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expressivesole cooks: french toast cupcake with maple buttercream
Adapted from: Bakingdom
A streusel topped French toast cupcake with maple buttercream.
You will love these cupcakes if you: love cinnamon rolls, love french toast,
love breakfast, love sweet stuff, or just plainly love CUPCAKES!
p.s. Mr. Best Boyfriend brought 30 of these cupcakes to work and they loved it. There was a request for bacon on the next batch but I’m already craving a different type of cupcake. Thank goodness I can make a dozen + cupcakes and keep 4 for myself and then the rest goes to work guinea pigs!
his cooking style: Spanish “paella” inspired meal
Mr. Best Boyfriend attempted to make Spanish paella, and this is the result of his hard labor in the kitchen – it looks nothing like Spanish paella, nor did it taste anything like Spanish paella. *interruption: If you are in the San Francisco area and want to try something new, try Zarzuela (it’s a Spanish Tapas Bar). *back to his cooking style: Truthfully, his version of paella reminded me of chicken fried rice, which is why I say it is a “paella” inspired meal.
–expressive sole
expressivesole cooks: strawberry salad and lemon garlic parsley drumstick
Strawberry Salad:
Same recipe as the Peach Salad but substitue the peaches with strawberries! I personally think that I like the Peach Salad more than the Strawberry Salad (I think the tanginess of the strawberries didn’t go well with the salad that I made).
After thinking and thinking about what to pair my salad with, I was stumped. I didn’t want to go out and buy ingredients, I just wanted to use what I had in my pantry. After looking through my freezer, I found these chicken drumsticks laying in the back. Now, I was stumped as what to do with them.
I seriously just took fresh lemon, fresh minced garlic, and dried parsley and dumped it on the chicken drumsticks. I squeezed more lemon and garlic on half way through the cooking process in the oven.
-expressivesole
expressivesole cooks: peach salad and baked seafood soup with puff pastry
Peach Salad:
1/2 peach (but the peach was humongous, so may need to use 1 whole peach)
1/2 avocado
1 tomato
4 slices of turkey bacon (baked)
garden salad
2 eggs (boiled)
shredded cheese
vinaigrette
Mix all together and serve (I would leave the mozzarella and vinaigrette on the side)
Baked Seafood Soup with Puff Pastry
I followed the recipe exactly and it turned out like heaven, it’s easy and delicious. The only thing I did change was I put the butter in after I had already semi-sauteed the onions, it was because I had forgot about the butter. For the white wine I used chardonnay from Trader Joe’s (it was only 1.99) – it’s such a small about of white wine that there is no need to pay for an expensive bottle. The seafood mix I used contained baby scallops, mussels, and shrimp.
Mr. Best Boyfriend and I agreed that the puff pastry still needed to be baked a little bit more because it still tasted a bit doughy, but overall the meal was delicious. I still have a lot of puff pastry left, peach puff pastry dessert next?
–expressivesole
expressivesole cooks: shrimp orzo risotto
Ever since Mr. Best Boyfriend and I have started our daily at home meals, we have decided to try to use up all the ingredients we have bought in two weeks, incorporate them into two different meals. For example, one week we will use mushrooms in a risotto and the next week we will use the mushrooms as a pizza topping – this ensures that we don’t waste food or money.
Shrimp Orzo Risotto
I did not use an exact recipe for this dinner but instead just used my senses. I know the ingredients I used included: mushrooms, red bell pepper, onions shrimp, orzo, heavy cream, salt and pepper, shredded parmesan, and chicken broth.
I boiled the orzo until soft and while that was cooking, I sauteed the mushroom, red bell pepper, and onions. After everything is cooked, I pour the chicken broth into the saute pan along with the mushroom, red bell pepper, and onions, and then I add the already cooked orzo into the saute pan. After it boils, add ~2 tbs of heavy cream and bring to a boil while stirring. I then season the shrimp with pepper and salt to taste and cook until pink. I think chop up the shrimp and add to the orzo. Done! A perfectly yummy dinner.
–expressivesole
p.s I am getting really good at this thing called cooking.
expressivesole cooks: shrimp quesadilla and guacamole
Baja Shrimp Tacos: I used this recipe for the shrimp but omitted a lot of ingredients and eyeballed the ingredients
Quesadilla
~1lb shrimp
eyeballed: garlic powder, chili powder, black pepper, and cayenne pepper
2 tsp olive oil
(toss everything into a zip lock bag, shake, and marinate for ~30 minutes)
After marination, cook shrimp until pink and set aside
I baked the tortilla for ~2 minutes to get it semi-crispy and then take it out and place shrimp and shredded mozzarella on the tortilla, fold it in half, and then bake the quesadilla until I get the outer tortilla nice and crispy with a semi-brown coloring.
Quacamole (everything is eyeballed and to my taste)
1 avocado
onion
tomato
lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
salt
Mix everything in a bowl and keep tasting until your liking
p.s the Baja Shrimp Taco recipe is divine as well.
-expressivesole
his cooking style: “bibimbap” inspired meal
The man friend (who here on forward will be known as Mr. Best Boyfriend – he chose this name) and I have been cooking at least five days a week – this is not only to save money but to eat healthier. To save even more money, we use leftovers as our lunch meal for the next day. Eating out for lunch can be quite costly, one person can spend up to ~$50 a week for lunch, meaning ~$100 for the two of us.
Mr. Best Boyfriend and I split and take turns cooking on different days. If we both get home around the same time, we will help the other prepare his/her meal. But sometimes with the both of us in the kitchen, it can be disastrous since we both has such different cooking styles. But in the end, we always get a good tasty meal with whoever cooks.
“bibimbap” inspired meal made by Mr. Best Boyfriend
His cooking style equates to throwing everything into the same bowl to be marinated (shorts ribs and salmon) and the same wok to be cooked (as pictured: short ribs, salmon, and broccoli). At first I was a bit concerned that everything was being cooked together but I trust Mr. Best Boyfriend so I let him do his thing.
And the finished product..
It was such a delicious meal that I wish there was more to put into my bowl for seconds. I guess it doesn’t matter how one cooks but it’s the end result that matters the most! Mr. Best Boyfriend doesn’t think he is as good of a cook compared to me, but I am just lucky enough that I have someone to feed me (well, I feed myself too).
–expressivesole
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