001[Music] hi everybody this is June Wier otherwise known as The Casual Gourmet and we got some different things for you today and the word casual means not a lot of work not a lot of trouble just a lot of good food and flavor how's that so I'm starting out today with uh some orange chicken it's sort of like a play on Chinese orange chicken but uh this this beef is you can either use flat iron beef or boneless uh shot ribs which is what I used here and I'm going to start the frying pan just to get it warm it's not a good idea to put beef in a cold pan so let me start that first and also the recipe says use a an oil that's not that's neutral so I figured what's a
002neutral oil I guess they don't mean olive oil or anything like that sesame oil so I'm going to use a little vegetable oil so it's just like a a tablespoon or something so just using plain old vegetable oil just to coat the bottom of the pan let that heat up now here's the secret I guess it's called Chinese five spice and because I like to cook so much I have all these spices in my repertoire in my drawer so it's called five spice and you can smell all the different spices so they not lying okay it also calls for lots of pepper which I like but of course you know not everybody in this household likes pepper but who cares I'm making this for you all right so now we'll I'll coat all of the
003beef and it's um beef short ribs and you cut it uh Against the Grain I think it'll be cooked faster that way it's not the most expensive cut of beef and that's what makes it good to use for a family so you're not breaking the bank and you're still getting beef not filet Min but sometimes it's even more tasty than filet don't you think okay so I just rolled it around that uh what was the maybe a teaspoon and a half of the all of the five Spice it's called Chinese five spice all right all right so frankly I've never made this before because I don't think I've ever made some beef before for the show so I figured um let's try it so we'll experiment together okay so if this goes into the frying
004pan should be hot enough now yep starting to sizzle okay so we'll let that sit there medium heat so you don't need a big beautiful kitchen I don't have a big beautiful kitchen but you do need good tools and one of those is a good for frying pan and a good knife I think I've told you this before make sure you invest in a good sharp knife this is a global sanco I've had it for years and I couldn't live without it I send it out to be sharpened every once in a while but by all means invest in a good knife start with that all right we're going to let that sit for a little while so it gets Brown Sizzle I'm not going to touch it and there I am touching it the
005other thing I um I invested in this year was an incredible brand new food processor my baby and it's got all the attachments and everything of course it took me two days to to read through the instructions figure it out but now I'm an old hand at it it and I used it for some of the other recipes that we're going to do today but I I I talk about Joy it saves you the trouble of chopping up onions chopping up vegetables it dices it slices it's it's it's my baby and I love it so yeah um I wouldn't get it for your wife for Valentine's Day but you know because those don't go over good you get something a little more personal but um but as an extra thing in the kitchen it's wonderful
006to have it just saves you so much work and I think that's why people don't like to cook they they just think it's a lot of work and chopping and everything but if you have all the right equipment it it's easy and I think it saves you a ton of money too all right let's see how our beef is doing it's getting nice and brown on there but but we're going to leave it alone for another minute or so you'll notice well I I I got the five Spice in there but I didn't put any salt I just a lot of pepper because we're going to add soy sauce and of course that's got a little salt and it's it's salty so smells good these are beef short ribs if I don't I usually put
007them in the slow cooker and that those are delicious but um this was a different thing I wanted to try because it's fast so maybe a week night you know all right let's see how this is doing okay so where did I find this recipe well I have about 200 cookbooks that I'm crazy about and sometimes I get Christmas gifts or birthday gifts or valent I wouldn't say Valentine's gift but sometimes I get a gift that's like like a candle or or anyway I said people I you know it's easy you want to buy something for me buy me a cookbook any kind whatever I love them or a can of tennis balls of course but I have so many cookbooks that I love to sit through them I go to the library and get
008a book of course but but then a lot of times I'll just take a cookbook to bed to read and say wow I hadn't seen that recipe I'm going to try that and this was one of them and it was easy and I thought you might like it you cuz you can try this at home okay all right let's see how we're doing here of course beef shouldn't I like medium rare beef I think that's the way you should cook it but um you know you've you've got to make sure that it it's cooked so oh how much did I use let's see uh maybe a pound and a half maybe um yeah so the recipe called for that all right all right so here's the secret okay and I would have never thought of
009using this but it's orange marmalade and it says use about three yeah three tablespoons of orange marmalade and put it right in with the beef there's one I I don't I mean you can measure if you want but I after all these years of cooking I can figure it out so yeah a little more give it a little sweetness okay and then 2 tablespoons of soy sauce this is where the salt comes in one two [Music] okay so let's mix all of that in what what we're looking for here is to glaze to glaze the beef a little bit so it's a little watery right now and I want to mix up the the um marmalade here so we're going to let it boil down a little bit couple minutes but of course marmalades got
