Chipotle Chicken and Mashed Potatoes

Ingredients:
Chicken Breasts
Onions
Chipotle in Adobo Sauce Can
Potatoes
Salt
Oil
Butter

Chicken:

Saute onions in oil until golden brown. Mince chipotle peppers and add to the oil with adobo sauce. Add sliced chicken breasts and salt to taste. Stire fry until chicken is cooked.

Potatoes:

Boil and mash potatoes. Add salt, butter, and chipotle chilies and adobo sauce. Add sauteed onions. Mash and serve.

Spiced Shrimp, Baby Scallops and Perch in Butter

Heat butter. Add chopped garlic and sautee until golden brown. Add shrimp, baby scallops and diced perch. Add salt and crushed red pepper, and fry in butter until cooked. Sprinkle with herbs.

The flaky bits from the perch and the garlic and peppers make deliciousness in the warm butter.

Shrimp in Potato and Snap Peas Dry Curry

Chop onion and fry in oil until brown. Make a paste with ginger, garlic, turmeric and red chili powders. Add the spice paste to the pan. Stir at high heat for 5-6 minutes. If it gets too dry and starts to burn, add few teaspoons of water slowly.

Thinly cube potatoes and snap peas. Chop peeled and deveined shrimp. Add to the pan. Add salt to taste. Stir fry for 5-6 minutes in high heat. When vegetables are brown and shrimp is pink, add quarter cup of water and cover and cook until everything is cooked. Check to see if you need to add water. Once cooked stir fry again. I like the spices and the potatoes to be slightly burnt.

Deshi Style Latke

Adapted the recipe from: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/potato-latkes-i/Detail.aspx

Ingredients

2 cups peeled and shredded potatoes
4 tablespoon grated onion
3 eggs, beaten
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1/2 cup oil for frying
Green Chillies
Red Chili Powder

Directions
I used my Borner V-Slicer to shred the potatoes.

1.Place the potatoes in a cheesecloth and wring, extracting as much moisture as possible. - this is very important!
2.In a medium bowl stir the potatoes, onion, eggs, flour, chili powder, green chili slices, and salt together.
3.In a large heavy-bottomed skillet over medium-high heat, heat the oil until hot. Place large spoonfuls of the potato mixture into the hot oil, pressing down on them to form 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick patties. Brown on one side, turn and brown on the other. Let drain on paper towels. Serve hot!

Latkes

Nutella Chocolate Cookies

Recipe from http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/chocolate_nutella_cookies/

I used 1/3 of the recipe and it made 21 cookies. I didn't have nuts, so I used a chopped planters nut bar.

10 minutes was good enough for me... 12 would have made them too crispy. They come out really soft but harden as they cool. It's important to let it rest on the sheet about two minutes before transferring to rack.

Cookies