Naan naan naan, hey hey hey, goodbye

Welcome to some more of my naansense. 

My lolfriendz Delyar can be best represented as follows:

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Since e'ry body wants a piece of dis blog action, and by e'rybody I mean Delyar, I permitted her into my world of mystery and tastebud-tantalizing. I wanted to make some naan with a simple yogurt sauce (I still had some leftover from previous tastetastic post.) and quinoa and veggies. But no. But oooooh noooooo, Smellyar wanted CHICKEN. And what Delyar wants, Delyar gets. Pffffffffffffff. 

I found this lil diddy for the naan, I'll let her do the leg work, thank you @sheenajibson !

Naan Recipe

It looked like this!

And then this! 

And for all you lovahs out there, this ones for you:

Lovahhhhhhhh.

To prevent these bad boys from becoming more of a cracker than I am, I placed damp paper towels between prior to serving:

 

Up next, sauce. Real simple.

2 C. Nonfat plain yogurt

1 small clove minced garlic

1/3 C. chopped cucumber

Chopped mint - lotsa it - BE REASONABLE.

1/2 lemon juice

Salt'n'peppa

Aaaaaaaaaaaaand beets. I had leftover beets! So sue me!

With the magical wonders of Delyar's cuttin' skillz, we added fresh chopped tomato, cucumber, green zucchini, shredded red cabbage, avocado (obvi) and CHICKEN. Hmph.

Pie tin as veggie tray - RESOURCEFUL!

OMG BEETS.

st00pid chicken.

I cooked the chicken in evoo - shout out to Rachel Ray hayyyyyyy - with some minced garlic and fresh basil. And lookee here!

 

Mark LOVES it!!! 

Also, I'm realizing that I need to take take better food pics. This is know is true: I like pepper. But unless food with panther dandruff is a good look, I should probs refrain. Duly noted!

The crew. They're pretty good.

<3

Yay!

Dear Diary, Jackpot.

Everybody! Everybody! Come see how good I look!

Massive beety beetness. Who doesn't love a food that makes the kitchen look like a scene from Dexter?

Notice the array of glory:

I am especially tickled about this sammich. I just loooooooooove me some beets. In some sick twisted way, I find them a perfectly good meat replacement in most dishes. The color convinces you that you're really packin in some mondo antioxidants and the texture can't be............wait for it...........beet!

Twould be convenient if you were to acquire the following noms:

1 DUB CRUNCH ROLL

1C. Nonfat plain yogurt

generous amounts of fresh mint and basil

1/4 of a lemon's blood

1/2 small granny smith apple, finely karate chopped

2 Steamed and peeled beets

1/2 C. shredded red cabbage

Queso fresco slices (Mozzarella would work here if you wanna be a little sissy!)

1/2 avocado 

The singers of "Push It" to taste

Le sauce:

With a teeny bit of butter and smattering of brown sugar, I softened the finely chopped apple for barely 1 minute on high heat. Combine yogurt, lemon juice, herbs and apple tidbits. I used the leftover beet juice 

(not to be confused with ) in the sauce too for that extra pizzaz. Flava flave it with S&P. 

BEETS ASSEMBLE!!!!

Cut roll in 1/2, place sliced beets on one side of the bread, salt and pepper the beets, then layer cheese slices over the beets. Like any sandwich that is worth tasting, throw that sucka in the toaster oven. If you don't have a toaster oven, throw that mo' fo' in the oven on the top shelf (like my dranks) to broil for 3ish minutes.

Once roasty toasty, place shredded cabbage atop the beets'n'cheeze. Drizzle fo shizzle that s-izz-auce over the cabbage. Then, like a drunken game of jenga, try your best to add the avocado on this leaning tower of divinity. 

Now, eat that sammich, eat it with e'rythang you got.

A little bit of love and lots and lots of tofu

No cookin' hurr. Just some morning hilarity. HUMPDAY ASSEMBLE!!

Up next, beet sammich.

Godspeed.

Iced Iced Baby

In my precious little apartment with my adorable little roommates, we hold tradition in very high regard. Some of our traditions include acting like 3yr olds on ecstasy, taunting to the point of tears of laughter and tricking each other into chugging 16oz of diabetes-inducing malt beverage. 

Mark was the first of the roommates to have a birthday, so naturally, we was about to get our ice on! The key to any successful ice-ing is the element of surprise. My train of thought went as follows: Mark....birthday....cake.....ice-in-cake. CHOO CHOO!!

I went to the local overpriced San Francisco hoity-toity gourmet mart and was pleased to find a premade - you guessed it - FUNFETTI CAKE! I don't exactly know how the funfetti craze began, I ain't mad at it, but lets be real.......its just white cake with visual stimuli. 

