Spicy Cottage Scramble

Two eggs
Ham steak cubed into small pieces
3 heaping spoons of Cottage cheese
1 tsp (or more) chili flakes
1 tsp Garlic powder
1 tsp Parsley
Pepper
Seasoning salt

Begin Heating up a pan on High and spray with Pam.
Add cottage cheese, ham and spices. Let sit for a minute or two
Crack two eggs and begin stirring (reduces prep dishes!) as the pan heats.
Scramble the eggs until Cottage Cheese is mostly melted and eggs are done. Will seem runnier than normal scrambled eggs.

I used 1% Cottage Cheese and more than 1tsp of chili flakes.  But it's a YUMMY recipe!

Breakfast Heart Throb

A very special breakfast, for those once in a blue moon occasions!

In a pot heat up some chunked bananas, brown sugar and Frangelico and cinnamon
Once coated and all sugar is dissolved add in to creamcheese - ensure all folded and mixed well. More CC than bananas.
Heat up some blueberries and blackberries.  Add brown sugar, rum, cinnamon, cayenne pepper, nutmeg and vanilla extract. Heat until bubbling and add some cornstarch to thicken.
 Add some strawberries to heat them through

 Take some Fresh baked bread, thick sliced.
Cut into triangle, place some CC Banana mix on there, top with the other slice.
Dip into a french toast mix (eggs, milk, cinnamon, vanilla)
Grill with some margerine or canola spray until browned on all sides.
Place on plate and top with fruit mix and Maple Syrup!  Dollop of whipped cream!

ENJOY!

Baked Cod Fillet - Dukan ok? Tasty? Experiment!

A cod fillet (I have fairly thin ones from Superstore), washed
1/4" slice (round) of lemon, cut in halves
spray pan with PAM
Sprinkle some Dill, lemon juice
Sprinkle Tumeric, Coriander, Dill, Parsley on the Cod
Place Cod on the lemon slices on the pan
Wet Cod with Lemon juice (bottled or fresh)
Sprinkle Tumeric, Coriander, Dill, Parsley, French onion soup mix (sm amt), S+P or S+P+Spmix (ex: Montreal Steak Spice mix and Lemon Pepper spice mix, like I did)
Add two pickled hot peppers underneath and add one split across the top. 
Cover in tinfoil

Cook in oven/toaster oven on 400 for 12-15mins until flakes apart easily but doesn't seem too firm/tough.

Not sure how this will turn out... lol



EDIT:  VERY tasty!  Almost quite Malaysian!  Would be great with some malaysian curry dish. Spicy too which is nice.

Green-Orange-and-White Tinfoil Fireside Dinner

So, I loooove tinfoil dinners. I'm rarely at a fire when I have these, so I make them at home in the oven. 

This one I decided to include some new veggies and a new way to do the meat.  My normal Tinfoil dinner is Spicy ground pork Sausage, carrots, potatoes, onions and garlic, S+P. This one I wanted to make somewhat epic veggie wise.  Well... epic until I got home with my groceries and did a Google search and now see people truly have epic down pat... so here is my MUNDANE but delicious new Tinfoil Dinner:
(ok we'll see if it will be delicious)

The MEAT!
1 package Ground Pork
1/4c finely diced onion
1tsp Oregano
1tsp Basil
1/2Tbsp Chili flakes
1Tbsp Wild Turkey Bourbon hot sauce
1 Tbsp Worchestershire sauce
1/2 Tbsp pepper
Salt 
garlic powder
egg
Whiskey
2tbsp flour *if needed to bind
                    Roll into balls and toss in a frying pan with hot olive oil to brown two sides if the mixture seems a bit too moist and goopy.  Yes, goopy! Don't make the mistake I did adding 2 eggs, had to compensate for that with lots of flour.

The Veggies (in bite size pieces):
2 carrots
1 parsnip
1 Portobello mushroom
a bunch of New potatoes
broccoli
cauliflower
1/2-3/4 an onion
S+P and garlic powder
3 cloves of garlic
Lemon juice
Chili flakes

Dash of beer!! A good sized pour, beer and other alcohols are absolute necessities while cooking!  I believe almost every recipe I make involves booze in some fashion. No, not an alcoholic... I just believe in it's health benefits ;-)

Cook in tinfoil for a while (50 mins at 400*)

Kale, a Green leafy FAILURE.

I've seen numerous people posting online about this wonderful powerfood! KALE! A dark green, leafy vegetable plant that somewhat resembles an haywire breeding between lettuce and parsley.  It looks as fancy as those floral decorated bridesmaids gowns, in a gorgeous dark green with a blue tone.

Here I am, thinking this will be easy, delicious, simple to make healthy CHIPS!  Some research is done, I concoct an olive oil and spice mixture to toss it in for baking.  Thinking I am genius I aptly await my hopefully new favorite snack.

Out of the oven I pull it, after about 15 minutes at 375*.  It seems light. I eagerly shove one in my mouth....



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What am I eating?!  The texture! It's like melt in my mouth POWDER.  What. The. Hell. This was not described to me!  Where were the warnings?!  However, what is more overpowering is the saltiness. I don't much like drowning in the Ocean, I've made it a point to swim and survive. But a flashback of childhood where you weren't so keen on keeping your mouth closed and you get lucky enough to have a wave splash in your gaping trap and you taste the disgusting salty water.  Kale is salty.  And I boldly added seasoning salt to it.

All in all a failure. Not often do I traipse upon disgusting foods, however I did it to myself. My tastebuds cried out in revulsion!  Never again!


And thus ends my encounter with a supposedly healthy vegetable.

Wine Beef Marinade

Soooo, since I have a new spice rack I want to try making a better marinade!

Sauteed in olive oil:
Marjoram
Sliced Onion
Coriander
Rosemary Powder
Bay Leaves (rubbed)
Garlic (fresh)
Thyme
Lemon juice
Sugar

Then after it was all smelling delicious and the onions and garlic were cooked... added some red wine. Let simmer for a bit...


I put it with my Blade roast, gonna marinade it all night. MMM.

First time curry!!

So I had a ton of veggies, and just bought a roast but it was too late at night to roast it. I decided I was feeling like some curry. But... I have NO FLIPPING CLUE how to make it!

I checked the internet for a simple recipe, and yay! it was easy!

2c Milk (I used goat, but coconut or other milk is fine)
half a sliced onion
s&p to taste
Olive oil
Zucchini
Mushrooms
Tomato
Red Pepper
Tofu (firm, in slices)
Cooked rice
1.5 tbsp Curry (Madhran Curry powder)
0.5 tbsp sugar

So I sautee the onion and curry powder in olive oil, then when they are getting cooked I add the 2c of milk, and simmer for 10mins stirring.

Sautee the veggies and tofu in oil and water, then add half the curry sauce and keep cooking until veggies are ready.
Pour over the rice with extra sauce if needed. MMMMMMmmm

It was DELICIOUS. Now I need to know where to alter this recipe... or what other curry dishes to make.