Marnee Thai Restaurant!! - San Francisco!

In my recent trip to San Francisco, my sister and I made the rounds to as many 'foodie' places we get to.  For lunch we stopped by at Marnee Thai Restaurant!! They're famous for a award winning Pad Thai dish and I was so excited to try it!!  The location was relativity easy to find, and the cost wasn't too bad for lunch.

I got the tofu Pad Thai and my sister got the chicken Pad Thai.  They give you a generous portion, probably enough to feed two people with a moderate appetite.  But, when I took the first bite I could really see why this was a award winning dish.  I've tried A LOT of pad thai dishes all across Southern California, and it's probably one of my go-to dishes at any Thai restaurant.  But when I had this dish, it had a very distinct bump of flavor than the rest.  Other pad thai's are usually mono-tone; just between sweet and sour.  This however, jumped out at you.  The flavor was in every part of the dish, in every bite and EVEN in the noodles!

This place is def worth a try if your a thai food connoisseur!      

WoOo..noddle close up!

http://www.marneethaisf.com

2225 Irving Street

San Francisco, CA 94122

(415) 665-9500

Quick Grilled Chicken Seasoned with Soy Sauce!

Here is a easy grilled chicken recipe that has turned into a staple in the household.  With this, there is no need to marinate, just season and enjoy!

When using soy sauce, it tends to give a very distinct flavor to any protein.  So using it as one of the main components to this grilled chicken, you will soon find yourself adding it to everything!

• 2 garlic, sliced (depending on your taste, you can add more or remove the garlic)
• 9 Chicken legs and thighs
• Pepper or Everyday seasoning
• 1/4 cup of Soy Sauce
• 1/2 of a large onion
• A sliver of Ginger (optional)

Serves: 5

1. Slice the garlic and chop the onion and ginger.  Grab your grill pan and sauté the vegetables until the onion gets transparent and the garlic gets brown.
2. Meanwhile, place the chicken in a large bowl and add the pepper to taste.  Pour the soy sauce on the chicken and it should make the chicken slightly darker.
3. Move the vegetables to one side of the grill pan and raise the heat between ‘medium/high.’  Raising the heat will make a brown crust on the chicken. Place the chicken on the grill pan and once the chicken gets brown and crusty on both sides it’s finished!!
4. Tips: With large thighs, cutting the chicken in half ensures that it will cook all the way through.  Also, heating up the onion, garlic, and ginger, leaves flavor in the pan, and once you add the chicken it will pick up the flavor and infuse into the chicken making it extra tasty!  Soy sauce has the tendency to be salty if you add a lot, so you don’t really need to add regular salt to season the chicken.
5. Serve over a bed of rice or vegetables and nom nom (eat & enjoy)!! 

Ranch Chicken!

I was looking for a way to use up the bulk size ranch dressing and figured I should make some ranch chicken!

Recipe:
8 pieces of skinless/boneless chicken
1/4 cup of Ranch dressing
1 egg 
2 tablespoons of Garlic Herb Seasoning 
 Salt and Pepper to taste
1/2 Medium Onion
1 Garlic, Minced
1 tablespoon of flour 
2 tablespoons of Oil

For the Fries:
Medium sized Red Skin Potatoes
Sprinkle of Garlic Herb Seasoning
Salt (optional)
Pan of choice:  Large 2 inch deep pan
Serves:  5 

Place raw chicken in a bowl and season with salt, pepper, flour and garlic herb seasoning.  Add 1/4 cup of the ranch dressing and the egg making sure the egg is scrambled.  Put the bowl in the refrigerator and marinate for 30 minutes to an hour.  Adding the egg will help the chicken develop a crust when you cook it.


Marinated Chicken: 

In a large pan add the oil, and sauté the garlic and onion on medium heat until the onions are transparent.  
Place the marinated chicken on the pan until it gets a golden brown crust.


Like this!

Add some Fries buy slicing the red potatoes thinly and fry or bake them.  Sprinkle a bit of garlic herb seasoning to make them garlic fries!!

Toast: Texas toast grilled on a grill pan

Simple Garlic Herb Chicken with Olives and Mushrooms

This Garlic Herb Seasoning has become my ‘go to’ secret ingredient! Yum!

I’ve been experimenting with different amounts of the seasoning and discovered that its also great on shrimp!  So I thought, why not put a lot of the seasoning on the chicken and see how it goes.  It turned out to be really amazing and simple as well!!

Ingredients:

9 Pieces of Legs and Thighs (I used half skinless and the other half with skin)

1/8 cup of Garlic Herb Seasoning

Salt & Pepper

1/2 Medium Onion, thinly sliced

8 oz of Mushrooms, sliced

Black Pitted Olives, 1/2 a can, roughly chopped

3 tablespoons of Olive Oil

Pan of choice – large 2 inch deep pan.

Serves: 5

First, sauté the onion in the oil on medium heat until slightly transparent. Move the onions to the side of the pan.  Meanwhile, season the chicken with salt and pepper.  Grab 1/8 of a cup (half of 1/4 cup) of the Garlic herb seasoning and evenly coat  the chicken. Like this!

Cook the chicken all the way through until it gets golden brown on both sides. The chicken should be firm when you press it.  (You can also cut it a little at the middle to see if it’s cooked.)

Stack the cooked chicken on the side of the pan (opposite side of the onions).  Place the mushrooms in the pan and stir it together with the onions until it gets slightly darker.  Finally, add the roughly cut olives at the end.  Plate with a side of Grilled Texas Toast!!  The garlic herb seasoning does wonders to the chicken!! It really gives it a different depth of flavor.  1/8 cup of the seasoning might seem too much, however, it gives it flavor much like if you were to marinate the chicken for hours.