Howdy!
Happy Thursday all! The best part about this Thursday is that there is no school tomorrow in honor of Good Friday! So I was able to enjoy some cooking without having to worry about school tomorrow. I don't know about you guys, but I like to carry over a few flavors into the different aspects of my food when I cook. Tonight those flavors were cilantro and lime. I had a whole bunch of cilantro that needed to be used and a failed crock-pot meal last night (that was accidentally left out overnight so def not eating it) that left me needing good creative food. Of course pintrest did it again for me, and I found these recipes. The chicken recipe was here and the quinoa I found here.
I made half of the recipe, and of course tweaked it at the get to. I added a little sriracha and ginger. Also like usual I have a tendency to not read all the way and didn't make the marinade quite as it was supposed to be, but it worked out. I was going to put it in the George Forman, but after realizing I did the marinade wrong, I didn't think the large cilantro would bode well on the griddle. I baked the chicken at 400* for about 25 minutes and broiled it for another 5minutes or so.
Marinade with extras
Before tonight I was not the hugest fan of quinoa, but cooking it with a bullion cube made all the difference. This right here is gold.
So there you have it. I had a nice, unintentionally green dinner. It was wonderful and I would make all of them again.
I hope you enjoyed enough to at least try and maybe even enough to follow. I could use some new faces :)
Happy eatings,
Smashley
Howdy Y'all!!!
This afternoon was one of those days were I wanted any excuse to not study for my test I have at nine tomorrow morning. I know that sounds awful, but its true. Thanks to Pintrest (the procrastinators dream/nightmare) I found my distraction. What could be better than super chocolatey and gooey...nothing you say? False...add some caramel and sea salt and then it is truly heaven. I also made one for my roomie, needless to say she ate it without me having to twist her arm too much.
I got the recipe here and really didn't change the ingredients other than the addition of caramels and sea salt. The caramels made the dough larger and over all the cookie larger. YUM!
All in all the cookie ended up being larger than my hand. It was rich, moist, and wonderful. This is definitely a keeper recipe. Easy, no equipment other than bowls, a fork, and measuring utensils. Very wonderful.
On the days when you are avoiding doing something, what do you do?
Happy eatings,
Smashley
Hello all!
So this is neither food nor yarn related, but I was really excited about
how these turned out. I had seen somewhere a picture of necklaces made
from spoons. So I decided to make my over twist. I am finally seeing
where my creative genes are hiding. My family is great at painting or
drawing, but I not me. I guess my creative niche is more of making
things not pictures :). I used a mini sledge hammer, ball pein hammer
for texture, hack saw to cut off the handle of some, for those I used a
drill press, the others I just bent the handle to make a loop, and a
grinder to make the edges of things smooth.
I was so excited about these I just had to share:)
Hope I can inspire you to find your creative niche!
Happy crafting,
Smashley
Hello friends!
So I must apologize for being a horrible blogger. Not only has it been
over 2 months since my last update, but I also missed the blog's
birthday! I am horrible. But to make up for that I have a wonderful
carnitas post. I am sure I have professed my love for all things pig
before, but seriously I have a problem. Dating a Mexican hasn't helped
either. He just had to go and introduce me to carnitas...real carnitas.
Heaven! So when the local grocery store had pork butt on sale dirt cheep
and my roomie got 6lbs worth, I decided I had to make carnitas. SOOO
unbelievably easy.
So what you need is about 3lb pork butt (I am sure should would work too), couple table spoons of black pepper, chili powder, oregano, a table spoon of cumin and garlic. the recipe I used didn't say to use and I just couldn't have that.
Add all the ingredients to the pot and cover with water.
Cover the pot and simmer for 3hours
After the three hours are up, uncover and boil until the liquid is gone.
Remove from the pot and I would recommend drain or pat with paper towel.
Enjoy with cilantro and onion on tortilla (corn is better than flour, but all I had was flour) quac and frijoles are also good sides :)
I hope you enjoy!
Happy eatings,
Smashley