010the uh orange bits in there the zest from the orange and that's all the way through here so we'll let it let it boil down and thicken up a little bit so it'll make a nice glaze for the beef I mean this is easy maybe Danny will like this just don't tell him about the pepper okay so while that's cooking because it's almost ready believe it or not I'm going to get a platter to put it on okay one of the things I like to do besides go shopping for cooking utensils I'd rather do that than shop for jewelry as I love plates and platters and just cooking stuff so I came across this on sale of course it was wonderful and uh I don't know how the beef is going to look in there
011but let's try it okay but before it's done this is pretty thick now nicely glazed now this is this is orange juice that I uh squeezed right out of an orange I I if if you're going to make something that calls for lemon juice or orange juice by all means use the real thing don't talk to me about a bottle of lemon juice that doesn't work so it's probably maybe you know a little bit a couple of teaspoons of orange juice we'll keep the rest to pour um to pour on afterwards and guess what it called for either scallions because that's very Chinese the uh uh green onions or it said use basil well we know Dan doesn't like onions so I figured I'd throw the basil in so that's what I'm going to do
012but I'm going to save a few whoops there it goes on the floor but I'm going to save a few um leaves for garnish so we just mix in the orange juice off the heat here now in a perfect world I would I would have made some steamed rice with this and uh serve it with the steamed rice but here it goes right into my beautiful platter here's the other thing forgot to take my oranges out of the freezer here you know we're all around all about presentation so it's nice when you put some something in there that that you used in the dish when you present it people get they get the idea that oh my this is going to taste orangey well no kidding so you put little oranges around there I would
013have had the rice here but we got another H side dish we're going to make so maybe that's a lot maybe just a couple so I love basil don't you okay now what good is it if you don't taste her right all right so I'm going to get my little spoon here and just taste the gravy take a little piece it's hot of course M wow something like you've never tasted before I don't know if it's a spice but I tell you what need a little more pepper don't tell van mhm it's very complex and how long did that take few minutes there you go spe steamed rice and we're in business round two people I I was going to make some rice with the beef however I came across this recipe actually I've used
014this for years and it's very tasty and so I figured I would add this as our side dish here and I prepped everything before you came and so I've got like maybe 6 ounces of carrots but I ran them through my trusty food processor my best friend now and this is what it came out like so it's like just grated carrots fresh carrots of course and I'm going to use orzo if you've never cooked with Oro it's like rice shaped pasta it's very tasty it Cooks real fast too so what I'm going to do is add 2 tablespoons of butter to my pan I already started the pan so there's one two here's what they look like you know so the butter is melting so you add the carrot cars to that and the orzo
015we want to we want to make sure that the orzo is nice and golden so let it cook for a few minutes are one of the vegetables that Dany likes so we have carrots a lot next time you come I'm going to make you some beet shredded beet and shredded carrot lck Keys those are like potato pancakes only with beets and carrots and boy those are good but today we're doing orzo and carrots now they're getting a little brown few more minutes now after that I'm going to add well it was 1 and 1/2 cups of chicken broth added to 1 and 3/4 cups of water so I just had a a buan cube I I didn't have homemade chicken stock but um the nors is pretty good so that's what I have so it's
016not intensely chicken it's mostly water but it'll give it some flavor I suppose you could use um vegetable Buon cubes if you are vegetarian we're not around here certainly not with Dan that's for sure you need what three vegetables okay that's getting nice and toasty a little bit so what I'm going to do is add the water and the chicken broth to that Sizzle Sizzle and one ta one a garlic clove that I chopped up and you put that in there I mean garlic makes everything taste better like the butter I had a little more but dropped some on the floor but I had plenty so plenty for this recipe yes I'm a little clutzy okay so I'm going to mix that up but then you let it boil until it boils down okay so
017while my orzo car Oro is cooking I'm going to show you a simple little dessert I not great at baking although I do and some may say I'm pretty good at it I just don't like it as much as cooking but I do need to come up with some desserts once in a while here's something easy you can find these little pastry shells they're all put together and uh they come in a little box and uh I bought some lemon CD you can find lemon curd with a jellies are sold also I found this um I think it was at HomeGoods in The Gourmet section and this is nice and tart I like lemon too so okay so fill up a little tart like this I guess it's a play on Lemon mering Tha although
018you can make you make mering to squirt on here but I've got uh whipped cream which is just as good I guess so little lemon tarts okay let me go check on my rice and stir it but I'll show you what to do with that after all right this has a little ways to go so we'll keep going with the lemon TS now I've made these for appetizers too naturally I don't put sweet stuff in it but you can put like um maybe a little ham salad and and a little pickle in there um you know like a little diced pickle you could put some salsa in there a little basil on it Tomatoes um anything actually how about some crab meat so I mean you can make an elegant appetizer or an elegant dessert
