Pasta for lunch:)

Yesterday for lunch I made pasta, I was with my sister and every single time we make pasta we get really excited. So we took out the pot filled it with water about half way, turned on the stove and let the water begin to boil. While it was boiling I added a little bit of oil, and salt while that boiled I took out the pasta sauce and the Parmesan cheese. I also decided to add Italian sausages, what I did was took out the pan added a little bit f oil and let it warm, when it was warm I added the sausages and the pasta sauce. took out the plates and forks and added the pasta when it was done, drained the water and added the sausages mixed it all together. Sprinkled Parmesan cheese and we served it with pink lemonade, perfect lunch with my sister.

Tuna Salad

Yesterday for dinner I made a tuna salad, I know it may not sound very appealing but it was really good. I took out the ingredients first, tomato, lettuce, onions, mayo, lemons, salt, and pepper oh and tuna of course! I chopped up the tomato, onions, and lettuce, cut the lemon in half opened the tuna cans and began mixing it all together. Once all of these things were mixed in together, I added about half a teaspoon of mayo a little bit of salt and pepper and the lemon juice. Mixed everything well together and I also made a lemonade to drink. The salad came out really good, and everyone was satisfied.

Pizza Night!

So two night ago was the first time I made a pizza from scratch! From rolling out the dough, to cutting ingredients, pre-heating the oven, shredding the cheese...a lot of things to make a pizza. So I took the dough split it in two and began with the first half, I rolled and rolled, stretched and pulled...not easy! After finally doing that for about 5 minutes I was able to get the pizza dough to look like a circle, well kind of. while the oven heated I chopped up the vegetables, shredded the cheese and began spreading the tomato sauce all over the surface. after I went on ahead and added everything else and placed the pizza in the oven. I took a couple of pictures of the three pizza's I made, I will post those later it takes too long to load them. Once that pizza was ready I added the rest and served to my family. It was a very fun experience, I remember that for my 11th birthday my older sister brought pizza dough for us to make a pizza, but now that I am older I actually feel the experience.

Chicken With Tomatoes

A few days ago my mom asked me if I could make lunch, she a couple of errands to run so she would be out most of the day. I gladly accepted, I love to cook for my family! So she pretty much left me the chicken defrosted and the rest was up to me. I seasoned it, brought out the pans placed a little bit of vegetable oil let it warm while the chicken had a couple of minutes to absorb the flavors. Meanwhile I decided to chop up some tomatoes to add to the chicken once it was ready, in my opinion tomatoes always make everything better. So once the pan was hot I added the chicken and let it cook. while that cooked I began on making a salad with lettuce, cucumbers, carrots, onions and tomatoes(of course!), we  got this new blender that makes salad dressings so I used that to make the dressing. When the chicken was almost done I added the tomatoes and lunch was served. :)

Mango!!

Mango has to be one of my favorite, if not my favorite fruit. I found this recepie online, I was searching through the foodnetwork website here is the recepie and the ingredients:

Ingredients

• 1 pound frozen mango, thawed
• 1 cup milk
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1 pint soft serve-style frozen vanilla yogurt
• 1/2 cup fresh lime juice, from about 4 limes
• Lime slices, for garnish

Directions

In a blender, combine the mango, milk, sugar, and yogurt. Blend until smooth. Add the lime juice and blend.
Pour into 4 chilled glasses and garnish with fresh lime slices.

I was planning on making  this snack this weekend, my original plan was to make it yesterday but we had the team meeting so I wasn't able to.

Filling....mmmm

Yesterday, I decided I wanted to do an experiment, so for my experiment I wanted to place filling inside of brownies...I succeeded:) What I did was make the brownie mix pre-heated the oven to 350 degrees, while I mixed the brownie mix I though..how will I find a way to place the melted chocolate inside the freshly made brownies?? So what i did was let the brownies cook for about five to seven minutes took them out and with a clean knife I cut a little bit of the top, made a hole through the middle and placed some chocolate chips. After placing the chocolate morsels, I should say, I covered back the top of the brownies and placed them back in the oven. I let them cook and once they were ready I had to rush since I had to go to school for my mentor meeting, I packed two brownies for coach Love and two for m mentor. Placed them in aluminum and drove to school once I got there I ran into coach Love handed him his brownies and went to meet with Profe Maniglia, my mentor. I went back to coach Love's classroom after finishing my mentor meeting and asked him what he though of the brownies...he told me they were very good! as well as in my house everyone seemed to loved them, but the trick is to place them in the microwave/oven for 30 seconds or until warm and then eat them that way the chocolate that's inside will melt!!

