Too soon?

Ok, so there is one thing about thanksgiving that I ALWAYS look forward to. Corn pudding. It is my favorite of all favorites! Now, I know it's not thanksgiving, BUT patience is not one of my gifts. So the other day I busted out my favorite recipe of the season. I was not disappointed. I do have to warn you that there aren't any pictures of the process of making this because I was just too excited to pop it in the oven. It's really easy though, so don't fret!

You're going to need :

1/2 cup sugar
2 tbsp brown sugar
3 tbsp flour
1/4 tsp pepper
1/4 tsp salt
3 eggs
1/4 cup butter, melted
1 cup milk
1 large can corn
1 large (or 2 small) can cream corn

Start out by preheating you're oven to 400. Now, the process of making this is basically as easy as it gets. Take all of your dry ingredients and mix it up in a casserole dish, then add your wet ingredients one at a time, then add your corn. Mix it all up. Simple as that! So easy right? And so deliciously unhealthy. Pop it in the oven and let it cook for a good 45 minutes, and bam!

Weekend hiatus

So, usually I still cook on the weekends, we aren't huge go-er out-ers because well.. I like to cook. This weekend was an anomaly. We went out not only Saturday, but also tonight. Party animals in the house! So excuse the lack of recipes, I will however be back tomorrow. So get excited! Mkay?

Oh, soup.

Last night when I went to bed it was raining cats & dogs. All I could think was "I want soup." Because  that's everyones thoughts at 2 am, right? SO! Today when I woke up ( after I went and bought some AMAZING wicker chairs) I set out on making a soup that would be my perfect rainy, dreary, cold weather fix, and boy did I succeed. Get ready for it!


You're gonna need :

Whatever kind of sausage you like, I used pepperidge farms turkey sausage, sliced
Roughly 2-3 cups potatoes, chopped
1 1/2 cups frozen corn
3 carrots, peeled, sliced, & halved
1/2 cup onion, diced
2 garlic cloves, minced
2 cans chicken broth
1 cup milk
3/4 cup cream
1 1/2 tbsp butter
Thyme
Majoram
Basil
Oregano
2 tbsp flour
Cracked pepper
Salt


Got all of that? I might of gotten a little carried away with ingredients. BUT, once you're done with chopping everything up, you actually get to cook it!

First, grab your big skillet, drizzle some olive oil in there, and throw your sausage in. While your sausage is cooking up, get your big pot and toss your potatoes, corn, chicken broth, milk, cream, and butter all up in there on medium high heat. Once your sausage is nice and cooked, add your sausage to your soup pot.

Your next step is to put your carrots, onions, garlic and herbs (don't be chintzy, you'll love me for it later.)  in the skillet your sausage was in. If you need to, drizzle a little more olive oil in there. Make sure to stir continuously to help everything not to stick to your skillet. Once that is all finished (your onions will be translucent), put it all into your soup pot too. Sprinkle in your flour, and some salt & pepper to taste. Turn it down to simmer, and let it get all nice and delicious for a good hour or 2. Resist the urge to shove your face into the pot and drink it! Seriously, the smell is brilliant.

And, when all is said and done, you have soup!

Enjoy!

I'm baaaaaaaack!

Ok, ok. SO! I have been TERRIBLE at keeping up with this. But, I have been sick for 5 weeks, and I was in the states for 2 weeks. SO, That's a good excuse right!? Right. I do come bearing delicious recipes though!


Tonight I made some of the most delicious pasta I have ever eaten, EVER. It's a spicy thai pasta.


You're going to need :

1 tbsp crushed red pepper
1/2 cup sesame oil
6 tbsp soy sauce
7 tbsp honey
1 cup diced carrots
1/2 cup green onions
1/2 cup cilantro, chopped
1/2 cup peanuts, chopped
Angel hair pasta

Seriously, I am the king (er, queen) of chopping things.

To get started, go ahead and get that pasta cooking. Now grab another sauce pan and heat up your sesame oil and crushed red pepper on medium heat. Keep an eye one it, because you don't want the pepper burning. Once that's done, strain the peppers out of your oil.  NOW! Mix your sesame oil (the one you just got all of the peppers out of) soy sauce, and honey. Finish up your pasta, it should be ready to strain about now. Here is the hard part! (or something) mix your sauce and your pasta. It's going to look a little liquidy, that's not even a word, but you get it.

 Throw in all of the stuff that you've chopped up, and you're done! That's literally it. Easy right!?

Now, I am going to warn you. This pasta is not for the faint of heart. SO! If you're not in to spicy things either omit the crushed red pepper all together OR if you like pizazz but only in small quantities maybe use a quarter tbsp.


We had ours with salmon that was rubbed with soy sauce & brown sugar. If you want to have the salmon also, preheat your oven to 425, lay out a piece of aluminum foil put your salmon on it splash a little soy sauce, sprinkle a little (or if you're me, a lot) brown sugar on it. Cook it for 15 minutes, and voila! If you've never done salmon before you can tell it's done by just placing a fork on the fish and dragging it to see if it flakes. Easy, huh?

And this is it. Admit it, you wanna eat it.

Enjoy!