Time Flies

It has been a long time. A long long time. Two weeks to be exact. 
Things here have been hectic. Essays on procrastination to write, midterms to take, and packing up my room.


And my computer decided to hate me. It died. So I bought a new one. And now I finally have it. Yay!


Something I made while this whole fiasco of computers being broken that went on. 


I made something I absolutely love and my family makes it all the time. We are huge fans of Mexican food as my mom is from Texas and my dad is from New Mexico. So it makes sense. 


This is all purely guesstimation on about what I used in this. 


1 onion, chopped up
2 pounds of ground pork
2 cans fire roasted green chili's (Ortega sells these if you can't get the really good ones and they aren't spicy at all), diced
Butter
2 Tablespoons flour
Red Chili Powder
Cumin
Water
2 cans diced tomatoes
Tortillas (for dipping when you are done)


So get a big pot, melt the butter and put the onions in and cook them until they are soft.
Add in the ground pork and brown it


I know this next part is going to sound kind of gross, but it's just to help it thicken up some. 


Move the pork and onions somewhat out of the way in the pan so you have access to the fat that has  come off the pork.
Whisk the flour with the fat until it's mixed together well
Add in the cans of tomatoes and add water...um... I did equal parts of water to tomatoes, so just take your empty tomato cans and fill them up with water and dump it in. 
Mix it all together
Bring it up to a boil and then let it simmer for about 20 minutes on medium low heat


Next add the chili's (you want to add these last always)


Finally, add some red chili powder and cumin, I would say about one-two teaspoons maybe, it's completely up to you, so just keep adding and tasting until you like it!


And that's it!


Now eat it with some tortillas :)


Or you can make a variation of huevos rancheros. 


Get a tortilla, spread refried beans on it(you don't have too) and then make an over easy egg, and put that on top of the tortilla, and cover in green chili stew. Feel free to add cheese and sour cream on top as well :D


We always use the left overs of green chili stew to make them :)


And that will all I shall be posting for the day, more will be up later :)


Yours till the cookie crumbles :)


(And I just used a bunch of smiley faces in those last few thingamabobs...)

Cooking Crazyiness.

This weekend I went a little crazy when it came to cooking.

First I made banana bread, one loaf of regular, one loaf with cranberries.

Next comes the doughnuts I made for our survivor competition for work (which my partner and I won the challenge this week :) )

Then I made these fantastic crescent rolls, which were made into squares and they were filled with a mixture of chicken, cream cheese, and green onions, and then baked.

Next we made chili rellenos, which are whole chili's that have been stuffed with cheese and then battered and fried.

Now we are onto Sunday. Today we made....stuffed French toast (which is King's Hawaiian Bread that has been stuffed with cream cheese and strawberries) and then homemade mashed potatoes, which were absolutely delicious.

I will post the recipes for these later, but for now it's time for me to finish my procrastination paper. Wait I lied, start it. And it's due tomorrow. Fantastic.

Yours till the cookie crumbles.

Farmer's Market

So every payday they hold a farmer's market here at school. I must say, it is the best things in the entire world!

Especially when you live in Hawaii and everything is expensive...

After putting away my bundles of grocery's, I realized that I more than likely am taking up about half of the space in our fridge in our dorm kitchen. Oops?

What can I say, I love to cook.

In fact, that's the whole reason as to why I'm behind on my homework and I have no money. All my time and money seems to be dedicated to food. I wish there was a way for me to do this all the time. Culinary school is just too expensive though.

Cooking is my passion though, and I will do it always.

I cook when I'm happy.
I cook when I'm sad.
I cook when I'm angry.
I cook when I'm depressed.
I cook when I'm feeling on top of the world.

So that results in me cooking all the time. Which I don't mind at all.

I wish I had more money to buy food to make whatever I want. That's not happening anytime soon though. I will be back on the mainland next month though, and I will be making all my own meals, and I'll have more money to spend, and I won't have to worry about school :)

I should probably sleep now. I have to get up early to make doughnuts for someone.

Yours till the cookie crumbles

Banana Fanna Fo Fanna

I know this post took forever. But school has been ridiculous. Like completely craziness. Here is the wonderful recipe for banana bread that Lucy helped me cook :) It's absolutely delicious :)

So. I love making bread. The only problem is half the time you spend letting it rise. But with this though you don't have to wait. You just mix and cook.

3 or 4 overripe bananas

1 ¼ cups sugar

¼ pound (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted and slightly cooled

2 eggs, at room temperature

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 ½ cups all purpose flour

½ teaspoon kosher salt

1 ½ teaspoons baking soda

½ cup chopped toasted walnuts (optional)

1.Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease a 9x5x3 inch loaf pan. 

2. Place the bananas and sugar in mixer bowl and whip the heck out of them, about 2 or 3 minutes (I just used a fork cause I don't have a mixer and I couldn't find my whisk. It's alright if it's a little chunky)

3. Add the butter, eggs, and vanilla, whipping well and scraping down the sides of the bowl before each addition. 

4. Scrape down the sides of the bowl, add the flour, salt, baking soda, and nuts, if using, and mix to combine. 

5. Pour into the prepared pan and transfer to the oven. Bake until golden brown and firm in the center, about 1 hour.

If you carry this down your dorm hall, you will have followers, I found this out when I was taking upstairs to my friends room :)

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!