Chipotle Chicken Pizza

This is my 2nd try of making pizza ! and this time is big big success!

I got the recipe from Pillsbury newsletter email. XD Its kind of interesting I will make this. Coz I didn’t plan to buy any of those ingredient, but all the ingredient come to me by itself XD

Yesterday we went to Costco and bought the roasted chicken for dinner, so we have like 1.5 chicken breast left over and we bought salsa for the chicken XD. So 2 ingredient set! How about the Chipotle chile in adobo sauce? I went to Target today and want to buy a brush for my dog. On the first shelf I walking around, I saw this! “Chipotle chile in adobo sauce” on sale! Haha and I took it right away and we have a spicy, tasty pizza for dinner! (end up didn’t buy the brush for my dog lol)

Anyway here is the recipe

Easy, tasty and hot!

1 pizza crust (Home made or ready to use)
1 cup mild salsa
1/2 to 1 chipotle chile in adobo sauce, finely chopped
1 cup chicken breast strips
1 1/2 cups mozzarella cheese

Heat oven to 400°F. Spray or grease 15x10-inch or larger dark or nonstick cookie sheet.
Unroll dough on cookie sheet; starting at center, press dough into 15x10-inch rectangle.
In small bowl, mix salsa and chipotle chile; spread to within 1/2 inch of edges of dough.
Top with chicken strips, onion and peppers; sprinkle with cheese.
Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until crust is golden brown and cheese is melted.

Enjoy!

Cream of Barley Soup

Today is a happy day XD coz this week we have a labor day long weekend, no need to work Monday and I MADE 2 DELICIOUS DISHES! A perfect dinner XDPizza and Soup. Let me show you the Soup first! This is my signature soup XD I found the recipe like 5 years ago and since the first time I made it, everyone love it! Try it and its very very easy to make! 1/2 cup pearl barley1 medium onions, chopped4 stalk celery, chopped
2 mdeium carrot, chopped3 slices smoked bacon5 cups chicken stock
2 bay leaf1 cup half and half

Put the barley in a bowl, add cold water to cover, and let it soak it in water for 3+ hours
In a large saucepan, put the chopped carrot, onion, celery,chicken stock, bacon and 2 bay leaf over high heat.
Bring it to boil, reduce the heat to low, cover, and simmer for 1.5hr
Onec you can see the barley and soften, discard the bacon and bay leaf.
Puree the soup (little by little) using blender
Stir the puree back into the pan then add the half and half.
The soup is ready to serve!

Oatsmeal Caberry Cookie

I bought a new toy XD KitchenAid Professional 5qt Standmixer 450watts @ Kohl's for $190 including tax! pretty good bargain (Should have post tat but hehe little bit lazy! yea if you want a Mixer, check out Kohl's in your area, they have a $399 price on the box but when u scan it, it will show $199 and if you apply a new Kohl's card, you will get 15% off)

This is the first thing I made using the Mixer, taste very good.

Here is the recipe
1 stick of butter, room temperature
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
3/4 cup (105 grams) all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 1/2 cup quick oatsmeal
1/2 cup dried cranberries

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F
In the bowl of your electric mixer (or with a hand mixer), cream the butter and sugar until creamy and smooth (about 2 - 3 minutes).
Add the egg and vanilla extract and beat to combine.
In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, and ground cinnamon.
Add the flour mixture to the creamed mixture and beat until incorporated.
Stir in the dried cranberries.
For large cookies, use 1/4 cup of batter and space the cookies about 2 inches (5 cm) apart on the baking sheet. Then wet your hand and flatten the cookies slightly with your fingers so they are about 1/2 inch (1.25 cm) thick.
Bake the cookies for about 12 - 15 minutes at 350 degrees F (177 degrees C), or until light golden brown around the edges but still soft and a little wet in the centers.
Remove from oven and let the cookies cool a few minutes on the baking sheet before transferring them to a wire rack to cool.
Makes 24 cookies

Its very easy and good, and so so so easy to make, like 30mins , you can have fresh bake cookie! and it is perfect with coffee!!

Simple Paella

Today I try something new! Spain Recipes - Paella !

This is a biiiiiiiiiiiiiig project XD.

I went to grocery store and buy the seafood but then they don’t sell fish broth....
so I stand at seafood counter and donno what to do XD and then my dad said, how about buy some fish to make ur own :3 so we pick 2 cheap cheap fish (very small one about 0.4lbs each) and going to make my own fish broth. The first thing i do when I get home, is to make my fish broth XD lucky I bought a SlowCooker Cookbook!!!!!! They have a easy way to make fish broth! All I do is chopped 2 Carrot, 1 Onion, few pepercorn, and 900ml water. Put them all in slow cooker for 2hr on high.

