Hot Jambalaya!

So I got bored this afternoon. So I went to Foodland. I splurged and decided to make Jambalaya. This is one of the easiest dinner meals to make. I absolutely love it J

I’m going to be lazy and just copy and paste the recipe…Oh and if  you don’t like shrimp, you can just substitute more smoked sausage, that’s what I do when the friends I’m cooking for don’t like shrimp.

Pictures up soon! I just wanted to get this one up :)

2 cups uncooked parboiled rice (Uncle Ben’s)

2 lbs raw shrimp, peeled and cleaned

1 lb smoked sausage, sliced

1 can French Onion soup

1 can Beef Consumme

1 8 oz can sliced mushrooms, drained

1 stick butter

½ cup chopped green onion

1 8 oz can tomato sauce

Pepper, Thyme, Bay leaf to taste

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2. Combine all ingredients in a kettle or oven proof pot and mix well.

3. Bake, uncovered, at 350 degrees at least 1 ½ hours, checking rice for doneness and stirring pot after 1 hour.

No recipe for today :(

So there will be no recipe today due to the fact that I've been up since 3 and just trying to get ready for a freaking tsunami to hit us.

This sucks. I made french toast and banana bread this morning, but my camera battery wasn't charged so I couldn't take pictures and take my time...

So I'll make it again sometime and put them up here.

Oh and now the tsunami is getting close to be over. There was no insane changes. Which is good, but it sucks in the fact that I have spend the last few hours just laying in the hallway upstairs. Not being able to do anything.

The good part is. Work is cancelled. leaving me free to sleep early :)

New recipe tomorrow! I hope...

:)

Doughnut time!

Tonight due to the fact that I wasn't in a healthy mood (as a forewarning I hardly ever am), and I had a bad day, I decided that something fried would be good.

Now these are by far one of the simplest things ever to make and they are pretty dang cheap.

Here's what you need. 

• 1 can Pillsbury Biscuits (I picked 2 value packs of 4 cans for just $5, That's 80 biscuits!)
• Probably 2 cups max of vegetable oil for frying (You can reuse it if you decide to save some of those 80 biscuits for another time)
• Whatever toppings you might like (I used sugar this time, you could use anything from leftover frosting you might have sitting around, to crushed up cereal, whatever you want)

So what is that...like maybe $10? And you can make more than enough doughnuts to go around : D

I'm now going to stop babbling and tell you how to make these amazing doughnuts.

1. Find yourself a bottle cap I'm sure you have laying around from a plastic bottle (like a water bottle, not like one of those monster lids from Vitamin Water)

2. Open up your can of biscuits and get them out.

3. Take the bottle cap and press down firmly on the biscuit right in the center, wiggle it around a little bit to loosen the sides from the center.

4. Remove the bottle cap. Look! Starting to look like a doughnut already!

5. Heat your oil up on medium heat. IF YOU HEAT IT ANY HIGHER AND DON'T PAY ATTENTION YOU RUN THE RISK OF BURNING DOWN YOUR CAMPUS. DON'T DO IT!!!
So if you start to see smoking coming from your pot, remove it very quickly and carefully from the heat.


You are ready to fry up your doughnuts when you can drip a couple droplets of water in the oil and it sizzles, or just take one of your biscuits and dip it in partially to see if it starts to sizzle as well.

6. Let's fry these suckers! Remember not to do too many of them at a time otherwise it'll drop the temperature of the oil too much and you won't get a nice golden outside. Usually 40-45 seconds is just about right on the first side, depend on how dark or light you like them.

7. Flip over with a fork and fry for another 40-45 seconds, once again, however you like them.

8. Remove from oil and set on a paper towel to remove the excess oil.

9. After a few minutes, if using sugar like I did, then dip the doughnut into the sugar. And no, not like the bag of sugar, a cup that you have filled with sugar. One your doughnuts will fit in. Or top with whatever else you have laying around your room

10. Enjoy!

Cup Noodles

Everyone can't wait to get away from home to live it up in college. But guess what, there are some things that aren't all they cracked up too be. The food for instance.

 My college food is even worse than it was in high school, which leads me to find alternative sources for food. From your typical fast food (good old Mickey D's, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell) to the more common food for college students. Cup Noodles.

Cup Noodles are easy to make and inexpensive. And there is the wide variety of flavors! Well kind of...the most common ones are shrimp, chicken, and beef. I myself prefer the shrimp, except when the shrimp somehow manages to get burned in the microwave. Yes it is possible.

I myself love to cook, and luckily we do have a kitchen within our dorm, though it's not open all hours. I plan on posting recipes to hopefully make your college eating experience better than the cafeteria food or just cup noodles.

My friends have offered to help in this experiment to see what all I make by testing it out and they will also let you know how it goes :)

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