Fried Green Beans

I belong to a recipe club and one of the members (Lynn Socko) submitted this recipe.

I have made green beans tempura style but not using cornmeal as the batter.
So here is the recipe!  My husband liked it and so did I!

Ingredients

	fresh green beans
1 can(s)	evaporated milk
	vinegar
	corn meal
	salt & pepper to taste

Directions

1

Pour milk into semi flat bowl, add about 2 TBL of vinegar, enough to thicken it some. Then add about 1/2 -1 c of cornmeal. You want the batter to be very thick so it will stick to the beans.

2

Heat oil in a deep pan or deep fryer. Put a few beans in oil at a time, making sure they are seperated. Fry till they start floating and look crispy. Salt and pepper as soon as you remove from oil.

I didn 't have evaporated milk so I just used 2% milk and it worked out great.

I also used ranch dressing for dipping sauce and sliced garden fresh tomatoes as a side as well.. The green beans were fresh from our garden.

 

Chili Chicken Pukalani, Maui style

There is a little ma and pa grocery store in Pukalani, Maui , HI that sells

lunches as well and one thing they sell is chili chicken and this is the closest I have come to getting it to taste like Pukalani's take out chili chicken.

Ingredients

	chicken thighs
	salt and pepper
	garlic powder
	flour egg wash
1/2 c	shoyu sauce (soy sauce)
1/2 c	water, hot
1/4 c	brown sugar
1/4 c	chili powder
2 clove	minced garlic

Directions:

sprinkle chicken with the salt/pepper/garlic powder.

Dip into egg wash and roll in the flour. cook in hot oil until well cooked and golden brown.

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While the chicken is cooking make your sauce by mixing well the last 4 ingredients so brown sugar is dissolved.I zap it in the microwave a few seconds to make sure the sugar is dissolved. Set aside.

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3

As the chicken is finished cooking dip in the sauce and place in a baking dish in the oven on low heat(200*) until all chicken pieces are cooked and dipped in the sauce. Then remove from oven and serve.

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If you are cooking alot of chicken then you need to double the sauce recipe.

Favorite Mango Bread

This is our favorite mango bread. I have had this

recipe since my children were in grade school.

That was a very, very long time ago! I got

this recipe from a cookbook that teachers

donated their favorite recipes in Kihei,

Maui, Hawaii

Ingredients

2 c	flour
1 1/2 c	sugar
1 tsp	cinnamon
1/2 tsp	salt
2 tsp	baking soda
3 md	slightly beaten eggs
1 c	canola oil
2 c	coarsely chopped mangoes
1/4 c	coarsely chopped nuts
1 tsp	vanilla extract

Directions

1

sift together:
2 c flour
1 1/2 c sugar
1 t cinnamon
1/2 t salt
2 t baking soda

2

Add:
3 slightly beaten eggs
1 c canola oil
2 c coarsely chopped mangoes
1/4 c coarsely chopped nuts
1 t vanilla
Fill bread pans 2/3 full. Bake at 350* 50-55 minutes.

Shirley's Potato Salad

This is my husband's favorite potato salad and I have been making it for

years. Sometimes I add some macaroni to it as well.. so it becomes potato, macaroni salad so here is the recipe,

Ingredients:

how ever many potatoes you need to make a big or small salad.

eggs, use the same number eggs that you have potatoes

diced onion

finely diced celery

sweet pickle relish

petite english peas that have been defrosted but NOT cooked

hellimans mayo

salt and pepper

Directions:

I boil the potato and eggs the night before I am going to make the salad.

I boil the potatoes in their skins I might add.

Next day peel the pototo skins off and dice the potatoes

peel the eggs and smash them as you would for making egg salad sammies

place the potatoes and smashed up eggs in a bowl.

Add the diced onion and celery

add the pickle relish

add some mayo ,

add salt and pepper to taste.

