Chicken with cashewnuts

This recipe is written both in English and Italian, I hope also Italians who love oriental recipes and want to try them can find this recipe easy. Like in the past know that it is easy to find ingredients from minimarkets owned by foreigners in my home town Forli (a town between Rimini and Bologna) we have a chinese shop selling products from Asia and Africa.


Chicken with Cashew Nut
Puoi aggiungere verdure mentre cucini pollo
Vegetables can be added while the chicken is cooking if desired.
Recipe:
1/4 cup (2 fl oz/60 ml) oil-1/4 tazza di olio (non usare tutto usa quello che pensi basta senza esagerare olio)
4 garlic cloves (kratiem), minced- 4 pezzi di aglio
1 lb (500 g) boned chicken, thinly sliced-mezzo kilo di pollo senza ossa
Recipe (Sauce):
2 tablespoons fish sauce (nam pla)- 2 cucchiai di salsa di pesce(negozio cinese o thai a forli abbiamo in negozio cinese)
2 tablespoons oyster sauce- 2 cucchiai di salsa di ostriche(negozio cinese o thai a forli abbiamo in negozio cinese)
2 tablespoons sugar- 2 cucchiai di zucchero
1/8 teaspoon white pepper-1/8 di cucchiaino di pepe bianco
1 teaspoon cornstarch/cornflour dissolved in a little water, optional- opzionale se vuoi1 cucchiao di grano o anche o fecola(per addensare il sugino)
1/2 cup (70 g/2 1/2 oz) roasted cashew nuts-mezza tazza di anacardi arrostito
1 green onion/scallion/spring onion, chopped- 1 cippolla verde
1/4 cup sliced red bell pepper/capsicum-1/4 Peperone rosso tagliato
How to cook:
1. Heat a large skillet then add the oil, garlic, chicken, the sauces, sugar and pepper.- con una grande padella metti olio, aglio, pollo e le salse, zucchero e peperone
2. Turn the heat to high and reduce the sauce until a glaze forms. If the sauce is not reduced and is thin, add enough of the cornstrarch mixture to produce a thick sauce. Add the cornstarch and water mixture only if you prefer a richer looking sauce.- Metti a fuoco alto riduce le salse finche glassa appare, se le salse non si riducono aggiungi un di farina per fare salsa densa (se vuoi che risulta piu ricca aggiungi un po di acqua e farina)
3. Mix in the roasted cashews and then turn the mixture onto a serving dish. Garnish with the green onion and bell pepper.- Aggiungi gli anacardi e gira la miscela metti in un piatto e servi
con riso bianco

The making of the soup: Vegetable mill

This is the vegetable mill I talked about in the post on pumpkin soup I use it a lot in the kitchen even to make potato puree it is very helpful and brings out you know a uniformly marshed potato that is very inviting for you family and visitors you might be entertaining



This has been very helpful with feeding my baby from weaning and it continues to be helpful always.


Vegetable Mill

Pumpkin: Not only halloween

I had pumpkin in the fridge and I was not in the mood of making ravioli at all so I needed something else, gave a try pumpkin cream.




What i did was boil the pumpkin and strain it using a special italian strain for vegetables. I should take a picture and post it here because it is of much help, its a manual thing but helped me a lot when my son was weaned would boil a whole pot of mixture of vegetables and strain it to form very soft cream, you have 3 types of measures that you can use. will post the picture here anyway.
Then added some cheese, I imagine but have not tried it could really be smooth if you added some cream, can always go for soya cream with less fats. Give it a try I will definitely be cooking again this week.
My 5 year old son loved it.

Web hosting for blogging Moms

I recently was in search of a good web hosting for my website but I can assure you took me long time to make my decisions. I wish I had found out about web hosting before making my decision. The most amazing thing about web hosting is that they rate web hosting companies based on what every home Mom looking for a web hosting would look for that is customer satisfaction, affordability, reliability, uptime and techical support.

