Monday, August 30, 2010

Pork Crock Pot Goulash

Crock Goulash

1 Tablespoon olive oil

1 ½ pounds boneless pork, cut into 1 inch cubes

Salt and pepper to taste

1 large onion, halved and thinly sliced

¼ - ½ cup water

3 cups RED cabbage, shredded

3 squirts of ketchup

1 Tablespoon Paprika

1 clove garlic, pressed

2 Tablespoons flour

½ cup sour cream

In a skillet, heat olive oil over medium high heat. Add pork cubes to the skillet and sauté till browned; salt and pepper to taste. Add the onion and sauté a minute longer. Now add the pork and onion to the Crock Pot. Add the water to the skillet and get up all the browned bits. Add this to the crock. Add the cabbage into the crock and toss well with the pork.

Cook on low for about 6 hours, High for about four, the pork should fall apart with little effort. Stir the flour into the sour cream then turn the crock pot off, and stir sour cream/flour mixture into the pork.

Serve over rice or some beautiful egg noodles.

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Tuesday meal... No oven fires!

So tonight we are having calamari, and some scallops wrapped in bacon to start dinner, then shrimp salad on toasted deli rounds. I'm going to make a nice little jazzed up version of succotash, adding a little onion and garlic and Edamame. YUM.

I'll try really hard not to set anything on fire or do any further damage to my kitchen.

Monday, August 16, 2010

Monday fish!

Okay, I've decided to make crab stuffed Tilapia tonight. NOW my dears lest you think I'm going to lots of trouble let me just tell you that I've cheated. That's right; cheated. The fish came already stuffed with the crab. What I'm planning to do is bake it and top it with a Parmesan Cream sauce that I WILL make myself.

If I'm not completely mistaken, I have some frozen baby brussel sprouts in the freezer and, I'm thinking maybe a risotto of some sort. I'll have to get creative because I'm NOT going to the grocery store; I simply refuse.

Photos later if dinner turns out lovely. If it does not; I'll claim we forgot to photo! Watch me really forget to take pictures now! :)

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Dinner at Mountain Lake first night

Dinner tonight at Mountain Lake Hotel was NOT a buffet; the buffet apparently is a weekend deal. Tonight's offerings began with appetizer (Calamari) Soup (Roasted Red Bell pepper with Gouda) and a salad. (it was a choose two). Dinner itself was a choice of Marinated flank steak, Salmon and Lobster Pinwheels, Breaded Chicken cutlets or Pasta Primavera. Most of us chose either the Salmon or the Flank steak. Both were yummy, but I was happy in the end that I chose the Salmon.
The salmon had a really nice hollandaise sauce and was accompanied by a beautiful tri-colored pasta scented with cumin and a vegetable medley of yellow carrots, edamame, cranberries, and whole wax beans. Yummy!
I had a photo fail for dinner because I had only taken my phone and the battery died!
Dessert was a serve yourself bar and coffee.