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Amaretto Strawberry Spinach Salad Recipe

November 25, 2011 By 9 Comments
With the holidays upon us taking a small dish of some kind to someone’s house shouldn’t scare you at all. It’s quite easy to get a little creative with even just a salad. Try making your own salad dressing with even the simplest of salads, but if you want to get creative with your salad that’s ok too. Try making this Amaretto Strawberry Spinach Salad Recipe. It will tantalize your taste buds for sure.

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Amaretto Strawberry Spinach Salad Recipe

Ingredients:

2 pounds spinach leaves
1 pound cooked bacon, diced
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup Nakano red wine vinegar
1/2 cup lemon juice
4 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon dry mustard
1/4 cup Disaronno® Originale Amaretto
Salt and pepper to taste
1/4 pound strawberries, sliced

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Directions:

Wash the spinach
Cut the Strawberries into slices
Combine spinach, strawberries and bacon

To make the dressing:

In a skillet on medium heat, cook the Amaretto, salt, pepper, Worcestershire sauce, mustard, Nakano red wine vinegar and oil until well blended.

Let cool

Toss all together with dressing.

 

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Grilled Pork Teriyaki Haystacks Recipe

July 10, 2011 By 16 Comments

Summer time and grilling go hand in hand. Now, as I’ve said before we actually don’t have a grill so I usually use a pan on the oven, or turn my oven onto the broiling setting to grill. I’ve grilled pineapple, pork, sausage, and many different kinds of veggies like this and it turns out just fine. Tonight, I made some pork, I didn’t even grill it, but this recipe calls for you to grill it. What I did was I put it in the crock pot and covered it with the World Harbors Teriyaki Marinade and let it cook all day long. I actually over cooked it. I just didn’t have my game day today in the kitchen. It still turned out ok, the family said it tasted good even though the meat was a little tough so thanks to World Harbors for saving dinner with a wonderful flavor even when over cooked.

Grilled Pork Teriyaki Haystacks

Ingredients:

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1/2 bottle of World Harbor Maui Mountain Teriyaki Sauce & Marinade
1 can of Pineapples
1 cup of rice
1 pound of pork loin
2 cups assorted veggies – I used snap peas, water chestnuts, broccoli and carrots
1/4 cup cheese
1/4 cup chow mein noodles

Directions:

Cut the meat into 1 inch cubes and marinate in the Teriyaki Sauce over night
Cook the rice according to package directions or use a rice cooker
Grill the pork on a grill, or in the oven, or cook it in a crock pot like I did. (just don’t over cook it)
Steam the veggies
Grill the pineapple or serve it cold (it’s good both ways)
Assemble the haystacks

We like to put the rice on the bottom, then add the pineapple, meat, veggies, sprinkle on a little bit of cheese, and then top with a little bit of the chow mein. Then you have a delicious dinner.

 

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A Dash of Summer Strawberry Spinach Salad

July 1, 2011 By 13 Comments

I was looking in a magazine for recipe ideas while making my meal plan this week and inside of Cooking Light I found a recipe for Strawberry Spinach Salad. Strawberries are in season right now so I quickly added it to my meal plan.

The salad of course needed a few changes, everything always does. I didn’t exactly have all of the ingredients that it called for. It called for Raspberry preserves, well I forgot to buy some, plus I wasn’t really interested in buying them for one recipe. It also called for 1 Tbsp. of Mrs. Dash Lemon Pepper Blend (because it was an advertisement for Mrs. Dash) and I couldn’t find the Lemon Pepper blend anywhere. I even looked at three different stores. So I gave up and just used an Italian seasoning blend of my own.

The fun part of the salad was getting to make my own dressing. I’ve never made salad dressing before and actually thought it might be difficult to do. It was so easy and tasty that I can’t wait to make it again. The dressing did call for Rice Vinegar which isn’t something that I usually have in my pantry; however, now that I’ve been properly introduced to how easy it is to just SPLASH on your every day foods to pump up the flavor and make dressing with it’s going to always be in my pantry. (Plus I’m a NAKANO ambassador, without them telling me to give it a try I’m not sure I would have, and now that I have I’ll be using it again and again.)

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So here is my version of the Strawberry Spinach Salad with a Splash of Rice Vinegar Recipe:

Ingredients:

Salad:

1 Tablespoon Italian Seasoning
1/3 lb. Spinach leaves washed
1/2 pt. fresh strawberries sliced
4 fresh tomatoes sliced
1 kiwi peeled and sliced
1 Tablespoon Almond Slivers

Summer Strawberry Salad

Dressing:

1 teaspoon Italian Seasoning Blend
1 Tablespoon Strawberry Jam
1 Tablespoon Vegetable Oil
1 Tablespoon Rice Vinegar

Directions:

Place salad ingredients in a bowl
Make dressing by mixing the ingredients together stirring
Toss the spinach mixture with the dressing and serve

 

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World Harbors Capture Your Adventures Fantasy Vacation Sweepstakes

June 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Many of our neighbors are going on vacation this summer, some leave tomorrow, a few already went and others are making plans to leave later this summer. Us, we’re stuck here for the entire summer because vacations are expensive and we’re saving money. Of course, I’m always open to the option of winning a free family vacation aren’t you?

