Blog Elements

Half Sized Blog Element (Single Author Style)

Half Sized Blog Element (Multi Author Style)

Balmi – Easy and Healthy Meal

October 6, 2015/in Recipe /by ValleyFamilyFun

Balmi – An Easy and Healthy Meal This is a great dinner recipe that was passed on to me from a friend of a friend. I believe it is originally from Indonesia. It’s an easy and healthy recipe that the whole family enjoyed! You can probably tell from this recipe that creating Balmi is not […]

Cooking Hotdogs in a Milk Carton

October 6, 2015/in Activities, Recipe /by ValleyFamilyFun

Cooking Hodogs in a Milk Carton When a childhood friend, Kelly, posted some pictures on her Facebook page of an activity she was doing with her daughter, I knew I had to try it with the boys! Kelly’s daughter Hannah was working on an outdoor cooking badge for Girl Guides. As a former Girl Guide […]

Balmi – Easy and Healthy Meal

October 6, 2015/in Recipe /by ValleyFamilyFun

Cooking Hotdogs in a Milk Carton

October 6, 2015/in Activities, Recipe /by ValleyFamilyFun

Full Sized Blog Element (Big Preview Pic)

Balmi – Easy and Healthy Meal

October 6, 2015/in Recipe /by ValleyFamilyFun

Balmi – An Easy and Healthy Meal

This is a great dinner recipe that was passed on to me from a friend of a friend. I believe it is originally from Indonesia. It’s an easy and healthy recipe that the whole family enjoyed! You can probably tell from this recipe that creating Balmi is not an exact science. Enjoy!

Ingredients

(Quantities below serve 6)

• Bacon (cut up) – 1lb or ½ lb depending on taste

• Pork (cubed) – About equal to bacon

•Soy Sauce – 4 tablespoons (start there – add more if needed)

• Sugar – 4 teaspoons ( again, adjust according to taste)

• Garlic powder – 2 teaspoons (you can also used minced garlic or pureed garlic but don’t use garlic salt)

• Red pepper flakes – 1-2 teaspoons (depending on how hot you like it – I don’t like any spice whatsoever, so I eliminated this; diners could sprinkle chili flakes on their own portions for heat according to taste)

• Spaghetti – Measure out by number of people being served.

• Red/Green peppers (diced) – 1 Cup of each. I substituted snow peas and broccoli for the green pepper; you can use any stir-fryable veggie you like, but avoid onions as they completely change the flavour of the finished meal.

Method

1. Marinate the pork and bacon in the soy sauce, pepper flakes, garlic and sugar. You should marinate for at least 20 minutes.

2. Chop veggies as if for a stir fry.

3. Break the spaghetti into thirds and cook according to the package directions. Breaking the spaghetti is important because it helps the balmi mix properly when all combined at the end of the process.

4. Cook the marinated meat mixture, together with the marinade, in a wok or large skillet on medium-high heat. Stir often to avoid burning or sticking to the pan.

5. After 5-10 minutes the sugar will begin to caramelize and the bacon fat will start to thicken into a sauce. Add your veggies at this point and cook for another 3-5 minutes, until they are tender-crisp.

6. Once the pasta is cooked, drain and toss into the meat-veggie mixture. Toss well to ensure a really good coating of the pasta by the sauce.

Enjoy!

Cooking Hotdogs in a Milk Carton

October 6, 2015/in Activities, Recipe /by ValleyFamilyFun

Cooking Hodogs in a Milk Carton

When a childhood friend, Kelly, posted some pictures on her Facebook page of an activity she was doing with her daughter, I knew I had to try it with the boys! Kelly’s daughter Hannah was working on an outdoor cooking badge for Girl Guides. As a former Girl Guide leader, this appealed to me. The boys just wanted to light things on fire!

Yes! It is possible to cook a hotdog in a milk carton!

What you will need:

Hotdogs (peel off plastic)
2L or 4L milk carton
Newspaper
Tinfoil
Matches

How to make:

1. Roll each hotdog in tinfoil.

2. Cut the top off the milk carton and make sure the plastic spout is gone. Place tinfoiled-dogs in the centre of a milk carton.

For a 4L carton, you can cook 4-6 hotdogs.A 2L carton will cook 2-4 hotdogs.

3. Around the hotdogs, place lightly scrunched up newspaper. This will help the hotdogs to stand upright in the centre of the carton.

4. Go somewhere fireproof! We used our driveway.

5. Light the milk carton on fire.

6. When the milk carton and newspaper have totally burned away, your hotdogs will be cooked!

7. Carefully pick up your hotdogs in the tinfoil. Be careful! They will be hot!

8. Put in bun and you are ready to eat!

What are other ways you have experimented with cooking food?

(Visited 422 times, 5 visits today)

Blog Elements

Half Sized Blog Element (Single Author Style)

Half Sized Blog Element (Multi Author Style)

Full Sized Blog Element (Big Preview Pic)

Balmi – An Easy and Healthy Meal

Ingredients

Method

Cooking Hodogs in a Milk Carton

What you will need:

How to make:

Categories