My Apologies!

I am so sorry , my readers, for being so behind on foodie goodness and new posts!
I have no internet at home, so please bear with me as I am searching for a new network provider! [Along with new recipes!]

Please hang tight!

-Fey

Calamansi: The Philipeno Tanger-lime.

Yes, I called my little friend, the calamansi, a tanger-lime. It's a mix between a tangerine and a lime, and can be drank straight or mixed in food. It's a multipurpose fruit that comes from the Philipeno Islands and is my favorite drink and seasoning EVER.

It's alot more zestier than lemonade but just as sweet with the real thing, when made into a drink. Alone, I've never tried them but they smell like fresh tangerines! I bet just as succulent. These will be the key ingredient to an Asian spin on Meringue Pie :D
Look out for it!

Enjoy ~
-Fey

Chili Con Queso Dip

So, my grandmother made tacos last night, and I decided to turn it into some awesome dip~!


Ingredients for taco meat:
-Ground beef
-taco seasoning
-garlic powder
-half onion, chopped

Method to cook taco meat:
-brown the beef in a large skillet.
-drain the fat when you hear the meat start bubbling
-cook a tad longer and add the taco seasoning and garlic powder
-add chopped onion to mix, let it cook for a few minutes [about 10 more]

Ingredients for Dip:
-Taco meat
-Tortilla chips or tortillas to make fresh chips
-Jarred queso

Add the taco meat into the cool queso cheese and heat in the microwave or on a stove top for 1.45sec. Add lettuce and beans and tomatoes if you'd like


Enjoy~
-Fey~

Brown Sugar Peach Necturine Crumble

A NEW RECIPE! Yes~!
I made this a straight brown sugar crumble due to the lack of cinnamon. And since I had nectarines...I thought it would be a tasty test run~

1/4 flour
1/2 cup brown sugar and oats [i used oatmeal...my oats were ruined by little buggies]
1/4 cup butter
3 large peaches
4 nectarines

Method:
1. mix the dry ingredients and butter together until the butter is crumby


2. peel, core and slice the fruits
3. sprinkle a teaspoon of sugar atop of the fruit in the baking dish

4. apply the crumble topping

5. bake at 350 degrees for 40-45 mins
6. let cool and enjoy with vanilla ice cream~

ENJOY~~

-Fey~

Peaches! Peaches! Nectarines?

I am planning on making these two things in the next few days. I just bought peaches and nectarines today~ So I really wanna try out a recipe for Peach Nectarine Crumble and a Peach Blackberry or straight Peach tart :] Sounds nummy yes?

I know.
It does to me.

Look out for these recipes~

-Fey~

A Slow Week

Apologizes for the slow posting the past few days.
I have not felt inspired to cook, I think it has to do with the lack of things to create.
I need lots of lemons...salt...chocolate chips...cloves......Chex mix...
SO MUCH!! Oh my..
I need to get on it! D:

Absurdly Easy Fudge

So while looking through my cabinet this morning, I found peanut butter and condensed milk. I wanted to make fudge but I didn't know if we had all the ingredients to make FULL ON fudge. But I did find a recipe to make 'Absurdly Easy Fudge' from CookingForEngineers.com :](click blog title for link to website)

All it takes is this:
16 oz. (450 g) peanut butter chips
4 Tbs. (57 g) butter
14 oz. (396 g) can sweetened condensed milk

My ingredients were like this:
6 tablespoons of peanut butter
4 tablespoons of butter
1 can of condensed milk
3 tablespoons of caramel

Instead of chips, I'm going to be using actual peanut butter and melting it with the butter down in my microwave. It just seems easiest.

Method:

I combine the peanut butter, caramel and butter into a microwave safe bowl and melt in intervals of 15 seconds until its melty and glistens.
Stir to combine, it took 30 seconds of my mixture to look like this::



I add the condensed milk like the recipe says, and stir until it's all combined.
[It looks super pretty~ And tastes great too~!]

Setting it in a tray or mold, I let my fudge sit and chill on the counter a little bit before placing it in the fridge for two hours or so. This goes for only if you're double-boiling your ingredients, with microwave, as soon as you stir it, it's cool enough to place in the mold.

