~Strawberries? Milk? Yum ~

Let me ask you two serious questions:
1)Do you like strawberries?

If the answer is yes continue.

2)Do you like milk?

If the answer is yes that you're in luck! For here is an easy recipe for that delicious strawberry milk you have secretly been craving!

3 strawberries - the greens removed
2 cups of milk (any %)
1/2 cup of sugar.

Blend...

Pour...

Enjoy :)

Oh My Goodness Easy Tartar Sauce ~ Perhaps for your fish cakes?

You will need:

1 cup Mayo
1 Pickle, finely minced.
1 Tsp Sugar
1 Tbsp Cream of Tartar


Mix.
Dip.
Enjoy

Fish Cakes Fish Cakes ~ Rolly Polly Fish Cakes

I love potatoes. They are great fried, deep-fried, baked, microwaved, boiled, broiled you name it. One other really great use for potatoes is as an additive.

I also love fish: cod, pike, salmon, halibut (... the list goes on), and tuna. Tuna is like potatoes in that they go well with so many things! In this case, I just combined the two together to get delicious fish cakes. Yum.



What you will need:

Oil or Butter for frying.

1 egg

4 big potatoes, peeled
and quartered.

Half an onion, minced.

1 can of tuna

Spices to taste:
I like italian or oregano,
but many prefer parsley
and pepper.

Bring pot of water to a boil, then put the potatoes in. While you are doing this empty your other ingrediants into a bowl and stir them well :) Once they are in a paste you just need to wait for the potatoes. 12-15 mins of boiling should do the trick. When you poke the potatoes and the blade slides easily through drain your water and mash you potatoes.

Combine the potatoes to the tuna mix.

Bring a small pan up to medium temp. While that is warming up pick up a glob of your delicious tuna mixture and form it into a small hockey puck shape.

Fry the tuna cakes.

Eat the tuna cakes.

Eat them up yum.

Left Over, Make Over! ~ Lamb

I don't know about you, but I sometimes find myself with almost nothing left in the fridge to make dinner a fresh :( Last Tuesday I looked in the fridge and saw a container of last nights Lamb, a bag of red and yellow peppers, an onion, and some cloves of garlic. First I thought YES, the perfect ingredients for a nice stir-fry.... only I had no rice, I had no appropriate pasta, and I didn't have time to run to the store. 

What luck that I remembered all those long wooden things that act as kabob skewers! Oh yeah... they're called skewers.

ANYWAY. what you will need is:

A random vegetable, - in my case red and yellow peppers

Another random vegetable - in my case sliced onions

Wait for it... ANOTHER random vegetable - in my case garlic

and some left over meat - in my case lamb!

pop em on the skewers and pop them in the oven at 350 for 10 mins. 

VIOLA, delicious, quick and easy kabobs for everyone!

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Three-Cheese Mac N Cheese

You will need:

5 Cups of Macaroni
1 Cup of Goat Cheese
1 Cup of Medium Cheddar
1 Cup 0f Old White Cheddar
1 Cup of Milk

Preheat oven to 350'.

Bring a medium pot of water to a boil. Pour in your pasta and boil for 10-15 - or until you can see that the center of the pasta is no longer white.

While the water is boiling, grate all of your cheese into a bowl and stir the cheese till it is a nice mixture. In a small sauce pot, bring milk to a boil.

Once the pasta is ready, drain the water and move to a casserole dish. Mix in most of the cheese until it is evenly spread throughout the pasta, then pour the milk over everything. Next, top the dish with the remaining cheese :)

Bake at 350 for 5-10 mins, or until you see all the cheese melted thoroughly on the top of the dish.

Take it out and let cool for 15 mins. Serves 4.

Nom Nom Perogies!

I thought up a really great combo with my parogies last night: Candied bacon perogies!

You Will Need:
1 Bag of Perogies - you're favorite kind
6-10 Slices of Bacon
1/4 Cup of Honey

First, bring a pot of water to boil. While you are waiting you can get all your ingredients ready :)
In a frying pan over high heat, place slices of bacon and wait for a few minutes for the frying pan to heat up. Once the natural bacon fat is bubbling, poor in you honey and stir it into the bacon fat.

You will know your perogies are done when they start to float. Turn off the element and drain the water out of your pot. When the bacon fat is bubbling black, mix in the parogies with the bacon. wait a few minutes for the perogies to turn brown then take off the burner. Serves 2-3.

Jazzy's Secret Ingredient Cookie!

If you love cookies you will love this recipe. I bake a couple hundred cookies every year for separate events; anime conventions, pax prime, and charity organizations. It's a lot of work, but it is made so much better with the help of my awesome friends! Thanks to Cai and Tracey for helping me prep for Tsukino-Con this weekend :) You guys are the best~

1 Cup of Unsalted Butter
2 Cups of Flour
1 Cup of White Sugar
1 Cup of Brown Sugar
2 Egg
1 Tsp Vanilla
1/4 Tsp of Salt
1 Tsp of Baking Powder
(optional- 1 Cup of Chocolate Chips)
and the secret ingredient: 1/2 Cup of Achmed's Aromatic Earl Grey Tea Leaves!


Mix thoroughly by hand until it is soft. Roll into balls and bake at 375' for 10 minutes, take them out and let sit for 5 mins - or until cool.