Pink Pasta

Didn't really follow a recipe on this, just something i've been wanting to do and just saw a small thing on how to do it.

The pasta used in this was some angel hair pasta i got at a store of locally made/grown products. I think it was just slightly thinner than normal boxed angel hair, so cooked a little faster than i expected.

To color the pasta is easier than it seems, when you aren't really thinking about how it's done. All you do is just add the food coloring to the boiling water and cook the pasta as normal.

(best i could get for picture)

Since my pasta seemed to cook faster, might of had a slightly bolder color if cooked longer, or maybe if the pasta was thicker. Hard to say until i test it more. I also didn't count how many drops i used. i did some and then my daughter was trying to help me and got mad i didn't let her add the color so i ended up letting her put some more in too. Over all i think it worked well enough. will be fun to try with different colors and styles of pasta. For my pink color, i used the pink from the neon color set of food coloring.

Speaking of colors, the pink was fun on it's own, but since i mix the sauce and pasta together instead of just spooning some on the top, the pink pasta just didn't stand out that much lol. For my first try i should of done a different color to make it stand out more lol. Here's how the final turned out.

Bacon Egg Cups

Followed this recipe: http://www.fatgirltrappedinaskinnybody.com/2011/04/bacon-egg-cups/

For the love of bacon and all that is yummy!!
I've seen the pictures for this for some time and finally decided to make it because we had bacon left over. I didn't have enough to make to the full recipe, i had 11 half slices of bacon and 3 eggs. There was enough for making 4 cups and i had 3 half slices of bacon left.

It was actually really good. Sure it's just eggs and bacon(and cheese), but cooking it in the oven just seems to give it a completely yummier taste. I maybe could of cooked it for a tiny bit longer, it wasn't raw, but some of the bacon seemed like it could of been cooked more to be crispier. The eggs were fluffy. I will make these again when i have more bacon and eggs again. Maybe not even the full 12 but making the 4 again or just 2 of them. I pretty much was full after 2 of these(and the extra slices of bacon i cooked lol).

Didn't hear from my brother on what he thought of it, but my mom liked it.

Blogging

I've tried blogging bunch of times, about my life mostly. Just after a bit of time, i just get bored or something with it. Or i just don't want to take the time each day and write something. I don't do that much, so makes for boring writing.

Anyways, what brought up wanting to write this is how i took some days of writing anything because of my mom taking her laptop with her and because of how my daughter was being, i didn't get much time in my room to write anything. Without those days to write, i knew i was going to be backed up on what i wanted to write about...and now i don't even really remember what i was going to write about. The memories of the stuff aren't that fresh anymore, so i feel like i'd miss something.

I am at least wanting to keep writing more things, i like sharing my experiences and even if people aren't really reading this blog, i like feeling like people are. I pin my posts to pinterest to try and help get people to see the stuff. Some of my things have been repinned, which i love. Whether they actually read my posts or not, i love that they noticed my pictures.

cauliflower crust pizza

I followed this: http://www.eat-drink-smile.com/2011/04/cauliflower-crust-pizza.html

With the whole "health kick"(that i'm not completely following), when i see something that is suppose to be healthy, or just different than the usual, it catches my eye. Seeing that the crust is made with cauliflower, it made me curious on how it'd taste, or just how it worked.

The crust is just made of "riced" cauliflower, cheese, and an egg. I did a little garlic salt for taste like the recipe said, but i didn't feel like adding the actual garlic and i couldn't find our oregano to add to it, so i skipped it. My mom doesn't like red sauce, so we went with just white sauce for the pizzas. Turned out that the size the recipe makes is like a personal pizza, but since we only had the one sauce, i went with white sauce. My mom's pizza had more toppings than mine, but i don't like too many topping.

Over all this was easy to make. I did get a little frustrated making it though. Not because of the recipe, but from that our kitchen was a mess because my brother was too lazy to start the dish washer after loading it and i didn't realize it could of been started until after i was getting frustrated with the mess.

