WILD MALLOW & SHRIMP STIR FRY

Finally went out to the area were their is lot's of mallow growing and pick some fresh young leaves for the dinner.
If you don't have mallow, fresh spinach leaves or collard greens work for this recipe.

INGREDIENTS:

Two hand fulls of mallow aka weeds.  :)
1 lb raw of shrimp.
1 cup of brown rice.
2 1/2 cup water.
1 orange bell pepper.
1/2 white onion.
5 garlic cloves
1 small yellow zucchini
1 small mexican squash
2 table spoons of olive oil or rice vinegar
Spice  1/2 teaspoon of each.  Basil, Chipotle, Turmeric,
Paprika,Cinnamon.
Hot Chines mustard (Optional)

Soak shrimp in water for a while to thaw out. These have been cleaned already so all I have to do is take the shell's off.  If their not cleaned, take the shell off, cut the back of the shrimp to expose the vein in the back and pull out.  Also after your done peeling them, make sure you use paper towel to dry the excess water off.  Put them into the pan some what
dry, but not wet.

Put 1 cup of brown rice in a pan with 2 1/2 cups water.  Put lid on and turn burner to high. Clear lid are better.  When you see the bubbles reach the top, turn it down to low, and let it simmer and when the bubble stop bubbling, turn the burner off and let rest. 

Add raw shrimp to pan and add seasoning over. Turn burner only to low.

With metal tongs turn over when they are turning pink.

When both side are pink, turn the off stove and put a lid on it, it will steam done.  This prevents over cooking.

























 
                    Cut up a half of white onion and garlic.

Add olive or rice vinegar to pan and add onion and garlic. Turn burner to Medium high and saute.  When the onion look a light yellowish  you can turn the burner off or leave it on and watch it. 

Cut up the orange bell into strips add to pan. The burner should now be on Medium high.  Cook until the the bell pepper looks

While the bells peppers are cooking use the veggie peeler to make strips out of the zucchini and squash.   Strip away.  And use the left over for soup, do not add to the pan yet.

Now add two good hand fulls of Mallow to the pot.  Turn the heat down to medium low. and use the metal tongs to mix in the mallow, keep stirring until the mallow is wilted.

Like this. 

Now add the zucchini and squash and turn the burner back to medium high.  Becareful this will cook fast.  Mix it in and around, when the zucchini and squash start to look a little transparent the meal is done.  It will have a soft crunch to it.

Add the cookies.  No do not add the cookies.
Add the shrimp and mix in.

Now add the brown rice and mix in.   I could not get a clear picture so fuzzy will do.











The meal is done.  Yum!


I added a tiny bit of Chinese hot mustard and it really complimented the dinner.










ENJOY!

IN SEARCH OF MORNING COFFEE

 4:40 am  Eye pop open, every thing blury.... snarl....eye's close.

4:40 am Eye pop open, 4:40?, shake phone, brain not function properly, phone still says 4:40.  Blank stair with daggers.  Have to move to check the other clock.   Mind saying move, body saying no, brain saying coffee.   Squinting eyes at other clock, 6:15am  Plug in phone to charger.

6:15am.  Meow!!  Meow meow 10x more.   Purrrrrrrr.   Can't remember sitting up right, but sitting up right. Coffee.  Hubby walks buy grumbling about coffee and turns on Heater.

6:20 am.   Meow! Dress, Meow!  Bathroom, Meow! stumbling still thinking about coffee.  Meow! 
                 Wonder why it's not getting warmer and why it's getting colder and thinking about why I don't have a coffee in my hand.   Opp's Hubby turn on air conditioner in stead of heater.    Coffee.  Were is my coffee.   Why is it no in my hand.  Meow!

6:24 am.   Say good buy to kitties and need coffee.  Coffee radar is activated to zone NOW!  Beep......beep.......beep.   Kind of like a sonar on a sub, the closer I get to coffee the closer the beeps are.  

6:55 am Drop hubby off at class with a kiss.  Knowing he'll be swimming in his coffee soon at the campus.   Hairs on my left side start to short,  Coffee Need my coffee, eyes, twitching. Close to world domination plan A5 being started.   Can't thing or rationalize, brain in coffee zone, only have enough power to drive.

7:10   Glorious elixir of life, glorious liquid of creaminess and sweetness.  The clouds part.... not really any cloud, but they still part and a imaginary ray of light shines on Dutch Brothers.  I can smell the creamy goodness.  Yes bad coffee, yummy calorie infused coffee, with whip cream and all that is bad for you.    Ordering.    Sipping....mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.      Now the day can start.  


:)            
  

TIP: ADDING A PERSIMMON TO YOUR SOUP

   I did it and it worked.  I took some of the soup broth I made yesterday and then took a very ripe persimmon and added it to the warm soup broth and smashed it with a potato smasher, until it was well incorporated into the soup.  Then I add this back into the main soup with all the veggies.   mmmmmmmm did I mention mmmmmm.   
Most of my soup have a very earth flavor so to me it blended really well.  I was also thinking the next time I make broth, add a persimmon in with the mix.  

