We got a sushi kit.
I read several recipes, and we watch many cooking shows.
My brother, mom, and I missed the local Asian buffets that served sushi.
I love Alaska roll. Salmon is one of my favorite fish. I also enjoy crab.
So we got a kit, I found Nori (seaweed), and we got crab, avacodo, and cream cheese.
We made a few rolls, it was messy and it really is an art. It gave me a new respect for those would make sushi.
Every Christmas my family has a mushroom-sauerkraut soup.
We made a huge spread. . .
Desserts
This Thanksgiving I was very grateful for . . .
1. A roof over my head
2. Good family and friends
3. Kitchen to cook
4. So much awesome food.
Zero, turtle and I took over the kitchen and cooked so much.
We had so many sweet potatoes.. .we baked some as wedges and made sweet potatoes fried with cinammon glaze. We also made sweet potato skins.
We made two stuffed turkeys
We made dark forest and punkin cakes.
We had a huge spread.
It was a very nice holiday.
There is a term I heard called food porn. I laugh at the term, but today I took some shots if the food we made. . .
Steak. Yumm.
Phase one of dark forest cake (chocolate and cherries)
Sweet potato fries
Yummy amazing food.
I love a good rice dish. . .
It can be in a pudding or in a bake.
You can make rice in an oven, stove, or microwave. There is long grain, short grain, and even in a bag, instant rice.
It is versatile: there are so many different things you can do with rice.
You can make in minutes and just add herbs and butter.
I love sushi: fish and sticky rice. . . yum.
You can add gravy or sauce to it.
Yesterday when I slow cooked the BBQ ribs that fell off the bone. I took the render fat and extra BBQ sauce and use it as part of the liquid to make the rice so it had the BBQ rib flavor. (It was so good.)
Turtle even add a ginger hot sauce to it.
You can even add rice into stews and soups.
You can add fruit and nuts with it.
The suggestions are limitless: go bold, or comfortable.
Note: I was use a fork to light stir the rice as I feel it makes it fluffier.
Turtle, Zeroman and I take advantage when we can get access to the kitchen. We had access yesterday and we made a feast.
Zeroman made . . .
I made . . .
Turtle helped with both.
We also baked. . . chocolate pudding cake and very chewy brownies.
The lasagna and the lasagna cheesy rolls.
Here is the plain and candied bacon BBQ meatloaf.
Roasted and glazed carrots
The soured beans had bacon and were sour and yet tangy. It was grandma’s recipe and my mom had asked for them, so we made them just for her.
The brownies were chewy.
The cake was soft with the creamy pudding on top. . . yum.
It was a nice way for us to celebrate Mother’s day as Turtle, Zeroman, and I got to cook for our mothers.
We had three days worth of food as we also have leftover for tomorrow as well.
Happy Easter! Or Happy Ham Day!
Over the weekend, we have been cooking ham and other goodies to celebrate the holiday as we have done in past traditions.
Sandwiches. . . growing up we joked because we would make our sandwiches “Bleed” as we had an egg Easter bread, beet horseradish sauce, ham and cheese.
Cvikla s Chrenom – Beet and Horseradish Relish (http://slovakamericankitchen.blogspot.com/2014/04/cvikla-s-chrenom-beet-and-horseradish.html )
Easter bread: Paska (https://dcslovaks.org/slovak-easter-traditions-paska-bread/)
Easter Cheese: Veľká noc Cirák (https://slaviccooking.com/slovak-easter-cheese-cirak/)
We kept it simple (we didn’t make Cvikla s Chrenom, Paska, or Veľká noc Cirák but do remember them as a kid.)
We made three hams (actually my friend and my brother made the hams.)
I focused on the sweet potatoes with marshmallows.
What is awesome is that with ham. . . there are so many things you can do with the leftover. . .
Note: Ham has a lot of salt, so make sure you drink a lot of water to get a lot of the salt out of your system.
This ham is addicting that I’m dealing with a stomachache from eating too much. So I am taking a nap now.
Theme: Bacon
Zero, Turtle and I got another change to work in the huge kitchen again. Saturday we made so much. It was a really nice night, and we accomplished so much.
Zero made Mayo and BBQ chicken with homemade mashed potatoes.
The mayo chicken was creamy and really good with some black pepper over those mashed potatoes.
Then we got out the bacon. . .
Zero made two meatloaves . . . Plain BBQ glaze and cheesy stuffed bacon wrapped one.
I personally loved the bacon wrapped meatloaf just a bit more. (It was even better the next day.)
Turtle made a roasted chicken with bacon and green pepper stuffing.
It was really good and very juicy. I also didn’t realized that green pepper was that good in stuffing. I learned a few things this weekend.
We also got a bag gruyere cheese from a friend as they have extra. We took the cheese sauce with thinly sliced potatoes and of course bacon and made our own homemade au gratin potatoes.
We also made bacon saute yellow squash and french fries.
We had so much food left over. I didn’t have to cook on Sunday. We had left over for dinner and still some left. Yay.
It was nice that we put down the Internet and the phone and just focused on the food. Sometime we need to forget everything around us and focus on what in front.
By the way, I love bacon!
Zeroman and went shopping last Friday (so we could what I posted about Soupy Saturday.)
We got store brand cheap biscuits, but all he did was melt a bit of butter and made biscuits that would have costed us two dollars of more a roll.
There are only a few things I will buy that are name brand
(soda: I’m a Pepsi or 7up girl, Tide, I love the smell and it doesn’t make me
itch, and usually coffee I love Maxwell house.)
Growing up, I didn’t usually use too many fancy stuff. We would add things and make things look fancy.
A simple roll of biscuits can do many things.
We had sausage gravy over the same buttery biscuits.
You can make dumplings, mini pizza, hot dog rolls, semi-homemade cinnamon rolls. (All you need are just a few extra ingredients).
I couldn’t believe we just paid sixty-nine cents per roll.
Out kitchen situation is very complicated. We got an opportunity to be in a kitchen large enough for all three of us to cook. So Saturday (March 9th) we decided to make stew and soups.
Zeroman made Stew. It was extremely peppery and favoriful. It should be sold in diners. It was a bit thin on the first day, but it thicken up by the second day. I forgot to get a picture.
Turtle, Zeroman, and I made cheesy broccoli soup and Clam chowder. They were awesome and lasted almost four days. We also made biscuits and fish with it.
Cheesy Chicken and Broccoli Soup. It was very creamy and rich. I had hold myself back from over eating. I enjoyed the larger chunks of broccoli and chicken.
Clam chowder. It was full of clam and had amazing rich and flavorful creamy broth. It was a bit thinner than I want. However it turned out awesome for our first try at Clam Chowder.
To end an awesome Soup and Stew Saturday,
I even made a fruit cocktail yellow dump cake.
It’s simple empty a can or two of fruit cocktail on the bottom with the liquid. Then make a yellow cake mix and pour over.
Bake at 350 just as cake box suggests.
You can serve with ice cream or whipped cream.
Sunday (March 10Th) Turtle and I took left over biscuits, some ham, 3 minute eggs, and then drizzled the left over cheese soup over all of it. It was our simplified Eggs Benedict for breakfast. . . it was awesome. I almost just as good as a hollandaise sauce.
Cooking Improv 