May 07, 2008
Calzones
We made calzones again the other day - this time stuffed with ricotta cheese, mozzarella cheese, and some fresh (pan fried) italian sausage coins - yum! If you want to play with a little yeast and dough, here's the recipe to make your own calzones.
And this isn't the best photo, in fact, it's a little TOO golden, but you get the general idea:
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May 01, 2008
Italian Chicken Sandwich
 This is a really easy recipe for a very tasty sandwich! Marinate boneless chicken breasts in Italian Dressing overnight. Shake off excess dressing and grill the chicken. Open ciabatta rolls and dress with mayo, lettuce, and thinly sliced tomatoes, then chicken, then top with a slice of jalapeno jack cheese and wah-lah!
Serve with a side of potato chips or potato salad if you like.
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April 24, 2008
An Explosion of Soda and Candy
Many of you might know what happens when you drop a mentos candy into a bottle of soda. Now, can you imagine what happens when 1,500 students all do it at the same time? Click here for photos of the resulting simultaneous explosions - science at its funnest!
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April 19, 2008
Jello Cut Out Cookies
 This is another one of those food photos that I took a while ago and haven't blogged until now, as you might be able to tell, since these are CHRISTMAS cookies - hah!
Anyway... my mom never made normal sugar cookies, we always made Jello Cookie cutouts instead, which always had great flavor AND color. And these are the (raspberry flavored) Jello cookies we had over the holidays:
And here is the Jello Cookies recipe so you can play along at home! Oh, and I used a little extra jello powder instead of colored sugar on top of the cookies to give them a bit of darker accent color.
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April 14, 2008
Macaroni and Cheese
 Just for variety, I made macaroni and cheese in a different way than usual, by making a creamy cheese sauce first.
Used half pound of elbow macaroni and doubled this cheese sauce recipe, pouring it over the cooked macaroni, in a large casserole dish. Mix in about 1/2 to 1 cup of grated parmesan cheese for extra kick, then bake for a half hour on 350.
Next time I'll use ALL extra sharp cheese, no Monterey Jack, as the extra amount of milk really made it a bit milder than it needed to be.
Still, it's always fun to try something new! And it's macaroni and cheese, can't go wrong with mac and cheese!
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April 09, 2008
Orange Cake Again
 Because it's one of his favorites, I made another orange cake for John. This time though I changed the recipe a WEE bit - used orange extract instead of lemon extract and vanilla pudding instead of lemon pudding, and the orange flavor popped out MUCH more. (The updated recipe is here, FYI.)
And here's a photo - it's a bit rough, but very tasty - LOL:
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March 30, 2008
Eggs Benedict
 We had breakfast for dinner today - first time making Eggs Benedict for ourselves. First I have to fess up that we did NOT make our own Hollandaise sauce, which, I know, is the key to good Eggs Benedict. But we were more interested, at the moment, in HAVING Eggs Benedict, than spending a lot of time trying to figure out how to make it from scratch for the first time. Maybe at some future time, but this time we used Trader Joe's Hollandaise warmed and scooped over poached eggs on ham on english muffins, with a side of baked potato cubes....
It was all excellent, with the one surprise being that the cayenne pepper in the sauce was very... present. I've had Eggs Benedict in a number of restaurants and it never had such an affect on my sinuses as this did - LOL - but it was still very tasty!
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