Green pesto goes in the green container :/
you can’t tell how bright it is… but just trust me mmkay? Because of the nuts it’s a little crunchy but also I’m throwing it on top of some chicken and pasta in a few hours here
Posts tagged "aye man lemme eat that"
aye mane lemme eat that - I put in a lot of effort for my family
When I was looking up quick vegetarian pizza recipes online I found way too many involving ranch dressing
you people are FUCKED
so I made my own
1 12 in Kroger crust
2 large tomatoes (roma)
1 can of mushrooms
Some basil from your personal garden. Oh you don’t have any? Well… basil. Or spinach, it doesn’t matter to me.
A few handfuls of mozzarella cheese
1/2 can of jumbo olives
Optional Ken’s Italian dressing that you got on sale
Sawce
Mumble around the kitchen sleepily for a few minutes while waving a butcher knife. Take your pizza crust out and put it back up for a minute.
Slice your tomatoes & olives, drop em in a tupperware container. Mutilate your basil, kiss it, then chop the well-rinsed off leaves. Drop em in the container. Chop up your onions using some fancy advanced chef techniques you saw on the Cooking Channel. Drop em in the container. Drizzle with your optional dressing at this stage then put em in the fridge.
Realize you have nothing to do for about 10 minutes and wash dishes or something, be productive! Oh & preheat your oven according to your crust directions (if you don’t have any for some reason 450-500 never hurts. I cook extreme).
Start saucing your pizza up. Layer down with cheese, take your other toppings out of the fridge and layer em up. Shove your pizza in the oven for about 7-10 minutes depending on how crispy you want your crust (alternatively, broil). Take it out with an oven pan & a spatula in some extremely complicated maneuver and enjoy!
I actually TRIED to get a picture of this one but my family wrecked it before I did so… I have some PB&J pics coming up soon :/
aye mane lemme eat that - I’m sure some section of my ancestors are smiling
Sometimes, I really get it right.
We went to the park earlier today because there was an artisan craft fair, and after walking around & me suffering swamp butt & swamp thigh we got some food truck snacks and left.
Earlier, mom showed me this Food Network recipe for a vegetable gumbo after we had a standstill fight about what to have for dinner. As it turned out we had all the ingredients except for Worcercershershire sauce, a bell pepper, and celery.
This recipe is a pretty good base & you can take and add things to it like we did. At the store we got our shit together and then came back to cook. I decided we would do turkey polish sausage & Portabello mushrooms in this case, because mom’s body has something against shrimp & she doesn’t like okra (for gumbo I don’t really mind it).
aye mane lemme eat that - why the fuck do I have to bake this
You ever buy one of those packs of egg noodles & it has a recipe for a chicken noodle bake on the back? Yeah, I made that. Except with no chicken. So it basically became beef stroganoff with no beef.
1/2 bag of egg noodles (in my case egg free egg noodles)
1 can of mushrooms
1/3 cup of onions
2-3 chicken bouillon cubes although I’d argue that you could skip this or use something else
2-3 tbsp of butter or margarine
Corn starch + cold water or flour if you prefer
optional bread crumbs and mixed vegetables
Salt/pepper/paprika (?)/parsley
Set ovens to 350. Cook your noodles until done, drain. Dissolve your bouillon cubes as much as you damn well care to in hot water, hold off to the side minute. Sautee your onions & mushrooms in a little oil. In a saucepan, melt butter and add in cooked mushrooms & onions, stir a little, add in seasonings, add in your bouillon-water and corn starch + water mix or flour, and if you want mixed vegetables hopefully you remembered to cook those by now. Stir and heat until its thick as you care for.
Add to noodles. At this point I asked myself, okay why the fuck am I baking this, it’s pretty much done and I’m hungry. But I am pretty married to these package directions right now so I keep going. Pour your noodle mix into a lightly oiled pan and take a few secret bites for consistency. I added a sprinkle of breadcrumbs for extra carbs and to feel like I’m really doing something. Bake for about 25-30 min.
eta: please note that this dish can get pretty salty & pretty oily quickly haha so if you’re worried about things like that watch your salt input at each stage, how much you oil the pan and how you sautee your veggies if you add any. And obviously you CAN add chicken to this if you actually have some unlike me
aye mane lemme eat that - all we do is fish fish fish
Yeah.
YEAH.
You thought I forgot didn’t you. Well if I have 1000 ways to cook rice I have 1001 more to cook fish to go with it. Two recipes I did this month:
Rosemary & garlic swai
(I’d suggest backing these but I’m impatient so I cooked them on the stove lolol. Stove top = about 5-6 min per side)
Rosemary (not an excess)
Garlic and/or garlic salt
Salt.
