thai peanut sauce/pasta

This was super easy.

peanut sauce for 10:

1 C. peanut butter (I used crunchy)

1/2 C. soy sauce

2 tsp. white or brown sugar

4 drops of hot sauce

2 cloves garlic

1 cup water

(I also added rice vinegar 1 tsp and a sprinkle of ginger) not called for in original

Heat on low over stove and top thai noodles and veggies

Ronald McDonald House Activity

I've reserved the night for us to serve dinner at the Salt Lake City Ronald McDonald House. Unfortunately, our regularly scheduled night for recipe club was already taken, but hopefully you will all be able to make it on Tuesday, December 8th.

We are limited to 12 people in the kitchen so if you are interested, please reply to this post soon. If there are additional spots available (I know December can be a crazy month) then we will open it up to bring your children, if you'd like.

Even if you cannot attend, but would like to donate to the dinner, that is fine too. Last year we served 40-60 people for about $200 total. So a $20 donation would be appreciated if you can swing it. You can give the money to our finance guru, Michele.

We will need volunteers for the following so please include in your reply post if you would like to assist with one of these jobs: We can also discuss this when we meet in October at Kori's.

• menu planning
• grocery shopping
• prepping food

Food must be either store bought or prepared on site. This means, we don't get any of Mona's famous desserts unless she brings the ingredients to the Ronald McDonald House early and makes/bakes them there. Here are some other Dinner tips.

Beef Curry

The directions are on the box, which can be found in the specialty food isle of most grocery stores:

Ingredients:
1lb meat: chicken, beef, or lamb
1 yellow onion
1 carrot
1-2 potatoes, cubed
2.5 cups water
Golden Curry Sauce Mix
White Rice

Directions:
Cut meat into cubes and chop onions.
Stir fry meat and onions in oil in a large skillet until onions are lightly browned.
Add vegetables
Add water and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover and simmer until veggies are soft and meat is tender (about 10 minutes).
Remove from heat, break Curry Sauce Mix into pieces and add them to the skillet. (You many need to add more water, depending on how much you lost from the previous step.)
Stir until completely melted.
Simmer 5 minutes.
Serve over hot rice or noodles.

Cedar Salmon with Mango Avacado Salsa

Soak cedar plank in water for 20 minutes-4 hours.

Rinse and pat dry salmon. Season with kosher salt and pepper. Put the plank on the grill by itself until edges are black then put the salmon on the plank. You want the grill pretty hot, so it will only take 5-8 minutes to cook. Don't over cook. Just until the fish flakes easily with a fork and is no longer transparent.

Top with Mango Avacado Salsa:

1 Large Mango, peeled and diced
2 Large Avocados, peeled and diced
1/4 Cup chopped fresh Cilantro
1/4 Cup chopped Red Onion
1 Jalapeno Pepper, cored and diced
Juice of 2 Limes
2 Tablespoons Canola Oil
1/2 teaspoon Kosher Salt
1 teaspoon Sugar

(also good with tortilla chips)

Andrea's Brisket (from stacy)

Marinate brisket for 24 hours covered with plastic wrap in pan with: liquid smoke, worcestershire sauce, kosher salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic salt, seasoned salt.

5-6 hours before preheat oven to 300 degrees. Wrap brisket in foil and put back in cleaned pan. Cook 5-6 hours.

Cut off fat, coat with favorite jar of barbeque sauce. Put back in oven to reheat with sauce. Let cool 10 minutes and slice!