Episode 18 - Hot Wings

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Hot Wings

Ingredients:

Chicken Wings, Pre-cooked As many as you want.
There are many ways to cook the wings. I prefer to season them with salt, pepper, onion, and garlic, and then bake them in the oven at 350 for a long time. Around and hour and a half. I don't like my wings undercooked.

Basic Buffalo Sauce
1/4 hot sauce.
4-5 pats of butter.
Heat the hot sauce in a pan. Turn off the heat and swirl in the butter.

Directions:
Toss the wings in the sauce to coat. Thats it.

Note
The variations on the sauce are limitless. I used these on the show. The method is the same.

Var.1
2 tbls apricot jam
1/4 cup habenero hot sauce
4-5 pats of butter

Var.2
1/4 cup hot sauce
2-3 tbls ranch dressing
4-5 pats butter

Var.3
1 tbls Hoisin sauce
1-2 tbls hot chili paste
1/8 cup soy sauce
4-5 pats butter

I hope that you see that you can create any wing sauce that you like by following the same principle. Pick the flavor that you want and create it in a liquid or quasi liquid form, and then swirl in some butter and you have a wing sauce. Just remember to take it off the heat when you add the butter, and also remember that it has to be butter, Not margarine.

Episode 17 - Crab Cakes

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Lump Crab Cakes

Ingredients:

2 Cans lump crab meat
1/4-1/3 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup bread crumbs
1 egg
1-2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
Hot sauce to taste
Seafood seasoning to taste ( Old Bay, Zatarain's, etc )
1 tsp Lemon juice
Salt and pepper

Directions:

Drain the crab meat. Mix all the other ingredients in a bowl and then add the crab. Try not to over mix . You want the crab meat remain in big pieces. Heat your skillet and add enough oil to cover the bottom of the pan. Form the crab mix into patties and coat with dry bread crumbs. They are very delicate so be gentle. Once they patties are in the pan leave them alone until the bottom is golden brown. Then gently flip them. When the remaining side is browned they are done. Serve with lemon wedge and your favorite seafood sauce if desired.

Note:
You can substitute any seafood product for the crab. Salad shrimp, tuna, salmon, etc. This recipe also works well as a stuffing for fish.

Restaurant Food Fast - The Trailer

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We were asked to create a trailer for the show, so I thought that I would post it so our viewers could see why we do, the voodoo, that we do...

Episode 16 - Grilled chicken kabobs

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Grilled chicken kabobs
Cubed Chicken- 1 breast for two average skewers.
Green pepper- 1 cut into chunks
Onion- 1/2 large onion chunked
Mushrooms- cut to the same size as the chicken

Marinades
The first one is easy, just use your favorite vinegar based salad dressing. Italian, balsamic, whatever. Pour it over all of the chunked pieces of chicken and vegetables and cover in fridge for and hour or so. Or not. It works as seasoning also.

The second marinade is asian based.
1/4 cup soy sauce
1 tbls hoisin sauce
1 tsp five spice powder
1/2 tsp ginger
1 tbls minced garlic
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
1 tbls asian chili sauce

Alternate veggies and chicken on skewers. Put on the grill. It only takes a few minutes per side.

Restaurant Food Fast - Episode 15.5

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Episode 15 - Crispy Chicken Stir Fry

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Crispy Chicken Stir Fry

Cubed chicken breast- about one breast per serving
Cornstarch- 1/2 cup to coat the chicken
Oil- 1/2 cup to pan fry the chicken
Asian noodles- 1/4 pound per serving(or rice)
Onion-1 medium per serving
Peppers-1/4 cup per serving
Garlic-1 tablespoon per serving
Ginger- 1 teaspoon or so, depending on taste

Sauce

Soy sauce-1/4 cup
Chicken Stock-1/4 cup
Sugar-1 to 2 tablespoons (depends how sweet you like it)
Corn starch- 2 to 3 tablespoon
Mix it all together. You can make a bunch of this and keep it in the fridge.

Boil a pot of water and drop in noodles.
Cube chicken breast and coat it with corn starch. Pan fry until crispy and browned. Check the noodles, when they are done, drain, and run cold water on them to stop the cooking. When all chicken is cooked, remove oil from pan and add vegetables and garlic. Season with salt, pepper and ginger. Add noodles and toss around to heat through. Add sauce mix, as much as you like.