Stuffed Mushrooms

These actually might look kind of gross from the picture, but they were actually really tasty!  Stuffed mushrooms are always good, it hardly matters whats in them!  It definitely helps to use crimini (baby bella) mushrooms though instead of the white ones.  Recently I made some with turkey sausage and cream cheese.  But these have bacon and pecans in them.  I think the cream cheese ones were better as they had more filling.  These needed something to hold everything together - I could see cream cheese going well here too.  They were pretty tasty just as they were though, lending more proof to the hypothesis that stuffed mushrooms are good as long as they are stuffed!  

Yogurt fancified

Nothing special about this yogurt except that it's homemade and topped with fancy cut strawberries and granola is dumped on the middle.  I've been eating a lot more yogurt now that I have a huge jug of pure maple syrup.  After we visited the sugar shack (where they made the maple syrup), I had all these great ideas of what to use it on.  It's great with yogurt but the best is actually on vanilla ice cream!  It's better than chocolate syrup even!  And in my mind, I feel like it's healthier too but actually it's probably just as bad. Anyway, sometimes presentation really does matter - with food I definitely think it does!

Amul butter of the gods

Have I expounded on the extreme superiority of Amul butter yet?  Someone's (Hammertime's) recent trip to India reminded me of this gem of an ingredient.  Or rather, when it's this good, it could be a food on it's own!  Amul butter is so much better than those waxy sticks you get from the grocery store. I was able to buy a block of it from the international grocery store in St. Louis but I have yet to find it here.  The butter actually has taste! It's a little salty and has some tumeric in it I think to make it golden.  Spread it on some toasted bread - bam that's a delicious breakfast!  Nothing more needed!  Mmm, my mouth is just watering thinking about it!  The taste is just beyond belief.  It truly is "utterly butterly delicious"!

I did a google search on Amul butter and found this weird picture...

but the butter could be made in a test tube, in a bathtub, in a garbage can, for all I care, as long as it's Amul, it's delicious!

Crab pickin'

It's just starting to get nice around here so it's reminding of the great summers in St. Louis : (  The little BBQ patio that we had access to was great and we spent a lot of time out there.  One day, shortly after we came back from DC, loaded up with soft shell crabs, we headed out to do some crab picking.

This lovely plate became the center piece for some fine tasting crab omelets and some delicious crab cakes!

Cauliflower pizza mish mash freakazoid

Ok this was kind of not great, but not gross, so I'm going to talk about it anyway.  Basically I got on this random kick where I would keep buying these heads of cauliflower but I didn't know what to do with them. I made a pretty good version of mashed cauliflower with some roasted garlic but of course I forgot to take a picture of that.  Here's a picture of something that I did make though!

Basically I just dumped the cauliflower in with a bunch of other random vegetables and sauteed everything until it was kind of mushy.  Then I toasted a tortilla, topped it with leftover pasta sauce, dumped the mixture on and covered int in cheese.  It really actually tasted fine, not great as I said before, but not too bad either.  It did look pretty unappetizing though.  Oh well, some experiments turn out better than others! This was definitely in the "could be MUCH better" category.

Curried Chicken Salad

Every once in awhile I have leftover chicken and I think that it'd be a good idea to make chicken salad.  It almost never is.  A good idea I mean.  It just usually tastes gross and has a weird texture because I get lazy and don't want to chop it so I put in the generic magic bullet and then it becomes pasty.  Anyway, this one was an exception!  The flavor was good, Indian spices basically, and I chopped it into cubes instead of trying to make it all small.  Also toasted cashews.  There were lots in there.  And onions, and green onions, and tomatoes.

Serve on a lettuce leaf because there is no bread at home!

It actually looks fancier that way anyway!