A few nights ago I made homemade Thai food it was so good and easy! I made the marinade early in the morning and allowed the chicken to marinate for 6 hours before grilling this picture was taken just before grilling…
The peanut sauce was made 30 minutes before serving but it keeps really well because I have been eating it all week with the leftover rice and chicken…
we ate outside on our patio and enjoyed an early summer thunderstorm, everything turned out so well it tasted so much like Thai food from a restaurant I am so excited to make this dish again…
Chicken Satay:
Ingredients
2 (6-ounce) boneless skinless chicken breasts (cut into strips and pounded with a meat mallet to tenderize before marinating)
1 Cup unsweetened coconut milk (Thai Kitchen brand)
2 cloves fresh garlic, minced
2 Tablespoons finely chopped fresh cilantro (from our garden!)
2 Tablespoons fish sauce
2 Tablespoons curry powder
1/4 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper or to taste
Kosher salt, to taste
1. combine coconut milk, garlic, cilantro, fish sauce, curry powder and pepper in a large bowl. Add Chicken strips and marinate for at least 30 minutes or up to overnight.
2. Thread the marinated chicken strips onto soaked skewers; season with salt. cooks for about 3 minutes on each side on a medium-high gas grill, make sure to oil the grill with canola oil prior to grilling to prevent sticking. Serve warm with peanut dipping sauce and cucumbers.
Peanut Dipping Sauce
Ingredients:
1/2 cup unsweetened coconut milk
1 (packed) Tablespoon light brown sugar
2 teaspoons Thai red curry paste (I used Thai Kitchen brand)
1 1/2 teaspoons fish sauce (I also used Thai Kitchen brand for the fish sauce)
1 1/2 Tablespoons creamy peanut butter (I used smart balance brand peanut butter)
1/4 teaspoon paprika
1 clove of fresh garlic minced
1 Tablespoon crushed roasted peanuts for garnish (I omitted this and it was still delicious)
1. Shake the can of coconut milk vigorously to combine the thick cream with the thin milk. Combine all of the ingredients except crushed peanuts in a small sauce pan over medium heat; stir to combine.
2. Bring to a simmer and cook until slightly thickened, about 3 minutes. Taste and adjust the seasoning as needed. (I didn’t adjust anything it tasted great to me) the recipe notes: if the sauce breaks or becomes oily, vigorously whisk in 1 Tablespoon of peanut butter to re-emulsify, this didn’t happen to me either.
3. Allow to cool before serving, serve at room temp. I also heated my peanut sauce the next day and had it over Jasmine rice it tasted good hot too.
Yum!
We had some delicious “Happy Cakes”…
These pancakes had everything on them and then they drizzled them with an apple cider syrup, it was so good…
You can see the cute little chairs they had carved out of stumps and the plants were trained to grow over the wire fencing which provided the structure for the playhouse, it was so nice and cool inside because of the plants perfect for hiding out on a hot summer day! They had a large tunnel trellis that was shaped like a snake, you entered through his mouth and then you could wind through his whole body like a maze, here is a picture of the inside of the snakes belly…
We ended our day by driving down into Heber City on the other side of the Canyon and then swinging past Utah’s Bridal Veil falls, it was impressive but my goodness were there a lot of people standing at the base of the falls sort of like going to Multnomah falls but worse because here people were splashing around in the water, sort of takes away from the beauty.
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It was a nice little hike although it will probably be even better in early fall once all the kids go back to school. Then we went over to Snowbird and took a ride on the tram which takes you up to the top of Hidden Peak which is 11,000 feet! It was sort of scary but awesome at the same time here is a picture of Dan filming our ascent…
Our chariot…
And here is a picture of me looking quite pathetic and only half way done with our ride but happy to be on pavement and not teetering on some rocks and a cliff, some how Jason always seems to capture the best of me…
As you can see my phone with a cord is conveniently located near the nook so that I can sit and talk comfortably inside my cozy little space. Last night I was lying down on one of the nook benches and decided to look at the underside of the table, I am not sure what I was expecting to find maybe some old paint chips I don’t know, but what I found was the handwriting of a young girl proclaiming her love for different boys, luckily she dated each entry so it was interesting to see her go back and forth between who she was “in love” with at the time, here are a few quotes from the underside of the nook:
Backtracking a bit, one of Kathy’s chickens decided she wanted to sit on eggs and she found her one day off somewhere sitting on a stack of 30 eggs! (none of which were fertilized) So Kathy gave her some legitimate eggs to hatch and she did a great job and lucky for me I got to be around when they hatched! It was fun going out to the barn and checking on the progress sort of like being a chicken mid-wife.
We left SLC early Thursday morning and flew to Ohio to finish packing up our stuff and so that Jason can graduate next Thursday! Sort of crazy that four years went by so fast, it will be sad leaving Grams and AK; it was nice being close to family. We are looking forward to our new adventure in Utah, we leave a week from tomorrow and will be stopping in Denver to spend some time with Jason’s Great Aunt Jeanne.