With cake and some sour gummy worms, I hid up in my room to slave away creating this masterpiece. Step aside Michelangelo and the dudes that created Wallace and Gromit! I was about to sculpt the bajesus out of  this cake. If you want to be the coolest friend, roommate or creepy stranger that puts booze in cakes, I suggest you try this sometime. 

Sneaky sneaky

Consider yourself ICED.

Butter be damned

Bump-ba-da-daaaaa!! More food. 

Last night my lowly, frazzled, roommate Lela was wasting away. She was bad folks, like about to eat an almost empty bag of 3 month old organic tortilla chips. I think I saw a tumbleweed blustering around amongst the flax seeds. I know I might exagerate a wee bit, but on the life of my mother and first born child....those chips were filthy old. 

So like the angel Gabriel, but with much better hair, I bestowed upon lil old Lela the gift of grub. 

Here's the 'cipe:

1/2 package Whole Wheat Pasta

1 C. Sliced Shrooms of your choosing

2 C. Cherry Tomatoes, sliced in half

1 Red Bell Pepper, sliced in....slices.

2 minced garlic cloves

1 pad of butter

1/4 C. Vegan Cream Cheese

1 tbsp Corn Starch

5 shakes Italian Seasoning

3 shakes of Onion powder

2 booty shakes

1/2 C. BIG ASS BEANS 

Deez Beanz

1) Cook garlic and bell pepper in butta, then add shrooms and tomatoes

2) Add seasonings and beans

3) There should be a decent amount of liquid from the tomaters, once simmering add the veeg cree chee to melt, then put a lid on it!

4) In a separate cup, mix corn starch with, eh, 3 tbsp of cold H to the izzo (that means water)

5) Add corny starch soup to your sauce to thicken, let simmer on low heat uncovered

6) Hopefully you've already realized that you should have started cooking those noodles a while back. If not, make like a broken guitar and don't fret! You can let the sauce sit on super low heat till the pasta's done.

7) Get your noodle to sauce ratio juuuuuust right and enjoy!

This was vegan by Adele standards, but for you xtreme PETA party people, use olive oil instead of butter. Duh.

Ravi-whaaaaa

This one is for the record books. This is going in Grandma Adele's locked vault of tongue oozing om nomage.

NYE weekend, my dear friend Matticus. He got a pasta-roller-outter for Christmas and naturally he wanted to break it in. We decided on ravioli and went thru the typical hum drum flava flave ideas. Chicken pesto, goat cheese and wild mushroom, pumpkin and pine nuts. WEAK.

In typical Adele-to-the-rescue fashion, I said, "Don't trip chocolate chip! I have.........the solution."

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In the immortal words of Dr. Dre, my sh*ts the bomb. 

It was easy peezy lemon squeezy too. To replicate:

1 shredded Chicken Breast

2 C. Chicken Broth

1/2 C. Red Onion

1/4 C. chopped cilantro

1 small Roma tomato, chopped

1/2. C. of your fave BBQ

1 C. finely shredded sharp cheddar cheese

3/4 C. heavy cream

1/2 stick butter

2 tbsp flour

1) Place thawed chicken breast into pot with chicken broth. We added some coarsely chopped garlic into the mix for that extra anti-vampire pizzaz. Let simmer slowly until chicken is cooked thoroughly. 

Once chicken is cooked, drain the broth and set it aside for the cream sauce. 

2) With forks and/or fingers shred the chicken to a ravioli-manageable size.

3) In saucepan, briefly cook chicken and red onion. Once the red onion is barely soft, add BBQ sauce, cilantro and 1/2 C. of the chedda. 

The Sauce: In separate saucepan, make this fatty fatty sauce.

1) 1/2 stick of butter, melt it, a lot. Cook it down so the color deepens but it doesn't burn. Stirring often, add flour until ooey gooey. Slowly add  1/2 C. of the previously mentioned broth. This concoction should thicken.

2)  Incorporate cream and add a smidgen (3tbsp) of BBQ sauce

Assemble the ravioli per usual, you can google THOSE instructions. Top with chopped tomato and generous amounts of more cheese and cilantro. 

Hey everyone look at my cellular telephone photograph!!

No but seriously, it was delicious.

Salutations World Wide Web!

Well folks, lets do this.

Inspired by my roommate, here is the beginning of the documentation of riff raff meals that I know of and love, have invented or want to try.

I'm just an awesome lil lady who loves flax seed and sharing awesome things with the world.

Get ready for some serious healthy hootenanny. Holla.