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[September 26, 2007 @ 7:32pm] |
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| Crockpot Pulled Pork |
[September 10, 2007 @ 5:34pm] |
 It's amazing how sitting in a crock pot for several hours turns pork into a delicious masterpiece that is barbecue pork. Here with my family, barbecue is a must have. We love our barbecue. And Pulled Pork is defiantly at the top of our favorite barbecue foods! I remember when I was little kid, when my mother would make this, I would look at it in discust. I was such a picky little girl, I would drive even the most pacient people insane. However, one day, I was suppose I was feeling adventurous because I decided to try this mess that scared me. My taste buds went wild when I tried it. I remember it so clearly because it just blew me away. I've had my share of barbecue, but I never had taste anything so delicious. Ever since, I grow exstatic when we're having barbecue! It's a definate must have! |
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| Sweet Potato Casserole |
[August 16, 2007 @ 10:30am] |
 Visit My food blog for more Please :] I didn't think it was possible! But, I found something that I enjoy just as much as Ruth Chris Steakhouse's Sweet Potatoes! A few months ago, me and my family went to Ruth Chris Steakhouse to celebrate my fathers birthday. I've never been one to enjoy Steakhouse, since I'm not to big about steak, but Ruth Chris is pretty darn good! I love they're potatoes. They have from mashed to julienne to lyonnaise. And they're all extremely good! But, what they've become pretty famous for, that is, beside they're steak and bread pudding for me, is they're Sweet Potato Casserole! Usually, if you have Sweet Potato Casserole, you'll find Marshmallows on them. Well, thats how its always been more me, don't know about others... What I found so intriging about theirs was that had a Pecan Crust on top! Can you say, Heaven?! I took a bite and I swear I died and went to heaven! In my view, this dish is so sweet that I see it more as a dessert of some sort! I never bother to try and see if I could even make a dish close enough to compare to they're sweet potatoes, but I tried anyways. And to my surprise, it tasted just as great! I have a new food that intent to be making more often. No more waiting for Thanksgiving! |
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| Banana Choco Chip Muffins |
[August 13, 2007 @ 1:26pm] |
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 Something about Banana's is like a comfort food to me. They always seem to make me feel better. And everyone knows chocolate helps you feel better; To me at least. And I've never made Banana Muffins, to honest. Everything that I've made, and I had still never made Banana Muffins. I needed to make something with bananas because my bananas were extremely ripe and they needs to be used. So, Banana Muffins it was! They surprising came out very moist! And there was enough Banana with chocolate in each muffin. It was a perfect muffin! I like it when you bite into a muffin and theres a hunk in it; I get so thrilled when that happens! I didn't think there'd really be to many hunks, since the banana's were so ripe I thought it would be smooth, but to my surprise there was. Made me happy :] The muffins came out great, and I'm sure the people at work will love these. I decided to make these for everyone at work. They love banana bread, but it'd be just as good in a muffin, so I'm sure they'll love these! |
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| Fruits Rice Crispy Cake |
[August 12, 2007 @ 12:38pm] |
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 No, your eyes aren't deceiving you. That, in fact, is a rice crispy cake. I ran out of flour, and I was sitting there, trying to think of something to make. I bought a box of rice crispy a while back, which was intended to make rice crispy treats. Then I thought about it a little and thought, "Wouldn't it be cool to make it into a cake?" Tried it out, and it turned out better than I planned to be honest. I was afraid it might end in disaster. I actually had never made rice crispy treat before, so this was all new to me; Even though its extremely easy! Everyone loved it; The frosty made it taste better, they said. And they loved the fact that I made it with the Fruity Rice Crispys other than the Original Rice Crispy. I prefer the Fruity kind from the Original, so thats why I used that kind; Though, Chocolate might have been good too :] |
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| Berry Berry Blueberry Muffins |
[August 09, 2007 @ 7:47pm] |
 Blueberries? In a muffin? Heaven? I love Blueberries. Love, Love, Love them! And if I am to have a Blueberry muffin, there has to be a lot of blueberries! And I mean a lot of blueberries! Thats why I love muffins homemade. I don't like the ones you buy at stores. They taste to... Store bought. Thats why I like pretty much everything homemade, especially blueberry muffins. Its like you can taste all the work put into homemade muffins. That may sound kind of corny, but I truely do. I haven't had blueberry muffins in a while. And today, I was going out with my Nana, and she loves blueberry muffins as much as I. So I wanted to make a batch before she got here so she could take some home. Sure enough, I got them right out of the oven when she got here. And she knew right away what I was making; She could smell it! |
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| Mocha Muffins |
[August 07, 2007 @ 2:48pm] |
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 I haven't made muffins in such a long time! I can't even remember the last time I even made or had them. I was extremely bored today with nothing better to do, so I thought, Why not make some muffins? I usually always would have blueberry muffins, but I didn't really feel like making them because it was to tipical of me. So I tried to come up with something new. Mocha Muffins! Whats better than Chocolate and Coffee? Well, to me, that's just an amazingly great combination. I don't like semi-sweet so much, and I didn't want the muffin the be entirely dark. Then it wouldn't really be pretty. And I like my food to look pretty. So I used white chocolate chips; The best chocolate there is, in my opinion. This recipe is pretty easy and it doesn't take to long for the muffins to bake. Muffins usually never take that long to make anyways. So if your in a real muffin crave, these won't take to long. So no worries! These would make a great breakfast. Has the coffee to kick you awake and the yummy chocolate to go with it! |
