I was actually unable to celebrate Cinco de Mayo this year because I was working that night 
For the past couple of years I have celebrated Cinco de Mayo by making Chicken Tortilla Soup, Refried Beans, Mexican Rice, and Homemade Tortillas. This year I celebrated it on the 6th and made a completely different assortment of food. Well, except for the tortillas. I can’t stand store bought, so I always cave and make my own. (more…)
This year was my first year to make Thanksgiving. I ended up making so much food that I baked some in smaller dishes so that I could give it to some friends. I was so behind on figuring out what I wanted to make for Thanksgiving that I planned the meal less than a week before Thanksgiving and the night before I stayed up until 2am writing out a timeline so that I would know when I needed to put everything in the oven. It doesn’t help that I only have one oven and could only use one shelf in it. So to make multiples of most of the dishes I had to wake up extra early at 730am to start prepping and start baking at 8am. (more…)
There was a miracle somewhere and I made a full vegan dinner. Who would have thought it was possible? Funny thing is it was very easy. Another weird thing has occurred. For about 4 days or so I actually could have been considered a Vegetarian. I ate absolutely no meat, and it was completely by accident. Since I have been cooking a lot of vegan food, that is what I have been eating, but it didn’t stay strictly vegan since I had some sweets that happened to have dairy and eggs in them, opps. (more…)
WOW!!!
After all of the cupcakes I have been making, I needed to slide in a few savory dishes. For the first one I decided to make the Fresh Mango Summer Rolls in Vegan with a Vengeance. Problem is sometimes I like mangos and other times, not so much. But I do love me some avocado, yummy. So I decided for the recipe that I would sub avocado for the mango and it turned out fantastic. Since this recipe makes 20 rolls and I wasn’t about to sit down and eat 20, I decided to make some non-vegan rolls to satisfy my omni friends too. For half of the rolls I added 1.5 sliced of shrimp. They were nice, but the vegan ones were very tasty. (more…)
The squash and the onions that I recently purchased at the Berry Farm Market have been disposed of.
I mean to say: I made my Nanny’s Sautéed Squash.
This recipe is so simple, but it is so yummy to me. I can eat loads of this even though I shouldn’t since squash you know makes you….yeah. But it is that yummy that you can’t help yourself. I made a batch up and pretty much ate half of it for dinner. Every time I eat it I am reminded of my Nanny and my mom. Mom used to make it all the time when we (my brother and I) were growing up. My brother really didn’t care for it, but I loved it. I loved it so much that I would watch mom make it and that is how I picked it up. Actually that is how I picked up a lot of recipes, just by hanging out in the kitchen with my mom or dad. Back then it was usually Dad cooking, but Mom popped in the kitchen every once in awhile and made something good. (more…)