Cookie Brownies!!!

I know I don't have much experience cooking but I could easy say that my cookie brownie dessert is definitely a favorite in my house. Every single time I make this dessert it never lasts a day, they attack! What I do is i make the brownie mix first, then I add the cookie mix. I made it for the place where I work,  they loved it /i had told my boss the previous day that I was thinking on bringing  a surprise something everyone would love. I took it to work and everyone loved it. Today I am making it for my family, my sister and brother-in-law have begged me to make something sweet so I think I will make it. What I love about cooking is that I can relax and it's something that takes the stress and problems away from me and I just focus on mixing the dough and watching what I have created grown into something delicious. So for today I am done blogging and ready to cook away my rejection of UF. Rejection really hurts but I have a goal and cooking is what I need to do right now it's what I'm good at:)

Almost the weekend

Today may be the day that I will make a cheese cake, it looks a little complicated but I think I can do it. It's going to be a cheese cake with fresh cut strawberries as a topping, it looks delicious!! Every week I will choose a main dish to cook and this one will be this weeks. Dessert dishes are my favorite thing to cook, I love making something from scratch and seeing it come to something delicious and beautiful. I will post back and let you know how my cheese cake goes:) I got the recipe form the nestle cookbook I got for my birthday, my only cookbook and I love it, I have more but they are not mine.

A New Week:

Today I  decided to make Hershey chocolate cupcakes! What I did was mixed the dough, pre-heated the oven, took out the cupcake mold. Added the chocolate mix into the pan, placed it in the oven and let it cook. After about 15-20 minutes I took it out let it cool and what I did was melt a little bit of chocolate morsels in the microwave, glazed it along the top of the chocolate cupcakes and gave one to each of my family members, they liked it very much. This week I want to make something challenging, for instance a pie or a new dish, I got a couple of cook books that I haven't use much of them. tomorrow I want to make something for lunch maybe some potatoes or a salad that I made previously for my sister's graduation.

Interview:)

Yesterday, I interview the best chef I know, her name is Maria Orrego. She also happens to be my mom, she cooks on a daily basis always creating new meals for us. She makes the most delicious things, and a lot of them are invented! Whenever I get the chance I love cooking with her, we both share a passion for food, eigther eating it or cooking it. Also we both love desserts so she usually ask's me to make them when we have a special occasion, she knows she can trust me. For next week I plan to challenge myself, I want to make something delicious and new. Maybe tiramisu, or something along those lines, I want to learn so that makes me want to do more than what I have done so far. 

Quiche!!

Today I made a Swiss ham quiche, it was my first time and it actually came out pretty good. It didn't get burned so that made me very happy, I took out the pie crust added the Swiss cheese along with the ham and onions and mushrooms. After adding those ingredients I added the rest and placed it in the oven for about 45-50 minutes, surprisingly it was really easy to make it. My sister and my best friend tried it and they said it was good, I'm still waiting for my mom, she is the one that usually tells me constructive advice. She will be home soon and I just hope she likes it, I liked it so for me it was a job well done for being the first time. Today I also had my mentor meeting, we talked about my goals for this week and what else I plan to do for the rest of the week and for next week.

Chocolate time!!

Yesterday I had in mind that I was going to cook a raspberry lemon pie, unfortunately when I went to Publix to get the ingredients, they had no raspberries. Good thing I took my cook book, I then decided to make a dessert with chocolate, so I got all the ingredients for a chocolate crumb tart. I got home  got everything together and began cooking. First I made the bottom which was the crumb, it baked for about 15 minutes while that was baking, i made the chocolate tart on the stove letting the chocolate melt, when everything was done. I then added the chocolate on top of the cooked crumb and placed it back in the oven for 25 minutes. When it was done I cut out a piece and took it to my friend since it was her birthday, she loved it!! Today when I went to school for my mentor meeting I took some for coach Love, I hope he liked it.