Fried Rice

ive been working on my fried rice recipe for a little while now. once its perfect ill be putting the recipe in my next cookbook. for now, heres a picture.

im posting this mobile so excuse the gramer.

Instant Mashed Potatoes, Chicken Chunk Gravy, and Homemade Creamed Corn

My husband has a tooth cavity that the dentist just checked out today and it's really tender now so I decided to make food that would be easy to eat without a lot of chewing.

We don't have any real potatoes on hand so I used instant potatoes from Walmart but I made them a little thick so that the gravy doesn't mix together with it completely.

The gravy is scratch gravy featured in my first cookbook with the ramon noodle chicken seasoning packet.

Last, the creamed corn. I'm experimenting with ingredients right now but look forward to the recipe in my next cookbook that will be out hopefully by the end of september/beginning of october.

Excuse the somewhat dirty stovetop, I picked a somewhat small pan for my gravy.

This meal is a perfect example that not all meals have to have a lot of color. It's nice of course, but not essential to a great tasting dinner.

Mountain Dew Wake Up Call

So the other day I felt lazy and didn't make tea with dinner so my husband and I just had a can of Mountain Dew each. After dinner I told my husband that I wanted something sweet and he replied that Mountain Dew is sugary enough. So we looked at the back of the can and saw that it was 46 grams. But what does that really mean? So we got out the digital scale and switched it to grams and placed a small glass bowl on it and zeroed it out. Then I started scooping sugar in until we got 46 grams. We were both surprised when it ended up being about 1/4-1/3 cup.

So of course I had to take a picture and post it on my facebook for my family to see. After that I looked at the carton of ice cream we had in the freezer and seen that it was 18 grams of sugar for a 1/2 cup serving. You could litterally have 2 and a half servings of ice cream for the same ammount of sugar as one can of Mountain Dew.

Don't get me wrong, I still love the dew and will drink it from time to time when I'm too lazy to make anything else to drink.

Completely Homemade Enchiladas

I made the filling from scratch, the tortillas from scratch (recipe in first cookbook), and the enchilada sauce from scratch.

 I always make my own filling because I don't like cream of anything soup. And recently I've been making my own tortillas. The hard part was when I had everything rolled out and filled and went looking for a can of green enchilada sauce. I opened the cabinet I named Hispanic and stopped dead when I seen we were out of not only the green (which is my favorite) but the red as well. So I promptly threw a pan on the stove and started smelling spices. The only reason my husband knew it wasn't store bought was because I told him the story.

Right out of the oven. Yummy.

Homemade Chicken Patty Sandwich

I made a chicken patties from scratch using canned chicken and a little magic and they turned out really good. I also made an avocado spread which went amazing with it.

We also had homemade french fries and cold mac salad but I decided to take a picture as soon as I put together my sandwich and didn't think about how good it would look with the sides.

A little tip though: Don't put more than one patty on a bun. We only had three buns so I let my husband have two buns and I tried stacking mine. I ended up using a fork.

Meat Loaf, Mac N Cheese, and Green Beans

So I haven't written in a while because I was busy but now things are slowed down and I can post again.

 I don't remember when I made this but it looked so good I had to take a picture.

 In one of my cookbooks I have a recipe for lazy meat loaf which ISN'T what I made here. I used a real recipe that took effort and I love how it worked out.
 The Mac N Cheese is from my first cookbook and the green beans are frozen that I boiled in salted water.

Okay so I already took a bite before I took a picture.