Who doesn't love pizza? No one punches the guy with the pizza. It feeds a family and is fun to make. Oh, and did I mention pizza tastes amazing? But, just as a house needs a strong foundation, a pizza needs a strong dough. This recipe is good for scrounging up a quick dough when you don't want, or don't have, yeast.
Let's get cooking. | Ingredients:
2 1/2 c. flour (1 1/2 c. whole wheat if you want less white)
2 3/4 tsp. baking powder*
1 tsp. salt
1 tbsp. oil
1 c. water
*If using baking soda, use half the amount shown for baking powder and omit salt. | How to make it tasty:
Mix dry ingredients
Add water and oil
Stir until it forms a ball.
Knead on a floured surface 3-5 minutes
Spread out and add your sauces and fixings
Bake at 400 F, 20-25 minutes
| Super easy, super quick, and very delicious.
This little dish is a tasty ans simple side to prepare, and it's vegetarian so if you have any veggies in the family, go with this recipe. Also, I literally had never heard of quinoa until I got married.......but it's pretty damn good. | Ingredients:
Dressing:
2 tsp. grated lime zest
2 tbsp. fresh lime juice
2 tbsp. unsalted butte, melted & cooled
1 tbsp. olive oil
1 tsp. sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. pepper
Remaining:
1 c. uncooked quinoa
2 c. water
1 can black beans* (rinsed and drained)
2 medium tomatoes, diced
4 scallions, chopped
1/4 c. chopped fresh cilantro
*or 1/2 c. dry black beans, cook before adding to dish | How to make it tasty:
Put quinoa in water, bring to a boil
Set heat to low and cover to simmer, 15 min.
Remove from heat, let sit 5 min, fluff with a fork
Prepare dressing in small bowl while quinoa cooks
Once quinoa is cool, add dressing
Mix in tomato, scallions, cilantro and beans
Serve and enjoy!
| VOILA! A delicious side dish is ready to eat. I usually eat a 1/4 of this while I'm making it. Good things are meant to be eaten quickly.
This recipe is my attempt to flex my chef muscles and show off (however pathetic it may seem). I had a frozen piece of a pig in the freezer, and about 45 minutes to kill, so I whipped up some pork for dinner. I also got bonus points for using onions and apples from my father-in-law's farm. +10
Let's get cooking. | Ingredients:
2 pork tenderloins
2 tbsp. oil (vegetable or olive)
11/2 tsp. salt
1 tbsp. Dijon mustard
1 tbsp. chopped fresh thyme
1/4 tsp. ground black pepper
2 apples, cored & sliced
2 onions, sliced
1 c. chicken stock
1 tbsp. butter | How to make it tasty:
Heat oven to 425 F
Trim loins of silverskin
Pat loins dry
Rub oil over loins, sprinkle with salt, evenly coat
Heat oil in a pan at medium heat
Cook loins til brown on all sides
Put pork on a cutting board or a plate
Add apples & onions to that same pan
Cook for roughly 5 minutes
Meanwhile, rub the pork with mustard, thyme & pepper
Put pork on top of onions & apples & put in the oven
Cook for 10-15 minutes (or until temp is 145-160 F)
Put pork on plate and cover with foil, let sit 10 min.
Place the pan with apples & onions back on stove
Heat on medium
Add chicken stock & use wooden spoon to scrape pan
Bring to a simmer & cook until reduced by half
Add butter & stir until melted
Slice pork in 1" slices
Plate pork slices on a bed of apples & onions
Drizzle pan sauce on top and serve! | As evidenced below, what once was literally a frozen piece of crap, is now a supremely tasty dish for the family! Disclaimer: Please remember I am 'new' to cooking, so this plating of mine might not be ideal.....
My favorite food on the planet is the potato. Obviously with tastes like that, I was destined to be a Michelin rated chef! WRONG. But as much as I love potatoes, sometimes you have to throw a bone to it's tanned cousin, the yam. Yams are damn good, and, well, fun to eat.
Let's get cooking. | Ingredients:
1-2 yams (peeled)
2 tbsp. olive oil
Paprika
Cayenne pepper
Salt
Pepper
Corn Starch (enough to coat the yams)
Note that this recipe is by feel, just add as much of the seasoning as you want. | How to make it tasty:
Cut the yams into fry shapes
Put the yams into a bowl and add olive oil
Add paprika, cayenne pepper, salt, and pepper.
Cover yams in corn starch, enough to coat each piece
Mix well, everything is evenly coated.
Arrange on cookie greased cookie sheet
Cook at 375 F for 40 min., flip at 20 min. |
CHICKEN! The easiest thing to cook apparently. I once recall making a 'special dinner' for someone by cooking chicken without anything but salt and pepper on it. I am VERY impressed that that someone didn't call me an ass and leave.
Alright, with that awkward moment, we should probably get cooking. | Ingredients:
2 chicken breasts
2 tbsp. Parmesan cheese
2 tbsp. mayonnaise
Bread crumbs
| How to make it tasty:
Mix mayo and Parmesan in a bowl
Cover chicken with mixture
Sprinkle bread crumbs on top
Bake in the over at 350 F for 20 min. or until cooked | As you can see this is a super short list of ingredients, and it's actually SO EASY to make that it is LITERALLY a TV commercial. (Note: I do it a bit different from below, but not much different)
Quite possibly one of the greatest additions to a soup is the mythical biscuit!
Unfortunately, to do this properly, as I found out, you have to cut cold butter into the dry mix. How did people think to do these things? Honestly!
Alright, let's get cooking.
| Ingredients:
11/2 c. wholewheat flour
1/2 c. white flour
4 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1/2 c. butter
1/2 c. milk
3/4 c. cheddar cheese
2 pinches of dill.
| How to make it taste so nice:
Preheat the oven to 400 F
Combine flour, baking powder, salt & cheese in a bowl
Cut in* butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs
Stir in milk to form dough
Blob on cookie sheet**
Bake 12-15 minutes
Eat em up! | *Cutting butter in is possibly one of the worst tortures known to man...literally cut up the butter into small pieces, throw it in the mix, then mash the butter into smaller pieces with a fork. Of course, if you're serious about cooking, you probably have a tool for this, OR you use a fancy mixer. This is a poor-man's kitchen, thus a fork is the tool I use.
**Tip: Put parchment paper down on the cookie sheet to eliminate having to clean up the sheet afterward.
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