Beef Curry, Bread Sticks and Teriyaki Sticky Chicken

We start off today with an very easy Teriyaki Sticky Chicken recipe. This is really easy, as you just stir the sauce ingredients together and then bake it, so good when you're tight on time. For the sauce, combine 1C Ketchup, 1/3C brown sugar, 1/4C vinegar, 1/4C lite Teriyaki sauce and 1t dry mustard. pour a little of this in the bottom of an appropriately sized pan (I used 9x9 glass, sprayed with Pam), put in 3-6 chicken breasts, and bake at 350 for 40 minutes. Makes lots of sauce for putting over rice, and is great for leftovers as well. A tangy sauce and, while not the best, still a very good recipe and hard to beat on prep time.

Next, we have what happens when you get hungry and are almost out of food. It actually turned out really well, so I'm including a list of ingredients, but everything was just add until added. First off, brown some lean ground beef with sweet curry powder, then set aside. Then, sautee a large onion and a couple peppers in butter and a little cumin. Once brown, add in low sodium soy sauce, ketchup, a little brown sugar, more sweet curry powder, regular curry powder, cream cheese (this is what really made it), and simmer with the meat until delicious. Served over noodles, it made for quite the dish.

Finally, some bread sticks that I've made probably a dozen times. These are always a hit at parties, and they can be made in bulk several different ways, which is really nice. To make the dough, combine 1.3C water (or 1/2C milk, the rest water), 3T melted butter, 4C bread flour, 2t salt, 2T white sugar, 2.5t yeast(activated with honey), 1T onion powder and 1t garlic salt. Kneed for about 7 minutes, then let rise for an hour. At this point, I have made them two different ways. If you are making a lot of bread sticks or you want them thinner and crispier, I found that the best way is to spread out the dough on the counter in one huge sheet. Then, spread a thin layer of olive oil on the dough and sprinkle onion powder and garlic salt, then cut with a pizza cutter and bake. Alternatively, divide the dough into about 15 pieces and roll out individual bread sticks like you would pretzels (see previous post). Then, individually olive oil and onion powder and garlic salt them. Either way you decide to form them, bake at 375 for 10-15 minutes, or until golden. Unfortunately, I do not have any pictures of them, so these are from the recipe they are based off of: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Paulas-Bread-Sticks/Detail.aspx