Friday, July 20, 2012

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

What life is like with too few teeth


I don't know why this still gets me every time, it's not like it's a rare occurrence. I have the most handsome dog ever.

Garlic Shrimp

The weather has been too hot for my liking lately. It makes it really difficult to cook because it heats up the house too much. While searching for some new grill recipes I came across Food Networks recipe for garlic shrimp. I've made it twice since because it's just so tasty and super easy to make (since we just have a bag of frozen shrimp in our freezer)!

Step 1: Put some things on tinfoil. (1/2 lb shrimp, 1/4 stick butter, a bit of lemon juice, 2 garlic cloves, some parsley, a bit of red pepper flakes, a dash of salt) The recipe says unpeeled shrimp but I peeled mine anyway and it was delicious.
Step 2: Fold up your foil packet
Step 3: Grill to perfection. (or use a toaster oven like I did) I had to stir mine around half way through in the toaster oven because the outside ones cooked faster than the middle.
Step 4: Drool a little bit because it may be the most delicious thing you have ever smelled. Then serve it over rice (the shrimp, not the drool...just so we're clear)

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Oh yum yum yum Bread Coating

I find so many good recipes on pinterest! I recently made bang bang chicken following Table For Two's recipe. It was so Delicious!!! I highly recommend it! The best part was how wonderful the bread coating on the chicken turned out. I've tried so many different bread coating variations and this one is by far the best I've tried so far. I can't wait to use this for other types of chicken that need a bread coating (or jalapeno poppers).
Recently I was trying to think of ways to use up leftovers in my fridge and freezer. Near the top of the list to use up was a jar of spaghetti sauce, but I'm not really a big spaghetti fan...but what is this? Half a bag of ravioli in our freezer? Mmmm now the wheels are turning on how I can make this just a bit more unhealthy. Yes! Coat it in bread crumbs and fry it! I previously posted about fried ravioli, but all their crumb coating seemed to fall off no matter what coating I used. This new coating stayed on very nice and it was so crispy and delicious! It was even delicious reheated in the microwave even though it was soggy.

Bread Coating:
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup panko
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
1/4 tsp garlic powder
1/4 tsp dried basil

Egg part
1 egg
1/2 cup milk

If whatever you're dipping is already wet or sticky dip it in the bread coating first, then into the liquid, then back into the bread coating. If whatever you are cooking is not sticky, put it in the egg first then the bread, then the egg, and then the bread again. Then put into the fridge for 20 minutes before frying to help the coating stick. And there you have it. Yum!

For the raviolis I did half panko and half seasoned bread crumbs and then omitted most of the rest of the seasoning for the bread coating mix.