Chicken Curry

I made Chicken Curry because my daughter loves it. I usually serve it with rice but today my daughter made express bread in the bread machine.

• 2 Chicken breast fillets, no skin, diced into 1-2 " blocks,
• 2 cups Chicken broth
• 1 - 2 Tbs. Ginger minced,
• 1 heaping Tbs. garlic minced,
• 1 jalapeno pepper diced,
• Salt & pepper to taste,
• 1 tsp. Italian spice,
• 3 Tbs. turmeric,
• 3 tbs. curry powder,
• 1 tsp. cayenne pepper,
• 1 medium onion, diced,
• 3 carrots, diced,
• 1 large potato, diced,
• 2 stalks celery (should be the same amount as onions), diced

Salt and pepper chicken, then sauté in a large pan. Put aside in a large pot. Sauté onions and celery, season with salt and pepper, until translucent. Put into pot with chicken. Sauté carrots, season with salt and pepper, and put into pot. Sauté potato, season with salt and pepper, and move the pan off the heat.

Put pot on medium heat; add 2 cups chicken broth and 2 cups water to cover everything in the pot [If it doesn’t cover the contents, add more water]. Simmer until carrots are fork-tender. Then add potatoes. Add curry powder, turmeric, cayenne pepper, Italian spice, jalapeno pepper, garlic, ginger, and simmer until potatoes are soft. If the water level drops below the amount needed to cover ingredients during cooking, ad more water to cover.

Once the potatoes are done, it should have a thick, stew consistency. If not, add thickener. Usually I use 2 pads of butter mixed together with about a tbs. of flour [mix separately in a bowl with a fork until it has a crumbly consistency (about the size of a mustard seed)].

Serve with rice, bread, or noodles.

Simple Salmon

Today mom's sugar was a bit high. She was hungry. I gave her mostly proteins. :

• 1 portion Salmon,
• 1/8 block tofu,
• lettuce
• salt
• pepper
• butter
  

Break out a small piece of alluminum foil, in the center oil it, then salt and pepper bottom, place fish in center and salt and pepper on top. crease four sides around fillet, put a pad of butter on top, and tent the rest of foil so there is just a little opening on top. 10 mins on toast. I buy pre-portions wild salmon frozen. They come in these cute clear bags with about 4 oz. in each. You can defrost in a little bowl with cool water(or warm in a pinch). Because tofu is bland you can serve it as a substitute for starch. and about 1/3 leaf of iceburg lettuce in a very fine shread to balance out the plate. When the fish came out I plated the 1/2 of it, then I placed the block of tofu, poked holes in the top with a chopstick and put one teaspoon of soy sauce, and then plated the shredded lettuce so it was all in thirds on the plate.