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Nissan Backpack Bottle

Just recently got this Thermos Nissan Backpack bottle, it's probably the most highly engineered beverage container on earth. Easy to pour or drink out of, and today I filled it with hot coffee near 7:30am and it was still literally piping - extremely - hot at 4pm. This really amazed me. The top pops open and flips back with ease and it's very comfortable in your hand. It holds 16 ounces. It's clever little locking mechanism makes you feel comfortable about dropping onto the seat of your car sideways, and it's sturdy stainless construction and thick plastic top with silicone gaskets will survive rolling around on the floor after it's empty (get real, who doesn't do that). Everything made should be built as tough as this thing.

Jimmy's Extra Chunky Bleu Cheese Dressing

Absolutely one of the best commercially prepared dressings, Jimmy's Extra Chunky Bleu Cheese Dressing is fantastic. It's rich and creamy, a very sturdy recipe that's hearty and everything you'd expect in a fine restaurant-prepared dressing. If you enjoy buffalo wings, you shouldn't be without a jar of this great dressing.

Zatarain's Blackened Spices

I wanted to say how much I've enjoyed this Zatarain's Blackened Seasoning spice mix. It's pure wonderful flavor, rich and complex, it can make the ultimate spicy burger or chicken fillet. It does have a pretty good kick to it, but I wouldn't say its only function is heat, in fact you really have to be liberal with it's application for the recipe to become "spicy hot".

My favorite use for this is heartily seasoning a burger, then topping with a little more cracked black pepper and Maytag Bleu Cheese. Serve with a Kosher dill wedge over a bed of Romaine lettuce, and you've got a high protein low carb delicious lunch or dinner.

Japanese-Style Curry Beef

This hearty method for curried beef stew is great for a quick dinner. The S&B Curry Sauce mix makes just an excellent tasty meal, great for evenings when you don't have time to cook when you get home. This whole recipe can easily be done in a Crock Pot slow cooker in the morning, and you'll be rewarded with a hot, yummy meal when you arrive home.

Cubed stew meat such as a rump roast or round roast is perfect for this, as you'll cook it slowly. I brown a chopped onion and the meat in a little vegetable oil, at this point you could transfer it to a slow cooker, and continue, I chose to cook it slowly in a stock pot over low heat, but had I been gone for the day, I would've used my Crock Pot.

Add 3 cups of water and the curry sauce block. It very quickly melts to make a well seasoned, flavorful sauce. The block looks kind of like a big bar of chocolate!

I add potatos and baby carrots, cover and let simmer for 3 hours, In a Crock Pot, this is just fine to let simmer for 9 or 10 hours, you'll have very tender meat.

I added about a cup of frozen peas right before serving, and wanted just a touch more salt in it, so I added about 4 Tablespoons of Soy Sauce. From there, just serve it with some fresh bread, here's a loaf from my bread machine. A great meal, extremely simple and satisfying. It's become a staple comfort food in the winter for us, the mild curry spices warm you right up, and my kids really like it too.

Vietnamese Iced Coffee

Vietnamese Iced Coffee is an incredibly rich and velvety smooth coffee drink that's quick to prepare and absolutely amazing, sure to impress friends and liven conversation after dinner. If you're a coffee drinker, there is no doubt in my mind that you'll love this beverage, after all, with years of French influence in Vietnam, their culinary skills and practices have become a beautiful art form. Vietnamese is really modern Haute dining at it's finest. I would consider this drink to be almost a dessert, it's so rich, it could easily be served as such.

Trung Nguyên Coffee is excellent for this drink, it's an extremely dark French-style Vietnamese coffee that has a spicy, smoky and dark chocolate flavor. It can be purchased at most any Asian markets, and I've seen it at a number of larger supermarkets in their Ethnic Sections. It's suprisingly inexpensive, usually a 500g box is in the $5USD ballpark. Inside the box comes two seperate vacuum bags to keep your coffee fresh, a thoughtful touch by the company.

You'll need either a French press or more efficently, one of these little stainless single serving press coffee makers, perfect for this coffee, when it's served at a Vietnamese restaurant, this is what you'll get. Many Asian markets have these, and there's one on the page for Trung Nguyên, linked here. They're reasonably priced, indeed the one in the previous link is $4.50 USD, and because they're made of stainless with no mechanical parts other than a screw in the center, they should last literally forever.

A can of Sweetened Condensed Milk (not Evaporated Milk). Any brand will do, but to be specifically Vietnamese, a brand like Black and White Full Cream or Longevity Brand Full Cream is the closest to authentic. Yes, the nutrition stats and calories on this are painful, but you only use about a tablespoon per cup of coffee, and as desserts go, this drink is easily as satisfying as a piece of French Silk Pie, with far fewer calories and fat.

Have a glass of Ice Ready, you'll need it shortly!

