Hi, I am Larry. I am so lucky to be married to Saichon. She has graciously agreed to let me share one of my families long time favorite holiday recipes.
This is a recipe that I was given by my great grandmother in Oklahoma. When we were kids we used an old grinder that we cranked by hand. Looking back at it now, I know that as kids we loved to grind up the food in that old grinder and I am sure that my mother loved the time to work in the kitchen with us out of the way! Now Both I and Saichon use a food processor to do the job, takes seconds rather than hours. I have had several that I managed to break, then my mother gave Saichon this one from Wolfgang Puck for Christmas last year. It is a little big for our personal needs but is great when we have dinner parties and we have really used it a lot! It has never complained or stopped working. My only observation of trouble with it is the O-Ring that seals the top onto the unit seems to come off to easily. So whatever you choose to grind up your fruits is great, for us it is a family tradition and I hope this recipe will add a little joy to your holiday as well!
For this recipe you will need:
- two oranges
- one apple
- one 12 ounce bag of cranberries
- one large packet of raspberry Jello
- (Optional) 1/2 cup of walnuts
- one cup sugar
Begin by pouring your jello into a middle sized bowl add 1 and 1/4 cup of boiling hot water and stir until jello is all dissolved. Now pour in your sugar and stir until dissolved. I generally use less than 1/2 cup of sugar but the original recipe calls for one cup. so use your sugar fit your taste.
Set your jello aside and wash your fruit well, core your apple and toss into your food processor, followed by the cranberries, and the oranges and nuts. After all items have been completely ground up, mix into your jello well, add another 1 and 1/4 cups of cold water again mixing well and place into the fridge to set.
As I said this is a family fave, I like to top mine with a bit of whipped topping and eat for desert.
From our family to you we wish you a very merry Christmas, and an awesome new year!
This simple dish that is quick to make and prepare, it served with rice, prepare all of the ingredients first including the rice, it originates from central Thailand and is really spicy dish. if you are not a hot person just has to add less of the chili.
Ingredients
- 1 cup chicken
- 1/2 cup basil leave
- 3 tsp.soy sause
- 3 tbsp. oil
- 4 cloves garlic
- 5 red chilli
- 1 tsbp. oyster
- 1 tsp.sugar
This dish is quick and easy to make if your looking for the sauce to eat with the vegetable, is made with ham and coconut milk, a little bit of chillies.
Ingredients
2oo grams ham, cut into small pieces{1 cup}
2 cups coconut milk
1/4 cup sliced shallots
1/2 cup fermented rice
3 red, yellow green spur chillies cut into short lengths
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
2-3 tablespoon. tamarind juice
preparation
1 place coconut milk into pot with the ham and fermented rice and heat to boiling .
2 add salt, tamarind juice, and sugar to taste.
3 add the shallots and spur chili. when the sauce come to boil. remove from heat.
Serve with fresh vegetables such as cucumber, cabbage,string beans and lettuce
Stir fried rice is great way to use up meal from leftover rice but just because it is meal meal mead from leftover doesn’t mean it can be good or tasty!. You can substitute pork or fish,whatever you have on hand.
Ingredients
2 Cup cooked rice
1/2 cup chop chicken breast to a small pieces
1 red pepper
1 Teaspoon garlic mince
1 tablespoon fish sauce
1/2 cup broccoli
3 teaspoon oil
Preparation
1 chop the garlic and fry with a little oil
2 chop pork into a small bite sized pieces and put into the frying pan to cook for 2 minutes.
3 Add the broccoli stir until the broccoli half cook half done and then add the rice and fry until its warmed though.
4 chop the pepper , onion into a tiny piece.
5 put red pepper , onion, fish sauce, sugar, into a frying pan and cook for 2 minutes, stirring to mix.
6 Add a little coriander to garnish.
Serve with cucumber, tomato.
This is the another snacks dish, most people love to has it when they has the beer or to cut through the alcohol. Is spicy dish make with pork mince or chicken mince and spicy onion to add the strong flavours.
