Banana Pancakes-Oops

So.....tonight, I tried something not so good. I wanted to make banana pancakes---there randomly appeared bananas in my room! No one claims to have bought them. Weird, eh? Anyhows. Pancakes. So I looked up a pancake recipe, easy enough. Then I decided to add vanilla and cinnamon. The usual, ya know? But adding those gave me the thought.....what if I added nutmeg? Nutmeg and bananas go together, right? >.<; Well, they may, but I either shouldn't have put it in or put too much because yikes! the batter tasted spicy! I added some white and brown sugar to cover it up. The result was.......edible. But the after taste, not so good. Bad random addition on my part. Jeff deemed them edible, but we shall not be trying those again. >.< Therefore, no recipe......

Garbage Egg Flower Soup

This was pretty delicious! It started with an urge to eat potatoes, but to make something more out of them. 

Garbage Egg Flower Soup

BOIL 3 cups of water

ADD 3 bullion cubes (1 chicken, 2 beef)

ADD chunks of potato

while that's boiling, CUT up a carrot and a stalk or two of celery

When the potatoes are mostly tender

ADD rest of vegetables

When they reach an acceptable tenderness

REMOVE from heat and immediately 

POUR in 2 eggs, beaten 

STIR right away

ADD soy sauce, pepper to taste

It is full of delicious noms! I personally like to leave things a little crunchy. Yay combo'd textures in soup! This made a large bath for two very hungry people. 

This could be yum with added meat and/or noodles as well.....

Carne Asada

So twas Jeff's turn for dinner. He enlisted the help of fellow Kitchen Boy Larry(who chefs--cheater) to make these taco-things. "Carne-Asada" Basically meaty roast meat with parsley, onions, and sour cream. It was pretty good-I don't really like eating raw onions. I added some shredded mozzarella cheese on top to take down on the bite. It was pretty nom after that. :)

Sloppy Joes

So, I was all for actually making the stuff, but Jeff and I were both so hungry at the store that that wasn't really going to work. So, he introduced me to MANWICH. Which, isn't too bad of a sauce for a can.

 Sloppy Joes

BROWN a lb of ground beef

DRAIN

MIX in a can of Manwich

HEAT it all up

PLACE in bun

NOMNOMNOM

It was relatively quick and filling. 

French Toast

French Toast
BEAT together 4 eggs, 1 c. milk, 2 tbsp. sugar, 2 tsp vanilla,
MIX/BEAT in 1/2 tsp. cinnamon and 1/4 tsp. nutmeg
DIP bread into mixture
FRY bread

I have a terrible time frying bread in my frying pan. XP So, Kitchen Boy was good enough to take over that bit for me. :) Other than that, it is simple, delicious. I used Killer Dave's bread, which is full of seeds and things. It wasn't stale, so the final thing turned out slightly soggy. I feel like if the bread was toasted or a bit stale, it wouldn't have that problem.

Fettuccine alla Carbonara

Okay. This was a pain to make. Kitchen Boy cooked the bacon, and I was trying to do everything else. NOT a good idea. I completely messed up the sauce on my first try with our last egg. DX I had to run to the store (literally) and buy some more. Try to get all the ingredients taken care of first, is my thought. Do the bacon cooking before hand. Then the other person can cook the noodles while you're dealing with the sauce? Or perhaps cook the noodles before, too and just let them sit in the water to keep them warm?  Dunno.....

Fettuccine alla Carbonara
COOK and CUT up 6-8 slices of bacon
COOK and maybe DRAIN 6 oz dried fettuccine
COMBINE in a saucepan 1 beaten egg, 1 c. milk, and 2 tbsp. butter
COOK and STIR over med/low heat until it coats a spoon (about 6 mins)--DO NOT LET IT BOIL (this will cook the egg out of the milk and it will be lumpy and gross and not sauce at all!)
COMBINE sauce and pasta
STIR IN bacon, 1/2 c. grated cheese
Add parsley, pepper, garlic salt to taste/as needed

Once you get the hang of the rhythm of cooking this, it isn't very hard and it IS delicious. I have made it several times before with a different partner. This was my first time doing the directing/sauce making. How did he ever do the sauce so well?! Maybe someday I'll be able to, too. This would also taste good with chicken bits. >.>

How to properly clean up bacon.....by Kitchen Boy

NOM!