My dear and beloved Bestest Friend, hailing from Northeast Colorado, is quite talented in the kitchen, with his trusty, cheese-tax collecting dog, Kota.
The dough recipe he used can be seen here, it’s so easy!
Kevin described the pizza making process as super easy, using the following ingredients:
Mozzerrella Cheese
The pizza dough (made from the recipe)
Marinara sauce, homemade or jarred he says is fine
Pepperoni sliced, prepackaged
Spread out the dough to the desired pizze size, lay it on the pizza stone or tray
smear the marinara sauce as the base
Sprinkle lightly or heavily the mozzarella cheese, to preference, give a sprinkle of the cheese as tax to the dog.
” Blue Lightening states: Our annual Food Drive is back this year for the full month of November! All donations benefit the Wiggins Community Church. This year, especially, they are in need of food, cleaning products and personal hygiene products. Get up to a $25 Bill Credit with your donation”
Click here for the Amazon Wish-List fore ease of donating, shop, click, pay and it it’s shipped on it’s way to the donation box! There are many items to choose from that are under $1- $2-$3, and $4–including many “bulk” package items for helping to stretch the donation.
Blue Lightening is located in Wiggins, Colorado–and to help support their food and hygiene donation drive, I have created an Amazon “wish list” that, if one doesn’t live in the area or can’t stop buy during business hours to drop off a donation, they may purchase and have the items directly shipped (often, free with Prime!) directly to the donation box at Blue Ligthning! (see link below)
So simple! Feeds 2-4 people (depending on how hungry the people are!)
2 pieces of chicken breast
2 jalepenos (sliced the long way, seeded)
Tony’s Satchere’s season
1 small onion
1/4 cup of coarse chunked walnuts
3 medium or large carrtos, peeled and sliced into rounds
Salt, pepper, minced garlic
A dash of oil
Put the oil in the botton of a baking dish or glass pie pan, put all the ingriedients intogether, cover with alumunium foil, bake at 360 degrees Farenheit for 90 minutes.
My neighbor moved back to Egypt (she was an international student) and gave me some odds and ends from her kitchen (versus wasting perfectly good items!) What else to do but use up the items!
I put the partial bag of flour (about 4 cups worth? ) in a a re-usable plastic dish with snap on lid) and dumped in the partial small bottles of spices-including thyme, pepper, a mixed blend of “fish fry” spices, and some salt, and other items. I dolled out about 1 cup of the mix into a paper bag (small).
I put a half of stick of butter in the bottom of a deep skillet on low heat to melt.
The four fish filets were coated in an egg washed, shaken in the paper bag of coating, and placed in the butter and pan, the heat turned up to medium, once flipped coarse chopped walnuts were added and cooked with the fish until done. I added the green beans she gave me, with Rendered Molasses and candied almonds to the pan and all warmed up; served with mandarin oranges.
This one pot wonder is great for feeding a family, making transportable meals for the sick neighbor or a shut in or dividing up for freezer/prep meals. I bought all the ingrdients at the local Aldi, which I found makes the meal very affordable (the canned goods range from $0.50-$0.79 a can, the spices $1.18 on average and the ground turkery pound was under $3.)
In one deep skillet/Mid Sized pot, brown either one pound of ground beef or ground turkey.
Once the meat is cooked all the way through, chunk chop it up and leave the juice in the bottom, making a roux with the meat and drippings.
Add in the spices, 1.5 tsp each of oregano, garlic poweder, Dried Cilantro ground cumin, Tony Satcheres Creole Seasoning, Fresh ground sea salt and pepper (to taste).
Open and add a can of Sweet Corn, Green beans, Sliced Carrots and whole new potatoes (don’t drain, add the liquid to the pot).
Stir and simmer all together for 20-25 minutes until thoroughly mixed/simmered together.
I like to served it with Corn Bread (Jiffy box mix is super easy to make along side this dish or use up leftovers! )
If you don’t have these veggies, cans of Veg-All or a bag of frozen bag of Veg-All mix works nicely too as a substitute
Brown 1 LB of Ground Beef or Turkey1 Can each of Sweet Corn, Green Beans, Sliced Carrots and Whole (or sliced) New Potatoes Add Spices 1.5 tsps of Oregano, Garlic Powder, Cumbin, Thyme Leaves, Tony Satcher’s, Cilantro Leaves, and Salt and Pepper to taste Simmer all ingredients together for 20-30 minutes.
My Sweetheart’s Mother planted a small garden before going to visit family and asked me to help him take care of it while she is on vacation-what to do with the harvest but to eat the bounty!
