Food for Thought – Tulsa, Oklahoma
If you are staying at home tonight here is a great last minute idea for Valentines Day. And guys lets not forget that ideas like this will win you a ton of brownie points on any night.
These where made from homemade dough; however, you can also buy and reshape the Pillsbury dough from the store to get the same effect.
I think every Friday should be national salsa and margarita day… after a hard week of work there is nothing like chillin out to something relaxing. Here is how we do our Salsa. I’d love to hear how you make yours! Please share!
Ingredient:
Directions:
Boil the Jalapenos until they are soft. Then take the onion, cilantro and one tomato and pop them in the food processor to get the party started. Blend for a few seconds until everything is chopped up. Next, cut up the remaining tomatoes and add them along with your garlic, salt and lime juice. Make sure to take it easy on the salt…you can always add more. Next, add a few Jalapenos and blend! Blend until your desired thickness and then taste! You may need to add more salt, jalapenos or lime depending on your taste. I recommend letting your final creation sit in the refrigerator for a day for the flavors to marinate with each other.
It’s become a mission of mine to make an excellent lemon cake. I’m looking for the perfect combination of sugar sweetness and lemon flavor. In the cake mix I used fresh lemon juice about five teaspoons and a tablespoon of lemon zest. I topped the cupcakes with a cream cheese lemon icing also made using fresh lemon juice.
I had left over lemon juice and zest so I decided to experiment and create some toppings. Combining water, lemon juice, sugar and lemon zest brought it to a boil and made a lemony syrup. I also made a zest sugar mixing some lemon zest and sugar what a perfect cupcake topping and so simple.
So, I was in the grocery store with my son and we were looking at the frozen cinnamon rolls as a Super Bowl morning breakfast treat. I saw the frozen Monkey Bread and it looked small and expensive. I told my son that it’s really easy to make, has only 5 ingredients, would be cheaper, and would probably taste better.
So we went to the refrigerated dough section and low and behold, the Pillsbury biscuits had the recipe on the back of the package….which was conveniently packaged as a 4-pack, the amount you need for the recipe.
It’s really is easy to make and would be a fun recipe for younger kids to do. D-E-L-I-S-H!
Question – Why do they call it Monkey Bread?
Monkey Bread
INGREDIENTS:
3/4 cup granulated sugar 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 4 cans (7.5 oz each) Pillsbury® refrigerated biscuits 1/2 cup butter or margarine, melted 3/4 cup packed brown sugarDIRECTIONS:
Bake at 350°F for 40 to 45 minutes or until golden brown. Cool 5 minutes. Turn upside down; pull apart to serve. Serve warm.
Nobody knows why. Your photo looks a lot like the inside of the fruit from a Baobab tree, which is also called Monkey Bread (perhaps because monkeys like to eat it). Nancy Reagan, who loved it, said that it was because you had to monkey around with the dough before it looked right. I believe the recipe was invented in the U.S. about 50 years ago.
Cool and interesting! Thanks Brian
Not sure but the looks monkeylicious!
Life is full of important things… family, bills, Velveeta, your job, and for many FOOTBALL! Lets not forget the wonder that is a Mini Crock Pot. An amazing little kitchen appliance that works perfect for snack foods such as mini-wieners with Head-Country, queso cheese and other warm dips that we all love.
This is a perfect item to add to your list for the Super Bowl foods! It is truly delicious and really easy to experiment with.
We did not really measure anything out because it really is not necessary.Just make sure you fry up the Sausage roll before you add it to the cheese. See the pictures below.
We added:
Private Label Ro-Tel? For shame! Should have used generic cheese product.
Dang you got me….. I love the real Ro-Tel. However, this time it was the store brand…. Snow storm rations.
Thanks
I am a vegetarian and never see anything vegetarian on TulsaFood.com so figured I would send in what I had today.
I took a bell pepper filled it with chickpeas, diced tomatoes, sliced jalapenos, parsley minced garlic and olive oil. If you like garlic load it on. Bake them for about one hour and 10 minutes at 350 degrees. It was great and very filling.
Jessi Domingo
Looks like a nice snow storm is about to hit the Tulsa area! People are going to be hitting the grocery stores like crazy!!!!
