Thai Chicken

SIGH! Thai Chicken. It was a huge success. EVEN Gramma liked it and it has a slow heat to it (she's not fond of spicy foods). It's fairly simply dish. Just get A Taste of Thai Peanut Sauce mix from your local grocery store. Brown up some chicken. Cook up some rice, add a few veggies (in my case we did Broccoli) AND (in the words of Emeril) BAM! you have Thai Chicken. You can do all different variations of this dish...with rice noodles, with steak, with pork, with turkey, with onions, with ANYTHING! I love the peanut sauce it's simply the easiest one I've used (not that I've used many) hahah! Mom says that this is one to keep on the books, she's started to <3 the ones we like. hahah this will get a BIG heart!

As usual I got some pics: 

This is the peanut sauce. It just adds soo much color to the plate.

 

Rice, Chicken, Broccoli and Peanut Sauce... YUM!!

The PERFECT bite!

A satisfied sampler (that's fancy for eater)!

Arin's probably the toughest critic, that's fancy for picky! Now you know it's good!

 Well my avid fans. I hope you get as much success from this one as I did! Tomorrow is Baked Potatoes...hold on I have a special way to bake these Hot Ones...Until tomorrow...Fancy it up!

AEbleskievers

Tonight I made AEbleskievers (that's fancy for Pancake Balls). I'm pretty sure they are Dutch. We got this recipe from our good friends the Allred's. We met them in Japan and have remained close since! They are fun and you can put whatever you'd like on/in them.


Here are some Pics for your viewing pleasure:

This is an AEbleskeiver pan and helps get the round shape.

Not sure what else you could possibly make in this...

You have to turn them about three times to get them fully cooked...

Things move fast as you are cookin' them!

Finally you have a finished product. 

Here Andrew choose Chocolate Syrup drizzled about them.

Recipe:


AEbleskievers

2 cups buttermilk*
2 cups flour
4 yolks
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
2 TBS sugar
4 TBS melted butter
4 eggs whites, stiff

*if you don't have buttermilk you can make sour milk with 2% milk and white vinegar. about 1tsp per cup. let it sit a while to let it curdle a bit.

Combine all ingredients in a bowl, except egg whites. Beat egg whites until stiff (while beating periodically stop to see if you can make little mountains with the beaters, once that happens make sure there's no more liquid in the bottom of the bowl. when in doubt Google stiff egg whites and check out some pictures). After they are stiff, FOLD them into the main batter... this will give a frothy, light look to the batter. Heat up your pan and start cooking...If you'd like detailed instruction on how to turn them, let me know I'll see if I can't make a video.

 Tomorrow THAI CHICKEN! I'm so stoked! Until next time, Fancy it up!

 

Starting Fancy That!

So let me tell you a bit about the creating of this blog. I'm an avid Food Network fan and after watching this season of Next Food Network Star I came up with the concept of what I wanted my food show to be: FANCY THAT! w/ Ashleigh Page... In this show I would help regular joe's (jane's) sound fancy...example: "Today I made a crème brûlée..." When that's just fancy words for Burned Cream. As I've been thinking about this concept I've gotten big into making a Menu for our family. SATURDAY I spent most of the day planning meals for all of September.

Many of our meals are new recipes for our family and things we don't normally eat, cause I'm getting tired of the same things every week. So I thought each night I would tell you, my AVID fans, if the dish was a success and list the recipe. I'm super excited to get started. My first meal will be Tuesday where we will have...Thai Chicken with Peanut Sauce (which I first made in New York, and is delicious). So until next time, Fancy it up!