me make food

We were watching Man VS Food and he went to Minneapolis and ate at two places that claim to have invented the Juicy Lucy, which is a burger with a cheese core instead of on top. We had to test it out.

Saw this over on Serious Eats, cupcakes with a choc chip cookie inside. Sent the link to Theresa and she took it as a dare. Theresa did not need any bought mix, she has perfected her soft and chewy cookies and makes a mean cuppycake. She did a couple at a time to see what happens. First ones were a bit too much cookie, but by the end the ratio was good. She is going to try a bit of a drier cookie dough next time. The cookie part was very fluffy, and she is looking for firmer. Oh and next time she is going to make PB cookies in choc cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. Nom

I think it was an Olive Garden commercial that made me think of this. Plan was to make a creamy asiago sauce for the noodles, pan sear some chicken and cut it up into strips, then top with a intense garlic, tomato, basil, and cream sauce.

Nailed the asiago sauce. A bit of garlic and lots of cheese. It got pretty thick with the cheese so I thinned it out with some milk and added a bit of black pepper. Usually I try to do so much to this type of sauce and it gets muddled, this was perfect.

The red sauce was packed with onions, garlic, Italian herbs, and basil. It was just to add some more flavor. It was quite delicious.

the making of the red sauce

Lulaeats is a food blog run by a sorta relative. Looks like there is some nummy stuff there.

I have a 1 year old kiddo who is a vegetarian, health nut. What can I say, she took after her momma! This is a day by day, meal by meal guide for vegetarian families or omnivorous families who want to bring a bit of nutrition back into their lives. Please email me recipes that you love! I have aspirations of opening a yoga studio and writing a cook book….

It is like waiting to open presents on xmas. Theresa just stares at the fresh bananas trying to jedi mind trick to make the nanners ripen.

can’t promise I won’t forget anything but here it goes
1 stick butter, sofened
1/3 cup sugar
2/3 cups brown sugar
cream butter and sugars
2 eggs, add 1 at a time to creamed butter and sugar
3 ripe bananas, mashed
1/4 cup milk
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
blend all in a separate bowl
2 1/2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 teaspoons salt
alternate adding flour mix and nana mix to the creamed sugar/eggs, beginning and ending with the flour mix
put in greased 9 inch loaf pan and bake at 350 for 1 hour to 1 hour 10 min or until toothpick comes out clean

hat tip futura bold italic

I could not get the grill going in the frozen temps last night so I roasted the chicken in the oven. Problem with doing that has been how much smoke would fill the house since we do not have a hood over the stove. Theresa suggested I put some water in the pan to catch the drippings. It worked really well.

We like a crispy browned skin on the chicken so we roast at 375. We have used the dutch oven filled with veg and chicken broth before, but we do not get the crispy skin. The gravy from the dutch oven is amazing, but the chicken is meh…. In the roasting pan it comes out perfect and we make the gravy from canned broth. I figure next time we will mix the two methods and get it right.