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Delicious Homemade Breakfast Burrito

Ingredients:

• 2 tablespoons oil
• A handful of sliced onions
• 1 frozen hash brown patty, cubed
• 1 teaspoon garlic
• 2 mushrooms, minced
• 2 eggs, scrambled
• 2 slices of avocados, cubed
• Handful of grated mozzarella cheese
• Salsa
• Tortilla shell

To make this all you do is put your oil, onions, hash browns, and garlic in a frying pan for until the hash browns are tender and onions are caramelized. Add the 2 eggs with the onions and hash browns still in the pan and scramble the eggs with the other ingredients. take the tortilla shell and lay it on a plate and pour all the ingredients from the pan into it. Add the cheese and salsa. Roll the tortilla into a burrito, make sure it is tight enough where the food inside doesn’t fall out. Lastly, bring the rolled burrito back to the pan so the cheese will melt inside and press with a spatula from side to side as if you’re making a grill with the pan and your spatula. Cut the burrito in half with a sharp knife and you have a delicious homemade burrito. Enjoy!

Spinach salad and Spaghetti Squash for lunch. (:

Cheap College Kid Pizza

Please ignore my dirty plate.

This was a pleasant surprise.

I was expecting these mashed potatoes to be okay, but wow, they are so much better tasting (most likely the butter in it…but still) than I thought they would be. Life is now made. And I am now buying these. I think they were like $1 at Walmart?

Pizza Pizza Pizza!

Toppings for the Pizza Included:

• Red Sauce
• Mushrooms
• Onions
• Fresh Spinach
• Tomato
• Avocado
• Garlic
• Italian Seasoning
• Mozzarella Cheese

• Earl Grey Tea
• Toasted Bread
• Melted Cheddar Cheese
• Tomatoes
• Avocados
• Dill & Salt

Salad for Lunch!

Salads for lunch is always a good idea!

• Spinach
• Tomatoes
• Mushrooms
• Cheddar Cheese
• Avocado
• Baked Potato, diced
• Olive Oil
• Dill
• Garlic Powder

Veggie 'Pigs in a Blanket'

Oatmeal, tea, and crazy hair for breakfast.

Living the college food dream right now.

• Leftover wheat pasta
• 2 eggs, scrambled
• some salsa
• about 1/2 cup of leftover black beans
• garlic powder
• italian seasoning
• salt

Halloween Enchiladas!

I very loosely based (I actually used cucumber and it turned out decent) this recipe off of this one from Gina’s Skinny Recipes.

Breakfast!

Bagel w/cream cheese, cucumber, + dill.

Couldn't decide how to eat my pasta...so I halved it.

Alfredo Sauce + Red Sauce w/parm. cheese.

Eating Pasta & Salad together like my father...

• plain leftover cooked macaroni
• pre packaged lettuce mix
• cheddar cheese
• green goddess dressing
• garlic powder
• dill
• oregano

Breakfast for dinner will always rock my socks.

• 2 eggs
• 2 hashbrown patties, chopped up.
• 1 slice of american cheese
• dill, salt, and garlic powder
• chunky salsa for the top

• Baked potato with Alfredo sauce from a jar, dill, & garlic powder.
• Mashed up pinto beans with cheddar cheese, sautéed green bell peppers and onions.

Splendid Spaghetti.

Both recipes came from The Starving Students Vegetarian Cookbook by Dede Hall. I'll post the recipes later tonight/tomorrow!

Spaghetti w/Spinach Mushroom Sauce

• 8 oz. fettuccine, cooked to package directions (I used spaghetti)
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 fresh garlic clove, chopped
• 12 fresh mushrooms, sliced
• 1/4 onion, chopped
• 1 cup fresh spinach, washed, dried, and torn into pieces
• 2 tablespoons vegetable broth or water
• 1.5 cups Ricotta Cheese (I used cottage cheese)
• 1/2 cup grated romano or parmesan cheese
• 1/4 cup milk
• 1/4 teaspoon black pepper

While the pasta is cooking, make the sauce. In a skillet, hear oil on high heat 1 minute. Add garlic, mushrooms, and onion and stir. Cook for 2 minutes. Turn heat to medium and add spinach and vegetable broth. Bring to a boil and let cook 5 minutes. In a large serving bowl, combine ricotta cheese, Romano cheese, milk, and pepper. Add hot spinach mushroom mixture and hot drained fettuccine. Toss well to mix and enjoy!

