Celebration Meal Plans: Welcome Home
David Lee's Shrimp | Coq au Vin | Carrot Cake
David Lee's Shrimp
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 4 |
| Category: | Appetizer |
| Meal: | Welcome Home (Celebration Meal Plans) |
| 3 | Tb | flour |
| 3 | cloves | garlic, chopped |
| 1 | Tb | lemon zest, finely chopped |
| 1 | Tb | dill weed |
| 3 | Tb | oil, olive |
| 1 | lb | shrimp, deveined, shelled |
| 0.25 | cup | panko breadcrumbs |
| 1 | Tb | lemon, juice of |
| 1 | pinch | salt and pepper to taste |
| 1 | Tb | oil, olive |
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Place flour, dill, lemon zest and garlic in processor, process
until blended. Put flour mixture in plastic bag, add shrimp
and shake to coat. Heat oil in a pan or wok; sauté shrimp 1
minute per side. Remove and drain on paper towel. Place
shrimp in an ovenproof dish; sprinkle Panko breadcrumbs on
top.
Place under broiler for 2 minutes or until brown. Drizzle with
lemon juice and then remaining olive oil.
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Coq au Vin
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 4 |
| Category: | Chicken Entrée |
| Meal: | Welcome Home (Celebration Meal Plans) |
| 2 | slices | bacon |
| 2 | Tb | oil, olive |
| 1 | whole | chicken, whole, cut up |
| 6 | cloves | garlic, chopped |
| 8 | oz | onions, pearl frozen |
| 8 | oz | mushrooms, white button |
| 1 | 10.5 oz can | beef consommé |
| 8 | oz | wine, dry red |
| 8 | oz | chicken broth |
| 3 | Tb | tomato paste |
| 3 | medium | bay leaves, whole dried |
| 2 | Tb | butter, salted |
| 2 | Tb | flour |
| 0.5 | tsp | salt and pepper to taste |
| |
Cut bacon into small pieces, brown bacon in large pan, add oil. Brown chicken in pan, remove chicken, add garlic and onions, sauté for 3 minutes. Add mushrooms, chicken, consommé, wine, bay leaves, tomato paste and enough of the broth to just cover chicken. Reduce heat to simmer, cook for 25 minutes, until chicken is tender. Remove chicken to platter. Add flour to some of the juice and add to gravy to thicken, add butter. Salt and pepper to taste. Spoon over chicken and serve.
Serve with crusty bread.
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Carrot Cake
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 12 |
| Category: | Dessert |
| Meal: | Welcome Home (Celebration Meal Plans) |
| 1.5 | cup | oil, vegetable |
| 2 | cup | sugar, granulated |
| 4 | large | egg |
| 2 | cup | flour, all-purpose |
| 1.5 | tsp | baking soda |
| 1.5 | tsp | baking powder |
| 2 | tsp | cinnamon. ground |
| 1 | tsp | salt, kosher |
| 0.75 | lb | carrots, shredded |
| 1 | cup | walnuts, chopped |
| 0.5 | cup | raisins, golden |
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Cream sugar, eggs and
oil.
Mix in flour, baking soda
and powder, cinnamon
and salt. Add grated
carrots, nuts and raisins.
Bake in greased tube pan
or (2) 9 inch cake pans for
40- 50 minutes at 350
degrees.
Cover with cream cheese
icing. *
Note * See cream cheese
icing for recipe.
This recipe serves 12. If
you scale the recipe to 8
or less bake 20 minutes
less.
Shown here as a 3layer
cake.