For taste, eating it all together, you don't really feel like you are eating cauliflower. It's not bread like for texture though. I do think that if you eat just the crust without most of the toppings, it does have a cauliflower taste to it. It is thick enough that you can actually pick up the slices like pizza.

I wasn't super impressed, it was good, but maybe if it was red sauce instead. I'll eat white sauce, but i prefer red. My parents loved it though. Almost every bite my mom took she made a comment on how good she thought it was. My dad wasn't sure on it when i told him what the crust was, but after he tried a slice, he was pleasantly surprised that he liked it. He liked it more than it thought he would and my mom said she'd rank it as number 1 out of everything i've made. Since i live with my parents, my parents(and brother if he is willing to try it) are my taste testers....partly so that there's less left overs if i was just making the stuff for myself.

Lastly, this is the pizza my mom made. Well the crust is what i made, she did the toppings herself.

Carrot "Fries"

I tried following this: http://claireshealthyhome.com/easy-healthy-carrot-friesyes-carrot/

I think i might of put a little too much olive oil on the carrots, i didn't measure or use the whole bag of matchstick carrots.I also used our George Foreman grill to cook them, this one

(stock photo)

 Even with that, these turned out alright. I will probably try again but actually in the oven. Using the Foreman i used(with the "oven" style), that might of been why they didn't get too crispy.

It was interesting as these were cooking, they started to smell like sweet potatoes. Even more interesting....They tasted like it too once they were done. Only a few were what would probably be "fry" like, but i still ate all of it. Fry like or not, i thought it was yummy.

I guess i don't really have too much to write about this one. I will probably have more to say when i try it again in the actual oven.

Hot Dog Slic'R

Found the brand's webpage about this, just has a short thing about it: http://www.evriholder.com/Hot-Dog-Slic-R.asp

Walking through walmart, this caught my eye. First i thought it was weird, then i started thinking that my daughter might like it. Well she did, more so for the fact of it looking like a dog. She wants to be able to play with it. Might be the biggest downfall for me for getting it for my 3 year old lol. Before slicing.
 After slicing.
 The hot dog was getting caught in the slicer so this is now it looked after i pushed them back through.
 Reformed together, probably pieces not in the right spot. Then the little doggie dish is there you put your dip.


Whether it was just my daughter was hungry or eating from this helped, but she ate most of the hot dog.

I think the biggest flaw for me on this is that it's not super easy for the hot dog to come back out. But if it's really the tray that actually got my daughter to eat the hot dog, then i can deal with that if it means she eats. Will just need to test it again.

two ingredient lemon bars (cake)

These two ingredient cake things are just awesome and easy to make. I did one that was pineapple based, i think i forgot to write about that one.

Anyways, this is what i followed: http://rachelschultz.com/2012/09/23/two-ingredient-lemon-bars/

The sounds of just using 2 things to make some sort of flavored cake is great. For those who aren't that great at baking can make these, or if you just want something simple and fairly quick to make. I also love angel food cake so having different flavors of it is really nice. I like to think of angel food cake as magical, so i don't really feel like looking up as to why mixing the mix with pie filling turns into cake lol.

Now this recipe calls them lemon bars, then state they have a cake texture. I call this more of a lemon cake, or just lemon angel food cake. I also think the picture they have looks a little different than how mine turned out. Maybe it really does maybe it doesn't, i don't really know, hard to tell just judging from the pictures. I just think theirs looks fluffier than mine. Since there's no picture of it in the pan, hard to judge.

With not comparing it to trying to be a lemon bar but just how it is with the end result, I could eat this whole thing. It still has an angel food cake taste to it, with a not super strong lemon taste to it.

Here's some pictures of it being made...

Here's all it took to make.

In the process of mixing.

after being in the pan

After it came out of the oven. I read some people said that it puffed up a lot while cooking, i didn't check while it was cooking, so i don't really know on that.

This is with the powder sugar on it and with my piece taken out for my first picture.

Some one said that they tried it with a berry pie filling and it worked also. So possibly a lot of pie filling will work like this. I want to see what other pie fillings i can find to see if anything intrigues me to try it myself.