Steak!! How fancy!

Since my wonderful Grandmamee sent me back to school with a 6 pound beef tenderloin, I figured it was high time to have a small gathering. Part of my rec league co-ed basketball team came over and despite the fact that there weren’t enough veggies, we had a really yummy dinner!
The Menu:
Rosemary and garlic tenderloin… Such an easy recipe from William Sonoma!
Roasted sweet potatoes (pretty generic stuff but oh so yummy even to our picky, “non-sweet potato” eaters
French green beans… Made by Jordan but burnt by me when I forgot all the things going on in the kitchen!
Blackberry cobbler and vanilla ice cream!! My absolute favorite dessert! I’ll share the recipe!

Take your blackberries and wash them. Put them down in your casserole dish and make your crust out of one egg one cup of flour and one cup of sugar. squeeze half a lemon over the blackberries then pour your crust crumble over the mixture. Then melt a stick of butter and pour over the top of the crust and blackberries!

My life is complete

A grandma asked me for my chocolate chip recipe! MY recipe! I have a recipe people want! AHHHH! Clearly I’m thrilled! This is IT! I’ve arrived at what I perceive to be baking greatness!!! I’ll share my recipe here!

Grandmamee’s World Best Chocolate Chip Cookie
Makes 10 dozen

1 cup sugar
1 cup packed dark brown sugar
1 egg
1 cup butter
1 cup crisco wesson oil
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3.500 cups sifted flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup oats
1 cup Rice Krispies®
1/2 cup coconut
1/2 cup or more semisweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup chopped pecans

Cream the butter, and sugars together. Then add the oil, and egg and beat well. Add vanilla, flour, soda, and salt and mix well. Stir in the oats, Rice Krispies, coconut, pecans and chocolate chips. Bake at 325 for 15 minutes.

Three things everyone should have…

A wonderful momma, Lilly pajamas and a football helmet cookie cutter!
I came home for the weekend for youth sunday at church so mom and I spent a day getting beautified and buying a lamp to make the living room more beautiful! Dad and I went to the grocery store and then went to dinner as a family which I love love love!! Now mom and I are making my great grandmas sugar cookies! Yum yum!!

Rolled Sugar Cookies:
1 cup of butter
Cup and a Half of sugar
2 eggs
3 tsp. vanilla
3 cups flour
3 tsp. Baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt

Cream sugar and butter then add eggs as vanilla. In a separate bowl, sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Stir dry ingredients into the butter mixture. Chill the dough at least one hour (we didn’t know this was a step so that’s why we have time to blog!).
Preheat oven to 350. Roll out dough very thin on marble or a floured surface. Bake on a lightly greased sheet for about 6-8 minutes! Then decorate!

Just because you eat alone doesn’t mean it cant be delicious!!

So in an effort to save money, to eat the chicken thats been in my freezer since November and to eat a delicious dinner before class, I cooked my own speedy meal. By no means was it a complicated meal. I defrosted a chicken breast, heated up some olive oil in the pan and flopped the chicken in. Then I sprinkled in some black pepper, salt and red pepper flakes. Waited not so patiently until it was done (made some risotto in the meantime). When I say patiently I mean I cut the chicken in half so it cooked faster… Then I cut up some tomatoes, put them in the pan with the chicken, cooked them for a bit then put it on my plate then put it in my belly! Yum yum!!

Speedy salmon

My friend made this for me for dinner tonight and it was the second best salmon I’ve ever eaten! Second to Dad’ big green egg salmon! We ate the rest of the risotto from last night and steam fresh green beans jazzed up with a little lemon, olive oil, and Parmesan cheese! So quick and easy!

 

Here’s the recipe:

http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=10000002012803

Brunswick stew… Take 2

After I cried for hours over my first failed attempt at Brunswick stew I realized it was time to buck up (as dad would say) and try again! So thats what I’m doing this Saturday morning. So far so good… Don’t worry I knocked on wood so I don’t jinx it! Since it’s so good to try twice, I’ll share my recipe!

1 whole chicken (no giblets… I mean you can stick your hand up the dead chickens butt to pull them out but that gross. To each their own I guess)
1 BIG can diced tomatoes
2 (regular sized) cans of corn- mom uses white corn but since I live in Tuscaloosa, the local Publix carries yellow corn. Corns corn in my opinion
1 bag of potatoes (peeled and chopped)
1 onion (chopped)

Boil the chicken in enough water to cover the chicken until it’s cooked and easy to pull.
Peel and chop your potatoes and onion and set aside.
Once your chicken is cooked, remove it from the water and set aside to cool.
Make sure there are no bones and such in the water.
Add everything but the chicken and cook. When the chicken is cool, pull it apart and add it in!
Stir frequently and don’t fall asleep so you don’t burn your stew!
Salt and pepper to taste!