Red Curry Molasses Baked Beans

Recipe Title: Red Curry Molasses  Baked Beans

By: Miriam Borys Busby

Serves:  10 people

Ingredients:

2 tbsp. coconut oil

1/2 onion

1/2 zucchini 

1 cup diced celery

4 cloves garlic

1-2 tbsp. red curry paste

1/2 cup molasses

1/4 cup ketchup

2 cans beans in tomato sauce 

1 can black beans (14 oz.)

1 can bean medley (14 oz.)

1 can chick peas & flava bean mix

salt & pepper

Cut up all the vegetables into small diced.

Melt coconut oil in a large pot. Sauté vegetables until tender.

Add curry paste and stir. Add molasses and ketchup.

Add the beans in tomato sauce to the cooked vegetables. Don’t drain these beans.

Drain and rinse the other 3 types of beans (black, medley, chick pea and flava) and add beans to the pot. Discard the liquid from these beans.

Cook on medium heat and then simmer for 1/2 hour. 

Chef Miriam Borys Busby, B.Ed., MA.
'Cooking Uncovered'
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Gruyere and Ham Quiche for Dinner

Gruyere and Ham Quiche for Dinner (please click here to view my very short YouTube video of this recipe.

By: Miriam Borys Busby

Yield:  4 - 6 servings

Ingredients: 

8 eggs

1 cup spinach - rinsed 

3 slices ham 

1 cup half & half cream

1/2 cup Gruyere cheese - cut into small chunks

1/8 cup grated parmesan cheese

1 green onion  

1 tsp. seasoning of your choice

( I used garlic ‘Dash’)

salt & pepper to taste

pastry for 1 pie shell (my recipe for pastry is very simple and can be done by hand, no need for any equipment. Please click here to go to my recipe.

Prep for pastry:

Make your pastry ahead of time and store in the fridge. For an easy dinner I make up my pie shell the day before and keep it in the fridge, covered, until 40 minutes before meal time. Click on this link to go to my pastry recipe.

Egg Filling Prep:

This egg filling can be made up ahead of time as well and stored in the fridge.  The quiche takes approximately 40 minutes to bake and this time can used to make a fresh  green salad to go with.

Add eggs into a large bowl. Whisk together well with the cream, salt & pepper.  Grate parmesan cheese, add to eggs. Cut up the ham and the Gruyere cheese and add to eggs.  Whisk well.

Wash & spin spinach dry and add to the bottom of an unbaked pie shell. Pour egg mixture over the spinach . Preheat oven to 350. Put the quiche into the hot oven onto the middle rack. Bake until golden brown and the centre of the quiche is firm.

Enjoy.

  

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Chef Miriam Borys Busby, B.Ed., MA.
'Cooking Uncovered'
http://www.youtube.com/user/mlborys?feature=mhee
blog: www.cookinguncovered.blogspot.com
Website: www.miriamborys.com

Apple/Ginger Carrot Cake for Carl's 73rd

This cake and icing can be made using only bowls and a good rubber mixing spoon. No need for a mixer here if you don't have one.

By: Miriam Borys Busby

Carl loved the giant sequoias north of San Fran

Carl's favorite cake....Happy Birthday honey

Servings: 2 X 9 inch round cakes

Ingredients:

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 tbsp. cinnamon

1/2 tsp. nutmeg

1 tsp. baking soda

2 tsp. baking powder

½ tsp. salt

4 eggs

1/2  cup white sugar

1 cup brown sugar

1 tbsp. vanilla

3/4 cup olive oil

2  cups grated carrots (peel first)

1 cup grated apples (use up your old ones for this) no need to peel the apple for this

2 tbsp. grated fresh ginger (or 1 tsp. powdered) peel ginger before grating 

Line cake pans with parchment paper (for a double layer cake). Grease all sides of the cake pans first and place parchment onto the greased surface.

In the larger bowl shift together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt.

In another bowl whisk together oil, sugars, eggs and vanilla. Whisk until well combined. Add grated apple, ginger and carrots and continue to mix until blended.

