Eggnog

The Southern Comfort traditional eggnog was surprisingly delicious! Le hubs and I thought it could be gross so we got a small carton so we won't feel bad if we had to dump it. Turns out we want to covet it and drink it all for ourselves! It's also pretty decadent and rich and creamy and sweet. Perfect combo. Le hubs said you're supposed to mix it with rum, but we didn't have any so we tried the above stuff. Let's just say, Disaronno is the best out of the three, but really by itself was the best. Anyways, since it was very rich and creamy, I thought it would make a delicious ice cream. I poured what we had left into an ice cream maker and lo and behold, the ice cream was delicious. I should've eaten it all once it was done because now it's just sitting in our freezer hardening...

Christmas Eve Feast

The hubs wanted a feast for Christmas to commemorate our first Christmas in our first home ever. I said, "Sure, why not?" It turns out we had to have our feast on Christmas Eve because Kay usually holds a Christmas day with her family and invited us over. So for our Christmas Eve feast, we ate heartily and much. There's sausages, sourdough bread and olive oil, liverwurst, brie, salami, caviar, duck for the entree, sun-dried tomatoes, pita chips and best of all blue crab spread and french onions. Needless to say, it was ridiculously more than enough for the two of us. We wish everyone a belated happy holidays! This is definitely memorable. What would I do without my hubs. <3 p="">

Perfectly Crunchy and Moist Waffles

I wanted to try a new waffle recipe and came upon this one. 

You need: 2 eggs, 2 cups all-purpose flour, 1 3/4 cups heavy cream, 1/2 cup oil, 1 tbs sugar, 4 tsp baking powder, 1/4 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp vanilla extract.

It was so amazing! Its got this super crunch on the outside and was super soft and moist on the inside. I'm pretty sure its because of the heavy whipping cream that we subbed in for the milk. This recipe is a definite keeper!

Steak

Per le hubby: Pretty marbled steaks!

Steak for dinner again! On actual dinner plates. With a salad. :o)

Steak

is what's for dinner...

First homecooked meal in our house! No place to sit. No real dinnerware. But we did buy flatware and 2 steak knives! Om nom nom... :)

Breakfast burrito

Homegrown bellpeppers!!

Chopped bellpeppers and shiitake mushrooms

Made my hubby and me a breakfast burrito. Scrambled some eggs, added the chopped bellpeppers and mushrooms and cheese. Roll it all up and brown the tortilla. Twas yummy!!

Late Night Treat - Caviar n Rumchata

The hubby and I thought we'd try cheap caviar and this thing called rumchata that a friend of a friend raved about. Both are interesting... lol. I'd say the caviar is an acquired taste. And the rumchata is a good sipping drink because it's thick and creamy and seems decadently sweet.

Pumpkin Banana Nut Bread

I made pumpkin banana nut bread. It's very similar to my Persimmon Banana Nut Bread.

I used 2 bananas and 7.5oz of pumpkin puree (half of the 15oz canned pumpkin). My bananas were frozen so I microwaved them til they were soft enough to mash.

Mash them together.

Mix in 2 eggs.

Add in a 1/2 cup of sugar, 1/2 tsp pumpkin spice, 1/2 tsp cinnamon, 1/4 tsp nutmeg and a 1/2 cup of melted butter.

Fold in 2 cups of all purpose flour and 2 tsp baking powder.

Mix mix mix.

Fold in 1 cup crushed walnuts.

Place batter in a greased loaf pan and bake in a preheated oven of 350 degrees F for about an hour plus 15 - 30 minutes or so.

Ta da!

It's so pretty and you can definitely taste the pumpkin and bananas. Twas very delicious!

More Fried Shrimp

Fried Shrimp!

Fried shrimp is super easy to make. Seriously, all you do is take raw shrimp and prep it the usual way (de-vein, rinse, pat dry), dump it in a fryer (be careful though!) and when it turns pink, take it out. We used Lawry's to salt it along with some crushed black pepper. And if you have lime on hand, sprinkle the juice on top. Deeeeeelicious! We made this as an appetizer to munch on. It was most definitely a wise choice.

Pork Chops

So behind on posts.... But I just remember these being delicious so here's a picture blog on delicious pork chops:

DIY Chili Oil

I've been growing and drying lots of chilis just because my plant refuses to die. And finally, I got around to making chili oil. I used this website as a guideline: Homemade Chili Oil.

But this is what I ended up using:

1 3/4 cup vegetable oil

2 tbs sesame oil

a crapton of dried chilis, chopped

Pretty much just throw everything in a pot and heat it up on low heat til it bubbles.

Then pour in a container. Hubby wanted the chili flakes in there so I poured those in as well.

It was still bubbling a lil bit so I took a pic, but it's hard to see here...

Chili flakes falling down.

Hubby said not to put in the seeds part because they're hard to eat...

All canned up!

Awhile later, the chili flakes fell to the bottom. Hopefully, it's as spicy as hubby likes it.

Fry Day!

Let me start off by saying it's FRY-day!! Le hubby wanted to fry up shrimps, chicken wings, onions (blooming onion style), cheese sticks, mushrooms and anything else we could thing of. I can tell you we did end up frying everything but the mushrooms only because we ended up have WAAAAAAY too much foods.

To make the batter, we used something along the lines of 1 1/2 cups flour, 1 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp pepper, 1 tsp cajun seasoning and a bottle of beer.

Came out glueish looking. haha

Bought these shrimps from pavils. I believe they were only deveined and we just left the shells on. 

They were rinsed, patted dry, and then coated in cornstarch.

Then, I got the brilliant idea of adding panko to the batter. Added about 1 1/2 cups of panko.

Deep fried the shrimps after a dunk in the panko batter.

Squeezed some lemon juice on top. Twas delicious!

Our attempt at a bloomin onion. Learned how to cut one here.

Ended up quartering it because it was too big to fit in our small fryer. We coated the onion in cornstarch before dunking it in our panko batter.

Fried shrimps and onion with fancy ketchup on the side. It's fancy cuz hubby added some spices to it. Also, as you can see, the bloomin onion didn't turn out too well.

Lunch time! We could barely finish it.

PS: we fried up the chicken wings and cheese sticks for dinner. The cheese sticks didn't turn out too well as we decided to try frying that last minute when the cheese part really should have been frozen beforehand.