New Recipies

Though I haven't been writing much, I've been cooking plenty.
This week I made a killer ginger chicken and made some excellent chocolate chip cookies. The ginger chicken is a great, fast prep meal with minimal effort or clean-up, and the cookies are fairly straight forward but use oil instead of butter (cheaper and/or good for the dairy intolerant) and are both crunchy and chewy. Enjoy!


Ginger Chicken

• 8 scallions
• 3 inch chunk of fresh ginger, peeled
  
• 6 cloves garlic
• 3/8 c soy sauce
• 3/8 c honey
• 3lbs chicken (I used legs, but you could use a cut chicken or whatever parts you prefer)

Coarsely chop scallions, ginger and garlic and add first 5 ingredients to the food processor. Process until thoroughly mixed. Place chicken in baking dish in 1 layer and pour sauce over. Put the chicken into a cold oven, uncovered, and set the oven to heat to 350 and cook for a total time (including pre-heat) of 70 minutes. (I like this recipe because I can leave the house or leave it unattended while cooking, then come home and have food on the table in 15-20 minutes) When you are getting dinner ready, flip the chicken and heat the oven back up for as long as it takes to prep rice vegies and a salad (about 20 minutes). Everything will be delicious and moist. The sauce is excellent over plain rice, or stir fried rice if you're feeling fancy. Some steamed or lightly sauteed veggies are also be a pretty and healthy addition.

Lastly, the original version called for 1/8t of 5 spice powder but I forgot to add it....you could try it like that too if you wanted, though it didn't miss anything with the omission.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

• ¾ c light brown sugar
• 3/4 T molasses
  

• ¾ c sugar

• 2 eggs

• ½ c oil

• 1 t vanilla

• 1 c all purpose flour

• 1 c whole wheat pastry flour

• ¾ t baking soda

• 1 t salt

• 6 oz chocolate chips

• 4 oz dried cherries (I used the new costco mix)

Mix all wet ingredients, then mix in dry ingredients untill just mixed (don’t over mix). Add fruit and chocolate and mix. Place cookies on cookie sheet with parchment or silpat Put in oven preheated to 375 for 10 minutes.

We made some tiny and some big…10 minutes was good for all of them. A bit crunchy outside and soft inside.

Yum!