The Ingredients

• 2 lb (1 kg) chicken pieces, cut up or whole
• 6 cloves of garlic, coarsely chopped (yes, 6!)
• 4 Tbsp (50 ml)   soy sauce
• 1 tsp (5 ml) ground black pepper
• 2 cups (500 ml) water
• 2 bay leaves
• 2 Tbsp (25 ml) of olive oil

The Directions

• Put bay leaves, pepper, soy sauce, and water in a saucepan. Cover and cook slowly about 15 minutes.
• Meanwhile, heat the cooking oil in a large, heavy-bottomed frying pan. Peel the garlic, break the cloves into chunks, and brown them over medium-low heat (about 5 minutes).
• Add the chicken to the fry pan and brown it over medium-high heat (about 5 minutes).
• Add the broth to the fry pan and simmer, partly covered, until done (about 25 minutes).
• Remove the bay leaves and serve over rice.

While this recipe uses chicken, doesn’t need to you can also use this recipe for pork or use both for a single meal if you are feeling adventuresome.  Since this is such a HIGHLY flavored meal, wouldn’t recommend wine – beer should work!  In case you haven’t notice, I think everything can use a little garlic.
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• 1 boneless pork shoulder (3 lb.)
• 1 bottle (18 oz.) your favorite BBQ Sauce
• Juice from 1 large orange
• Mayo, recommend Duke’s, but only if you are in the south, at least I don’t think they have it outside the south
• 12 sandwich rolls, split, toasted

PLACE meat in slow cooker; top with barbecue sauce and orange juice. Cover with lid.

COOK on LOW for 8 to 10 hours (or on HIGH for 4 to 6 hours). Remove meat from slow cooker; cut into small pieces or shred with fork. Return meat to slow cooker; stir until meat is evenly coated with the barbecue sauce mixture.

SPREAD mayo onto cut sides of rolls. Fill rolls evenly with meat mixture.

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A wine and cheese party can be a fun way to relax and make new friends. Make it lots of fun by having every guest bring a bottle of wine and an exotic cheese.

Any season is appropriate for a cheese and wine party. Cheese, bread and wine are all that is needed. A wine and cheese party can be a great way to get together with friends or for a special bridal or wedding shower, birthday party or other celebration.

Nothing can beat the taste of the cream and jam combined. Louis XVI’s last and dying wish was supposedly to have a final taste of Brie. Whether you are having a fancy wine and cheese party, or just enjoying a slice of cheese with an apple for a snack, your gourmet cheese will taste a lot better if you learn how to purchase, store and serve it properly.

Cheese, when served with wine, depicts impeccable taste and class. Its salty flavor can be adjusted to suit the taste of the maker. And unlike most junk foods that are crunchy, cheese curds are moist and cool while having the same salty taste of your regular snacks. It should have a creamy taste, unique tang and a refreshing taste that will excite your taste buds.

Choose a specialty market or gourmet grocery store for the best selection of cheese, and remember, supermarkets do not always carry top quality cheeses. After you’ve bought your favorite cheese and brought it home, it’s a good idea to remove it from the plastic wrap or plastic bag it was packaged in. Store it in a special glass container, made especially for cheese storage.

Two cheeses, Fromage des Pyrenées and Bleu d’Auvergne plus red wine, a Côtes du Rhône, labelled Landrillat is a great combination. Another good suggestion of wine to serve with any kind of Brie appetizer is a red Côte-du-Rhône, a red Bordeaux or Burgundy and it always goes well with a good quality Champagne.  A great resource site you don’t want to miss is: fruit-wine-cheese-baskets.com

Don’t be afraid to taste new cheeses and try new wines. Only your taste buds will tell you what you need to know!

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A recipe scrapbook album would be a wonderful gift for family members. Imagine giving each one a collection of family recipes, each with its own bit of history, in a recipe scrapbook album.

You can make those recipe scrapbook albums following these steps.

Recipe Scrapbook Album Materials

Prepare to make your recipe scrapbook album by assembling the following minimal materials. You may want other things as well, but these 7 are recommended for a complete recipe scrapbook album.

* Family recipes, as many as possible – neatly written or typed

* Photographs of how the recipe looks when ready to serve

* Photographs of the person credited with creation of the recipe

* Notes of things people always say or remember about the recipe

* Scrapbooking paper (acid-free) reminiscent of cooking

* Food preparation stickers and charms

* Recipe “instruction” tags

Themes for Recipe Scrapbook Albums

Your overall theme is for a recipe scrapbook album will, of course, be recipes. In keeping with that theme, each page or section will have a specific theme in the category of recipes.

Browsing through your recipes and photos, look for natural groupings. If there are several recipes from Grandmother, theme a section of your recipe scrapbook album for those. If Uncle Lyle has more recipes than his singular prize-winning sushi, set aside a section for him in your recipe scrapbook album.

Perhaps you will find it easier to divide your recipe scrapbook album into themes such as appetizers, main courses, side dishes, desserts, and beverages. Each of those could be a page or section theme.

Recipe Scrapbook Album Page Layouts

Once you have your themes, you are ready to lay out the pages of your recipe scrapbook albums. There are many approaches to page layout, and you may have one you have used often. Here is one way of doing it.

1. Select the photo(s) to be used on a 2-page spread or single page. If they are colored photos, select scrapbooking paper to complement them. Be sure you use acid-free paper to protect your memories.

2. Lay out your scrapbooking paper to fit the page. Be creative with your paper. Nostalgic kitchen wallpaper is a good choice for old recipes. Italian recipes might find a home on red and white checkered paper reminiscent of a tablecloth. If your recipe scrapbook album includes a recipe for Fish and Chips, you might want scrapbooking paper on that page to look like an old newspaper.

3. Once you have placed your scrapbooking paper, begin to arrange the recipe and accompanying photos. Typed recipe cards are fine, but if your recipes are hand-written by the person who created them, it will give your recipe scrapbook albums a more personal touch.

4. Frame your photos and recipes after they are placed. You can find a wonderful array of frames in scrapbooking supplies stores. Or use your own creativity. If Grandmother always wore an apron when preparing that delicious chocolate cake, create an apron “pocket” of cloth or cardstock. Tuck into it one or more recipes. Another idea is to make fold-open frames for the recipes in your recipe scrapbook album. Simply cut an appropriate size piece of cardstock and fold it in thirds. Adhere the center third to your scrapbook, top it with the recipe, and fold the other two sides shut over it. You might even make the folded card look like cupboard doors.

5. Once your photos and recipes are framed on the page, add a few lines of journaling that capture the family memories associated with the recipe. In my own files, I have a recipe for cookies served by the host the evening my husband and I first knew we would become more than friends. Personal notes about such memories add immensely to recipe scrapbook albums. My mother’s fresh, home-baked bread is remembered as Dad’s favorite base for yellow mustard!

6. When each page layout is completed, each element glued firmly in place, you are ready to add stickers and charms – embellishments. You may use commercially made embellishments for your recipe scrapbook albums, and you may add more intimate touches as well. If Grandmother loved lace, and even crocheted her own, adding a touch of lace to her page will help family members remember that. Since Uncle Lyle always used that bright green “sushi grass” (baran) to separate his sushi, be sure you include a piece of it on the sushi recipe page.

Finally, you may want to leave a few blank pages at the end of your recipe scrapbook albums so that future recipes can be added later.

Recipe scrapbook albums can be made during a prolonged family reunion, giving everyone something to do with their hands while catching up on family news.

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