Chicken Satay Pizza
Last summer when I started this ship, I made a form of Thai pizza with my roommate at the time, Jen. It was a humble creation, made on flatbread with our pizza pizzazz and bore no real resemblance to a pizza. It still tasted fine, and for the time it was sufficient. Ever since that day, anytime Jen and I got together we always reminisced about that wonderful creation. This year I’m living with Jen again. I’ll give you three guesses what we had for dinner the other night.
Yep. We made it again. But better. Before it had precooked refrigerated “chicken” strips and no real dough (it was flatbread with flaxseed in it. I’m all for health conscious cooking, but let’s get real). Taking a step higher than unleavened flax bread, we used a packaged pizza dough mix – again, we could’ve made our own dough from scratch, but we wanted to eat before it was time for bed – and five minutes later we had dough. I grilled up a couple chicken thighs (which I have lately discovered are much better than chicken breasts, and now I know where they are in the store, my freezer is lined in them) and chopped some green onions.
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Banana Cupcakes with Chocolate Ganache and Caramel Cream Cheese
So there was this one time, when my nieces turned six, six, and four. Yes, there are twins, but I feel like I’ve mentioned that before, so there’s no need to beat around that old bush. On top of the graduation from Kindergarten (which was hilarious, and fantastic – there was multilingual singing!!) Alex and Abby, the twins, were inexplicably excited to start 1st grade. Abby, while playing with me one day over the summer, said to me, “I can’t wait to be 6! I get to go to school all day and even eat lunch there!!”
Enjoy the enthusiasm while it lasts – you’ll be in school for at least the next 12 years.
More exciting news – Mom and Dad have been doing Weight Watchers, both intentionally and otherwise since last October, and Mom is down nearly 40 pounds!! In trying to keep said weight off, any chance she gets to throw a recipe at me and say, “make it healthy” she takes. This time was no different.
Some people have birthday cakes that are traditional white or yellow cakes, with regular vanilla frosting – others have intensely chocolate cakes with fruit thrown in for some dimension and color – and other yet (this includes me) ask for a mixture of pudding and cookie crumbs playfully displayed in a large flower pot with gummy worms poking out the top. I love Dirt Cake. I wanted to take the traditional birthday cake, and make it healthier than the pounds of butter and sugar that tend to go into those fantastic once a year (yeah, right) little bundles of joy. I also had to make sure to avoid nuts at all costs, the young’uns are allergic.
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Orange Poppy Seed Cake
You’ve got a friend in me (Para el Buzz Español) – Gipsy Kings
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We went. We saw. We cried. If you are 19-22 and haven’t seen Toy Story 3 yet, do it. It was so incredibly good, there aren’t even words. I don’t think younger kids would appreciate it as much as us older kids, but I think they’d still like it. This post isn’t about a movie though, but rather a delicious cake. I just had to put in my two cents about that fantastic film.
Every year for Father’s Day, either my sister or I make an orange poppy seed cake for my Dad because it’s his favorite. These past 8 months however, both of my parents have been doing Weight Watchers, and have had crazy success at it, as both have lost 30 pounds already!! So a couple days ago, my Mom handed me the recipe for the cake and said, “make this healthy”. I’ve never really revamped anything baked before, so I was a bit wary about how it would turn out. Baking is a commitment; if you screw up in the mixing, then you’ve wasted a solid 1-2 hours on something that might not even turn out. Scary stuff.
Time to Breathe
Oh hayyyy.
I’ve been neglecting this poor site not out of want, but more because I haven’t really had a chance to get anything made or written about or photographed in the past month or so. See, there was the last round of exams, then finals, then moving home and unpacking, and then starting a 42.5 hour a week job. Life has been busy. As it is, I’m writing this gem while my nieces who I’m currently babysitting, are watching Barbie Thumbelina in thw other room with one of my old roommates (thanks, Amy!!). It’s an enthralling tale of how a stereotypical doll, came to life, and became thum…bel..ina. Yeah, I don’t get it either.
Please hang with me though!! Once I get back into the swing of things, there will be more to come!! I know a fwe of you just discovered he site, and this is no way to make a first impression. You can always check back in the archives for more recipes and feel free to e-mail me anything you want to see made!! I know some of you are picky eaters (which I, thankfully, am not) so if you have any suggestions, I am always willing to listen.
) Happy Thuesday!!
Quick Fried Rice
Passion Pit – Folds In Your Hands
Sometimes, I order Chinese food, and sometimes I don’t eat the obligatory box of white rice that comes with said Chinese food, and sometimes I wait so long to eat said white rice, that it turns hard and barely manageable in the refrigerator; it’s moments like these that I’m glad someone made up the concept of fried rice.
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