Pasta Primavera w/Creamy Garlic Basil Dressing

• 2 cups leftover cooked pasta
• 1 zucchini, chopped into slices
• 3 green onions, sliced
• 1 4 oz. can of chopped black olives, drained
• handful of cherry tomatoes
• couple handfuls shredded mozzarella cheese

Toss all ingredients together in salad bowl.
Creamy Garlic Basil Dressing

• 1 6 oz container yogurt
• 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
• 1 tablespoon mayonnaise
• 4 fresh basil leaves, cut up (or 1 teaspoon dried basil)
• pinch of dried oregano.

Mix all ingredients together in small jar or cup. When ready to eat, pour dressing over salad and toss to mix well.

Brazilian Black Bean Soup ~ hopefully it will help me get over this cold.

Ingredients: (Makes 4-6 servings)

• 1 red onion, chopped
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 can of black beans (29 ounces - I used 14 ounces)
• 1 can of vegetable broth (14.5 ounces)
• 1 tablespoon of Chili Powder
• 2 teaspoons of cumin
• 2 tablespoons of chopped cilantro
• 2 tablespoons of rum or sherry (optional - I didn’t use any) 

1. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in 3 quart saucepot. Cook and stir onion and garlic for 3 minutes or just until tender. Stir in 1.5 cups water water and remaining ingredients except rum. Heat to boiling. Reduce heat to medium-low. Cook, partially covered, 20 minutes or until flavors are blended, stirring occasionally.
2. Ladle about half of soup into blender or food processor. Process on low speed until mixture is smooth. Return to sauce pot. I would not suggest doing this UNLESS you have a towel to cover the top of the blender because let me tell you, one scolded hand later and soup all over the counter and floor ~ this is not a good IDEA. Stir in rum. Cook over medium-low heat 3 minutes or until heated through and flavors are blended. Garnish with lime slices, minced onion, or cilantro, if desired. 
3. Heat up a bag of Uncle Ben’s 90 second rice to add to the bottom of the soup bowl. This is what I added to the bottom of my bowl. If you’re not vegan, you can add some grated cheddar cheese to the top of the soup. 

Zucchini Casserole!

Tonight I made Zucchini Casserole for dinner. Although, I didn’t have quite everything a quick phone call to my dough-tastic father helped me out along the way!

The original recipe is from Skinnytaste although I did alter it to fit what I had and to make the recipe a bit cheaper, for us college kids struggling with financial issues. So my revisions included a homemade recipe for one cup of bisquick, but if you happen to have that on hand, just use 1 cup of bisquick. I also just decided to reduce the amount of olive oil and use 3 eggs rather than the 2 egg whites, 1 whole egg. Just because I didn’t see the rest of the ingredients as necessary for the recipe unless you’re on a weight watchers diet as the original recipe author is, then by all means, follow what she says!

So this is my revised list of ingredients;

Zucchini Casserole

• 4 cups grated zucchini
• 1 small onion, grated
• 3 eggs
• 2 tbsp of olive oil
• 1/4 cup grated cheddar cheese
• 1 tsp parsley

Homemade Bisquick (makes 1 cup):

• 1 cup flour
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• pinch of salt
• 1 tbsp. of butter

You’re going to want to make the homemade bisquick first if you are choosing the homemade bisquick route. So to do this you mix all the dry ingredients and then fold in the butter with a fork until it has been worked into all or most of the flour. Next you just mix everything from the casserole recipe into the homemade bisquick. Remember to either rub some extra butter or pam the pan first! Next just pour it into the pan or casserole dish that you plan on cooking it in. I cooked mine in a 9x12 cake pan. But I do warn you that the mixture or at least mine only filled about 3/4 of the pan. So I baked for mine at 350 in the oven for 25 minutes and then checked to make sure the knife I stuck in it was clean, and it seemed so, so I took it out and let it cool! 

