soy sauce

Ingredient Spotlight: Soy Sauce

October 20, 2010 by Tiffany King 8 Comments

This post is part of a new series where you get to link up your recipes! Each week I’ll focus on a different common pantry ingredient. I’ll link to a few of my recipes that feature the ingredient and then give you a chance to link up to your blog.

I’ve got to admit, when I looked back at the Ingredient Spotlight Schedule and saw that this week we would focus on soy sauce, I wondered why I chose to highlight it. But looking through the recipes I have that use soy sauce, I was surprised by the variety.

Yes, there are lots of Asian inspired recipes. But soy sauce also lends interesting flavor to other dishes. Here are a few recipes that include soy sauce: [Read more…] about Ingredient Spotlight: Soy Sauce

Slow Cooker Chicken and Gravy over Rice

August 31, 2010 by Tiffany King 34 Comments

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Some foods just aren’t photogenic. Please forgive me for this photo.

Thankfully, it tastes great. Kid-pleasing comfort food. And it’s a slow cooker meal, which is perfect for busy school days. I adapted it from Mandarin Chicken and Rice Bake from the More with Less Cookbook. I wanted something similar that could be fixed in the slow cooker.

Here’s what you’ll need to make it:

Sweet and Sour Chicken Kabobs

August 3, 2010 by Tiffany King 15 Comments

My oldest daughter loves sweet and sour chicken. She suggested I do a kabob version, which turned out to be a great idea!

I marinated the chicken and then skewered it with green peppers, onions and pineapple. A sweet and sour dipping sauce made it extra delicious and fun.

It does take a few minutes to get everything threaded on the skewers, but it’s worth the effort. Also, be sure to soak the skewers if you are using bamboo so that you don’t turn them into mini torches.

Asian Salmon on the Grill

May 13, 2010 by Tiffany King 15 Comments

Dinner time was creeping up on me and I had no plan. Only four of us would be home on that night. Usually, when Jim is gone we have pancakes but that didn’t sound good. I wanted something fast and easy, but different. Inspiration came from one bag of salmon fillets in the freezer, which isn’t enough for 6 of us, but perfect for 4. When I spied the bottle of sesame seed oil in the pantry, I knew I was on to something good.

I decided to grill the salmon in foil packets with a simple, flavorful sauce made with soy sauce and sesame seed oil.

Sweet and Sour Meatballs over Rice

April 2, 2010 by Tiffany King 26 Comments

A recipe I cut out of a magazine a long time ago, inspired me to create this. The magazine version used barbecue sauce, but I thought it would taste better with a homemade sweet and sour sauce instead. The dish is still very easy to make and the kids loved it. I intended to use a green pepper, but I didn’t have any. I substituted carrots. They were very good and it’s one of the veggies my kids like to eat. [Read more…] about Sweet and Sour Meatballs over Rice