June 2019
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Chilled Lettuce Wraps
Tired of the same old sandwiches and hot dogs? Here's something fresh and flavorful for your next picnic.
Serves 6 2 tablespoons fish sauce
5 tablespoons lime juice
3 tablespoons brown sugar 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
4 small shallots, thinly sliced
2 teaspoons minced ginger
1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
1.5 pounds ground chicken breast
2 tablespoons chopped cilantro
1/4 red onion, very thinly sliced
2 lettuce cups (Bibb lettuce) Directions
In a small bowl, combine the fish sauce, lime juice, and brown sugar; then set aside. Heat a skillet over medium heat and add oil. Sauté shallots, ginger, and red pepper flakes, and cook until softened. Then add the ground chicken and continue cooking while breaking up any lumps and until meat is no longer pink. Remove from heat and add sauce mixture. Allow mixture to cool and then refrigerate for at least one hour. (Can be made in advance and refrigerated for up to two days.)
Stir in cilantro and onion before serving. Serve in lettuce leaves with extra wedges of lime.
Worth Quoting
This month, some famous quotes on pictures:
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
Walt Disney
Wherever there are words, let there be pictures.
Chris Riddell
If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough.
Robert Capa
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher
The world today doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
Pablo Picasso
Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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