Add wet ingredients into the dry and stir by hand until well blended but don't beat or over mix. 

Pour batter into the prepared cake pans. Bake at 350° for 30-35  minutes. 

Cool on wire rack. Ice with Cinnamon Cream Cheese icing (see below).

Cinnamon Cream Cheese (makes enough to ice a double or triple layer cake)
16 oz. (2 pkg.) cream cheese
4 oz. butter
4 cups icing (sifted is important)
1 tsp. vanilla
½ tsp. cinnamon
Cream butter and cream cheese. Add remaining ingredients, Stir until creamy.

grated fresh ginger is really good in this cake

this icing can be mixed by hand but is smoother if you have a mixer

Carl's birthday dinner at Krua Thai on Lonsdale...he would have loved it.  

yummy 

Yorkshires in the desert with Andrea & Helene

Easter dinner in the desert was a delicious combination of perfectly BBQ'd beef tenderloin by Andrea, Hélène's famous coleslaw and roasted thyme vegetables with Yorkshire puddings. To see a copy of my recipe for the most delicious Yorkshires please click here. 

Yorkshire puddings

Hélène, Miriam and Auntie Andrea

a wide selection of beautiful vegetables to roast

Hélène's delicious coleslaw

Calorie-wise Yogurt Hollandaise - easy to make

 

This breakfast of Eggs Benni is so easy to make and Maggie's Yogurt Hollandaise takes very little time to make. Click here to go to the original recipe. But for a half version of the recipe:  add one cup of plain yogurt to the top of a double boiler (I use a glass bowl over a pot). Have the water in the bottom of the pot hot but not boiling (it will be too hot and will curdle your eggs. Add 3 egg yolks and whisk. Add a dash each of dry mustard powder and cayenne pepper - to taste. Continue to whisk until mixture starts to get warm. Add 2 tblsp. butter and allow the butter to melt into the yogurt sauce while whisking. Add a dash of salt and pepper. Continue to whisk until the sauce is warmer but not hot and it starts to thicken. This process takes less than 10 minutes. Remove the bowl from the top of the double boiler immediately so that the sauce doesn't get too hot. Half way through this I put my eggs into the simmering water to poach them. Good luck with this great calorie-wise hollandaise and thanks to my dear friend Maggie for sharing her recipe.

We eat very well in the Arizona desert!

Helene's delicious potato salad 

BBQ today...  prawns everyone

Auntie Andrea preparing the prawns for the BBQ

Helene's secret dressing starting with the best olive oil I have tasted 

a perfect meal of BBQ prawns, potato salad with freshly made Guacamole

prawns cooked to perfection

Day 5 at BNP Paribas Open

 I am off to work in a bit and we are now getting some seriously good matches in at the Indian Wells tennis garden. It is very hot during the day and I wear at all times a 50 Zinc sunblock that works well. Mostly I am covered up from head to toe to keep the hot sun off my skin. My uniform jackets is really good for keeping me cooler.
I am meeting alot of the 500 volunteers, not to mention all the patrons who come to watch some of the best tennis in the world.  The people are so friendly here in the desert.
Vasek Pospisil (CAN) plays this morning in Stadium 1, and the Williams sisters play their first games today on Center Court. With any luck I will catch some of their games on my break.
We are very fortunate to have been issued a volunteer pass which allows us entry into any game anywhere as long as there are seats available. It's going to be a good day in the desert!

BNP Paribas 2016 Open in Indian Wells

the courts are all ready to go for Monday's opening day

It is going to be fun volunteering at the 2015 Paribas Open in Indian Wells. I am an usher and now that my training is done and my uniform picked up I am already to go.
Carl and I were here last years so I have alot of fond memories of Carl, the beautiful Tennis Gardens, and our trip to see the best tennis in the world.

the 'teak' champion box is Larry Ellison's private seating area...it pays to own the gardens

my volunteer credentials that get me into the tennis gardens and I can sit in any seat...except in the Champions Box with Larry Ellison...