Here is the recipe for Simple Paella:

Ingredients
1/2 pint of olive oil
2 bowls of rice (1lb. 5 oz. approximately)
5 bowls of fish broth
1/2 lb. of shrimps
2 mid-sized squids
2 lb. of mussels or clams
1 green pepper
1 red pepper
1 small can of peas
1 small onion
2 tomatoes
Saffron
1 clove of garlic (optional)
Parsley
Salt

Preparation
Start to heat half of the oil and once warm toss the chopped onion. After 5 minutes, add diced tomatoes, without seeds and peeled. Let it braise about 5 minutes more, mashing the tomatoes with a skimmer. Strain it and throw it in the paella pan.

In a pot, begin to cook in cold water the shells of the shrimps, reserving the tails. In another ladle cook the mussels with little water (well washed before with water and salt). As soon as the shells open up, take them away and take off the half that doesn't have the bug, reserving the other halves and straining for a very fine strainer the broth where they have cooked, as well as that of the waste of the shrimps.

Add the rest of the oil to the paella pan. Throw the green pepper, cut to square pieces of half inch. Add the cut squid to ribbons or in fine hoops and the rice. Keep stirring with a wooden tablespoon, without letting it go brown. Throw salt, and the broth of the remains of fish, hot but not boiling. This is completed with the 5 broth bowls. Shake the paella pan a little taking it by the handles so that it is broth flows all over. All this should be made to medium fire.

Meanwhile, in a mortar mash a little bit of garlic (optional), the parsley and the saffron, with a little bit of salt so that it doesn't slip, and it wet it with a couple of soup spoonfuls of temperate water. Spill this mixture on the rice and shake again the paella pan. Incorporate now the shrimps tails and when the broth has reduced to the half decorate the paella with the red pepper cut to ribbons, the mussels and the peas.

Let it cook about 20 minutes.

Once the rice is cooked and the broth has reduced, retire the paella pan from the fire, on a wet cloth, leaving it rest for about 5 minutes.
Serve it with some big clusters of lemon without peeling like decoration.

http://www.spain-recipes.com/simple-paella-recipe.html

This recipe is not very good, I guess I will find another one next time :3 (Its lack of some step and little bit confusing) Anyway, the out come of the rice is too watery, it's more like a soup rice XD but taste very good, we almost eat them all (so full now XD) I think it is because the cooking pot. We really need the traditional Paella pot which can make the fish broth reduce better when cooking, so it won’t be so watery. I will make it better next time!!!

Double-Chocolate Muffins

I finally found the unsweetened baking coca at whole food market last weekend XD so I grab it right away. And today I don’t need to work late XD so i decide to make a very chocolate muffin!!!! Double-Chocolate Muffins!

It is not very sweet, since I don’t like thing too sweet and the reason I want to bake my own muffin XD It is because I can control the sugar amount, make it much healthier then the store buy one !!!

Here is the recipe

1/2 cup Oat Meal
1/2 cup Wheat Germ
1 1/3 cups buttermilk
1/4 cup canola or vegetable oil
1 egg
1 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup unsweetened baking cocoa
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips

1. Heat oven to 375°F. Spray a 12 regular-size muffin cups.

2.In medium bowl, mix all the dry ingredients except chocolate chips. In another small bowl, mix all the wet ingredients. Stir in the wet ingredients to the dry one and mix well. Stir in chocolate chips. Divide batter evenly among muffin cups.

3.Bake 15 to 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Immediately remove from pan. Serve warm.

I like it XD smell so good and taste just right, not sweet sweet but full of chocolate favor. Try it and you will like it! <3

Free Wall-E Wallpaper! (2008 August)!!!!

Free Wall-E Wallpaper! (2008 August)!!!!

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I donno is it a bargain XD but i made this and want to share it with you guys! feel free to download it!!!!

(To download the wallpaper, pleast click on the picture first and then right click to save it!)

Goat Cheese Ravioli

XD I guess baking muffin is kind of too easy! so today i decide to take some CHALLENGE!!!!
So I make a Ravioli!! took me 4 hrs to make but out come :x is so so, coz the egg pasta I made is too thick ; ; I think I need a pasta machine XD ( always see it at ROSS and tempted to get XD, and now I got a reason to buy one!)


Not going to post my recipe since it not so good XD
I will buy tat pasta machine and try againnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!


The tomato sauce is good XD i use fresh tomato (home grown!!) and add a can of small tomato sauce with some Italian seasoning and sugar!! Its perfect for Ravioli with strong taste cheese!!