This is our homemade eggrolls, which turned out great, and super easy and cheap to make, along with our tangy sweet and sour pineapple sauce, honestly this was a great time, and is going to be a great meal for today.
Phase 1 The Egg Rolls
3 carrots quarter of a cabbage 4 cloves of garlic Ginger cut to the size of a thumb Put through a food processor
Garlic food processed first, start cooking in an oiled panned.
Put the rest in the food processor
Add in a pound of ground turkey to the pan and cook and break it up until its in small pieces.
Add in the rest of the veggies mix, Add in a few drops of hot sauce, sesame oil, rice vinegar, light and dark soya sauce and cook it until everything is all cooked.
Let it cool when done.
Once its cooled down take a wraper paint some water in an L shape along the sides.
We Air fried ours, so pre heat your air fryer to 350 degrees, and lets get back to wrapping our eggrolls!
Please watch the videos on how to wrap them, and you want to be sure to get the largest wrapper,
When your ready to cook, spray a bit of oil over all sides.
When the air fryer is ready to go, cook for 7 minutes, and then flip, then air fry for another 5 minutes on the other end and thats done, now all thats left is the sauce.
Phase 2 Saucy!
This is our Pineapple Sweet and Sour Sauce
We take some water, and put some corn starch in it and mix well.
In a pot take 2 cans of pineapple, and leave the juice in.
Add some water to it.
You want to keep mixing as you add things in.
Add some cinimin.
Add some red chili flakes.
Add some rice vinegar.
You need something sweet, but I would add some honey, rather than sugar.
Let simmer for 5 minutes.
You may need to put this through a blender to make it as smooth to your liking.
Let cool and your good to go!
We hope you enjoy this, this should be an amazing and tasty side dish, or just treat, super easy to make and best yet, you don’t need to deep fry this, let us know what you think!
Marinara sauce is one of those Italian sauces that you are going to use on almost every type of pasta sauce, spaghetti sauce, pizza sauce, Lausanne sauce, this sauce is very versatile and can be used for a lot of different things, and honestly tastes great.
And another fun fact, is you can easily buy this, and yes you can, but it also has a lot of preservatives, and not as healthy or even as good tasting. Sure its more convenient, and some times cheaper, but your sacrificing taste, and at the end of the day what do you want a cheap meal, or do you want something that has value and taste!
You might think this is a hard dish to make, and really it isn’t.
First question, do you have a good blender, if not do you have a good food processor? If you don’t have a good blender, take all the ingredients you have to chop and put them through a food processor, if not, chop them as fine as you can, along with the tomatoes take a potato masher and be ready to mash them once cooked, if you have a blender follow along, you can be creative on making things work!
Canned tomatoes are the best you can use for this unless you have ones grown from your garden, buying tomatoes from your grocery store isn’t as good as canned ones.
Phase 1 Choppy Choppy
Chop up one large onion, 2 whole garlics, 3 to 5 chili peppers.
Phase 2 Cook time!
This would be the easiest in a Wok, other wise a big pot might be better, or a very large frying pan.
Add a lot of extra virgin olive oil in your pan and heat it up really good, when its hot and bubbling then go to the next step.
Put your onions in and cook them until they start getting soft.
Add your garlic and cook them until they become fraquent.
Add in a few sprays of white wine, (You can use red, but its a bit heavier, rice wine would be ok too, or you can leave this step out.)
Add 3 cans of crushed tomatoes, you can add what ever type of canned tomatoes you want, for tomatoes they should be canned unless you have garden grown tomatoes, (those are best).
Add a lot of oregano, parsley and basil, and mix that in well.
Add some chili peppers, this step is optional.
Add some salt and pepper.
Cook this out until its done, and take it off of the heat.
Put the sauce through a blender.
Once cooled down bottle and fridge.
This is one of the most tastiest and amazing and far healthier than store bought, if you trying to entertain, this will really impress them, and if your going to do Italian, lets do it right, we hope you enjoyed this!
How often do we go to our favorite breakfast or coffee joint for a breakfast sandwich, in Canada we go to Tim Hortons a lot and we enjoy our coffee and our breakfast there, but it gets costly, and often we can do it our selves, and make it better.
You can choose your own meat, your own cheese, and make it taste amazing, and the best part its what you want, and should be cheaper and healtheir!
So lets break it all down.
Cut an English Muffin in half and spread some mayo over it, if you want to make your own mayo mix you can do that, chipolete sauce would work great here!
