Your Personal Lao Chef: 2020

Monday, February 3, 2020

Raw Honey Salmon

Ingredients: 1/4 cup of raw honey, 1/4 cup of Dijon mustard, 1 table spoon of fresh dill, table spoon of lemon juice and lemon zest, 1/8 cup of garlic powder or fresh garlic, and salt and pepper to taste. Soak salmon skin on in marinade and grill on a cedar plank after it has soaked for two hours or bake in the oven for 15 minutes on 350 degrees. Soak the broccolini in 1 tablespoon of white truffle oil, 1 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil, two chopped garlic cloves, pink Himalayan salt and black pepper to taste and grill til charred or bake in the oven on 400 degrees for 15 minutes and then on broil for two minutes to get a char. Do not over cook or they will be wilted and burned at the ends. For Jasmine rice I just add as a filler and cook in my rice cooker. I allow myself half a cup. You can also replace with quinoa soaked in chicken broth for flavor.

Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Omelette with scallions topped with Laos papaya salad, grilled chicken and avocados. Perfect for brunch!

Chicken Cobb salad and chicken taco salad. I just bought spinach, dried cranberries and almonds, Parmesan cheese, feta cheese, grape tomatoes, avocados, salsa, bacon, boiled eggs, a can of sweet corn and a can of black beans drained. Grilled chicken with salt and pepper. I also added Mexican mixed cheeses for the taco salad.

Cajun butter shrimp over Thai Jasmine rice. Very delicious. Put two table spoons of butter in a pan. Toss two cloves of minced garlic in and then half a pound of white raw deveined marinated shrimp in. Marinate with 2 tablespoons of olive oil, teaspoon of garlic powder, onion powder, cayenne, Italian seasoning, and a pinch of Tony’s Cajun seasoning. Add salt and pepper while cooking if needed. Pink both sides and top on rice. Garnish with green onions! Should take ten minutes to prep shrimp and ten minutes to cook the shrimp and rice (I use a rice cooker).