Our last exotic vacation was a visit to my mother’s house. She lives really close to Destin and I love how pretty it is there and so do the kids. To me, a beach, sand, sun and ocean = exotic vacation!!!

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World Harbors is hosting a Fantasy Vacation Sweepstakes, Capture your Adventures. Want to win a Fantasy vacation? Then just Like World Harbors on Facebook for a chance to win an all-expenses paid trip to somewhere really exotic. World Harbors will be the one to select the exotic vacation but all the expenses are paid. If that wasn’t enough, they are also sending a video camera along with you so you can capture all of your family fun memories.

Where would you like to go as an exotic vacation?

 

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Holland House: Find an Everyday use for Red Wine Vinegar

May 31, 2011 By 1 Comment

When I think of cooking with wine and vinegar, I just can’t think of very many uses for it. I think over the past 10 years the only time I cooked with wine was maybe once. I was making risotto and my recipe required white wine. I never thought cooking with white wine, or red wine vinegar could be used in every day meals, and since I have to cook every day of the week, I’m always open to new FUN ideas. Next time I make a pork dish I’m going to use the Holland House Red Wine Vinegar to pump up the flavor.

 

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Holland House cooking wine or vinegar varieties can be used in sauces, marinades, glazes or sautes without even turning on your oven. Now I’m really impressed. Use the Holland House Red Wine Vinegar to increase the flavor in a gravy, beef stock, or to tenderize your meat. I like to buy food when it’s on sale and the last time pork was buy one get one free, I actually had coupons for the pork too so I majorly stocked up on pork. Now I’m collecting pork recipes and I have my eye on this simple grilled chipotle pork recipe from Holland House Red Wine Vinegarthe Holland House Recipes.

Grilled Chipotle Pork Recipe

Ingredients:

2 chipotle chilies in adobo sauce
1/2 cup ketchup
1/3 cup Holland House Red Wine Vinegar
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
1 Tbsp. ground cumin
1/2 tsp. salt
1/3 – 1/2 yellow onion, cut into chunks
3 large cloves garlic
1 whole pork tenderloin

Directions:

Mix all of the ingredients except the pork in a food processor, until everything is smooth.

Place the pork in a sealable plastic container and pour the sauce over the meat to marinate overnight.

Remove pork from the marinade and preheat your grill. If you want to use the marinade be sure to boil it for 1 minute.

Cook the pork over indirect medium heat for 30-35 minutes, turning once or until temperature is 160 degrees. Slice pork to serve.

 

For more tips on how to use wine, or vinegar to spice up your everyday cooking check out the Holland House Facebook page.

 

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Win A Refrigerator Nakano Splash Madness Sweepstakes

April 20, 2011 By 2 Comments

Nakano Seasoned Rice Vinegars are so easy to use, we have a bottle in our pantry and I’ve used it on pork and chicken. Did you know that you can get even more creative than using it on meat. I never thought about using it on things like salads or potatoes. The Nakano Splash Madness Sweepstakes is all about sharing your family secrets using Nakano Rice Vinegar.

The Nakano Splash Madness Sweepstakes began today over on the NAKANO Facebook page. This great sweepstakes has a sweet grand prize valued at $1500.00, Can you guess what it is? It’s a refrigerator, everyone needs a refrigerator right? The Second Prize is a Juicer or Blender valued at $500. Both are also quite handy tools to have in the kitchen if you ask me. And the Third Prize is a Selection of Nakano Vinegars plus a cooking accessory (garlic press or lemon zester) and the third place prize is valued at $100.00.

You can enter one time per person/email address per day.

I just entered to see how easy it is, it’s QUITE easy to enter.

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To Enter:

All you need to do is go over to the NAKANO Facebook page “like” it and leave a comment telling them what your favorite “Splash Tip” is using NAKANO’s Seasoned Rice Vinegars for a chance to win.

The Nakano Splash Madness Sweepstakes ends on May 17th 2011. You must fill out the sweepstakes form and include a “splash tip” – this is a tip on how to “Splash On” Nakano rice wine vinegars to add flavor to your meals. For example, my tip is to use one of the Rice Vinegars while making pork and stir fry. YUM. Here are a few more examples of how to “Splash” the Seasoned Rice Vinegar.

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