3 new recipes (and daycare update)

Daycare update:

The kids have started out at their respective daycares.  Loic loves his; no worries there!

I love the woman who runs Maelle's daycare - she is really kind and loves babies.  Today I left Maelle there for a few hours and she was supposed to take her morning nap there.  However, Maelle had other ideas!  She ended up taking a nap in the daycare woman's arms (which is good because yesterday she didn't want to be touched by her at all).  She naps super well so I am not worried about it and tomorrow we will try a bit harder to get her to nap there meaning I will tell her daycare provider to let her cry for a few minutes which is all it usually takes in a new place.

Recipes from this week:

I have made a few good recipes this week and wanted to quickly write them down before I forget them.

Quick orange dijon oregano marinated chicken 

In a bowl put:

1/4 cup of honey
3 tablespoons of dijon mustard
salt and pepper
1 tablespoon oil
1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
dried oregano (I just a palmful-ish)
2 tablespoons of orange juice (freshly squeezed)
rind of one orange
1 clove of garlic, minced

Mix well.

Then I put four chicken thighs in a pyrex dish and poured over the above marinade.  Make sure the chicken fits tightly in the baking dish because otherwise the marinade will burn and not coat the chicken.  I let it sit in the fridge for a few hours to marinade then baked until done.  These were really, really tasty!

Soy, hoisin and sesame and hoisin pork

The same method as above actually!

In a bowl I put:

Soy sauce
Hoisin sauce
two cloves of garlic, diced
fresh ginger, grated
brown sugar
splash of water
a teaspoon or so of sesame oil

I didn't measure anything!!  I just put what looked good in a bowl, poured it over three pieces of pork (any cut will work, I had boneless chops I think) and then baked it right away.  These were really good over brown rice and steamed broccoli.  Both of my kids love broccoli (seriously) so we tend to eat a lot of it.  I even sent it in their lunches today!

Asian cold noodle veggie salad

I was inspired by this recipe Asian noodle salad but I changed a few of the ratios, it was a bit too strongly flavoured with the vinegar and next time I will use a bit less.  I also didn't use all of the dressing so have some left over for lunch tomorrow.

Dressing:

1/2 cup seasoned rice vinegar
3 tablespoons of oil
1 teaspoon of sesame oil
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 teaspoons soy sauce
3 teaspoons of sugar

Salad:

I cooked rice noodles (sometimes called rice sticks) in boiling water until cooked then ran them under cold water to cool.  I then added:

2 diced green onions
2 thinly sliced carrots
2 thinly sliced stalks of celery
1 red pepper, thinly sliced
1/2 cucumber, thinly sliced

I then added the dressing until I liked how it tasted then put it in the fridge for a bit to let the flavours merry :) Tasty!!

-E