Wednesday, July 25, 2012

guacamole salad

Ina Garten recipe

Ingredients
1 pint grape tomatoes, halved
1 yellow bell pepper, seeded and 1/2-inch diced
1 (15-ounce) can black beans, rinsed and drained
1/2 cup small diced red onion
2 tablespoons minced jalapeno peppers, seeded (2 peppers)
1/2 teaspoon freshly grated lime zest
1/4 cup freshly squeezed lime juice (2 limes)
1/4 cup good olive oil
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon minced garlic
1/4 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper
2 ripe Hass avocados, seeded, peeled, and 1/2-inch diced

Directions
Place the tomatoes, yellow pepper, black beans, red onion, jalapeno peppers, and lime zest in a large bowl. Whisk together the lime juice, olive oil, salt, black pepper, garlic, and cayenne pepper and pour over the vegetables. Toss well. Just before you're ready to serve the salad, fold the avocados into the salad. Check the seasoning and serve at room temperature

moo shoo wraps.

1 tbsp vegetable oil
1 tbsp grated fresh ginger
4 green onions, thinly sliced
4 cups thinly sliced napa cabbage or coleslaw mix
3/4 cup chicken broth
1/3 cup hoisin sauce, plus extra for brushing
12 fajita-size flour tortillas

Slice reserved pork (from glazed pork tenderloins recipe), then cut crosswise into thin strips. Place in a bowl and set aside. Cut reserved snow peas and carrots into small pieces; add to pork. In a large nonstick skillet, heat oil over medium-high heat. Add ginger and green onions, and cook 30 seconds. Stir in cabbage or coleslaw mix and broth, and cook 3 minutes. Stir in hoisin sauce, carrots, snow peas, and pork, and heat through. Warm tortillas in microwave. Brush tortillas with extra hoisin, spoon in pork and vegetables mixture, wrap and eat.

glazed pork tenderloins.

1/4 cup ketchup
2 tbsp brown sugar
2 tbsp soy sauce
1 package pork tenderloins, about 2 lbs (2 pieces)
1 tbsp butter 1 bag (1 lb baby carrots)
1/2 lb snow peas

Heat oven to 400 F. Line baking pan with foil. Combine ketchup, brown sugar, and soy sauce. Brush half on pork. In a skillet, heat butter over high heat. Add pork, and brown. Transfer pork to baking pan, brush with remaining glaze. Roast 35 minutes, or until 155 F. Cook carrots 7 minutes in boiling salted water. Add snow peas for the last 3 minutes. Wrap and refrigerate 1 tenderloin, and reserve half of veggies for another meal (moo shoo wraps).