Share what you are going to be stocking your kitchen with and what recipes you are going to be busting out of the recipe box?
Make it a yummy snowday!
Ramen noodles and beer.
If you love stout beers like I do you will love it too. My buddy Mark introduced me to this magnificent beer… and it had changed me! This milky creation from Left Hand Brewing will change the way you think about what a beer can be.
I love a company like Left Hand that takes their brews a step further into the world with delicious sounding recipes to go with each of their brews.
Chocolate Milk Stout Cake
Milk Stout Barbecue Sauce on Beef Short Ribs
http://www.lefthandbrewing.com
OMG! Look at how good this looks … Smoked Cranberry Stuffed Pork Chops
Dang Country Bob’s you guys now what’s up! Checkout the link above to see all the pictures and recipe.
One thing I love about making soup is that it always ends up being special. I will never forget the story that one of my elementary teachers told me about Stone Soup. As you may know, the story is about a soup that started off with simply water and stones and as people passed by the maker of the soup to see what he is doing, each person ended up adding a special ingredient of their own until the soup became a community production.
Check out the FULL POST AND RECIPE HERE >> Our Chicken Noodle Soup [video]
There’s nothing like making your morning breakfast with a little extra love. I decided to make biscuits and gray over the weekend and make my biscuits in the shape of hearts. I can’t wait to use a different cookie cutter for the biscuits next weekend. Biscuits and gray is so easy to make and most people already have all the ingredients needed in the kitchen.
Thats cute .especially considering what bis + grave do to your heart.
Shae and I were brainstorming a treat to take to the Tulsa Wine Club meeting tonight. We just picked up this mini crock-pot at the store, with some Lit’l Smoker (AKA mini wieners) and some of Oklahoma’s own Head Country BBQ Sauce. The results are one of my favorite party offerings. Yum!
Your culinary genius comes out – haha. Actually I love Head Country!
My dad makes amazing Pineapple Upside Down Cake! Now you can too with the recipe below. Check out the pictures and let me know about your favorite pineapple upside down cake.
With so many holidays coming good food like this has been on my mind…not to mention some good quality time with family.
Love you dad!
You can save the pineapple juice and use it in place of some of the water that you add to the cake mix
Optional: Instead of using a cake mix, you can prepare the batter from scratch using the recipe below, or any recipe for yellow cake.
Scratch Cake:
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
2/3 cup sugar
1/4 cup milk
Combine ingredients and beat 1 minute. Pour batter over pineapples and cherries (same as above). Bake at 350°F and follow same steps as above.
Mmmm…Looks so good!
mmhmm, Sunday nights are my favorite. Now making White Chocolate Chip Macadamia Nut Cookies. Gosh they are gonna be so good.
We used the recipe on the back of the Hershey’s bag
Ingredients:
* 1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margarine, softened
* 2 cups sugar
* 2 eggs
* 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
* 2 cups all-purpose flour
* 3/4 cup HERSHEY’S Cocoa
* 1 teaspoon baking soda
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 2 cups (12-oz. pkg.) HERSHEY’S Premier White Chips
Directions:
1. Heat oven to 350°F.
2. Beat butter and sugar in large bowl until creamy. Add eggs and vanilla; beat until light and fluffy. Stir together flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt; gradually beat into butter mixture. Stir in white chips. Drop by rounded teaspoons onto ungreased cookie sheet.
3. Bake 8 to 9 minutes. (Do not overbake; cookies will be soft. They will puff while baking; flatten upon cooling.) Cool slightly; remove from cookie sheet to wire rack. Cool completely. About 4-1/2 dozen cookies.
Oops, I burnt the cookies!
Oh no are they still good?
haha, no, I think I missed something in the recipe all together. Double o0ps.
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Brian Schwartz 12:40 pm on February 12, 2011 Permalink |
Rick Bayless is one of the top Mexican chefs in the world. Here are links to several of his salsa recipes.
http://www.rickbayless.com/recipe/category?categoryID=7
Erica 8:26 am on February 14, 2011 Permalink |
I enjoy watching his cooking show.