Place a heaping Tablespoon of coffee in the coffee maker, screw it down tight, then back off the screw one full turn. Fill the coffee maker with boiling water and it will slowly drip into your coffee cup below. If you're noticing it progressing much too slowly, use a teaspoon in the little slot and loosen the screw another half turn. After doing this a couple times, it will become second nature to brew the perfect cup, it should be as strong as espresso; that's perfect for this drink.

When all the hot water has brewed through, add a Tablespoon and a half of the Sweetened condensed milk. Stir the hot coffee and the condensed milk together, and pour over your glass of ice.

Here's the finished product, a beautiful milk-chocolate colored glass of iced coffee. I hope you enjoy this as much as I do, and good luck in your next culinary adventure!

Teriyaki Beef Stir Fry

Stir-frys are some of the most fantastic and healthy meals we can make in our kitchens. Tonight I made a Teriyaki Beef Stir Fry, as you can see, it turned out fantastic.

I don't overthink or even follow directions when stir-frying usually, but I kept track of what I put in this one to help out others as a guide.

If you're going to serve it with rice, it'll take 25 minutes for the rice, and this will be done long before then. I had it prepped and cooked in less than 15 minutes.

1 lb. Thin sliced Tri-Tip sliced against the grain
1 C. Broccoli Florets
1 C. Sugar Snap peas, strings removed
A can of water chestnuts
A can of baby corn
A large yellow onion
1/2 C. Shredded carrot
4 T. finely diced fresh ginger root
4 Cloves of garlic, pressed
1/2 C. Aji-Mirin (Sweet Japanese Rice Wine) for marinade
1/4 C. Dark Shoyu or San-J Tamari
1 T. Dark Brown sugar
Slurry of 3 T. Cornstarch disolved in 5 T. of Aji-Mirin
3 T. of Canola Oil

Let the beef stand at room temperature in the Aji-Mirin to marinate for whatever time it takes you to prepare the vegetables.

Cut the onion and broccoli to bite-sized pieces.

Heat the oil almost to smoking and add in this order:
Beef (wait till it gets a nice crackling coating)
Ginger, Soy Sauce and Brown Sugar at the same time
Onion (stir till starting to get translucent)
Garlic, Carrot, Corn and Water Chestnuts at the same time (stir fry 2 minutes or so)
Add the Slurry of Cornstarch, it should thicken almost immediately
Broccoli and Sugar Snap Peas at the same time, when the Broccoli is tender, the dish is done.

Some basic principals of stir fry:
Mise en place. That's French for "Everything in it's Place". Get all of your ingredients out in front of you, you don't want to be hunting for the broccoli in the back of the fridge while your onions are burning.

High Heat. You want that seared-in great flavor that only high heat and quick cooking can bring, it brings out the flavor in vegetables and brings the sugars out of meats, allowing them to carmelize.

Keep Stirring! There's sugars in many of these sauces and they can easily burn on the bottom of your wok.

Thai Coconut Curry

I'm always looking for something good and quick to serve, and this dish totally does it. Very difficult to botch, and just excellent.

Thai Coconut Curried Chicken
Fresh Kaffir Lime leaves or Thai Basil leaves as garnish
Fresh bean sprouts as a crunchy topping
Lime wedges to cut the heat a little, and give it a zing

1 Can bamboo shoots
1 lb. Chicken boneless, cut into strips: I like thigh meat best for this, but breast meat works too.
1 Can Coconut Cream
Red or green curry paste to taste, Thai Kitchen has a generally-available preparation (2 to 6 Tablespoons depending on how hot you like it)
Salt
2 T. Fish Sauce

Combine the curry, salt, and coconut cream then bring to a simmer, be careful how hot you get it, coconut milk can scorch.

Add the chicken and bamboo shoots, cook till chicken is done in the middle (breaks apart easy)

Add the fish sauce right before serving, garnish with basil leaves or Kaffir Lime leaves, drop some bean sprouts on the top all nice and crispy and squeeze a lime wedge over the dish.

Serve over sticky (Botan Calrose or equivalent) rice.

Bella Cucina Artful Food Sweet Pepper Pesto

My sister bought me this excellent pesto and I must say, it was absolutely wonderful. I served it just tonight on angel hair pasta in a kind of a primavera with sugar snap peas, onions, mushrooms and julianne carrots. My family loved it.

I don't have any affiliation with this company, so I can honestly say that it's very good. It has a bright, sweet pepper taste, a wonderful blend of herbs and a hint of olive oil, so the mouthfeel is like velvet.

I've done roasted pepper emulsions before with olive oil, and this very much tastes like you did all the work of peeling the peppers, roasting and blending, hide the jar and no one will know you didn't work on the sauce for four hours!

For a quick easy meal, try this product. They've also included a recipe to blend it with cream cheese for a party dip, and I think that would be really yummy.

Bella Cucina Sweet Pepper Pesto