Remove from fridge and cut into squares.

Enjoy! Images of my finished fudge shall be posted soon!!
-Fey~!

A Conclusion.

I've decided to make brownies from scratch, to make preserved lemon, and to make puppy chow in the next few days :] I wanna take a stab at making this homemade, or more homemade then I've been doing!!

Enjoy-

-Fey!

Caramel-Raspberry Chocolate Brownies

I came up with this recipe one day while I was with a past boyfriend. I was making brownies from a boxed mix and decided to pump them up. It is also called "Triple Chocolate Chunk Raspberry Caramel" brownies, but you can use either fudge or the triple chunk brownie mix. you can also make these from scratch!!


Ingredients:
Caramel, from apple dip or make your own.
Raspberry Jam
Fudge brownie mix
Oil
3 Eggs
Water
A mesuring cup
cupcake liners
cupcake tin
A working stove or toaster oven
A bowl

Method:
1. Preheat oven to 350 [or to what the box says]
2. pour dry ingredients, eggs, water and oil into a bowl
3. stir in together
4. line cupcake pan with the liners
5. pour the mix about 3/4 way full
6. stir in the caramel and raspberry atop of the mix
[before the baking D: Oh they look amazing!]

7. bake for 30 minutes.
8. Wait... which sucks D:
9. Take out of the oven after a half hour wait and make the remainder of the brownie cupcakes.
10. let them cool and enjoy with a glass of milk or iced tea!!

-Fey~

Homemade Gyoza Sauce

So today I made potstickers, from frozen, and was wonderign what I could eat with them. We didn't have gyoza sauce....so I decided to make some homemade gyoza~~ :D



Ingredients:
2 tablespoons soy sauce [low sodium if you have it]
1.5 tablespoons white vinegar
1 teaspoon Calamansi [god! There's that word!!]
Healthy pinch of black pepper

Method:
Mix the liquids together with a fork
taste.
Add black pepper to taste.

Enjoy with crunchy bottom potstickers~

-Fey~

Ultimate Salami Sandwich

I just recently learned the art of making the perfect sandwich. So, I share with you my knowlage of this said feat.

Ingredients:
Salami
French roll
Mustard
Mayo
Dill Pickles
Shredded Lettuce
A knife
A plate
A will to eat :]

Method:
-spilt open the roll
-drizzle the mustard
-smear a little bit [about a teaspoon or two] of mayo on half of the roll
-on the mustard only side, place a thick layer of salami and cover with dill pickle chips
-on the mayo/mustard side, sprinkle with lettuce
-combine both sides and devour like a maniac.

Feed two people, if shared, or one hungry s.o.b.... Like me~

Enjoy~

-Fey

Scottish Games: It's thick with vinegar and fried food O:

so the above it what was left of MASSIVE CURLY FRIES. Like, the brick was as big as the fryer they were in!! :o And while at the Scottish Games and enjoying these fries, the air was pungent with the smell of malt vinegar and frying oil. It was delectable. The fair grounds also housed stands for meat pies, corned beef and cabbage, beers, whiskey, and all sorts of other savory dishes.

It also housed many american sweets like ice cream and frozen lemonade, and the like.

I say my trip to the Games was a tasty, and eventful one.

Til next time~
Enjoy~

-Fey~

Scottish Games = Scottish Nom?

I'm on my way to the Scottish Games today... and i hope to try some amazing food there that ISN'T traditional Americana food. IE: pizza, chicken nuggets, etc. I'm going to be adventurous today..and try....GIANT TURKEY LEGS :] Hope they have them there.

Until next time (or later~)

-Fey~

Snack Attack: Pumped Up Ramen & Baked Parmesan Encrusted Talapia

so, i was hungry not too long ago and then I thought of two things. The talapia in my fridge and the ramen in my cabinet. I did the obvious: Made the ramen and baked the fish. Sounds good right? Yes. Yes It is.

