Salmon and caramelized mushrooms

Oh... this was so quick, yet so delicious and low carb.
Season your salmon, as desired.

The salmon cooks quickly so stand close to your pan.

Cook your mushrooms down as desired.
Looks and smells scrumptous. Sis would like this if she were not allergic to mushrooms :(

Chocolatey Coffee Alcohol Bread Bran Pudding

I decided that I wanted to make a different Bread Pudding.
This recipe is all mine and so easy.

You can sit in front of the television and make this one :)

You will need:
Stale bread (I used some 2 week old bread I had in the fridge)
I used 3 whole hamburger buns and broke them up into useable pieces
Chocolate creme cookies which I broke up and put on top of the bread. I used 10.
Raisin Bran Cereal (for fiber). About 2 cups.

1 and 1/2 cups of coffee liqueur (if you don't have this just use 3/4 cup rum)
One chocolate pudding cup

Three eggs

Beaten with 1/4 cup of chocolate icing and 1/2 cup of milk (see picture)
Add the coffee liquer to the bread and cookies and bran flakes.

The bread will soak up the liquid nicely.
Add the pudding cup to the bread and cookie mixture

Incorporate the egg mixture into the bread and cookie mixture
Let sit for 10 minutes

Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.

Scoop your serving out with a spoon.
It's soft yet firm. You feel the alcohol when you eat this.
Pop some ice-cream with it if you want.


You don't need any extra added sugar at all in this pudding.

Long cake, short cake, icing

Make your cake and let it cool thoroughly.
This is a messy business so rest cake on wax paper before you begin.

Cut top off to even things out

Discard top part or eat it

Slice horizontally using long knife


Slice vertically

Separate pieces


Start to ice the layers


Voila



Enjoy

Wine Diaries

First Week
I was excited. I had prepared my wine and it was sitting in the cupboard fermenting.
There was a strong yeast smell pervading my apartment.
A nice warm, yeasty smell.

Second week
Still yeasty but not as strong. I added a little extra sugar to increase the alcohol content of the wine.

Third week
Concern.
No yeasty smell. Smelled like old fruit.
Frantic call to mom
Leave it alone she says
What about the smell mummy? (I was convinced that some bacteria had gotten in and that the wine was in deep trouble)
Strain and bottle it, she said, then leave it alone.
But....
But nothing just leave it alone
I acquiesed....Bottled it and left it alone.


It isn't as red as I thought it would be ...It's kinda pink. I like pink.
There's no alarming smell now


The fruit really had gotten old (which of course it should). I threw that away in the trash

Straining through cheese cloth is really good because none of the yeasty remnants gets through.
I can't wait to taste it!

Catching Up Food

When you go out to catch up on old times, you usually just go to 'some old place'
Some old place turned out to be Chili's, and Khue got the carb plate haha.

No matter, because he is an avid gym guy
I got fish and vegetables.

Only thing was that the vegetables were not ready, and so they just brought me a big plate with fish on it..... :(
They brought the salad and the veges later :(
Nevertheless I had fun.

First to take a packet

Of Bisquick.

Do a little of this....

Then this.....

Then This...with a meat and vegetable stew

SCi Fi Soup

This is what happens when black bean soup bubbles.
You can't make this stuff up!



Food is so sci fi sometimes!

Baking Process

I recently found out that I could bake.

I wanted to show the approximate process.

This process I used to bake BARA for doubles...but it was so similar I wanted to show the steps

Set up the yeast: (warm water, sugar, and yeast)

Let ferment

Add to flour

Mix

Let stand

Quick easy

Protein.

When you are living the low carb lifetsyle and you are cooking for yourself alone; eggs and sausage are easy, fast, cheap and good.

Of course you won't eat everything shown in the picture, in one sitting!

Please, the point is to eat healthy!

Take a look

So simple and easy and good.

Not something you can have often on a low carb lifestyle.

Add protein (fried egg, black beans and chicken, and sausage) and you are set...

Ok it's not gourmet but when you are alone and nobody cares (like I don't), then you are set!

The portion size is as shown (one heaping scoop/ two tablespoons of rice)

All kinds of yum abound

Creme Brulee

I like this dessert a lot even though it is not my favorite.

We all went to a French restaurant (as French as you can get in this town), and I had that as my dessert.

Dreamy :)

Preparing Eggplant

I like eggplant.

I try to be careful when preparing it because it is so easy to mess your dish up!

So I cut into strips and season.

Then I bake or sautee.

Baking is the usual thing for me because the eggplant absorbs so much oil if you don't salt it first.....

So I like soup

This is one I did with fish. The picture shows me reheating it in a pan. The fat that is rendered floats up top, BUT it blends in nicley when the soup is thoroughly heated.

I seasoned and baked the fish, then dropped it in to soup (I started with the Campbell's Cream of Shrimp-which is like a bisque) in the last few minutes of cooking.

This was sooo wonderful and my favorite soup.

I love fish.

Especially tilapia.

I almost forgot to mention that I added some eggplant to this soup.

Fish is a big reason, other than sis (my twin sis), that I miss Trinidad!