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| Chocolate Elvis Banana Bread |
[August 06, 2007 @ 8:42pm] |
 Well, my mother wanted me to make some banana bread, so thats what I did. But, I've been really tired of just making the plain original banana bread. I wanted to make something different. I got this idea when my brother bought a smoothie from Planet Smoothie. It was called "Chocolate Elvis" which consist of Elvis' favorites; Chocolate, bananas and peanut butter. So I decided to turn Elvis' favorites into bread! The house smelt so wonderful when this was baking. You could smell the chocolate with the bananas and the peanut butter; It was a wonderful smell. Just the smell left me drooling. |
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| Vanilla Cupcakes |
[August 05, 2007 @ 5:05pm] |
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 My little brother had a bunch of his little friends over, and I was bored and didn't have anything better to do, so I decided to make cupcakes for them! I haven't baked in about a month, so when my mom saw me baking she was surprised but also happy that I was baking. She wanted something sweet. And shes not one to eat sweets really at all. It was like telekinesis! So she was extremely to see me making something sweet. She did say she wished I made Banana Bread, so I'm probably going to make that tomorrow for her to please her. These cupcakes came out really good. I took them out of the oven right on time and they were nice and fluffy soft. My favorite part of the whole thing was to decorated them so thats what I was waiting for. My little brother did a few because he really likes to help me when I'm in the kitchen cooking or baking. His cupcakes he decorated is the last picture. They were so cute! He made the heart one for my mother. It was really sweet of him. I didn't get to try how the cupcakes were because one, I'm dieting, and two, even if I wanted to, they were consumed by my brother and his friends before I even blinked! I'll take it by them eating them so quickly that they were good. |
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| Lasagna Rolls |
[August 03, 2007 @ 6:07pm] |
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 My mom wanted Lasagna tonight. At random, she said, "I want you to make me lasagna." We have a much a leftovers and I tried to reason with her to eat the leftovers first, but she refused. I wasn't in any mood for Lasagna, but being the nice person I am, I made her Lasagna. But, instead of a huge platter of Lasagna, I made them into lasagna rolls, since not many were going to eat it. I only took a bite out of it and it was decent. I still prefer my favorite lasagna out of any lasagna. I don't know if anything can top that. Thats my all time favorite meal! If it weren't such a heavy, calorie filled meal, then I'd have it as much as I could! But, I can't do that, sadly... |
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| Broccoli-Chicken Salad |
[August 02, 2007 @ 3:51pm] |
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 It's extremely hot out today! But I wanted pasta; Not hot though. The was the last thing I really wanted on a hot day; Hot pasta. We had leftover chicken my father grilled the other day, so I was trying to think of something to make with it. When I asked my brother what he would want, first thing he said was Broccoli Salad. Bing! Why don't I add the chicken to that! It's a cold pasta with everything I like! Broccoli, chicken, carrots, Italian dressing; Yum. Great for a hot summer day in my opinion. To bad I didn't have any zucchini or cucumbers. That would have been great to add to this. Oh, well, it still came out really tasty. |
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| Cinnamon-Bacon Carbonara |
[August 01, 2007 @ 6:43pm] |
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 I think I've found a new favorite pasta! Well, nothing really comes close to lasagna, but this is extremely close to being better than lasagna! I was the other day when I found this recipe. I was just flipping through the channels, and flipped to the cooking channel. Giada was on and I love watching here shows. And after I saw what she was making, I decided that I should watch to see if it may be something I may like. As I watched her make this recipe, my mouth was watering! It looked so good! In here recipe, she used half pancetta and have of it bacon. I decided to just use ham and bacon instead of pancetta and bacon; It sounded a little bit better, but the two are pretty much the same. I knew that when I would have this I would like it; But instead of just liking it, I fell in love with it! It was nice and creamy and the cinnamon added a sweet, spicey taste and aroma. This dish was really easy and had wonderful taste. This dish isn't really something to make on a weekly bases. Its not good for the calorie consess. Its something to have every once in a while. This is one of my new favorite comfort foods. |
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| Potatoe Wedges |
[July 30, 2007 @ 4:56pm] |
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 I love potatoes. But what I love more are potatoe wedges. And baking them at home rather than getting fries or wedges from restaruants is much better and much more healthier. Plus, I get to put as much salt and pepper on them as I like. And I love salt and pepper. So making them myself is best for me. What I love about these are that I can make them as big or small as I want. You can get a lot of wedges out of one potatoe. You can make more wedges than you would usually get at restruants and it would have less fat, less calories and really no grease! And I hate grease!! Baking them at home is much healthier.