Heat up your pan and put an egg on it breaking the yolks and cooking it with pepper and salt (lo or no sodium salt if you can.)
Remove from the stove when cooked and the toast the English Muffin over the stove too, and remove it.
Place your Eggs on the bottom part of the English Muffin.
Put some hot sauce, we like Sweet Thai Franks Hot Sauce on ours.
Put some grated cheese over it.
Put a sliced onion over it.
Close it up and serve.
This was easy, simple, quick and cheap, and honestly worth making for your breakfast, and it really levels your cooking up!
Sandwiches are great, but ever wonder why yours looks bad and get stuck buying one just to get one that looks and tastes great?
I’ve been guilty of it, and I know so have you, but here is the thing, you have to consider the quality of meat your using, the type of bread or bun your using, and sauce and how its going together, it really does mater.
So lets take some time and think about it.
Phase 1. The meat!
The meat is a big part of a sandwich, and often if you go to the store and buy sandwich meat, its thin, not as flavorful and just not the best quality around, so what do we do?
In our video here we used chicken, but you can use pork or a beef product, season it to what you like, pepper, salt if you must (I like low sodium myself), maybe some honey, and bake it until its cooked , but you want it moist.
When done take it out of the oven, let it cool and then slice it thin, or however you like it, many of us don’t have a meat slicer and thats ok, (who has room for that anyways.), when done put it in the fridge for a bit.
Phase 2. Veggies.
Cut up your veggies nice and thin, but remember to use veggies that are dry, cukes and tomatoes are nice and all, but they can often be wet and can make your sandwich a soggy mess, so if your going to use tomatoes make sure you are not putting seeds in, this will ruin it, take those out. you want lettuce or spinach or something similar. make sure to have several varieties or your sandwich is going to be boring.
Phase 3. Sauce.
Directly on the inside of the bun on both sides, I like just plain mayo over that, it acts like a lubricant, and helps keep the bread from going soggy, you can do a mayo mix with hot sauce, or mustard or other things to give it a bit more flavor.
You can use other sauces like BBQ sauces, or a vinaigrette, or other tasty sauces you might want to include.
Phase 4. Cheese
You need cheese, plain and simple and to be honest you do not want cheesewiz, you want something of quality, you can get cheese slices, but honestly that brings you back to just making bland crap, so you can buy a block of cheese and cut that up, or go to the deli and buy a really nice block of cheese, trust me the flavor this brings is so electric and amazing, and trust me the cheese that you get from the deli is actual real cheese, and if you’ve never had it, trust me you need to.
Phase 5. Bread
You could use whtie bread, but when you buy a a good quality sandwich is it on white bread, most often it isn’t, why not choose a multi grain, or even better a nice bun, or roll, after all you want the best quality you can get, and this is going to do it.
Phase 6. Putting it all together!
Ok, so here is the fun part, not the most fun part, that is you eating it.
Take your roll and cut it down the middle, or if its bread just use both slices, but put your mayo, or mayo mix on the bottom of each side, this will act as a lubricant, which helps from keeping the juices getting your bread product
Then put some lettuce on the bottom and layering it nicely.
Now you want to take your meat and start layering that as well, giving it a nice presentation and having enough on it to make you happy.
Now start putting your veggies on it one by one, keeping in mind not to put too many veggies on it as it will make it messy and also hard to close, this isn’t a Subway sub, they do give you lots of veggies, but not a whole lot, and in the end it does look good, but the quality isn’t there.
Now your sauce you want to use, and remember do not over load this, or it is going to be messy, you want to have enough you taste and know its there and are happy, but not so much its going to over flow.
Then your cheese, and you want enough of this, especially if its from the deli.
Then lastly some more lettuce and close your sandwich.
The only thing left to do if you really want, you can put this in a pre heated oven to toast it.
But thats all, try this out some time, and if your someone who would enjoy to bring this to your work for lunch, buy the quantities for the week, and do the math, I bet you its cheaper than buying it every day, and honestly your co workers are going to be jelous!
Anyone with any health issues should respect Chickpeas as they are some of the most amazing things you can eat, they help you a lot, they helped me get my A1C perfect the last few quarters, so they are really good for you. Chickpeas are good for you to the fact they will fill you up and not leave you feeling hungry, while offering a lot of nutrients and are truly one of natures miracle foods.
Waking up to this in the morning is an amazing thing to wake up to try it! Believe me this doesnt take very long.
Phase 1 Ingredients.
