Coffee & Salmon

  Again I made dinner for Grandma, Papa, Aidan, Mom, and one of grandma's sisters came.  I made coffee crusted salmon, coconut milk rice and steamed asparagus. If you try coffee crusted salmon use a thin layer of coffee, already use coffee grounds, or marinate it in coffee.    The layers of the coffee grounds on the salmon I did was a little too much raw coffee grounds.    Other than that,  everything was very good.   Along with dinner I made a great dessert.  For dessert, I made gluten free vanilla pudding pie with a mixed berry sauce and whip cream. The pie was delicious !!!!!!!! From start to  finish the whole meal was superb !!!!!  

Anthony's Pier 4

Last night I went to dinner at Anthony's Pier 4.

I went with:

Mom                                                     

           









Grandma











Papa

Aidan


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They serve a lot of good sea food, steak, and salads.




My meal:

The original Pier 4 salad with beets, feta, onions, tomatoes, lettuce.

Fried sole with french fries

Like other restaurants they had bread and popovers. The popover was light and airy.

For dessert I had chocolate souffle. It was SO good!

The food was really really good. Anthony's pier 4 is closing soon.




random pictures:

fish fish FISHY!!!!!

Our fancy butter which papa made

Papa and his stirrer 

mini food

  On the 18th the library put on a mini food bake. There I made two mini hamburgers out of vanilla wafers, mini yorks, coconut colored green, and red frosting. I also made three mini ice creams with frosting, marshmallow, and little horn shaped chips. Finally I made two mini cakes. The cake was made of oreos, frosting, sprinkles. After a picture or two I got to eat the mini meal.

This is my mini meal.

Cups only

  On the 13 I made dinner and I made chicken mug pie and cake in a cup with white chocolate frosting. It was really good and fun to make. Here is the chicken mug recipe.

feeds:4

What You Need:

1 tube jumbo bake-off butter biscuits, from the dairy aisle of market ( I made my own biscuits)

Sweet paprika, for sprinkling
1 1/2 pounds chicken breast pieces, diced
3 tablespoons butter
2 ribs celery and greens from the heart, chopped
1 medium yellow onion, chopped
1 large carrot, peeled and diced
Salt and pepper
2 teaspoons poultry seasoning
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 cup shredded potatoes, ready to cook hash browns, available in sacks on dairy aisle
1 pint half-and-half or cream
1 quart chicken stock, available in boxes on soup aisle
1/4 teaspoon grated nutmeg, a healthy grating
1 cup frozen green peas

What You Need To Do:

Preheat oven according to package directions and arrange biscuits on cookie sheet. You will have 4 extra biscuits. Save them for ham and cheese or egg and cheese breakfast sandwiches the next morning. Sprinkle biscuits with a little paprika and bake for 10 to 12 minutes.

In a medium pot over medium to medium high heat, cook chicken in butter 2 minutes then add veggies and season with salt and pepper and poultry seasoning. Cook 5 minutes more, add flour cook another minute. Add potatoes, then whisk in half-and-half or cream and chicken stock. Add nutmeg. Bring soup to a boil by raising heat, then turn heat back to simmer and cook soup another 10 minutes. Adjust seasonings. Add peas. Stir in to warm them through a minute.

Serve mugs of soup with biscuits on top to cap the mug: chicken mug pies!


Next is the cake.

feeds:1

What You Need:

2 tbsp flour
1 1/2 tbsp sugar
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/8 salt
2 tbsp milk
1/4 tsp vanilla extract
3/4 tsp oil

What You Need To Do:

mix all the dry ingredients
add the milk, oil, vanilla in 
put that in a cup
put it in the microwave for 2 minutes and if it isn't done put it in for 15 second interval until it's done.

The last thing is the frosting.

What You Need:


12 oz white chocolate finely chopped
1/2 cup heavy cream

What You Need To Do:


Place chocolate in a small bowl. In a small saucepan, bring cream just to a boil. Pour over chocolate; whisk until smooth. Cool, stirring occasionally, to room temperature, about 30 minutes. Beat with an electric mixer until ganache is double in volume, about 2 minutes.


ENJOY!!!!!!!