If you are not sure about the combination, take a half a cup of broth and mix in one chunk of the persimmon, smash heat and test.  This way you save your self from making a whole pot and not liking it.  Just in case. 

SOUP FOR THE WINDOW PAINTER SOUL.

 Easy, fast and oh so yummy on a cold night.

 Yes that butter. BWahhhhhh!    2 Tablespoons butter to 7 cups broth.

2 Carrots chopped.

3 small potatoes chopped

Peppers.
 1 Jalapeno
1 Anaheim pepper middle.
1 Poblano pepper top.
Seed and chop.











                     When the butter is melted, take a whisk and whisk in four table spoons of flour into the hot broth.

 1 1/2 chopped Broccoli

 1 1/2 cup Cauliflower chopped

 He he I had to put it all in a bigger pot.
Add all veggies to broth.
I had a little bag of frozen green bean so I added that too. 
Bring pot to a boil, then turn down to low and let simmer.  When the carrots and potatoes are soft to eat, the meal is done.

1 small yellow squash chopped add this only after the potatoes and carrots are half way done. 

If you have any left over chicken or cooked meat you can add it to this dish. 



mmmmmmmmm   

BAGLE SANDWICH WITH ORZO PASTA SALAD

Yeah It's bread and yeah it's yummy.  :)    When I travel out of town to different areas fast food is not a option to me or even eating a reastaurants.  So I tend to bring my own food.  Bagel sandwiches are great for a 5 to 6 hour window painting job where I'm up and down on the ladder.
This is my favorite combination.

INGREDIENTS:
1 Jalapeno Bagel
2 Slices low sodium turkey
1/2 Avocado aka: Mayo.
2 Tablespoon Orzo pasta salad from Winco.  Purchase as a 1/2 lb.

Easy, Yummy and Fast.

Cut bagel in half, add avocado two slices of meat.  Add the pasta and chow down.   mmmmmm

The Orzo Pasta has Sun dried tomatoes in it and has a vinaigrette salad dressing with artichokes.   Very simple.   Salad dressing is not a stable in our diet so this is a treat.   And no I don't have this every day, we do change things us.

JUMBO PRAWNS & ARTICHOKE FAJITAS

 INGREDIENTS:
1/2 of Jumbo Shrimp
3 garlic cloves
A bunch of cilantro
1 cup of marinated artichoke hearts.
1 Tablespoon brown sugar
1 Tablespoon hot chili garlic sauce.
1 Teaspoon cinnamon
2 Tablespoon olive oil
Home made tortillas. Type into search bar.  TORTILLAS
 1 Red bell pepper.
1/2 White onion
1/2 Teaspoon basil
1/2 Teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 Teaspoon paprika
1/2 Teaspoon turmeric
4 leaves sage

Take the stems off the cilantro and cut up the garlic and mince as good as you can.  You don't have to be perfect.

Thawing out the Jumbo shrimp in water about 15 to 20 mintues. Take note that these are not devein shrimp and the shell a much harder.  

Put in a small pan olive oil, cinnamon and brown sugar. Turn to medium high and bring to a bubble then turn to low.













Next add the cilantro and garlic and return to medium high stir in and cook until the mixture begins to bubble, then shut off and take off the burner.

The Shrimp.   The dark spot in the middle is the large intestines,  all it is seed weed.   Here is what you do. First carefully crack the shell and carefully pull off the legs and make sure you crack the part just before the tail, their is meat in their you don't want to lose.  After all the shell is removed.





Turn the shrimp's back toward you and you should be able to see a large dark vein ( sounds nicer)   inside the back. That is what we need to remove.   Very carefully slice the back open, right down the middle.   You can see the vein on my finger, pull it out and discard.   Remember it's just sea weed it won't hurt if you miss some and leave it in.  Some of the shrimp I had when I split the back I could not find it at all.  When the head is removed it comes out with the head.   So if it's not their it's not their.

Return the pan to the burner and place the jumbo shrimp in the sauce. Turn the burner to low and keep it on low.  Several times during cooking I removed it off the burner to ensure it won't over cook.  

Turn shrimp over with metal prongs.  

Cut up bell pepper and onion, add spices and sage.      Turn the stove top to medium high and stir in spices.  Let it cook, and stir occasionally.

Meanwhile our shimp is cooked add artichokes to the shimp, turn back on low and let it bubble up with the artichokes, then turn off where not cooking the aritchokes, but rather warming them.

Notice the pan is still dry and the veggie wilted.  Now take about 1/2 cup of water and pour it into the veggies it will steam so take care to remove you stirring instrument and move your face away.

Streaming.  Yeah I was too busy taking the shot and left my prongs in the steam. I had to remove them with a pot holder.  

Steamed veggies.

Steamed veggies with jumbo shrimp and Artichokes.  mmm












FAJITA'S   Even better.



ENJOY!