4 Eggs
Garlic Powder.
Cheese.
Lime Juice.
Black Pepper.
Stir Fry Sauce.
Smoked Paprika.
Bamboo Shoots.
Apple Cyder Vinigar.
Tomato Paste.
Ginger and Garlic Paste.
Green Beans.
Water Chestnuts.
Onions.
Canned chickpeas.
Phase 2 Cooking.
Oil a frying pan and add your veggies, keeping in mind you want to constantly stir as you add.
Add lots of black pepper.
Add some apple cyder vinegar.
Add some lime juice.
Add your spices.
Add in your drained chickpeas.
Add in some of your stir fry sauce (Not important brand or type, just something you like.)
Let this simmer for a bit, then add your eggs and scramble them in going even through out the dish.
Add cheese to it.
Finally add some tomato paste, and mix well and get this simmering, and your ready to serve into some bowls!
This is a super easy and fun dish to make, and trust me it is filling and your body will thank you for it!
The sausage party is a great treat in the summer, instead of having a crappy hotdog, lets make a sausage, made just right, easy simple, but yet tastes amazing!
Phase 1 Boil The Sausages
Choose your sausages, you can get many different flavors at your local grocery store, but choose the ones that look good and think will taste good, start by taking a pot and boil some water, when the water is boiling start to boil your sauces until they are cooked.
Phase 2 Chop some veggies
I like Onions Red Peppers and Mushrooms, give them all a good rough chop, simple as that.
Phase 3 BBQ Sauce
We could use a simple store bought bbq sauce and it would be easy and done with, and please feel free to if you want, but we like to make things a bit more complicated as it tastes better and youll have a better reward at the end.
In a bowl mix in.
Chinese BBQ Sauce.
American BBQ Sauce.
Dijon Mustard (You can use yellow if thats all you have.)
Rice Wine Vinigar.
Apple Cyder Vinigar.
Mix this well and set aside!
Phase 4 Cook the Veggies.
Cook your veggies down so they are soft but not caramalized.
Phase 5 Re Cook The Sausages
Take the sausages out and slice them up then mix them in with the BBQ sauce, and then fry them up till they are done, nothing to complicated here, you want them to be grilled good.
Phase 6 Fill The Bun
Take a larger hotdog bun, and put your sausages inside it, and then fill with some veggies, you shouldn’t need condiments on this as the BBQ sauce should still be dripping over the sausages that it should do the job fine, and your done!
This was short and sweet and simple, it doesn’t take a whole lot to do this and it tastes amazing, you can serve this with corn on the cob and some fries! You can add cheese on top if you like as well!
Burrito Bowls are great, they are an amazing thing to sit down and share on a cold day, one of my favorite Mexican dishes and I believe everyone can enjoy this, yes, it does take time but not something you need to have a lot of skill to make, just time!
Phase 1 Chicken
Chunk up some boneless chicken breasts, you can use chicken thighs if you’d prefer.
Mix in 2 spoons of minced garlic, some liquid smoke (You don’t need a lot, or it will taste like a shoe.)
Lots of black pepper, some Lime juice, some honey, Paprika, onion powder, and some ground cumin.
Lets this marinate covered for at least 2 hours, for best results, 24 hours.
We used the slow cooker to cook this over 6 hours on low with a bit of wine, and apple cyder vinegar and some water.
Phase 2 Mexican Rice
Take a strainer and put in 2 cups of rice and rinse until the water is clean, this will clean the starch off of your rice and then make it, we used a slow cooker.
We then used a wok to cook the rice mix.
1 Onion and Jalopino put through the food processor and then added to the rice
We used 2 cans of drained corn into the rice.
And some lime juice and then a can of crushed tomatoes.
Mix this well and cook well.
Phase 3 Black Bean Mix
We put 2 onions in a food processor, and then to the frying pan we added 2 cans of black beans, and no we did not drain them we want the liquid, and added some paprika, pepper, cumin and garlic and cooked this till the beans were nice and hot.
Phase 4 Chipolete Mayo
In a food processor we added 3 cans of chipotle peppers in adobe sauce
In a bowl with your now pureed chipolete we added some lime juice, mayo (no miracle whip guys, please.) some sour cream, apple cyder vinegar mix well.
Phase 5 Plate
I would take a huge plate, and a very small bowl, in the small bowl put your mayo in and set in the center of your large plate, and then add every piece of the meal and display well
This is a great meal, you can make guacamole and add lots of different things to it, make it your own, burrito bowls are an amazing treat, and yes they do take some time to make, but its worth every moment, I know my wife loves it!
