Sunday, April 08, 2012

Moorish Chicken and Pine Nuts Pie

This is my first Moorish Chicken and Pine Nuts Pie.     I am quite pleased with the tasty results of mixing raisins, spices, and pine nuts with shredded roasted chicken breasts enveloped in home made puff pastry.     The recipe calls for raw chicken pieces.     I roasted the organic whole chicken with whole Dijon mustard stuffed between the breast and skin + salt & pepper.    Then finger shredded chicken breast.    I vacuum packaged the rest and freeze them for other use.





Home made Pizza dough with Ground Turkey Pizza Sauce

Once you learned a good pizza dough recipe, it's almost unthinkable to eat the pizza out.... but naaa...  sometimes, it is just so enjoyable to have them made by someone...
This pizza crust recipe here is from the Mozza book.    I just love it.     Just like Jamie Oliver's Hamburger and Hot Dog buns recipe, you come to trust it and do it over and over with confidence.     The sauce is half scratch half ready made jar of Ragu's Mushroom Spaghetti sauce.      One night my sister decided to treat me to spaghetti.     She made so much that I was able to add other ingredients - fresh romano tomatoes, more spices, Parmesan cheese, etc, and made into pizza sauce / topping and sloppy Joe with it.

Japanese HOKKAIDO Loaf Bread with Raisins

I tried to make the same soft bread, but I am afraid I have let it proof 30 minutes too much.    So, it is non-conclusive that if the Gold Medal's unbleached flour produces the bread texture of fine crumb with long strands like the breads sold at most of the Asian grocery stores.
 One dough made into three different breads - Bread with Raisins, White Bread, and Hamburger buns.



 Ground Turkey Sloppy Joe.      Actually, it was a ground turkey spaghetti sauce that my sister made.      We had so much of it, that I made it into Sloppy Joe and pizza sauce.