Thursday, January 9, 2014

What I have to work with

<p dir="ltr">Chicken... <br>
Its get boring after a while, so I'm trying to get creative or just plain different than what I usually make.</p>
<p dir="ltr">My moms friend makes a rosemary chicken, She was ranting and raving how easy it was (you know how I like easy.) <br>
She said she used a whole chicken rosemary, lemon, garlic and a sea salt. She said it had a funky name, I think it was fluer de sel </u></p>

Is everything good fried?...

Yes but let's try something different.

<p dir="ltr">I wanted to make something easy so I asked Elias, he said he wanted fried chicken (not easy, well I really just didn't want to be stuck in the house while its cold out and I can't open the door in a small kitchen. And suffer with that fried smell in the middle  of the day.) so I had to think of something that's at least resembled fried chicken and I remembered "oven fried" chicken sounds not so good but it was a hit! It wasn't dry perfectly moist and the coating was easy!!! Which is my favorite. ;)</p>
<p dir="ltr">Boneless skinless chicken breast <br>
Soy sauce (instead of salt)<br>
Black pepper<br>
Ground garlic<br>
Ground onion<br>
Oregano <br>
Sour orange juice<br>
Olive oil<br>
Vinegar<br>
Sugar ( a tsp. It helps it brown and gives it a different layer of flavor.)<br>
I ground up soda crackers and chex corn cereal with oregano salt pepper and garlic with a Lil bit of sugar

I let the chicken get all happy in the seasonings for abt 30 minutes. Then after I  took each piece and covered with a mixture of hot sauce and mayonnaise  then rolled in corn cereal mix placed on baking tray sprayed a Lil oil on tray and on chicken. Pieces, in the ovencit went for 20 min on 350. I let the chicken get brown on top.

Elias wanted it served with a green salad and yellow rice. Lol. I think I'll ask him more often what to cook bc grandma loved the chicken and so did grandpa!

Let me know if you have questions or suggestions!</p>

Monday, January 6, 2014

Discovered America

Shredding onions in mashed potatoes! And sprinkling sugar on meat before placing on hot pan to brown it a Lil quicker. Gives it a great flavor because it caramelizes. *drools*

Sunday, January 5, 2014

I've been thinking....

My mom and me have been wanting to go to the farmers market for a while and I've been. Wanting a way to break out into the food business. So she said to look into having a booth at the farmers market b/c its once a week and it won't be an everyday thing so I have plenty of time to see how i feel about owning a restaurant or food truck or even a catering business.  I'm writing this to see what you guys think. What would you want me to make or what do you think would be popular. Any feedback would be great.

Let me know whats on you mind.

Breakfast biscuits cups

One morning I was craving biscuits but I didn't want to cook the eggs and sausage on the side. Lazy I know (blah blah blah).
Soo, I decided to create something new. Me and my dad love breakfast foods anything really hearty. I was thinking how can I make it something filling and easy to make. Many ideas flew thru my head but I knew that we didn't have a lot to work with. then starts the process of elimination...
This is what I did:   the nice thing about this recipe its always up for interpretation :)
I used a box of biscuits, not the frozen can kind which you can use, but i didn't this time. i made the biscuits per the instructions on the box. I wish I could've made it with pancake batter. (bloop bloop, we didn't have any.) I pressed  and packed the biscuit in to the muffin tin, like you would do with pie crust. 

then the eggs. I thinly sliced up some red onions and pressed some garlic in a pan with butter and salt placed about a table spoon of that mixture in the biscuits I beat eggs with some green peppers diced small did NOT cook either of them (I like the crunch of the peppers and the eggs cook in the oven) 

I cooked some sausage, but use whatever meats you want. I love kielbasa... we didn't have any :( I chopped it up and sprinkled it on top of the biscuits. I but it in the oven at 375 degrees and left it for 10 minutes or until eggs were firm. 

It was a huge success with my dad and brothers! I was very happy to see that they ate all 12 of them! I only ate 1!! not bad huh?!

if you guys have any great breakfast ideas send them my way! I always love to try new things!



Saturday, January 4, 2014

I need inspiration!

What would you stuff a pork chop with?... Think out of the box please!
Actually, what would you stuff and what with?
Give me some ideas! Or just send Me a challenge...

 My dad and me want to do a weekly menu to make dinner a lot easier. We always  have a hard time deciding what to make and it seems so half ass sometimes and it annoys me b/c I have a lot of different ideas that I want to try in the kitchen. so give me something to try!

ANYTHING!