Ching Ohana Home Cooking Journal

Tonight we had lobster ravioli from Costco with some creamy vodka pasta sauce. Side of caesar salad. No picture though because we ate it all up before I remembered. It's super fast because the ravioli cooks in like 5 minutes and the pasta sauce can just go on top to heat through.

My daughter kept asking about beef luau (deconstructed lau lau as she calls it). This time I blanched the 2 lbs of luau leaf on the stove to fit them in the Instant Pot. I used 2 cups chicken broth and only 1 can coconut milk, a little less than the recipe called for. 

No bake noodles, this one with a ton of ricotta. Some parts of the noodles came out a little more than al dente but the flavor was good.

A double yolk! Portuguese sausage. A friend showed me to score the sides and they won't curl up into cups on the frying pan. Sauteed baby spinach

We had leftover Oreos and pudding from a chemistry lab that my wife taught. She put them together to make this Oreo pudding pie. It came out great! Recipe from All Recipes .

We came home late and I wanted to make something fast. Chicken long rice has been on the Aloha Instant Pot group a few times lately so I tried out one of the recipes.  Ingredients: 3 cans chicken broth 4 chicken thighs, boneless skinless 2 slices ginger green onion garlic long rice I put the broth and thighs on the stove and brought them to a boil. I tossed in the ginger then put them in the Instant Pot for 15 minutes with 5 minutes NPR. The frozen chicken shredded very nicely.  While the thighs were cooking I soaked the long rice in some hot water. I drained the noodles and put them into the broth along with the shredded chicken. Garnish with green onion. Overall it came out soupy and not that flavorful. I think next time I would use bone in thighs and less broth, maybe only 2 cans. 

Tonight's beef stew recipe was a little different. This one was from the America's Test Kitchen cookbook  Pressure Cooker Perfection . It seems very similar to the one in their slow cooker cookbook, only with flour for thickener instead of tapioca starch. It came out good even though I forgot to add the peas and soy sauce. Total time was close to 2 hours between the browning of the meat, cooking the onions, reducing the wine, and pressure cooking for 45 minutes with 15 minutes NPR.