If the mayo is not enough add more till you get it how you like it.

place in the refrigerator till ready to serve..

lomi lomi with opi (dried shrimp)

This is lomi lomi.. my style if don't have salt salmon on hand..

Ingredients:

tomatoes diced

onion diced

kosher salt or sea salt

dried shrimp (opi) that has been soaked in warm water

 ice cubes (2-3)

dice the tomatoes and onion and place in a bowl.

add the opi and salt to taste and mix all well

add the ice cubes (they will melt and add more liquid to the

dish)

After the ice cubes have melted stir and place the lomi lomi in the refrigerator until ready to serve.



Kalua Pig and cabbage

As you can see I took this picture as the kalua pig and cabbage were cooking.

This is a dish that I make the day after we have had just the Kalua pig.

Its so easy to make a kid could cook it!

Ingredients:

left over Kalua pig

small head of cabbage( slice it to the size you want )

kosher or sea salt

black pepper

a little minced garlic (optional)

In a dutch oven or pot of your choice add some canola oil.

add the kalua pig and some minced garlic

add the sliced cabbage

Mix the meat and cabbage together .

add some salt to taste as well as black pepper

Cook until cabbage is cooked.

At my house we like to add a little shoyu sauce to it before removing from the

pot .

Since we don't have poi here I cook rice for hubby and a pan of cornbread for me.  We have leftover sides with this dish and the sides are: lomi lomi and potato salad.. both recipes I will be posting as well.



Oven Roasted Kalua Pig

Since moving to Vancover,WA in 2008 I have had a new experience of making Kalua Pig over here in the mainland.  In Hawaii my Native Hawaiian husband did Kalua Pig in the imu.. so the recipe below is how I do it here.

Ingredients:

pork butte

kosher salt or seasalt

liquid smoke

water

Directions:

using a fork , poke with the tines of a fork into the meat as far

as you can all over the pork butte.

take some kosher or sea salt in your hand and rub all over the

pork top,sides and underneath

I don't measure the liquid smoke I just pour a good bit

all over the pork butte making sure to rub it down into the holes made with the tines of the fork.  The amount varies with the size of the meat. Use your own judgement.

Set the port butte in the roasting pan adding some water. cover with tin foil and  slow cook it 300 degrees .

When done take out of the roaster onto a cutting board and with two forks shred the meat.  When the meat is all shredded place the meat back in the roasting pan and and mix the meat into the drippings left from roasting the meat .. by mixing in the liquid you won't have a dry shredded kalua pig.

Chinese Chicken Salad

Because it was so hot today I decided to make us a salad and rolls for supper tonight.  And the salad I made is Chinese Chicken Salad.  Very simple ingredients to use and fast on the table!  There is one ingredient that I can't get here in the mainland that I used for this salad in Hawaii and that is won ton chips.. I suppose I could try to make some homemade ones but I know already it wouldn't taste the same so I substituted another ingredient for it.

Note: I had already removed some of this salad and put on two plates for me and hubby.

Ingredients:

lettuce broken up in pieces..

green onions aka leaf onions to me.. chopped

fried chow mein noodles(this is what I substituted for the won ton chips)

cashew nuts

chicken breasts ( I used chicken tenders)

I didn't put amounts here as you can make this a small or big salad.

Directions:

Boil your chicken breast with a little salt. remove when cooked and let cool

in a bowl ( I was making a big salad so used a big bowl)  break up the lettuce into pieces

chop up the onions add to the bowl

cut chicken into bite size pieces add to the bowl

Add the chow mein noodles

Add the cashew nuts

When you are ready to put on the table add the dressing and mix well

i served this salad with rolls.

Dressing:

1/2 tsp black pepper

1 teaspoon salt

1/4 cup  vinegar

1/4 cup sugar

Boil the above ingredients then remove from heat and add the following:

1/4 cup sesame oil

1/4 cup canola oil

Mix well to combine..I doubled the dressing ingredients to make sure there was enough for this big salad..