Superbowl Sunday Foodies

Prep the steaks by rinsing briefly under cold water and then pat dry. Then cover all sides with lemon pepper seasoning. Cover with saranwrap and refrigerate until ready to eat.

Made some cornbread from scratch with cornmeal flour. 

Prep the wings for late lunch munch: half with lemon pepper, remaining half with kosher salt. Bake in preheated oven of 475F for about 45 minutes or until done.

Washed some very red strawberries. Sa-weeet!

Fried up a bit more salmon bellies and deliciously eaten with sour cream.

Hot wings are baked to perfection with a nice golden brown skin.

Hot sauce warmed up and mixed with butter. Mmmmmmm.

For the wings with only kosher salt, place'em in the hot sauce.

Lemon pepper wings on the left and regular wings on the right with more hot sauce in the sauce cup.

Kettle Chips!! 

Steaks were seared in hot cast iron for about 60 seconds on each side then placed into preheated oven for about 8 minutes, flipping after 4 minutes or something like that... the fiance took care of this.....

Super scrumptious dinner with sliced steak, cauliflower n cheese mash and cornbread. Soooooooooo delicious in my tummy!!!

4 layer bday cake

For my birthday this year, I had a hunkering to make my very own 4 layer cake with strawberries, blueberries and mangoes for the layers in between the cakes. And I baked two cake mixes from a box into two 9"x11" pans. This is how it turned out...

the yellow stuff is custard we made from the leftover egg yolks 

(the cake mixes only required the eggwhites)

ideally, i should've just stopped here, but i really wanted four layers!

the strawberries started to spill out from all the weight...

i tried to make white cake frosting... maybe should've just stuck with a chocolate ganache?

Anyways, we weren't done here. We actually somehow got my cake into a square pot and we squished it down. Then, we placed it into the oven to cook some more. It ended up more of a cake crumble with fruits in it somewhere...

Happy Birthday to ME! :D

We also bought ice cream too!!

Strawberry Pie

Pie crust: Combine 1 cup of all purpose flour and 1/2 tsp of salt. Then blend in 1/3 cup of vegetable shortening (or butter or canola oil). Add 2-4 tbs of cold water until dough forms. Then roll the dough out and place in a pie pan. Take a fork and poke holes in the crust. Bake for about 10 minutes or until lightly browned in a 350 degrees oven.

Meanwhile...

Filling: Combine 1/2 cup mashed strawberries with 1 cup of water and bring to boil. Let simmer for 5 minutes. Keeping the liquid, strain out the mashed strawberries and throw them out. To the liquid, add 1 cup of granulated sugar, 3 tbs cornstarch (I actually used potato starch and it turned out fine), 1 tbs lemon juice and a pinch of kosher salt. Cook until the mixture thickens on medium heat. Be sure to stir constantly. Once the mixture is thicken, take it off the heat and fold in 4 cups of sliced strawberries. Then pour into your pie crust and refrigerate.

Top with whipped cream. (I actually only used 2 cups of strawberries, which is why there's more cream than strawberries) but it still tastes pretty darn delicious!

Strawberry Banana Milkshake

About 10 frozen strawberries, two bananas, about a 1/3cup of greek yogurt and a half cup of milk (not shown) as well as 5-6 ice cubes (also not shown) makes 3 heavenly cool cups of strawberry banana milkshake.

Mmmmmmmmm!!!!