Reuben Sandwiches

For our St. Patrick's Day dinner, we had the traditional corned beef, cabbage, potatoes and carrots...my most fave dinner of all! This time I bought a few extra corned beefs to enjoy through out the year and one I cooked up in the crock pot just for the leftovers. I ordered a loaf of marble rye bread from a bakery hoping with the dark rye (pumpernickel?) in it, I'd maybe enjoy rye bread more. Well, plain rye bread is plain rye bread...I'm just not a fan, but do like pumpernickel. Anyways, I added some sauerkraut (the kind from the bag), swiss cheese, thousand island dressing and sliced corned beef then toasted/grilled it all together.

They looked sooo good, and since Mr. was home that day he was treated to a nice lunch. He loved them! Even my little boy liked them!! But not Mommy. That rye bread taste...surprisingly I loved the sauerkraut on them, lol. Maybe if I did toasted sour dough instead.

Reuben Sandwiches

slices of rye (I used marble rye)

sliced corned beef

slices of swiss cheese

sauerkraut, drained and squeezed dry

thousand island dressing

butter

Butter outside slices of rye, add a little thousand Island to the inside of the slices, layer on swiss cheese, sauerkraut and corned beef and another slice of swiss. Griddle cook them (I did them open face) like a grilled cheese sandwich. Carefully place together and enjoy!

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Dunkin' Donuts Iced Coffee

Warmer weather is on it's way!
I have been making this for a couple of years now, Mr. loves it. I like to add a flavored creamer, a little milk and lots of chocolate syrup to mine...I have to hide that coffee taste and mochas are more my kind of coffee. It will be strong at first and as the ice cubes melt it will dilute the coffee even better.

Dunkin' Donuts Iced Coffee

Recipe from Dunkin' Donuts

To brew a full-flavored pot of Dunkin' Donuts Iced Coffee, double the amount of coffee grinds you would normally brew for hot coffee.

-Measure 4 level tablespoons ground coffee for every 6 oz. of cold filtered water you plan to brew. (I use 6 oz for 1 serving)
-After the coffee is done brewing, remove it from the burner and let cool.

-Pour the coffee into a temperature safe container, and add ice until the mixture cools and doubles in volume. -Keep in mind that the melting ice dilutes the coffee, which is why Iced Coffee is brewed using twice the amount of grinds at hot coffee.

To keep Iced Coffee cold and fresh, store it in an airtight container in the refrigerator. Iced Coffee should be consumed within eight hours after brewing.

Drink as is, or add milk, cream, chocolate syrup or sugar to sweeten and lighten to taste.

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Honey Walnut Shrimp! Oh Yum!!

-sorry for the night time photo-

If you have ever have honey walnut shrimp at a Chinese take out, then you'll love this recipe even better!! We recently discovered it at Panda Express, but I had already found this recipe before going, so I compared theirs to this. Well I love theirs but homemade is SO MUCH BETTER! You just cannot get that light crispy tempura from take out. Oh man! I made this for Mr. and I (actually we had a small 3 course dinner, Carbonara for kids, lobster raviolis & this shrimp for us) and we even had leftovers. My last words before falling asleep was, "That shrimp was so good, but I am so stuffed I don't even want to think about it!". lol. Give this one a try, I think you'll love it  too!

Here is Kai's YouTube video, but I'll add the ingredients below.




Honey Walnut Shrimp

Tempura batter:
1 C. all purpose flour
1 TBL baking powder
1 egg
3/4-1C. water
-Whisk all together, until desired consistency. Add 1 pound of cleaned shrimp (tails off), and set aside.

Honey Walnut Sauce:
1 TBL sweetened condensed milk
1/4 C. mayo
1 TBL honey
squeeze of lemon
-Stir all until combined, set aside.

In a large saute pan or wok, heat about 2" canola oil. Fry shrimp in batches until just golden, drain on paper towel set aside until all batches are cooked. (I kept them in a warm oven)

Walnuts:
1 C. chopped walnuts (can leave whole)
2 TBL granulated sugar
2-3 TBL water
1 tsp honey

In a clean dry hot large saute pan/wok, add sugar and water, stir until sugar dissolves. Add honey, stir then add nuts to coat.
Then add in fried shrimp and sauce then gently toss to coat all.




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Rachelle