Zuppa Toscana

1 lb ground Italian sausage
1½ tsp crushed red peppers
1 large diced white onion
4 Tbsp bacon pieces
2 tsp garlic puree
10 cups water
5 cubes of chicken bouillon
1 cup heavy cream
1 lb sliced Russet potatoes, or about 3 large potatoes
¼ of a bunch of kale
Give or take, we sort of have a improv of this, since we've made it so many times. Basically you cook the meat, then put it all in a big pot, and cook the potatoes separate, and then add them & the Kale last.

Et Voila bon appétit!

Spinach Quiche

Microwave S'mores

I love S'mores.
But I forget that I love them cause there so sweet.
Then I go through times where I love 'em to death and can't think of any better sweet to have.

But what do you do when its to hot?
You put the marshmallows microwave.

In a few seconds you have yummy warm goodness.
but be quick because the marshmallow hardens super fast!

Lemon light Bucatini

Ingredients
Salt
1 pound bucatini pasta
1 1/2 pounds large shrimp, peeled and deveined, tails off
1 tablespoon seafood seasoning (recommended: Old Bay)
2 lemons, 1 sliced and 1 juiced
1 stick butter
6 cloves garlic, finely chopped
1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
1 cup flat-leaf parsley, loosely packed
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 teaspoon fennel seeds
1/2 cup white wine or white vermouth

Toss your shrimp with sliced lemon and bay seasoning, set aside.

Cook the noodles while you prepare the sauce!
Make the sauce by melting the butter in a pan with the red pepper flakes, and parsley. Let melt for like four minutes. In the meantime add 2teaspoons of olive oil to a sautee pan (Big enough to put your noodles in later!!) let head, and add fennel seeds. Let them cook for a few minutes then add the chopped garlic. Let cook through, add butter mixture and shrimp, let simmer for like five minutes, add pasta, and let heat!






Even had bread shaped like fish, haha.

★★★★★/5 ★'s
this was FANTASTIC.
try it, seriously.

Table Settings

I love fancy things, and table settings are no exception!

I was going through some old pictures and I came across this table setting for a thing I did a few years ago when I was a freshman. Some things never change!

I'm going to try and keep at this blog a bit more.
I've been cooking, I just haven't posted anything!
I made Curry the other night, yum! <3

Bruschetta

Who knew three ingredients and a dip would be so amazing?
Mozzarella (Not the shredded stuff, thats not real. in the ball/wheel)
Fresh basil leaves
Baguette.

& Optional balsamic vinegar for dipping



toast the baguette, whatever way you chose, but make sure its still warm when you;
Cut the Mozzarella, place each piece on a slice of toasted baguette. It should get warm and melt on top of the bread.

Then add basil, either whole, or chopped like we did.

Then dip in the balsamic, and love <3


★★★★/5 ★'s
Because It was the first time I had it, and your taste buds can be deceived ;)
try it though! YUM!

Edible arrangement!

Edible arrangements are fun to make, and I understand why they charge so much for them!



make sure you have something to use! We used Styrofoam under it, and we had sticks left over from an edible arrangement that we saved.


Clean and Cut the fruit! we used cookie cutters, for real.


Clean your fruit again, and set them out do dry!


start making some of the bigger pieces


Slowly it starts to dwindle away!


build from the bottom and sides, so the middle is sturdy when you stick it up. We ended up using wooden bamboo sticks for the really big pieces so they were sturdy!


Just add fruit. As you start filling out with the melon, make some sort of pattern, it makes it pretty :)


It stored for about a day, due to the lack of fruit being in season...
it was feb after all...

★★★★★/5 ★'s,
Because it's a ball.
For real!
We bought a big one like this for my grandparents 50th anniversary, and it cost over 150 dollars (It would have been more to ship it as well. but we picked it up and took it to them! ) And we did this in feburary, when fruit is pretty much as expensive as it will be all year, and it only cost us fifty dollars or so.

for this arrangement we used;
One cantlope,
one green melon,
one box of strawberries,
a bag of grapes,
and the last pineapple in town. (Seriously. We checked three stores, and the one we bought was the last one at the third store. )
one baby watermelon.

PLUS we had enough to make a small fruit tray as well :)