Apple Butter BBQ Sauce is a great sauce to use on ribs steak, fish and anything, also good to use on toast, all around tastes amazing, and its not even hard to make, just takes time to do, and honestly, I would encourage you to try this!
Phase 1 Prep and Add
Cut up 10 apples cubed and not peeled.
1 Onion.
1 Can of crushed tomatoes.
1 Orange.
1 to 2 Jalopino.
Lots of black pepper.
Salt.
Lemon (Can use lemon juice, or squeeze a fresh lemon.)
Garlic and ginger paste.
Paprika.
Cinnimon.
Honey (You can use sugar, but honey is better and healthier.)
Mustard.
Cloves.
Liquid smoke (Only use a small amount this will taste like a shoe if you use to much.)
Apple Cyder vinegar.
All Spice.
Add everything, apples being the last into a slow cooker, mix things every so often apples last, make sure its all mixed in the end, then you want it on low for 10 hours.
In the end you may need to use an emersion blender, or scoop into a blender to get it smooth if needed, I usually don’t but some times you will. Let it cool before putting in the fridge and you are good to go!
This is a great condiment, and honestly its not so common, but it is something that everyone will love.
What do you think, are you going to use this on your burger tonight? Perhaps on some chicken strips? We hope you enjoy!
Fettuccine Alfredo is a great dish, tastes amazing and one of the more expensive dishes you can get when you go out to eat, and how awesome would it be to be able to share this with your partner and server her a better dish than she would if you went out! I think your date would be super impressed.
Phase 1 The Noodles.
Cook the noodles as directions tell you, however when your done you want to save a bowl full of the water.
Phase 2 Garlic and Onion
Cut up your garlic and onion, start cooking them to caramelize them with salt and pepper. When they are done put them through a food processor to make them into a puree.
Phase 3 Chicken.
Cube the chicken and then cook it, just salt and pepper is fine.
Put it aside when done.
Phase 4 Lets get cooking!
Lets pour some oil in your wok (or large frying pan)
You want to have half a thing of butter, cut up to make melt easier.
Once the butter is melted or close enough dump some heavy cream in.
Then a bowl full of your pasta water (You can dump the rest now, but the flavor of the water is better than just using regular water.)
Pour in some onion and garlic puree, if you had too much you don’t have to have it all just what you want.
Have some grated cheese, I prefer to use blocks and just shred it on my own and on this I would use 1 block, you can use 2 half blocks of different cheese if you like.)
Add the cheese in slowly until its melted, and its important to keep stiring.
Add your chicken (if you prefer to do this vegan just skip the chicken all together.)
Now add your noodles, and at this point let it cook and simmer for another 5 minutes.
This is an awesome meal, and one to impress, its really not a lot of work, but to someone else it may seem like it, I hope you like, what do you think.
Sweet Thai Chili Pork Tenderloin is one of my favorite cuts of meat, and as my friend Tony is famous for saying, eat like a pig,. Well Tony, I think I will, its not a hard thing to cook, takes some time yes, but its well worth it.
In here I’m using cast iron, if your not, it may take a bit longer, and when it comes to baking use a baking tray.
Phase 1 Get the loins ready!
You want to make sure that you are coating all sides with oil, minced ginger and garlic, and paprika salt and pepper.
Phase 2 Sauce me up baby!
In a bowl mix the following.
Honey.
Lo Salt.
Cracked Pepper.
Thai Chili Sauce.
Apple Cyder Vinegar (only a small amount).
Roasted Sesame oil (only a small amount).
Dutch sweet soya sauce.
Mix it all up good,
Phase 3 Sear it.
Piece by piece sear all sides of it until its seared but not cooked.
Pre heat your oven to 400 degrees, (while cooking this take your time and pay attention to your food as everyone’s oven is different and you don’t want to burn this.)
Phase 4 Bake It!
Coat the top with the sauce, and then bake it for 12 minutes, after 12 minutes take it out and flip it and put more sauce over the next side and bake for the final 12 min.
Phase 5 Finishing it up!
Once its done cooking, wait about 10 minutes before doing anything, if you cut into it right away the juices are going to escape and it just won’t taste right!
After 10 minutes start slicing it into thin strips, and your done! Serve this with potatoes, maybe rice, what ever you want, and any veggie you want!
We hope you enjoy this, this is almost my favorite slice of meat ever!
