Cherry Blossom Adventures

On a Wednesday…I am always late with this!!!

This week I have two recipes to share!

One I made today is a african peanut stew- known as chicken Palava. I got it from here! I love reading cooking blogs and am going to list my favourites at the bottom of this post but this one I have gotten a few great recipes from and it is good because I can USUALLY find all the ingredients here in Japan.

I basically followed the recipe as stated on the blog- you need chicken (I used 600grams), peanut butter, peanut oil, seasame oil, tomatoes, onion, one red capsicum, spinach, garlic, ginger, chicken broth, chilli powder, thyme, brown sugar, salt and pepper. I have been really into ANYTHING that has spinach in it lately so had to try this when I saw it and also because I love trying out new recipes but this one had things that I pretty much could get at the local supermarket or already had (I did have to buy thyme though as I didn`t have it in my spice box)

It turned out great- I have only eaten a little bit as I prepared it earlier today and cooked it but only ate a little just to check the spice consistency and will eat it for dinner tonight. Will serve it with rice and figure it had enough veggies in it not to make another side dish (yeah, I am that lazy!) although I also made a big salad for my lunch today and Shun can have some of that if he wants since there is heaps leftover!

The second recipe is for strawberry muffins- Khea talked about Strawberry Cheesecake muffins on her blog a couple of weeks back and they sounded AWESOME! But I knew I wouldn`t be bothered with all the steps that they took so I looked for a strawberry muffin recipe instead since the idea of using strawberries really appealed to me.

1/2 cup canola or salad oil

1 cup milk

2 eggs

1 teaspoon of salt

4 teaspoons of baking soda

1 cup sugar

3 1/2 cups of plain flour

2 cups strawberries (I just cut up a whole punnet of strawberries)

Set oven to 190 degrees and bake for 25 minutes (I made 14 muffins with the above)

In one bowl mix the wet ingredients (minus the milk) and in another mix the dry ingredients and toss the strawberries in and coat them with the flour, add the milk to the strawberry/dry ingredient mix then add in the mixed wet ingredients. It is as easy as that!

Oh and my favourite cooking blogs (when I actually get the time to read them) are

http://crockpot365.blogspot.com/

http://www.kayotic.com/

http://chocolateandzucchini.com/

http://tasteofhomecooking.blogspot.com/

http://www.skinnytaste.com/

http://www.justhungry.com/

http://thepioneerwoman.com/tasty-kitchen/

http://foodgawker.com/ (This one is food photography but always links to a recipe usually!)

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