What I have liked about them is that they also give you the packages and if you want to save like me you obviously will be looking for budget quality hosting. I think this web hosting will be beneficial to all Moms out there who read this blog and have something to share and for a long time have been looking for budget but best web hosts for their web hosting needs.

Save yourself all the time searching every web hosting companies, here everything is done for you. All readers of my blogs who love to cook this web hosting page is worth sharing with your friends who are in need of web hosting and need to save themselves the headache of months of search.
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Eating Out in Bangkok

Eating out in Bangkok

last time I posted on lebanese restaurant in Bangkok well I have also the maps here of where to find these restaurants.
If you want to sample different cuisines in Bangkok then this could be one of them. There are also lots of Italian restaurants in Bangkok.

Mediterranean cooking in the heart of Bangkok you find it here:

Lebanese restaurant and also delivery services in the Heart of International Bumrungrund Hospital




The other 2 branches of the restaurant and take away



The lebanese restaurant and take away

Iced green tea cup

I am kind of busy today and did not have a second to sit and eat. So I stopped at Black Canyon and had this take away cup of cold green tea.
Usually I take little of cold drinks here as they really fill the glass with ice and a drop of whatever drink.
But, for a hot afternoon it is a nice way to cool off while you walk around.

Pumpkin Carvings: tips,styles,patterns,faces and stencils

Halloween is coming and as you get ready you might be looking for resources to help you with your Pumpkin Carving and at the same time you might be looking for pumpkin carving patterns or the pumpkin carving stencils
Colour your halloween with pumpkin carving and more pumpkins

All your pumpkin carving links can be found here or here

Other interesting places and links for halloween resources
Witches
Printable Pumpkin Carving...

Halloween Pumpkin Pattern...

Free Pumpkin Carving Stencils...

Pumpkin Faces
Drawing Pumpkin Faces
Disney Pumpkin Carving Patterns
Cool Pumpkin Carvings

Amazing Deals at Zenni Opticals

I am writing this post here because sometime back I blogged again about Zenni Optical, now the offers are back again and now you can buy your pair of glasses at 8 dollars.

For those of you who are new Zenni Optical are sellers of Stylish Prescription Glasses and at very affordable prices.
Zenni Optical online shop has a huge selection of frames.

I know most of my readers who love to cook like me would also benefit much on these offers and I invite you all to have a look and tell friends about the offers so we can help others by sharing information like this.

Again I read in another website people not being able to find the website now you can get to the page through here Zenni Optical, you just need to go to their website to see the wide selection and kind of prices. My sister inlaw was looking for something like this and Im very happy about these kind of offers and I will recommend it to her.
In this difficult times we are happy that Zenni Opticals is helping those who need glasses and otherwise would not afford them

You can read buyers views and comments at Clark Howards live web about Zenni Opticals

eyeglasses

Eating Out in Bangkok

Eating at the lebanese restaurant in Bangkok. The food is yummy, if you are travelling to Bangkok and you like mediterranean style of cooking then you might want to stop by any of the branches in Silom, Sukhumvit and Bumrungrad Hospital branch.

Home Sweet Home

Living away from home and all the cheese makes us every time we travel take advantage of buying some cheese to bring bacck. This is a return from Canada and a brief stop in Paris just to run and shop for some cheese to bring home.



this for sure help us stay in touch with feeling at home. Plus the ravioli and tagliatelle we can make no need to miss home anywhere is home.

Easy Simple and Quick grilled recipe: Cutlets of Chopped Meat

Italian grilled meat

Take good lean beef, clean it well and remove all the little skins and tendons, then chop and after you grind the meat fine in a grinder.

Season with salt, pepper and pinch of grated cheese.

Mix it well and shape it into a ball, then with bread crumbs over and beneath flatten it with a rolling pin. Make a sheet of meat as thick as a silver dollar. Cut it in square pieces and cook in a sauce pan with butter.

When cutlets are browned , pour over some tomato sauce and serve.

Icecream tastes