Friday, July 9, 2010

Chicken Empanadas and fun sites to mess with ur photos


I love these things... and... that's why they're probably not good 4U... we used to buy bags of this stuff from Lisa's relatives... anyway, here's a simple recipe...







Crust:
8 rolled pie crusts (e.g. that w/b 4 boxes of the pb doughboy kind) cookie cutter'd into 4 inch circles (re-squish-n-roll scraps to make an extra circle from each roll)

Filling:
1 tablespoon oil
1 tablespoon butter
1/2 onion, minced
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 lb chicken breast cubed
1 small potato, diced
1 small carrot, diced
1 cup chicken broth
1 cup frozen green peas
1/2 cup raisins
1/4 cup soy sauce
Pepper to taste (cayenne is good too)

Instructions:
Sauté onions & garlic for about 3 mins in the oil & butter.
Add the cubed chicken and stir-fry until the chicken is no longer pink.
Add potatoes, carrots, peas, raisins, broth, soy sauce, pepper and bring to a boil.
Reduce heat & let simmer for 15 mins.
Turn off heat & let cool for 30 minutes or so...
With a slotted spoon transfer the stuff to a bowl (letting excess liquid drip first por favor)...

Spoon about 1.5 teaspoons of Filling into the middle of each pastry circle.
Fold the circle so the edges meet and filling is sealed.
Press the edges of the pastry with the tines of a fork.
Combine lightly beaten egg with 1 tablespoon of water.
Brush surface of each folded puff with egg mixture.

Bake:
Preheat oven to 400°
Arrange on a greased baking sheet.
With a knife make 2-3 slits on the surface of each puff.
Bake for about 20 minutes (until lightly browned).

or... Fry:
You can also fry 'em until they're golden brown on both sides (tastes better but probably not as good for you as bake'n 'em... woof...)

btw, prior to baking or frying, you can freeze 'em in a sealed plastic bag for a couple of mos... and pop a few out here and there for a quick snack when ya have an inkling...

also, also, if you have any left over filling and happen to have some lumpia wrappers available... speaking of lumpia... naw... i'll save that for a future journal entry...

thats it! Enjoy!

and... here are a few links to sites that let you have fun with your photos:


18 Photo Editing Websites Make Fun, Crazy and Beautiful Photos
20 Great Online Image Editors
25 Websites To Have Fun With Your Photos - Web 2.0
28 Online Photo Editing Websites To have Fun With Graphic and Web Design Blog - Inspiration, R
Adobe Photoshop Express
ArtWeaver
BeFunky.com
Bling Easy
Blingee
CloudCanvas
DrPic.com Free Web Picture Editor and Image Host - Crop, Resize, Text
Dumpr
Faceinhole
Fake Magazine Cover
Festisite Personalized money generator
Flauntr online photo editor
FlauntR
FOTOCRIB - Online Photo Editor
FotoFlexer
FotoTrix
Frontpage
Funny Photos
FunPhotoBox - make funny pictures online
FunPhotoBox
Genopal - pic2graphics
Gimp
Glass Giant Fun Photo Editing
Graffiti Creator
Group Story -- Recreate. Remember. And Share!
HDR photos createhdr.com
Hetemeel.com - Dynamic images
Homokaasu Rasterbator Posterize Pictures
Imagechef
imageGenerator.net - image generator
in20years - Meet the older you! Make your face old for FREE
In4mador! Generators
Lightbox Image Editor
LoonaPix
LunaPic
Magazine Cover Generator
Magix Xtreme Photo Designer 6
Magmypic
MagToo
Make your own Magic Eye 3D Stereogram - Easy Stereogram Builder
MakeMeBabies - What will your baby look like- Make babies with partner, friends and HOT celebs!
Montagraph
My Live! Cam
myImager.com - Your Everything Online Image Editor
online generators » xtort.net
Online Image Editor .com
Online Image Editor .info
Online Image Merger - Combine your photos, pictures and images together
Paint.NET
Phixr - Online Photo Editor
Photo Editing Games
Photo Editing Websites
Photo2Text
Photo505
PhotoFiltre
PhotoFunia
photomosaic
Photoscape
Photoshop.com
Photovisi
Picascii
Picnik
PicTreat - Free one-click photo retouching service
Picture2Life - Welcome - Edit, Collage, Animate and Share Photos-Pictures Online FREE
PikiFX
PikiPimp.com
Pixenate - Edit photos online, fast and easily - No plugins required.
pixer.us -- online photo editor
Pixia
pixisnap
Pixlr.com
PiZap
Scrapblog Online Scrapbooks
Serif PhotoPlus SE
Shape Collage
Slim your Pictures - Photos - slimpic.com
Snipshot- Edit pictures online
Splashup
Sumo Paint
The Generator Blog
tiltshiftmaker.com - Transform your photos into tilt-shift style miniatures
TiltShiftMaker
Tinker Bell's Pixie Prints
Twibbon.com - Start Something!
Ultimate Paint
VC VicMan's Photo Editor
Web Resizer - Crop & Resize Images Free Online - Optimize images for websites and email
Webpaint - get rid of objects in pictures
Welcome to Aviary
Welcome to funnycollage.com
Write On It
Yearbook Yourself
ZingFu

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