meat and juice in a bowl and set aside. Put your hollowed out haves in a roasting pan for the grill. Line with foil or coat with oil.
Stuffing:
Add one clove of minced garlic to the bread crumbs, along with fresh -- 1t of thyme, 2t of parsley, 2 leaves of sage, and 2 T of green onions chopped up. Add in 1 egg and 1 T of Olive Oil, and if you need more moisture add a tablespoon or two of the tomato water to the stuffing mix.
Fill your tomatoes with stuffing, and top with slices of parmesan cheese.
Grill for 10-12m, until tomatoes are soft but not falling apart, and cheese is browning-slightly crusty.

Cooks Country Daisy Mae's Delight Cake

Cooks Country Daisy Mae's Delight Cake, a photo by KS Girl on Flickr.

This is less about the recipe for the cake and more about my experience making the cake. I started out wanting to bake, I haven't done much all summer and it seems that I rarely have the time even when I want to. Usually I am too tired or stressed to even crack open a box and add some eggs and oil. However, Saturday I was determined and it seems that determination had to be tested by the kitchen. After reading several recipes and deciding that I was going to make a cake. I set out to make Cook's Country Daisy Mae's Delight out of America's Best Lost Recipes.
This recipe is different from regular cakes, instead of flour it has a special ingredient, graham crackers, and that I had plenty of in my cupboard. Due to summer fun and lots of Smore's I had three half opened boxes of graham crackers. After reading through the recipe I got out the cuisinart and started grinding up graham crackers.
I followed the recipe and even set-up two 9 in round pans to make a layer cake like the recipe suggested. I was out of Baker's Joy flour spray, and opted for the old fashioned grease and flour method. Put the cakes in the oven and went about cleaning up and taking care of other things around the house. Cakes smell wonderful. Timer dings and I pull them out and let them set according to the directions. Go to remove them from the pan and they stick, and then crumble out. I clean up the cake mess, and try a bit, surprisingly good. Upset that they tasted good but looked like mess, I decided making a layer cake isn't in the cards today. I quickly find a recipe for an old favorite Texas Sheet Cake and continue on. My husband comes into help out and starts on part of the cake and I work on the other, we get it together pretty quickly I double check a few measurements, and we begin to put the ingredients together in the kitchen aid mixer. I begin to think it looks thin, but keep on adding in the liquid. I get it all mixed and notice that it looks like soup. Give the recipe a quick glance, and I doubled the buttermilk. Frustrated and heartbroken, I go to the other room and my super sweet husband cleans up. I also believe he sampled a little bit of the cake soup. I have the items to make Daisy Mae's Cake one more time, yes I had that many graham crackers in my cupboard! We decide to put in a 9x13 and call it good. It bakes up lovely, and I made the frosting took it out to my parents house. We had fun playing guess the ingredient. With the cream cheese frosting it tasted more like carrot cake or zucchini than graham cracker. My husband said the kitchen missed me and that it played havoc on my baking so I would spend more time in there... I suppose I shall try to bake more regularly.

Coconut Curried Chicken

Coconut Curried Chicken, a photo by KS Girl on Flickr.

Its adapted from time to time... see notes

1 can of light coconut milk, use 1/2 C for the recipe, and use the rest when you cook the rice.


1- T Oil
Mince up one small onion
add it and oil to skillet and cook until onion is soft add
2 Chicken Breasts cubed
that have been tossed in:
1 t of curry powder

cook in skillet with onion and oil until almost done, whiles your waiting on chicken to cook mix up sauce:

1/3 C of lt Coconut Milk
1 T of Fish Sauce
1 t of red curry paste
stir until curry paste is incorporated and not settled at the bottom.

Check you chicken and if it is close to done, add your veggies which can be snow pea pods or green beans. On the night of the photo we had green beans.

Let cook a little with chicken and onion mixture. Then add sauce, and let cook down. If you need to to thicken add a T of Corn starch to 1/2 C of water mix and add slowly. Once the sauce thickens, add
1 SM can of cubed pineapple with juice.
Let pineapple heat through, stir and coat with sauce. Serve with rice, and top with shredded coconut.

Asian Crock-Pot Pork

Asian Crock-Pot Pork with Veggies and Rice, a photo by KS Girl on Flickr.

Country Style Ribs
Marinate over night in:
1/4 light brown sugar
1 c low sodium soy sauce
2 T Olive Oil
2 T Rice Vig
2 T Lime Juice
2 T Minced Garlic
2 T of Ginger
1 t of Asian Hot Chili Sauce

Drain off sauce and discard in the morning or after 8hrs.

Cook on low for 6-8hrs depending on crock pot, ours took 6, but it cooks things quickly. Pull pork off bone and shred which shouldn't be hard.