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| Parmesan Chicken and Pasta Salad |
[July 11, 2007 @ 7:07pm] |
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 I came to love broccoli salad. Problem was, I didn't like broccoli. I just like the pasta and carrots and the italian dressing it has on it. So, I wanted to have that tonight, but my mother wanted the Parmesan Chicken that I make. She's become obsessed with them that she always asking me to make them. So, to meet ends, I combined the two. I cooked and tossed the Parmesan Chicken in the Pasta Salad that I wanted. My brother was a bit disappointed because he loves broccoli. Don't get that to often; A kid that actually likes broccoli! However, my father loved the fact that I added zucchini instead of cucumbers. Me and him are zucchini fanatics, so we were very satisfied with this meal. As for my mother, she ate the chicken alone. She's so ordinary...
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| Porcupine Meatballs |
[July 10, 2007 @ 6:24pm] |
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 When I was a kid, there was always one things that I was always excited about having for dinner; Porcupine Meatballs. Meatballs with rice! I mean, come out! How awesome is that! So, when my mother would cook, aside from those kid cuisines that every kid loves, and it was Porcupine Meatballs, I would get so excited that I would fun around the house screaming in happiness. I was like a child high on sugar! I've always love them and even though they are meat and I'm not a big fan of meat, these are beyond delicious! Sadly, I hadn't had these in a loooong time. I can't even remember the last time I had them. And the other day, out of the blue, my mother asked me to make these for dinner. My eyes grew large because I seriously forgot out these meatballs. Thats how long I haven't had them! So when she mentioned them, I was all for it! And I am so flipping happy she asked me to cook these because they packed a bunch of deliciousness! I was very satisfied and happy :] |
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| Yellow Cake |
[July 09, 2007 @ 7:04pm] |
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 Obsessed with cake? Oh yes I am! I never had much of a crave for cake till I started learning baking and cooking this summer. But ever since I've started baking cakes, I'm loving it! I forgot the delicious taste that cake had! Problem is, after having one slice, I sit there thinking about getting another. Then I obsess about it. Then eventually, I have another. Can't being good. Makes me have to work out more... But cake is so good. How can you resist? I didn't feel like having a cake to over the top. I just wanted a simple but tasty cake. So I went with a yellow cake. You can't go wrong with that. I wanted to have chocolate frosting, but when I looked in the pantry, there was only half of it left. But, I did have vanilla frosting that hadn't been open yet; So I mix the to together. I was actually happy that this happened. It turned into a milky chocolate flavor and in the ended, it seemed better than dark chocolate. So I was very satisfied. |
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| Chocolate Chip Banana Bread |
[July 03, 2007 @ 6:33pm] |
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 Obviously, anyone could tell that I love Banana Bread. Since, you know, I make it every week... I absolutely addicted to anything banana. I've even been going to Planet Smoothie a few times this week getting the same thing; Banana, yogurt, chocolate smoothie. I've been eating banana's as a snack as well. I just can't get enough of it. So, since I haven't made a chocolate chip banana bread, I decided thats what I wanted to make today. Everyone wasn't surprised when I told them it was a banana bread. They know now that I absolutely obsessed. But they don't mind since they love it as well. They're always wanting me to make them more that I've gotten into the habit to always have to be making banana bread at least 3 times a week. Ever since people at work tried some, they have been wanting me to make some and bring it in all the time. It's a good breakfast meal at work. Not that I mind since I love to make it. It always leaves this delicious banana bread smell in the house as well. It always smells good to come home! |
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| Chocolate Layer Cake |
[July 02, 2007 @ 4:48pm] |
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 Ever been in such a craving for cake that you just can't stop thinking about it? Well, this happened to me today. And I wanted something that I haven't had in the longest of time; since I was little, to be quite honest. Chocolate cake. I swear, I haven't had this since I was a kid. I remember always wanting to go to my great grandmother house because she would always make me chocolate cake. My parents were never cooks nor big on sugary food; it was practically a ban when I was little. But you can't blame them. When I would actually get a hold of sugar, I went hay wire and would be jumping off the walls till I would pass out. Which, always took some time. Cake isn't something I really have so often. It's rare if I have it. But, when I want it; I want it! And it being that I haven't had a chocolate cake in the longest of time, I thought, "Hey, why not?!" Though, I only got one slice because the rest ended up with family and friends devouring it. My boyfriend is going to be mad that there wasn't any left for him when he get here... Well, who ever gets there first, you know? |
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