Sunday, September 13, 2009

Ok, here is yesterday's Epicure inspirations

So first of all, it was my son's 10th birthday party which meant homemade pizza. I have always made homemade pizza, but Epicure makes it better. First of all, I make my pizza sauce out of basic tomato sauce and Epicure's Pizza seasoning. I also sprinkle the pizza seasoning over the pizza before I bake it.

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Soooo delicious! I make my own homemade dough generally, but because I was making a TONNE of pizza I went the easy way and used ready make shells. One day I will post my homemade dough though because it is delicious and uses Epicure seasonings ;) Pizza is always a huge hit in our house. I made 4 of these puppies!

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Secondly I made a noodle/stir-fry dish. This is one of the fastest and easiest meals to make and makes me feel like I am eating out when I am eating in.

Cast of Characters for the marinade:

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Add ins:
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Here is what I did:

1 tsp about (I never measure exactly) of each of VE Oriental Stir Fry, Thai seasoning, Satay and Roasted Garlic
1 tbsp chicken bouillon (I use the knorr liquid one, only for some things, I also love the VE one, but it has its own spices in it and this one doesn't)
3 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp chili garlic sauce (this will give it substantial kick, omit or use less if you don't want spice)
1/2 cup of water
2 tbsp peanut oil (or oil of your choice)

I mixed this all together and added a couple chicken breasts and left it to marinade. I took out about 1/8 cup of the marinade for later and kept it aside without the chicken in it. Look at it all happy!
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Then when it was time to cook, I boiled some water and sat my noodles in it for 10 minutes in a bowl beside me,
added the chicken and marinade to my VE wok and cooked the chicken till no longer pink. I removed the chicken to a bowl and added my veggies, and stirfried till tender crisp. I then added in my noodles and reserved marinade, and my almonds. Once this was all ready, I added in the chicken and heated through. It was delicious!

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