Chicken Salad Sandwich

Ingredients:
1 cold cooked Chicken Breast, cubed, preferably from leftovers
1/4 Cup Mayonnaise
1 stalk of Celery, diced
1 dill Pickle, diced OR 2 Tablespoons of dill Relish
Salt, to taste
Pepper, to taste
Sliced Bread

Directions:
Mix all ingredients, except for Bread, in a bowl. Spoon onto bread, and eat!

potato

meatloaf

Platanos Fritos

The Platanos on the left side of the plate are "unripe", and the ones on the right side of the plate are ripe ones, notice how they are much darker after being fried. The riper ones are sweeter, and personaly, my favorites.

Ingredients:
3 Platanos (Plantains), ripe (mostly black peel) or "unripe" (yellow peel)
Oil for frying
Salt
a Cheese cloth or Paper Towel
a Meat Hammer

Directions:
Heat oil in a frying pan. Peel the Platanos, and cut into 2-inch pieces. Fry these pieces for a few seconds, until the outer portion is lightly fried, remove from oil and place in a dish to cool (this should not take long since they were only frying for a few seconds). Place one of the rounds vertically between the Cheese Cloth (fold the cheese cloth over it so that it is both bellow and above the Platano). Then, with the meat hammer, pound the platano until it is a flat disk. Once you have completed this with all the pieces of platano, put them back int he frying pan and fry until they are crispy. Remove them from the oil and drain them on a paper towel or the cheese cloth. Sprinkle with salt.

If the Platanos are very ripe and soft, cut into slivers and only fry once. Then serve, they most likely do not need to be sprinkled with salt, but use your descretion.

Baked Sweet Potato

Yes, I was surprised too to find a Sweet Potato that is white in the middle, this is an Asian variety which is not as sweet at the orange ones.

Ingredients:
Sweet Potato(es)
Aluminum Foil
Fork

Directions:
Preheat oven to 200°C (417°F). Wash the Potaot or Potatoesm aking sure to scrub off any soil. With a Fork, prick the Potato a few times on each side. Wrap each Potato in Aluminum Foil, making sure the entire Potato is covered. Set in the middle of the oven. Bake for 1-2 hours. The Potatoes depicted in the picture above took 1 hour to bake, but the larger one (not depicted) took 2 hours to bake). To know when the Potatoes are completely cooked-through, wear a protective covering on your hand, such as an oven mit or siliconve oven glove, and squeeze the Potato. If the Potato feels like it is squeezing in half when you press it, it is done,if it is still hard, it must be baked longer.

You may top with what ever you like, I like to just top it with butter.

Spaetzle Auflauf

Ingredients:
2 Cups of uncooked Spaetzle
1 teaspoon Salt
1 Carrot, chopped
1 Cup of steamed Brocolli
1 Leek, chopped
1-2 Cups of shredded Gouda Cheese

Directions:
Preheat oven to 200°C (417°F).
Bring water and Salt to a boil in a medium-sized pot. Add the Spaetzle and boil until cooked (about 10 minutes). Drain Spaetzle, and then place in a small casserole dish. Mix in all vegetables and cover with cheese. Use more or less cheese depending on how cheesey you like your casseroles.

Bake in the oven for 15 minutes, or until the cheese has melted.
Bring water

Mom's Spaghetti Sauce

Ingredients:
1/2 Lbs. ground Beef
3 Tablespoons Olive Oil
1 Onion, chopped
2 Garlic Cloves, crushed
2 Celery stalks, chopped
7 oz. can of sliced Mushrooms
1/8 Cup of Milk
1/2 teaspoon Sugar
1 teaspoon Oregano
1 teaspoon Basil
1 teaspoon Salt
1 Dash of Pepper
400-gram (14 oz.) can of Diced Tomatos
7 oz. (1/2 can) of Water
200-grams (7 oz.) can of Tomato Paste

Directions:
In a medium-sized pot, brown the beef, and then drain the fat. Add Olive Oil, Onions, Garlic, Celery, Mushrooms, Salt, and Pepper. Saute until the Onions are soft. Add Tomato Sauce, Tomato Paste, and 7oz. (1/2 can) of Water, Milk, Sugar, Oregano, and Basil. Mix. Bring to boil on high. Cover and reduce heat to low. Cook for 45 minutes. Serve over Spaghetti or Rice. Makes enough for 4 servings with Spaghetti.

Wonton Soup

Ingredients:
20 Wonton Wrapers
175g mixture of ground Pork and ground Beef
1.2 Liters of Chicken Broth
1 Tablespoon of Beef Boillion powder
1 - 2inch piece of fresh Ginger
1 Carrot, jullianed
1 Cup chopped Bok Choy
4 fresh Mushrooms, sliced
1 Green Onion, chopped
1 teaspoon Oystersauce
2 teaspoons Soy Sauce
2 teaspoons Sherry

Directions:
Mix the ground meats together with 1 teaspoon of diced fresh Ginger. (When I made this recipe, I cooked the Meats and Ginger together, andthen filled the Wonton wrappers, but I would leave it raw next time because teh texture was not correct)
1. Take 1 Wonton Wrapper and lay it on a flat serface. Take 1 teaspoon of the Meat and Ginger mixture and place it in the middle of the Wrapper fron one corner to another, as depicted in the top-left of the picture.
2. Lightly wet the top and bottom corners of the Wrapper and fold over the meat to creat a triangle, and depicted in the centerl-left of the picture.
3. Roll the bottom of the Wraper up towards the point, once, making sure not to cover the tip, as depicted in the bottom-center of the picture.
4. Wet the side tip of the Wonton Wrapper and fold it towards the center, asdepicted in the center-right of the picture.
5. Repeat step 4 with the other corner. Your finished Wonton should look like the WOnton depicted in the top-right of the picture.

*When using water on the corners, make sure to use enough. The water is meant to make the wrapper stick together so that your Wonton doesn't come appart when you cook it.

Directions:
Soup:
In a large pot, boil 1.2 Liters of Chicken broth. Add to that the Beef Boillion powder. Add to the liquid the left over fresh Ginger, peeled, and cut into half. The Ginger is only meat to be cooked in for the flavor, and then removed before eating. Once these ingredients have come to a boil together, add the Carrots, Bokchoy, Mushrooms, and Green Onion. Boil for about 20 minutes. I prepare the Wontons at this point, they only take 15 minutes to puttogether, even if you are a begginer. After the 20 minutes, stir in the Oyster sauce, Soy Sauce, and Sherry. Remove the 2 large peices of Ginger at this point.

If you used raw meat in the Wontons, follw these instructions, if not, skip to the next paragraph. In a seperate pot, bring 2 Liters water to boil. Place the Wontons in the boiling water, 5 at a time is more managable, and boil until they float to the top (that means they have cooked) about 4-7 minutes. Remove the Wontons with a slotted spoon and put them into the Soup.

If you used cooked meat in your Wontons, then place the Wontons directly into your soup and let cook for about 30 seconds. Serve the soup imediatly.

I think this amount makes a good meal for 2 people with some rice on the side. But, it would make about 4-5 servings as a side dish.