The talapia was from the grocery store, pre-crusted. But the ramen I made myself ^^ Enjoy my Pumped Up Ramen~

Ramen seasoning list:
Calamansi [there's that word again!]
Seasoned Salt from Red Robin [they sell it, 3 bucks a bottle~]
Ramen Packet.

Cook the ramen like you would but in the bottom of the bowl pour in this order:
-seasoning packet first
-then the calamansi
-last the seasoned salt/red robin seasoning blend

Pour the hot ramen in and enjoy that while the fish bakes at 400 for 20 minutes.
It was a painful wait for me.... but with the ramen, you want a little bit of water for that gravy ramen makes at the bottom :]

Take the fish from the oven and let it cool. Cut into peices and enjoy along side your ramen.


Now don't you feel asian? I bet you do.

Enjoy~

-Fey~

Lemony Garlic Shrimp

So, I came with this concoction while I was hungry for seafood and garlic butter sauce. I found small Salad shrimp in my freezer and decided to make something awesome.

to start, gather these below:
1-1.5 cups frozen salad shrimp
1 table spoon hot sauce [for a spicy variation]or Lemon Garlic Seasoning
1.5 shakes chili powder
1 shake garlic powder or 2 fresh garlic cloves, chopped
4 shakes Calamansi seasoning [found in asian markets]
2 tablespoons butter

first:
heat a skillet on med. low. plop in the tablespoons of butter and let melt.

second:
pour the shrimp into the butter, place garlic in too.

third:
let this sit for a few moments until the shrimp start to cook, then add the chili powder, the calamansi and lemon garlic seasoning and stir.

fourth:
let this condense into a thick gravy like feel and pour over rice or eat with a side of bread!!

Enjoy!!



-Fey~

Sourdough Breakfast Sammich

Yes, the word 'sammich' is needed for this amazing piece of breakfast technology! It is a tower of cheese, egg, sausage and sourdough bread!! (Well, ok, I admit, it's a three layer sammich that is filling and hearty. advised to eat with a fruit cup~) This single decker but oh-so-ooey-gooey breakfast giant is a creation of mine when I was going to school and needed something I could take on the go that was all the goodness of homemade food from my grandmother in a packaged fast food sandwich style.

This one's for you Nye~! :]

So, start of with this stuff here:
Ingredients:
1 egg
1 frozen sausage patty
2 pieces sourdough bread [or any kind you wish]
1 slice american cheese [again, any kind you wish]
Pam [for the eggs]
Raspberry Jam [for toast]
A bowl
A fork

[yes the jam is needed.]

First:
heat the pan, low heat. this is for the sausage patty.


second:
pop toast in the toaster oven, you want a light brown.


third:
crack the egg in a bowl, sprinkle some seasoned salt in that.


fourth:
wait for sausage to be done cooking :]
you want a litte grease from the and some of the pam to cook the egg in.
if you don't like pam, you can use some butter. I didn't have any D: so...pam and grease it is!!


fifth:
pour eggs into the hot pan, flash cook them!! From the sausage cooking, it's still super warm :]


sixth:
by this time the toast should be done! Grab the from the toaster oven and slather them with some Raspberry Jam.


seventh:
assemble the toast and sausage. wait for the egg.

eighth:
once the egg is done, strip that cheese square open and place it on the egg atop the unjammed bread :]

[pardon the blurry picture, I was making sure my pan wasn't still on D:]

Last step:
crack open some water, assemble the beast and ENJOY!


-Fey~

Food, Baby!!

Well, this is my first shot at a food blog. I'm glad I did it though, so I can share with the world what I LOVE to eat :]I really like to cook savory dishes that are simple and flavorful (maybe not so much healthy, but still!) and I also love to bake, experimenting with different flavor combonations and ingredients to boxed mixed to make them taste homemade.

I hope in this effort to keep my love of food alive, I can get my grandmother to try new things with me :]

She was the inspriation to cook. She is the inspriation to be a pastry chef. She is the inspriation (along with my fiance!) to make this blog. And those are just PEOPLE muses!! :D

So, sit back with an empty tummy and an open heart. You might want to try these tasty yet satisfying delights~

-Fey