Cakes & Candy Bars

Meredith’s Thai Noodles

Island girls — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:47:18 +0000

What to make? What to make? Let’s make something Thai for tonight…..

1/4lb dried rice noodles
3T vegetable oil
1T chopped garlic
1t ground ginger
1 can wild salmon dusted with curry powder or fresh fish, chicken or shrimp
3T fish sauce
2T soy sauce
2T sugar
1t sirracha sauce
1T peanut butter
1/2c coconut milk
1 egg, beaten, cooked and chopped
3 green onions
Any vegetables, for us its kale, cauli, snow peas and zuchinni
Basil chopped
Cilantro chopped
1/4c chopped peanuts
Lime wedges

Boil water & add rice noodles 5 minutes to soften. Remove from water.

In a wok or skillet heat oil on medium heat. Sauté garlic, veggies, onion. Add ginger and sauce ingredients. Then add salmon chunks. Heat through with coconut milk. Toss noodles with sauce. Serve with peanuts, lime and herbs.

Serves 2 with leftovers.

Halibut with Ginger & Scallions

Island girls — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:05:47 +0000

Get daily healthy recipe emails from this site! Today’s looks amazing, that’s what we are having.

Halibut with Ginger & Scallions

Mmmm…this is good

Island girls — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 18:51:15 +0000

It’s a Keeper! A great blog. And their links page will lead you on to the recipe holy land. Follow link to link and get loads of ideas. It is a great way to kill some time & figure out what’s for dinner !!

Salisbury Steak

Benedict Baskets

Island girls — Thu, 05 May 2011 12:43:11 +0000

Here is a delicious recipe for Cinco de Mayo or Mothers Day! Add chile and avocado for a Mexican twist.

Benedict Baskets

Sites we love for holiday ideas

Island girls — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:07:52 +0000

Great ideas………

tipjunkie.com

Food ideas………..

delish.com

Home ideas………..

beachandbarn.blogspot.com

Just darling………..

theinvitationlady.blogspot.com

Bulgaria – Baked apples with vanilla syrup

Island girls — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:30:04 +0000

Oh how I miss the fall. I buy spiced candles, watch football, have friends mail me leaves to try to capture the feeling while living in the tropics. I usually can buy cider and pumpkins and of course I can cook all of my fall favorites. I have chosen from Bulgaria an apple dish with walnuts because it is that time of year! This is what we are making today.

Baked apples with vanilla syrup
Ingredients:
8-10 eq. sized apples
1/3 cupful walnut kernels
3/2 cupful sugar
vanilla, cinnamon according to taste
50g butter

How to prepare:
Peel and carefully hollow the apples. Prepare a stuffing from the beaten butter, 3/4 cupful of sugar, crushed walnut kernels and cinnamon. Stuff the apples and place in a lined dish, pour over 1-2 spoonful of water and bake in a moderate oven. Serve cold, sweetened with syrup made from cupful of sugar, 1 cupful of water and vanilla. The same recipe may be used for quinces and pears.

Bulgaria

Brunei

Island girls — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:14:18 +0000

I love reading other blogs and this one I found for Brunei has been a shining star. The author has two cookbooks, one My Favourite Recipes book by foodie bloggers benefits the Brunei Special Olympics and the second Pink Desserts is to benefit the Brunei Breastcancer Support Group. We don’t see any recipes on the blog, but I really want to track down this book to make some Pink Desserts!!

http://chittychat.wordpress.com/category/recipes/

Trip Hole has some fantastic pictures of Brunei’s 13 most popular dishes.

http://triphole.com/13-popular-food-and-dishes-in-brunei-cuisine/

Brunei

Brazil-Coxinha

Island girls — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:40:48 +0000

Dear Readers, We only know one man from Brazil and that is the famous “Mango” who lives here in the Virgin Islands. He is famous for being a very fun person to be around as well as for the quote “beaches and turtles everywhere!” We turned to him for our Brazilian recipe and this is his favorite appetizer. Enjoy!

Coxinha INGREDIENTS:
3 boneless chicken breast½ chopped onion2 chopped cloves of garlic6 tablespoon margarine 2 cubes beef bouillon salt ground pepper 3 cups all-purpose flour 1 (8oz) cream cheese 2 eggs Bread crumb

PREPARE:
Combine chicken breast, chopped onion, garlic, beef bouillon, salt, ground pepper, margarine and 3 cups of water in a pressure cooker. Place the pressure cooker in medium-heat. Chicken is ready 10 minutes after the regulator starts to blow steam.(If you don’t have a pressure cooker, cut chicken breast into 2-inch cubes and cook with the same ingredients in a saucepan over medium-heat for about 30 minutes or until done.)Remove chicken breast from broth. Finely chop chicken breast to make the coxinha filling.You can increment the filling with parsley, green onions. But do not add liquids to the filling.Bring exactly 3 cups of the remaining broth to boil. Add the 3 cups of flour into the boiling water and stir vigorously with a wood spoon for about 1 minute until it become dough. Take dough out of pan. When warm, knead dough until it becomes smooth and dissolve the flour lumps (about 10 minutes).Flatten dough with a rolling pin to about ¼-inch thick and cut medium size circles with a biscuit cutter. Place the dough in your palm, place a small cube of cream cheese and a teaspoon of chicken filling previously prepared.Dose the ingredients according to the size of the dough circle you cut so that you can close the dough with the filling inside. Knead scraps and re roll, repeat cutting circles until all dough is used.Fold and close the dough in a shape of a drum stick (a little chicken drum stick in Portuguese translate to “coxinha”). Grease hands if necessary. Baste the filled dough with egg whites and roll them over breadcrumb. Deep-fry the snacks 350 °F for about 8 minutes or until golden brown.

SERVE:
Place in baking cups and serve with guaraná. SERVING SIZE: 60 bite size coxinhas or 30 mediums. Mango

Islandgirls reporting

Island girls — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 23:32:50 +0000

Good evening,

Hurricanes and clothing companies is what we have been up to, but we are hungry for something new! This week we are cooking from Brazil, Brunei and Bulgaria. Join us as we continue our culinary world adventure.

Island love,

Mere & Kaila

Hurricane Earls Chicken Corn Soup

Island girls — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:17:55 +0000

Chicken Corn Soup

2 12.5oz cans of white chicken
1 can corn
1 can cream of corn
1c vegetable broth
3/4c celery
1T each oregano, paprika and cumin
Basil
2t salt
Evoo
Bacon grease

Sauté celery in a couple spoonfuls of bacon grease and dash of oil. Add add other ingredients and simmer. Serves 4.