Pepper
Butter and/or oil
Oil up your pan of choice, season your swai fillets and cook them. If you bake, probably about 350 for 10-12 minutes. Serve with delicious rice. For extra fancy you can coat with breadcrumbs & garnish with lemon.
Speaking of lemon
Poach Your Own Damn Fish (used with whiting)
Rosemary
Dried mint flakes
A little basil
Salt
Pepper
Fill sauce pan with just enough water to submerge the fish, and let it get just to boiling. Add your seasonings in your desired experimental amount, turn the heat down. Add fish, simmer for at least 5+ minutes depending on thickness. Garnish that shit with lemon and pick a side dish and you’ve got a meal
I got it out of the Prevention cookbook BUT LO AND BEHOLD I HUNTED IT DOWN ON THE INTERNET FOR YOU. recipes.prevention.com/…
yeees I will eat this soon *rubs hands* also I just realized I have enough eggs to make a quiche, now I just need to buy more spinach
this weekend will be epic
aye mane lemme eat that - l’elegance et demure
le fake french
Tonight I’m making scallops. That’s it. Scallops are so fancy I don’t even want to do too much with them. Since it’s Sunday I’ll have plenty of time to fool around though. I’m planning on pan searing them in all the butter and will make some jasmine rice with my other Rich Ninja Status Item mint flakes, and bay-sil.
aye mane lemme eat that - Rich Ninja Trip (TM) update
Here’s how it went down
I threw in a bag of peeled, deveined shrimp after I hand picked all the tails off. I put the water on to boil the pasta while I did that and some left over dishes. Cook the pasta according to instructions but make sure it’s not too soft.
Beat four eggs (or in my case, whisk vigorously) with some cream (I’m a Fat Kid so I used about a cup and a half), cheese (as much as you damn well please but not too much), pepper (two tablespoons… what?) and a little pinch of salt. Set that aside. Cook your veggies or shrimp, add to the mixture and whisk again. I heated mine up a little, but not too much or you’ll get a souffle. If it’s too thick, cut it with a little pasta water.
Drain pasta, dump—I mean pour sauce elegantly over your noodles. Serve with a glass of cran-grape juice.
aye mane lemme eat that - Rich Ninja Trip (TM)
Prelude: A Rant
So I hope I didn’t make you all too shook up with that Cracked article. Believe me I do all the things listed and my parents are constantly surprised at how well I keep up with my money and how broke I’m willing to be in order to make ends meet.
Which is why it annoys me when my parents act like I don’t know how money works or accuse me of being on some Rich Ninja Trip. My thing is… AND SO WHAT IF I AM? Y’all just mad because I can spend $10 and feed myself for a week mostly because I live alone with no bills and I’m in a decent food area whoa did I just decimate my point anyway
Chapter I: All’s Well That Cooks Fast
Let’s take what I’m about to do tonight, for instance. I’m making spaghetti alla carbonara, mostly because I’ve never had it so I was curious. It’s actually kind of simple to make and you can vegetarianize it with vegetables of your choice (I’d do broccoli & mushrooms).
I’m going with this recipe from Nigella Lawson for basis. Obviously, I bought no pork, no wine or vermouth, and no nutmeg. What have I got left? Vegan butter, half & half, eggs, shredded Parmesan cheese, pasta, salt & pepper. And later on with all that shit I will show you how to make salmon with mint flakes.
Anyway, this is all for once serving so I’ve have to update my ingredients a bit with some tricky math. Chapter II will be “I Can’t Beat Eggs”, later. Much later.
aye mane lemme eat that - a great big pile of fish
which is my favorite dish, but without no money it’s still a wish
eta: whoops, well it looks like I linked to the recipe twice lolol. Well, oh well!
Well, I kind of forgot to eat tonight on account of falling asleep for 5 hours (fuckin’ chicken nuggets) but fortunately I already had something in mind.
The recipe I went off for my fish non-sticks. I have so much panko and so little to do with it, but this is very good! Even before I was really into fish (as in, it became the only thing I eat) I’ve always loved fish sticks. They’re nice & crunchy on the outside but they’re all soft and savory on the inside. Yum! The panko is softer than regular breadcrumbs, I think, and they kind of cooked more consistently to me.
That recipe has a mix for tartar sauce as well, which I hate, but maybe you don’t. I didn’t use flour to bake, just egg, oil, and panko. Also I have serious issues with eggs so I didn’t use egg whites, I made a wash of sorts. Uhh it worked? I dunno if I’d recommend it to anyone else haha.
Also, because certain people in my house stay hungry, I used flounder, which has a vastly different flavor from, for example, cod. I pre-heated my oven for 450 degrees, baked for about 8 then lowered the temp to 350 for about 5 more minutes.
Finally, as a side, jasmine rice. JASMINE RICE. I have quite a bit of that too. I apparently shop for Armageddon.
