my recent cooking adventures

so these last couple of weeks i've had the chance to cook a little bit. and lets just say cooking and me do not go together. hehe. both times i cooked i set the fire alarm off in the house. hehe. so needless to say i need to cook more so i don't set off the alarm. hehe.

the first adventure isn't me fully cooking. a woman at work makes these amazing rolls and for some money she'll put them all together and all i need to do is fry them in oil. well that's what i did. and by doing that i set their alarm off. hehe. but the food turned out really good in the end. these rolls are super tasty. i love them! so every time i get to see her at work, i ask her to make them so i can cook them and then stuff my face with them. hehe. here are the rolls finished.

the next cooking adventure i had was baking a blue berry cobbler. my mom asked me to make it for her for her birthday. first let me say that cobbler is a diabetic coma just waiting to happen. hehe. almost two whole cups of sugar and a whole stick of butter. but in the end it tasted really good. of course while it was sitting in the oven, the cobbler went over the sides of the pan and burned at the bottom of the oven. and that of course set off the fire alarm in the house. hehe. it didn't look the best when it was done cooking, but it tasted great!

this first picture is after i put the last of the sugar on the top of the cobbler before i put it in the oven.

this picture is when i realized it was going over the sides and burning at the bottom of the oven.

this is the finished look. again, doesn't look the best, but it tasted great!

the last cooking adventure isn't fully a cooking adventure, but it's close. i had gone out for a girls weekend out with some friends and a friend of mine told me to combine vanilla cake icing and teddy grahams. and if i do that, it will taste like dunk-a-roos. remember those? on man those were the best. so i got the products and man, she was right! taste just like dunk-a-roos. hey at least with this one, i didn't set off the fire alarm. hehe. 

here's what you need to get for the dunk-a-roos!

Chicken/mushroom crock pot meal

So I made another chicken crock pot meal. This time it's chicken with mushrooms. The gravy is: one thing of cream of mushroom soup, 1/2 cup white wine, 8oz container sour cream, 1cup of mushrooms. Put the chicken and the gravy in the crock pot for 8 hrs and presto. Serve over some rice (as shown in picture).

Fun dip

So I got this recipe from a woman I work with. Its super crazy easy. Its just cream cheese spread on a platter and then jelly on top. To eat it use original wheat thins. It's as simple as that! But I think it's very tasty. The picture I have for it isn't the best, but here it is.

Tilapia with rice cooking adventure

The other day I made myself some lunch of fish with a side of rice. The fish was just plain tilapia with lemon pepper seasoning. The rice was instant rice (I don't cook rice. Hehe) but it had cheese and broccoli in it. Over all very tasty and pretty easy to make. Here's a photo of the finished product.

Frito lay tacos

Another exciting adventure in cooking for me tonight. I made Frito lay tacos. So I put some frito's on the bottom of a bowl then put cooked ground beef on top. On top of that shredded cheese, lettuce, tomatoes and sour cream. The first time I ever had it I was at a relay-for-life. All the taco stuff was in a personal bag of frito's. It was really good. So I bought everything to make it myself. Very tasty. My picture isn't very pretty. I like a lot of sour cream. Here's a picture of all my fixings and a picture of the finished product.

Coke, BBQ chicken

So for dinner yesterday I made BBQ-coke- chicken. It was pretty good. I hadn't cooked in a long time so it was nice to cook. What this meal was, boneless, skinless chicken cooked in the slow cooker for 3 hrs. Then I drained all the juices and put 1/2 a can of coke and some BBQ sauce in the pot. Slow cooked all of that for 30 minutes. I ate the chicken with some more BBQ sauce on it. It was tasty. And my side dishes were peaches and pears. Overall a good meal. The first picture is of the chicken in the pot with the coke and BBQ sauce. The second picture is the finished product.

Chicken cooking adventure

Today I made chicken with sauteed garlic and brown sugar. It smells great. I won't actually eat it until Monday for lunch. I made it today for tomorrow I'll be at my mom's all day gaming out. We are going to be watching the Superbowel. Nevertheless, here's the chicken I made. The recipe is on my pintetest page in the food section. Here a picture of the finished product.

Edit: so I realized how silly of me to not even just taste the chicken. So I had a bite. It was great! Love what the brown sugar/garlic does to the chicken!

tea pot

well some of you might know, i got this really awesome tea pot. i'm trying to drink less pop and thought tea would be great substitute. well i made one cup of tea from it and everything was fine. i have a sore throat right now, so the tea tasted great. well today i went to make tea and my tea pot was leaking. i couldn't understand (for the water wasn't so high in the tea pot that it would be coming out of the top). so i took it off of the fire and was holding it up to my face to look at it. well the bottom of the tea pot came clean off! i couldn't believe it! i'm so stunned i can't even be mad yet. but give me a minute of two and i'm sure i'll be mad. its a nice tea pot too. arg!

Cooking adventures

so this weekend i made beef stew. it was tasty! i had never made beef stew before and i had never used a slow cooker before. i had the stew in the slow cooker for at least 10 hours. it made the whole apartment smell great. here are some pictures. the first picture is all the ingredients together, right before i cooked it for the day. the second picture is me with the piece of meat i used for the stew. that was the smallest piece of meat that dominicks had. it was still huge! hehe. if anyone wants the recipe just ask. i think its nice and tasty. i made enough for me to eat it for lunch for the week.

chicken dinner

so i made a chicken dinner. it was really good. it's lemon chicken with bacon and cheese and caramelized onions on top. i passed the recipe on to a friend and she said her family liked it. i had a ceasar salad with it and it was great. so if you want the recipe feel free to ask.

happy st patricks day

Happy St. Patricks Day!!


sorry that's a day late. hope everyone had a good day. i found a recipe on pinterest (such an awesome website) and it is super easy and delicious! i'm calling it a breakfast cup. it's bread/cheese/bacon/egg.

cottage pie

i made cottage pie which is shepherds pie but with ground beef and not lamb. here it is. it was very tasty and lasted for a good week of lunches.

last couple of meals

 this here is bake potato with butter/bacon/cheese

this is one of the first meals i ever made. it's potato/hillshire beef/green pepper/onion/tomato.

last couple of meals

so i thought i would share the last couple of things i have cooked.

 sloppy joes

 blt's

glutton free brownie/cake

french toast casserole

on sunday i cooked a dessert called french toast casserole. well its not actually a desert, it's more a breakfast. either way it's totally tasty. it's shredded bread, milk, egg and pancake syrup. here is a photo. again if you want to know the recipe, go ahead and message me.

stuffed tomatoes

so cooking is an adventure for me, for i don't do it very often. so i thought i would share my adventures in cooking on here. this weekend i made stuffed tomatoes. it consisted of cored out tomatoes, stuffed with feta cheese, corn and green peppers. seasoned with salt, pepper and olive oil. if i say so myself, it was pretty tasty.  here's what it looked like. if you want the recipe, feel free to message me.