Ingredients
1 cup chicken or pork mince
100 gms glass noodle
50 gms peanut
1 Teaspoon bird chilles
2 Teaspoon fish sauce
2 Teaspoon coriander
1 Spring onion
2 Teaspoon lemon juice
1/2 Teaspoon sugar
1/2 Cup water
1 Teaspoon salt
2 Garlic cloves
Preparation
1 Boil the water to boiling add the salt and chop the garlic add into the pan.
2 When the water is boiling is boiling add the pork mince and glass noddle ( The glass noodle need to sake in the water about 10-15 minute) and steamer for 3 minutes, Then pour out half of the water.
3 Chop the chilles, spring onion and coriander into the pot with glass noodles.
4 Toast the peanuts in a dry frying pan to bring our flavour.
5 Add the fish sauce , sugar, lemon juice, and peanuts and then mix.
Serve with lettuce or tomato.]
If you a fan of seafood try this recipe , Quick and simple in Thai name we call Phu pud prick thai dum.
Ingredients
- 1 big crab
- 1 tbsp. black pepper
- 1 tbsp. garlic
- 1 tbsp cilantro root
- 1 tbsp. oyster sauce
- 1 tbsp. sugar
- 1 tbsp. thin soy sauce
Preparation
- clean the crab real good and then chop in a sized pieces
- put the oil into a pan over a medium heat add garlic and fry with oil for a few seconds.
- add the crab into the pan and then continue to stir fry until the crab is half cook half done, add thin soy sauce , oyster sauce, sugar and then black pepper.continue to stir until the crab is cook.
- serve with rice as the aside.
This dish is a quick and easy to make , delicious Thai treat make a great party, IT is a classic Thai snack with crab meat stick and cream cheese.
Ingredients
- 1 pack of wonton wrapper
- 3 stick of crap meat
- 1 1/2 cup cream cheese
- 2 1/2 tbsp. green onion
- 1 tsp. salt
Preparation
- In large bowl mix all of ingredients
- Place 1/2 tbsp. of crab meat and cream cheese in the center of each wonton
- Fold up one edge of wonton to from the bottom, and roll from one side to the other to create your wrap
- Serve with sweet and sour sauce
These pancakes are a Thai favorite and very rich, There are so many types of filling, i had make the taro filling but you can make cream filling or shredded young coconut. Prepare the filling before you start the pancakes.
Ingredients
- 1 cup purpose flour
- 2 eggs
- 1/4 tsp. baking soda
- 2-3 tbsp. sugar
- 1 cup of milk
Preparation
- Sift the flour mix and baking soda together
- whip eggs until fluffy, add sugar salt and blend, add evaporated milk, flour, butter and vanilla and continue blending, leave it 5 minutes to rest
- you will need a flat non stick frying pan, a little butter while frying can help
- heat the fry pan, pour a small amount of the mixture onto the pan and use a spoon to shape it into a circle and fill any holes
- fry gently until the pancake is brown, then turn it over, while the other side is cooking spread some of filling onto the pancake, then roll it up and set it on a serving plate, serve warm.
This is probably one of the simplest Thai dishs to make, with Halloween coming and you will think what should i do with the pumpkin after the Halloween day. try this recipe.
Ingredients
- 3 cup Pumpkin
- 70 gems pork mince
- 2 tbsp. Thai yellow curry paste
- 1 cup coconut milk
- 1 cup water
- 1 tbsp. sugar
- 2 garlic cloves
- 2 tbsp. oil
Preparation
- Clean and chop-Pumpkin into a bite size pieces
- Put oil-into a pan over medium heat, chop the garlic add to the oil and fry a few seconds
- Add curry paste coconut milk, stir it until the curry is mixed with coconut
- Roll a pieces of the pork mince into a small ball and add to the pan
- Add the sugar , soy sauce and water and fry till the pumpkin is cook
- serve with rice