Last Night Dinner

  For mom's last night at Grandma's and papa's I made her dinner. I made chicken liver mousse with chicken livers we got at the farmer's market and grilled tilapia and a salad. It was good. Here is the chicken liver mousse recipe.

What You Need:

• 2 tablespoons butter
• 2 cups chopped onion
• 1 cup chopped tart apple
• 1 teaspoon chopped fresh thyme leaves
• 1 pound chicken livers, cleaned
• 1/4 teaspoon ground white pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 cup brandy
• 1 cup heavy cream

What You Need To Do:

In a large saute pan over low heat, melt the butter and cook onion, apple, and thyme, covered, until apples soften. Remove lid and increase heat to medium add the livers and cook until firm and still pink inside. Remove from the heat and allow to cool. Add the pepper, salt, and brandy and puree in a food processor; then chill, covered. Meanwhile whip the heavy cream to medium peaks. Fold into cooled, pureed liver mixture. Serve chilled.

I got the recipe from foodnetwork.com 

Next is the tilapia 

What You Need:

• tilapia( one fillet for each person)
• 
  
• tomatoes( cut in to medium slices)
• 
  
• white wine
• 
  
• basil(chopped)
• 
  
• olive oil

What You Need To Do:

1. get enough large pieces of tin foil for each fillet then put one fillet in each piece of tin foil
2. drizzle a little olive oil on top of the fillets
3. put 2 or 3 slices of tomato on the fillets
4. then put some basil on top and add a little white whine.
5. wrap the fillets up but leave room in side the tin foil
6. put on the grill add grill for 7 minute.

Finally the salad

What You Need:

• lettuce of your choice
• 1 big tomato( cut into cubes)
• 1 cucumber( cut into tin slices)
• carrots (chopped)
• 1 cup coconut water
• mint (chopped)
• olive oil

What You Need To Do:

1. wash the lettuce then put it in a large bowl
2. put tomato, cucumber,carrots in the bowl with the lettuce.
3. in a different bowl add coconut milk, mint, and a little olive oil then mix.
4. add the coconut water dressing to the salad then mix it all in and you're done.

For dessert I made gluten free white chocolate chip cookies.

 

Birthday Dinner

Happy Birthday Papa!!!!!!

  For Papa's birthday I made dinner from stuff Mom and I got from the farm market. We made T-bone steak with a beet and sweet salad turnip salad with goat cheese also we made wilted beet and turnip greens. The last thing we made was tomatoes, basil, and mozzarella.  It was really good. Here is the recipes.

  First thing is the T-bone steaks.


What You Need:

• 3 big T-bone steaks( or more if you have more people coming)
• 5 clovers of garlic (minced)
• enough olive oil and balsamic vinegar  to cover the bottom of the 1 of the steaks
• salt
• pepper

What You Need To Do:

Mix the oil, vinegar, garlic, salt, and pepper together in a big bowl. Then put in the steaks and let them marinade for a couple hours. After they're done marinading put them on the grill until cooked how you like.

* they don't take very long to cook  so cook them last minute

Now the beet and turnip salad.

What You Need:

• enough beets and sweet salad turnips for the amount of people you're cooking for ( we used both purple and golden beets)
• salt 
• pepper
• olive oil
• goat cheese(optional)

What You Need To Do:

 

1. wash the beets and turnips
2. cut off the greens and set aside 
3. also cut off the ends 
4. cut them in fourths and put four slices in aluminum foil than place in the oven 
5. cook for 30 mins -1 hour then take them out and cool.
6. after they're cool take off the skins
7. put on the goat cheese or put in on the side

The next thing is the wilted beet and turnip greens.

What You Need:

• the beet and turnip green 
• olive oil 
• garlic

What You nNeed To Do:

1. wash the greens
2. add olive oil to the pan
3. brown the garlic then add the greens
4. cook until they're wilted

*The greens are a last minute thing too.

The last thing is tomatoes mozzarella basil.

What You Need:

• tomatoes 
• mozzarella 
• basil 
• olive oil
• pepper

What You Need To Do:

1. wash tomatoes and cut them in to thick slices
2. cut the mozzarella then put the slices on the tomatoes
3. then put 1 basil leaf on and you're done

ENJOY!