Chop and simmer the following:
2 Green Bell Peppers
1 large (or 2-3 small fresh zuchinni)
2 small purple onions
4-6 toes of garlic
2-4 fresh Jalepenos
10-15 cherry tomatoes, sliced in half
Himalayan Salt, Pepper, and ground cumin
In a Seperate pan, Simmer 2-3 large chicken breast, once cooked, top with a jar of Korma Sauce (usually found in the international aisle of the supermarket), simmer until warm.
Ladel the steamed/sautched vegetables into the bottom of a bowl, top with the chicken korma mix, enjoy! Top with a bit of siracha sauce and/or feta cheese.
A friend shared some lovely garden produce, including bell peppers, jalepenos, tomatillos, tomatoes and more, so what is a girl to do? Make Fajitas with fresh made salsa!
Roughly 1 pound of Bell Peppers, assorted color, sliced up
3 small white onions chopped, split-2 for fajitas 1 for salsa
7 various size fresh jalepenos
6 small/long serano peppers1
6 large tomatoes
6 tomatillos
1/2 pint of fresh baby mushrooms
2 tablespoons of minced garlic (fresh or jarred)
1 pound of ground turkey (I got this at Aldi as it’s super tasty and inexpensive)
1/4 of beef tips or skirt steak (or any manager’s special beef cut)
1-10 ct bag of flour tortillas
Salt and Pepper (I like the self grinding bottles of black peppercorns and Himalayn salt, packs a punch!)
1 tablespoon of Garlic and Herb Mixed season
1 tablespoon of Smoked Peach Rub season (seen in photo below, I don’t know if other brands are made of this!)
Saute/Fry the Beef and ground turkey with salt and pepper in a deep skillet with a dash of oil
Chop up all the veggies, add to meat skillet when meat is 90% done, adding the Smoked peach rub, 1 tablespoon of garlic and Smoked peach rub. Simmer/Saute on medium low heat until the veggies are soft but crips and meat is fully cooked.
While the meat is cooking, get a medium sized pot and add the jalepenos, tomatoes, tomatillos, serranos and 1 tablespoon of garlic, simmer on medium until all the mix is soft but don’t let boil. Put the mix, once cooked, including water, into a blender and mix/blend until smooth (it will be a little runny).
Serve the fajita mix in a large service bowl with the tortillas warmed up on the flat top and the salsa in a bowl with a spoon (or a small pitcher for pourin). The fajita mixed is wonderful stuffed in warm tortillas and topped with homemade salsa.
If there is extra salsa, it’s great with chips or served over egges.
Collect and chop veggiesPan Fry MeatSimmer Tomatoes, pappers, tomatillos, onions and garlic with salt for the salsaHave all the chopped fajita veggies ready and set asideSeason the meat when it’s about doneWhen the meat is 90% cooked, add all the veggiesSimmer Veggies and Meat together, add a squirt or two of lime juiceSImmer all together, stir periodcially Blend the pot of salsa pot, incuding water, to make a lovely smooth salsa Serve Fajita mix in a large pool with tongs, served with Salsa on the side and warm tortillas and sour cream
once the chicken is cooked in the walnuts are toasted in the skillet combine all the other ingredients with it and let it simmer for an hour serve with a little bit of feta cheese, or fresh Parmesan on top
The year of 1776, our founding forefather debated, drafted and signed in Independance Hall in Philledelphia a Declaration of Independance, stating the intent of governing ourselves, foregoing the attatchment to England, sparking a Revolution. Happy Independance Day!
My family and I celebrated by gathering together for a relaxing barbeque-everyone brought a bit of this and that so that that burden wouldn’t be on one group or another-making the meal quite exquisite to the eyes and taste buds. Of course, my little godson was the star of the show with his giggles and laughter-4 generations show up and oh, boy! We celebrated to our hearts delight!
The beef T-Bones steaks came from our parents farm in Colorado (quality, natural beef is so much better!) and most of the vegetables came from the garden at my Sweetness’ house and the papaya came from Aldi-every thing was made from scratch. My brother in law carefully and exquisitely seasoned the steaks and let them “set” over night-and the garden salad was dressed in olive oil, basil leaves, fresh ground pepper, and lime juice. Everything was kept simpe; the papaya was also spiced with chili pepper powder and grilled with the squash and okra!
The aluminium foil packets are “Cowboy potatoes”, which are chunked, skin on red potatoes, chopped onions, himalayn pink salk, black pepper, garlic toes, a bit of butter, wrapped up into aluminium pouches and grilled (cowboys out on the rance would stick them in the camp fire!) And for the record, smoke bombs, the bright colored ones, and sparklers are some of my favorite fireworks!
Happy 4th of July!
Fireworks at Unity Park, Greenville, South Carolina. Video Shot by Nourhan Elashkar
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