This pre-made Publix salad is so delicoius.

It’s called Carrot Salad:

• Shredded Carrots
• Chopped Green Onions/Scallions
• Raisins
• Walnuts

Cinnamon Sugar + Peanut Butter Toast w/Starbucks Vanilla Instant Coffee.

Tonight for dinner I made a Ravioli Panzanella Salad from a lovely little cookbook I bought a while back but hadn’t found the time to use. The name of this wonderful little and easy to follow cookbook is Incredibly Easy Vegetarian - Favorite Brand Name Recipes. If you just happen to wildly know what book I’m referring to or even have it on hand, the recipe is on page 50 in my edition!

Ravioli Panzanella Salad: (Makes 4-6 servings)

• 1 package (9 ounces) of refrigerated cheese ravioli or tortellini (I used 16 raviolis to make the recipe 2 servings.)
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 teaspoons of white wine vinegar (apple cider vinegar works too!)
• 1 cup halved grape tomatoes or 1 large tomato chopped
• 1/2 cup sliced pimiento-stuffed olives
• 1 large shallot, chopped or 1/4 cup finely chopped red onion
• 1/4 cup finely chopped Italian parsley (I just used dried Italian Spices)

• 1/4 cup finely chopped celery (omitted this because I didn’t have any!)
• 1/8 teaspoon of black pepper (I didn’t use this because I don’t prefer pepper)

1. Cook ravioli according to package directions; drain well. Transfer to a large serving bowl; set aside to cool 10 minutes.
2. Whisk oil, vinegar and black pepper in small bowl until well blended. Add to ravioli with tomatoes, olives, celery, and shallot; toss gently. Sprinkle with parsley.

Plans for this weekend? Baking fun!

I would love to make some of these cookie bowls, but I have no idea what I would use them for! I plan on making some homemade french bread and possibly even some biscotti to go with my coffee/tea! :D

Chocolate Pistachio Biscotti

Tofu Wings

Rice and Corn.

Ben’s 90 second rice Teriyaki Style (probably not that healthy for you) with a can of corn (but there is quite a bit of corn here, so maybe that cancels out the inhealthy rice mixture?)… DINNER. 

Letterform Compositions.

The project guidelines were to create 3 compositions with letters from contrasting fonts to create shapes where the letters weren't recognizable within the composition. This has been by far, my favorite project we've done in this class. And when my instructor was going around looking at thumbnails she told me that mine looked really nice and that I understood the project. But, seeing as how I already love typography....it worked out well for me. :D

Here are the letters I decided to use in their respective orders.

Christmas for Brunch?

Avocados, tomatoes, cream cheese, and dill toast!

Simple yet wonderful salad.

I haven’t had a really yummy homemade salad in the longest time. This was just really really really delicious and hit the spot. Yay!

• Pre packaged Romain Hearts
• Boiled Egg
• Tomato
• Cheese cubes
• Avocado cubes
• Olive Oil
• Dill
• Salt

Homemade Biscuits

I conjured these up this morning! I added some butter, cinnamon, & sugar to them.

Cupcake Shop Goodies!

My friend and I walked downtown today to get these cute little cupcakes from The Cupcake Spot. They were so adorable in their little 2 pack container! After we walked back from the cupcake shop we decided to waltz on over to the Dali with out free admission and listened to the guided tour for about an hour and a half. We both also made a wish on the Wish Tree they have set up in the courtyard, which was fun! (:

The most important of my "notes" from the Dali.

Paint the Town Red Velvet & Buckeye.

I ate this one right when I got home! But the other one is still in my fridge. (: