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Here’s another original home cooking meal idea, Mini Deviled-Spamwich Brunch:

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Equipment and All Ingredients Needed

1 Knife 1 Cutting board 1 Blender/processor

1 Container with lid 1 Medium pot 1 Frying pan 2 Stovetop burners

4 Whole wheat dinner rolls

1/4 Can Spam (pork luncheon meat)

¼ Medium white onion

1 ½ Cups milk

1 ½ Cups cream

1 ½ Cups frozen broccoli

2 Tablespoons butter

2 Tablespoons olive oil

1 Tablespoon each of four different cheeses of choice

1 Tablespoon flour

1 Tablespoon fresh parsley

1 Tablespoon mayonnaise

2 Teaspoons white pepper

1 Teaspoon capers

1 Teaspoon nutmeg

1 Teaspoon Dijon-style mustard

1 Teaspoon chicken broth granules

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Here’s another original come cooking idea mixing East and West influences, Tuna-Greens Wrap Dinner:

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For this meal, I fried seachicken (canned tuna), frozen karashina (mustard greens), pork luncheon meat (spam) slices, julienned white onion, minced garlic paste, minced ginger paste, white pepper, and leftover ramen spice package in the canned tuna oil and wrapped the mixture in toasted flour tortilla shells; added molded leftover precooked rice with turmeric and cracked black sesame seeds; and finished the meal with instant miso soup.

Here’s another of hubby’s delish home cooked meals, Papa’s Miso-Ginger Pork Dinner:

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Ingredients included in the meal were pork sautéed in sesame oil, white onion, julienned bell pepper, minced ginger paste, miso, white wine, carrot slices, minced garlic paste, powdered cayenne pepper, rice, and black sesame seeds.

This homemade meal is hubby version of a Western classic, Papa’s Chicken-Fried Pork Cutlet Dinner:

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For this meal, hubby included flour-dipped pork cutlet sautéed in vegetable oil smothered in a sake, mirin, tonkatsu sauce, garlic chive, white pepper, and flour sauce; frozen mixed veggies sautéed in sesame oil and balsamic vinegar and minced garlic paste; and steamed rice,

This is another of hubby’s delish meals, Papa’s Wine Sauce-Pork Dinner:

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For this meal, hubby used leftover Leek Stuffed-Pork rolls and potatoes sautéed in olive oil and sesame oil smothered with a white wine, sour cream, chopped fresh parsley, mirin, white pepper, butter, and minced garlic paste sauce and garnished with grated parmesan cheese; accompanied by sautéed carrots and frozen asparagus spears.

Here’s another original home cooked meal idea, Leek Stuffed-Pork Cutlet Curry-Ramen Dinner:

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This twist on two very popular dishes in the local cuisine included pan fried leek-stuffed pork cutlet medallions; instant ramen with a curry powder/one-half packaged ramen bouillon broth; leftover crockpot curry; a spiced dried-seaweed sheet garnish; and a chilled brocolli/cherry tomato in dill weed with apple cider vinegar tsukemono.

Here’s another tasty home cooking idea with a twist, Crockpot-Curry & Cold Bean Salad Dinner:

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The meal consisted of minced carrot, bell pepper, and white onion with ground beef, two powdered curries, clove, cinnamon, minced ginger paste, minced garlic paste, and beef bouillon cooked in a crockette; ladled over a spicy pork sausage on a slice of bread;and garnished with a sliced, spiced, seaweed sheet; accompanied by deep-fried potato croquettes of ground whole potatoes with skins, crockpot curry, and dried bread crumbs then coated in panko; and a cold salad of shredded iceberg lettuce with bean mix sautéed in olive oil, butter, minced garlic paste, soy sauce, dried parsley flakes,and white pepper; chilled, then drizzled with olive oil; and garnished with parmesan cheese.

So you spent the day repainting the ouside of the house and don’t really feel like fast food, yet you really aren’t in the mood for a heavy or complicated solution, Paint Day Kwiqi Meal:

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For the meal, I made a simple salad of iceberg lettuce, diced cucumber, quartered cherry tomatoes, and chopped scallions topped with bacon bits, creamy cheese dressing, grated parmesan cheese, and dried oregano flakes; accompanied by fresh mushrooms, sliced spicy sausage, and frozen mustard greens sautéed in sesame oil and minced garlic paste with white pepper and soy sauce and topped with cracked black sesame seeds; also, deep-fried store-bought frozen spiced chicken and home fries served with a mayonnaise and dried parsley flakes dipping sauce; and the remaining leftover frozen springrolls made by hubby served with a simple ketchup and soy sauce dipping sauce.

Here’s another simple, yet quick and tasty, put-together meal, Foil-Wrapped BBQ Fish Dinner:

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For this barbecue, hubby wrapped red fish fillets with minced ginger paste, minced garlic paste, olive oil, butter, fresh parsley, white pepper, and leek greens in a foil packet; in a separate foil packet, I added sliced bell pepper, fresh mushrooms, chopped leek whites, white pepper, powdered tarragon, sesame oil, and cracked black sesame seeds; and a third foil packet had spicy pork sausage with soy sauce and whole grain mustard. To complete the meal were a small salad of iceberg lettuce, arugula, sliced cherry tomatoes, chopped scallions, herb-croutons, and bacon bits; as well as, a rice cup of leftover precooked rice, turmeric, butter, milk, chopped shrimp sautéed in olive oil and minced garlic paste, chopped cherry tomato, chopped fresh parsley, and spiced seaweed sheets.

We had a brief reprieve in the weather the other day and decided to throw together an outdoor meal, Spur-of-the-Moment Chicken BBQ:

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The meal consisted of chicken mini-drumsticks marinated in sesame oil, whole grain mustard, honey, dried thyme flakes, white pepper; and minced garlic paste; pork sausage, foil-wrapped sweet corn-on-the-cob with butter, soy sauce, and dried parsley flakes; leek; a salad of iceberg lettuce, arugula, cherry tomatoes, cucumber; and dried oregano flakes drizzled with a creamy cheese salad dressing; and a Chinese-style fried rice (from a local supermarket) with nori cup.