So I don’t really get the chance to cook much more than dinner on weekdays, however, any meal can be fun and exciting! So tonight I made pasta. I usually just make the same thing, rotini with Alfredo, throw in some peas and maybe some chopped up bacon. This is super tasty, but after a while it gets….monotonous. So tonight (and I realllly don’t like tomatoes. Not sure why, but pizza’s really the only thing I can really enjoy with red sauce on it) I made mini farfalle with alfredo. Buuut this time I added in chopped black olives, smoked sausage, oregano and basil. It was so easy! I added plenty of Parmesan cheese and it turned out a bit salty, probably because I over salted my boiling water though. Anyways it was delicious and amazing and I have plenty left over for lunch tomorrow :) Boston Cream Pie Cupcake for dessert!! Enjoy your dinners!
(Picture 1-Sauce with black olives and Parmesan; Picture 2-pasta with sauce and sausage added in. I need to work on my plating……)
My Life Plan
My Life Goals:
1) Finish High School with a Culinary Arts Seal on my Diploma—Here’s how that’ll work. Durrring my senior year I’ll take two of my regular academic classes for half my day and have a job in a kitchen somewhere for a work-based-learning program for the first semester. Durring second semester I’ll finish up the culinary arts classes that my school offers with Culinary Arts II. Estimated Time of Completion (ETC) May 2013
2) Make some Choices about College—Do I even need to go? That’ll be something to find out while I’m working in the kitchen. Talking to the head chef or maybe a sous cheff. Learning basic technique is something I can do while working hands-on in a kitchen, not something I NEED to pay $20,000 a smester for in college. However, a chef might suggest that college is the right path after all. Which leads me to deciding on a college. Le Cordon Bleu is deffinatly not a bad choice, accept that if I want to go, I can only get a certificate. Not an actual degree. Which, for as expensive as it is, doesn’t seem great. So The Art Institute of Atlanta has an associates degree program wich would be great considering they have boarding and everything. (Though that does jack up the prices) Then there’s always the econimical choice of going to Athens Tech and letting HOPE pay for everything. ETC 2013-2015
3) Starting a Career—This means finding a place where I can work my way up the ladder. Maybe I need to start as a prep cook, even though I’ll be experianced by this point. But I’m willing if it means I can find a way to serving people delicious and amazing foods that blow them away. My dream is to create happiness disguised as food. Happiness that’s shared with a whole family. I want my food to bring people together because it’s so good. ETC 2013-2015
(SIDEBAR-My favorite food to cook is Italian. I’d love to travle to Italy to learn techniqe and ingredeants. I’d love to be the chef at an Italian grill sort of restaurant.)
4) Starting a Family of My Own—Ever seen Cheeper By The Dozen? That’s what I’m going for. Except a lot of those kids would be adopted :P Dream Job wise would be a stay at home mom. Cooking would be a huge part of that, seeing as I believe food can bring us all together. ET(of Beginning) 2018
tumblrbot asked: WHERE WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO VISIT ON YOUR PLANET?
Italy—to learn Italian cooking skills and techniques
This is actually hanging in my kitchen!! I got it from Borders when they went out of business. Only $10!!!! It was amazing!!!!! I feel like it’s the beginning to starting my career…a sort of motivational tool. Every time I cook now, I see it there and it reminds me just how much I love to cook and bake and all. Creating new food combinations is so amazing for me. Knowing that I can make someone happy in one of the most basic and natural areas of our human lives is so beautiful. And hey, people are always gonna have to eat, right? So why not make it a experience to remember every time?
So my boyfriend is a freshman in Atlanta at Ga Tech this year and I wanted him to come to my high school’s dance. I needed a cute way to ask him and I’d made cupcakes that evening. What better way to show my love and dire need to NOT go to homecoming without a date than with my second favorite thing in the whole wide world, COOKING?!?!! I just added chocolate chips to the top to spell out HOMECOMING.
Anyway, these are Boston Cream Pie Mini Cupcakes from The Cupcake Bible
1pkg Yellow cake mix
1c Cold milk
1pkg (4-serving size) vanilla instant pudding
1 1/2c thawed cool whip, DIVIDED
4 squares BAKER’S Semi-Sweet backing chocolate
1) PREHEAT oven to 350. Prepare cake batter and bake in 24 greased medium muffin pan cups as directed on package. Cook 10min in pans. Remove to wire racks; cool completely.
2) BEAT mild and dry pudding mix with wire whisk 2min or until well blended. Let stand 5 minutes. Meanwhile, use serrated knife to cut cupcakes horizontally in half. Gently stir 1/2C of the whipped topping into pudding. Spoon about 1tbs of the pudding mixture onto bottom half of each cupcake; cover with top of cupcake.
2) MICROWAVE remaining 1C whipped topping and the chocolate in small microwavable bowl on high 1 1/2 minutes or until chocolate is almost melted, stirring after 1min. Stir until chocolate is completely melted and mixture is well blended; spread onto cupcakes. refrigerate at least 15 minutes before serving. Store leftovers in fridge.
So this didn’t totally help me with the egg part of the omelet but the folding part is genius!!
Also—for an amazing omelet:
1tbs Butter—NOT MARGARINE OR PAM!!
2 eggs
4 slices of cucumber and the diced
6-10 black olives
favorite cheese (2 slices or shredded)
1 slice of bacon diced
1) Melt butter completely in pan and spread until bubbly all over
2) Add beaten eggs, wait until dry about halfway to the center and add ingredients
3) Allow to cook until desired dryness on the inside has been reached
4) Slide full half onto plate and fold other half over (Like in video)
5) Add any extra toppings you wish—make sure everything’s hot in the middle!!
(IF THE VIDEO DOESN’T WORK, TRY THIS: http://www.travelchannel.com/Video/how-to-cook-the-perfect-omelet-11705 )
