3 posts tagged “recipe”
Taco Salad with Lemongrass Chicken Spring Rolls.
I had the eldest daughter assist with this one.
Just shy of 4, she was able to shred the romaine lettuce leaves by hand.
She also sprinkled the chopped onions into the skillet with the hamburger while it was browning.
Then she poured a little of both ranch dressing and cheesy pasta sauce onto the salad and mixed it in with a spoon.
Finally, she crushed the (generic) chili cheese Fritos by hand and stirred them in.
By then, the frozen Lemongrass Chicken Spring Rolls were coming out of the oven and ready to be placed for presentation just as my wife arrived home from work.
Birthday consumption.
Papa Murphy's take-n-bake stuffed pizza (creamy garlic chicken and bacon.)
Booker's small-batch bourbon.
126.4 proof, 6.7 years
Straight from the barrel, uncut, unfiltered.
Recipe from Booker Noe, grandson of Jim Beam.
Nose of raisins and cinnamon (and fire).
Ahhhhhhh.
First the recipe, then the back-story.
Begin with boxed mac and cheese.
Prepare according to the directions on the box.
Don't worry that's just the shortcut, the magic in the recipe happens next, although it is equally sneaky/lazy.
Once the mix is hot and saucy in the pan,
add one handful of pre-shredded sharp cheddar cheese.
Add a handful of pre-shredded Colby Jack cheese.
Add a handful of pre-shredded Mozzarella cheese.
Stir the additional cheese into the mix until it is melted and incorporated.
Spoon the mac and cheese out onto serving plates, and dust with a handful of seasoned breadcrumbs to give the illusion of a crust (mine come in a carton from the store.)
It's still so easy that a fifth-grader could do it, but it's oh so more gourmet than the box mix by itself.
Now, for the inspirational back-story.
My wife's parents bought a birthday present for our recently one-year-old daughter on Amazon.
They also bought themselves a book travel guide covering the sights to see in Hawaii for their upcoming trip.
Their order was enough for free shipping, IF they sent both items to one address, OURS.
This was followed by a request to then mail their book back to them after we received the present.
Nice.
They get free shipping on their book.
And we get to pay to mail it back to them.
So, I admit, I dawdled a bit in making the trip to stand in line at the post office, this being tax-return mailing line from hell season there.
However, since their trip is in a week, we began getting pressure to get their travel guide back to them post-haste.
So, I trek down and stand in an absolutely awful line and send the thing back to them.
Priority was only a few cents more than the book rate, so I went for it, to make sure it got to them before their trip.
Which leads to today, when the In-Laws received the book and noticed how much the postage cost.
We get an email telling us that really, that was unnecessary and that we should have used book-rate instead of priority and to keep that in mind for next time.
NEXT TIME?
Sneaky and cheesy.
They get free shipping, that we have to stand in line and pay for, and then they scold us for how much we spent of our own money to send them their free book in time for their vacation.
Which is where the breadcrumbs come in.
I'm feeling fairly crusty at the moment myself.