019with just these little buggers here that going to use up the um lemon curd well actually I have a um a I'm playing tennis in the morning and we're playing at home and when the visiting team comes over we usually have lunch for them afterwards cuz the by the time it's over it's like lunch time so we always are the fine hosts and have a little lunch so I'm thinking maybe I'll save these and bring them to the tennis lunch in tomorrow all right couple more look at I have used almost the whole jar I didn't realize that it would take almost the whole jar okay one more Stir of my Oro still has a ways to go couple of burned ones in there but they all give it flavor okay so you could pipe
020some mering on there if you wanted to or do what I do simple as best watch this yeah M just so you can see this what would you do to garnish this with well I put lemon well not not a lemon I mean know I put little slices of lemon around it but maybe a little cherry on the top one of those Marino cherries what do you think this may not last for the tennis people that's all right want something else so what do you think of that all right well need to try it course crunchy the lemon CR is very tart which is what I like takes one to know one just kidding well here we are now the the rice well I it's not rice the pasta and carrots have all been absorbed
021and so this is what it looks like and it actually looks like rice peeloff but it's orzo it's pasta okay now you got to add a little flavor to that so I'm adding some shredded parmesan Romano cheese and I mixed it in with some Rosemary rather than have two separate things and have to do two bowls in this dishwasher so I'm I've got them all mixed but this is shredded parmesan romano and uh Rosemary fresh Rosemary there we go so I'm going to put that in this makes it really creamy too so we want that to absorb it it's almost like a risoto I would think and of course it calls for chopped onions and I'm going to use them because I like them and I know you will too so little chopped green onion
022in there now I tasted this and it needs a little salt so we'll add a little salt to that just a little bit I think it's good without salt you need to you need to flavor it you need to season it and pepper okay this this probably would go good with um you know say you're in say you're in a hurry for night you pick up one of those little chickens at the supermarket they're already cooked they're already they're rotisseries chickens and this is a side dish I mean how easy is that I sound like AA got into it how easy is that okay I don't have the uh the Hampton house behind me just kidding all right so I'm going to find a nice Bowl to put this in so let's do that this
023should go good with steak or fish or anything and the cheese M and unlike Danny I like onions I like scallions I like leaks I like all onions M tasty really good so let me put my little Rosemary on there and I'll show you what it looks like how pretty is that all right I think you're going to think I'm crazy and maybe I am but you're going to like this and I bet you you go home and try this um I I won't I won't explain it until I do it so pay attention okay you're going to need two cake mixes but one of them has to be angel food cake not white cake no other cake it's got to be angel food cake and I found this at the macab baset and they
024do sell angel food cake although it was way up in the top shelf and then any other kind of cake you want lemon chocolate yellow whatever of course I happen to like chocolate so here's what you do you take one box of chocolate what is she doing you'll see and then you take one box of angel food it has to be angel food now I'm not a scientist I'm not a chemist or anything so please don't ask me why but it this is just the way it is so you mix these two guys together Little Busty there okay all right I put my scissors away okay so we're going to mix these two guys together okay make sure they're all combined together you got a big bowl to do this of course and then you
025need to put it into an air type container all right so you can have lots of lots of it left over but for right now I'm going to show you what I'm going to do with it okay just remember the term 3 2 1 okay I've got a tablespoon here grab a mug my cute little penguins here and you take three tablespoons of the mix one two three two tablespoons of water one two okay now let me get a little I usually use a fork because it mixes it up better okay let me show you what that looks like here just mix it up you're going to have the best tasting piece of chocolate cake you ever had come on June yeah really wait till you see it I've given this recipe to lots of
026people and there a lot of parents and grandparents that do it with their kids I think we did some mug cakes once but that was with flour and egg and all that stuff so this is just this is what it looks like and uh the three is the mix the two is the water the one is the one minute in the [Music] microwave one minute I'm going to get a little plate to put it on you won't believe it so while we're while that's cooking I'll fill up the um the airtight container I think it's going to fit okay yes it will fit another Bowl to wash but we got enough for a lot lot of cake all right watch this whoops okay here's what it looks like out of the microwave now what you
027do is run your fork around the bottom of it and you put it on the plate now now I just put the whipped cream away so we could put whipped cream you could put fruit you could put uh frosting although it's kind of hot right now or powdered sugar whatever but I'm going to put some whipped cream on it cuz we have it and you know how good that is all right okay it's hot so be careful but it's a piece of cake and you know when you're sitting down watching TV at night you wish you had something sweet after dinner oh wouldn't you have a piece of cake right now Bingo awesome you could shave a little chocolate on here if you want it to be fancy but I hope you try these recipes
028you can email me at yahoo.com galac Cru yahoo.com for these recipes if you like or just call the cable station and they'll put you in touch with me but I'm all for easy but good and fresh so I'm signing off until the next time I'll have more surprises for you then thank you for watching bye for now now