Vicky Learns to Cook

What do you do when Hubby comes home with green beans? Make Sweet Fire Shrimp and tempura green beans! But you dont know how to do that? Oh it's easy, I'll show you. First you need some tempura batter. This is simply 1 cup flour, 1 cup cold water, and 1 egg, mixed together. Next you dredge the green beans in the tempura batter and fry it in vegetable oil. Make sure its hot oil or it takes forever.  Flip them once when they start to brown. Give them a sprinkle of salt once you pull them out and lay them on paper towels.  Next we batter the fish the same way.  Start the sprouted short brown rice (or whatever rice you like) Cut up 1 red pepper, and 1 1/2 cup pineapple. Cook these in a second frying pan with a little bit of oil for 3-4 mins, turning every now and then.  Once they are done, add sweet chili sauce: (Pictured here is Panda Express brand, got it at Kroger). Doesn't that look yummy? To plate, put the ric

Pecan any kind of fish is yummy, in my opinion, so I was excited to try this recipe. Turns out it was pretty easy and pretty quick! Lay out the fillets on a sheet that has been sprayed with oil. Mix up some olive oil, lemon, cajun spices and .baste on to the fish. Next mix up finely chopped pecans, parmesan cheese, parsley, bread crumbs. To finely chop the nuts, I use my Pampered chef chopper and bang it about 8 times. I love that thing. Pecans are really soft so they almost paste up if you chop them more.  Sprinkle this over the fish and bake for about 10 minutes at 425F.  But I really should have started with the corn pudding because it turns out it takes a HOUR to bake! Unfair. I love corn pudding.  This takes 5 eggs! You just crack them and mix them up with a whisk.  Then add a can of creamed corn plus 2 1/2 cups frozen corn kernels.  Add either half milk and half heavy cream or.... half and half. This is what I had so I used it. Turns out I had exact

Today I made Chicken with Sage Pan Sauce, Toasted Quinoa, and Spinach Casserole. I checked all three recipes, printed them and put them on my fridge with magnets. The longest cooking time was going to be the spinach casserole, so I set the oven to 350F and put the frozen spinach in a bowl. Did you know you HAVE to cook the spinach thats frozen? If you read the package, according to the Food Safety administration, you can't just thaw and eat. Huh. Next I peeled an onion and cut off the ends, chopping it into wedges. Since it was going into a casserole, I didnt want big chunks, so I grabbed my Pampered Chef chopper for it. I love this thing. Mix those two things in a bowl. To this, the original recipe called for cooking, cooling, and chopping bacon. Bacon is good, but we've been staying away from pork. Also this weekend I went on an organization rampage, cleaning out my spices, my racks of cakepans, etc. So I came across this Tastefully Simple "Howling horsera