Chicken Enchilada Casserole

This is another recipe from Good Housekeeping Magazine. They have the topic "One Dish Meals" in the January 2011 issue. I like all the recipes and intend to try all of them. This dish required more work because the ingredients (chicken, onion, zucchini, and corn) all need to be cooked separately then mix together. But when we tasted it, all the work was worth it. This tasted like a Mexican lasagna. Instead of pasta, there were corn tortillas between the layers. The sauce was really good. Love the zucchini in the dish. Yum yum yum! I will definitely make this one again and again.


Chicken Enchilada Casserole
http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/recipefinder/chicken-enchilada-casserole-recipe-ghk0111

Cheesy and creamy, this baked version of Mexican favorite requires only one pan and one hour to become a bubbling, gooey meal the whole family will enjoy. The salsa verde and cilantro add a bit of brightness and freshness to keep this dish from being too heavy.

Serves: 6
Total Time: 1 hr
Prep Time: 20 min

Perfect Beef Prime Rib Roast

Henry's Farmers Market's all natural standing rib roast is on sale this week for $5.99/pound.  They even have a pretty good recipe for "Perfect Beef Prime Rib Roast" on the ad.  Sounds good to me.  I've never cooked prime rib before.  I was a little scared of ruining the $20 3.5 pound beef.  But it turned out great.... not perfect but almost!



(Recipe at the end of the post.)  This was how it looked when I took it out from the oven.  Looked pretty good.

Nap Time

My loves taking nap together on the couch....



Awww....

Italian Spiced Shrimp

One of my New Year resolutions is eat healthier and cook more at http://www.eileenlikestoeat.com. I thought I would "try" my new year resolution even before the new year. haha... I saw Italian Spiced Shrimp recipe in Good Housekeeping Magazine, and liked it. After looking at Henry's Market's weekly ad, I decided to make this dish this week because shrimp is on sale. This is what I like to do. When I see recipes I like from magazines, I tear out the pages and put it in my recipe folder. Before I go grocery shopping, I'll look over supermarket's ad to decide which recipes to try for the week and compile my shopping list that way.  This shrimp dish was really easy to make.  It wasn't that spicy, just a hint of it.  The meal was light and felt really healthy.  We really like it.


Italian Spiced Shrimp
http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/recipefinder/italian-spiced-shrimp-recipe-ghk0111

Serves: 6
Total Time: 40 min
Prep Time: 20 min

[Laguna Niguel] [Japanese] Sango Sushi Restaurant

Sango Sushi Restaurant
27261 La Paz Rd #A
Laguna Niguel, CA 92677
(949) 831-7287
http://www.sangosushi.com/Laguna.htm

We seriously love Sango Sushi.  We go there like once a week now.


"Super" Sushi A La Carte ($16.80)
Tuna, white fish, shrimp, salmon, yellowtail, squid, octopus, fresh water eel, albacore, masago, uni & ikura

For this take-out order, Dr. P got "Super" Sushi A La Carte.  It was expensive because there were uni and ikura.  But it was so worth it.  Both uni and ikura were super good.  Just look how much uni they gave us!  This is a small take-out type of Japanese restaurant.  I would never expect they have sushi like this.  Everything was super fresh.  We talked about going back for sushi next time.

[Laguna Hills] [Asian Fusion] Elephant Bar Restaurant

Elephant Bar Restaurant
24155 Laguna Hills Mall
Laguna Hills, CA 92653
(949) 454-9530
http://www.elephantbar.com

It's shopping time!  We were planning to hit Norstrom Rack at Laguna Hills Mall.  So we thought we'd grabbed lunch at the mall, too.  We looked up online to see what restaurants are in the mall.  Elephant Bar!  I haven't been to Elephant Bar for a long time.  I used to go to the one in West Covina with family all the time.  Also I have coupons.  Sounded like a perfect place for lunch.



One of the coupon I had was discount for the three dishes on their Chef Reinhard's Culinary Specials menu.  $6 off for the shrimp platter, and $4 off for the sirloin steak and shrimp combo.  Pictures for those dishes looked really good.  We decided to try them.

[Huntington Beach] [Japanese] Gyu-Kaku

Gyu-Kaku
7862 Warner Ave # 109
Huntington Beach, CA 92647
(714) 842-8333
http://www.gyu-kaku.com

Last time we went to Huntington Beach, we passed by Gyu-Kaku on the way http://www.eileenlikestoeat.com.  I remember many years ago I went to Gyu-Kaku in Beverly Hills for my sister's birthday.  The food was good, but really expensive.  Also years ago when I was working in Torrance, I often went to Gyu-Kaku for their lunch special.  Dr. P has never been to Gyu-Kaku.  I wanted to take him there to try their Japanese BBQ.  After looking at their website, I found out they offer all you can eat now.  For all you can eat lunch, it's only $12.95/person.  What a deal!



We went on Friday, and this place was packed.  Besides the lunch time special, it was also happy hour.  So people can order appetizers for really cheap price, too.  We ordered two Sapporo draft for happy hour price of $1.49 each.