Meatloaf with Latin-Asian twist

I wanted to have meatloaf but I wanted something different and this is what I came up with.

Ingredients 

• ¾ lbs lean ground beef
• ¼ lbs Chorizo
• carrots
• onions
• garlic

I started with a pound of meat, ¾ lbs lean ground beef and ¼ lbs chorizo (the Latin twist)	Chop up carrots, onions, and garlic
Mix the meat and chopped vegetables. Add salt, pepper, Worcestershire sauce , and Hoisin sauce (the Asian twist). I put the mixture in circular ceramic terrines then bake in the oven in a water bath	after they baked...
Plated with some creamy garlic mashed potatoes that I made, and more ketchup

Filipino Style Empanada

My wife made some Filipino style empanada today.

Ingredients 

• Italian sausage (ground beef usually used)
• potatoes, cubed small
• onions
• mushrooms
• diced garlic
• raisins

Ground beef is usually used but but we used Italian sausage instead	Remove the sausage from casing and crumble
Ingredients: Cubed potatoes, onions, mushrooms, diced garlic and raisins	Brown the sausage then saute with the other ingredients to make the filling
She used two different kinds, one with wheat flour and one with white flour. This is the rolled wheat flour	Cut dough into circles
Put egg wash around the dough and put a spoonful of filling	Fold the dough over and crimp the edges
Also tried another shape by placing another piece of dough on top and crimping the edges	This is the ones with the white flour dough
Baked wheat flour versions	Baked white flour versions

Turducken Inspired Roll

Tonight's dish was inspired believe it or not by the Turducken hahahaha. For those not familiar with the Turducken, it's a turkey stuffed with a duck which is stuffed with a chicken. It was popularized by John Madden during an NFL broadcast.

Ingredients 

• round eye steaks
• pork loin (I got peppercorned garlic kind, it was on sale)
• chicken breast
• basil 
• jar of spaghetti sauce
• salt and pepper

Started with round eye steaks, pepper-corned  garlic pork loin and a chicken breast	Butterflied the steaks
Cut the pork loin into three pieces and  then butterflied	Cut the chicken breast into three pieces,  butterflied, then pressed to flatten
Season the steak with salt and pepper  and add some julienne basil	Laid the chicken on top of the steak,  added more basil, salt and pepper
Laid the pork loin on top	Had some left over bbq chicken, added  cilantro garlic pesto, onions and basil then lightly chopped it in a food processor.
Put a layer of the chopped chicken mix on  top of the pork loin	Roll up the whole thing and tie with twine
Seared the roll in a dutch oven until brown	Searing all done, then prepared the sauce.  Started with a jar spaghetti sauce and added  some of my own seasonings as I usually do  with spaghetti sauce. Don't ask what I put  cause it's different every time. I season as I  feel hahahaha, really makes repeating a recipe hard lol. I promise I'll do a better job in  showing spaghetti sauce in the future. For  now, use your own or just the sauce out of the jar.
Put the seared rolls into the sauce, and simmered in very low heat for about an hour	All cooked...
Cut into the roll	All plated... Time to eat...

Shrimp-n-Prawn Stuffed Salmon Roll

This was dinner tonight. I've been in a "rolling" mood lately and have been making dinner with different items and rolling them up, such as pressed chicken breast. Tonight it was salmon, stuffed with prawn and cilantro garlic shrimp

Ingredients:

• salmon fillets, skin removed and cut into thin strips (each fillet will should make two rolls)
• prawns (size 21-25 or bigger)
• small shrimp (shrimp meat from your local supermarket seafood section)
• cilantro
• garlic
• salt and pepper as desired

After cutting the skin off the salmon, cut the fillet into thin strips, roll the salmon and tie with twine.	Place a prawn at the base of the roll...
Create a pesto with cilantro and garlic, mix with shrimp and stuff into the roll	Over stuff the roll...
Three rolls ready to cook...	Cooking... steaming on stove top...
Plated, almost done, just need to remove the twine	Ready to eat, salmon stuffed with  prawn and cilantro garlic shrimp