Showing posts with label kitchenaid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kitchenaid. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Its getting spicy in the kitchen

Our first lasagna, it is INSANEly good, will share recipe soon, this was
in my old condo in Paris!
Guess what LRT readers?

Today I have a guest blogger in my kitchen!

Well technically its his kitchen


Even though i'm the one thats spends all my time slaving away in there

Providing nourishment and yummy vegan food


But i'm getting seriously off track

Todays Guest Blogger is BF!!!

Who i now realize you all know is Dave as it was all over my Aruba travel recap since that was previously only shared on FB and i am just too plain lazy to go back and replace all the Daves with BF

There it is, i usually just call him baby though but i won't cause your gag reflex to go into overload by referring to him as that here, i'll probably still just call him BF :o)

That was a ridiculously long way of me saying that BF was in charge of dinner tonight!


He is only ever in charge of one recipe, its the only one he claims he can cook...

If by cook you mean open a lot of cans and packages and throw it in one pot

But he is soooo damn proud of what that pot produces i can't help but praise him over and over

We won't mention the fact that i cook him all the other meals of all the other days


BF just wants to hear about how great his dinner is and doesn't the garlic add an extra kick


I love him though and his ONE meal so of course i mention the garlic AND the kick


I asked BF if he wanted to write anything to accompany the recipe 


His response was 


{in a very serious interested tone of course}


"Yeah, nope"


Before i get to BF's recipe and the fun photos i forced asked him to take along the way, here are some fun Donna & Dave pictures





Yeah so we enjoy jumping pictures - it started in St Maarten and now its tradition, you can't look bored, overheated or exhausted in a photo that requires you to propel your body upwards while holding hands with the one you love - each and every picture we have silly giddy smiles on our face, the kind of smiles that say we are happy to have each other and to be in this moment in this amazing place
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Spicy Turkey Chili 




Ingredients
Ground turkey
1 can of mixed beans
1 can of kidney beans
1 can of stewed tomatoes
1 can of diced tomatoes
1 package of organic chili seasoning (BF couldn't find the pack i bought so he subbed with fajita seasoning and chili powder, shockingly good!)
Dash of salsa
Garlic (you know, for kick)
1 jar of organic tomato sauce

Directions
1. Cook Ground turkey
2. Add all ingredients to large pot and heat till bubbly
3. I served ours with wholewheat english muffins smeared in garlic butter and havarti melted on top, yum yum yummmmmmmmmmmm

This is probably right about where i called him from work and asked if he was taking photos while he cooked
this photo just screams oh crap better start taking pictures of half cooked food
Close up of the beans, beans beans the magical fruit... well you know how it ends ;o)
BF thought it was necessary to share how messy my cupboards are and notice how the agave nectar is on the
bottom (and reachable) shelf and the nasty old maple syrup we don't use anymore is left never to be
touched again on the high shelf!
Empty ingredient packaging and ziploc box, not sure where he was going with this
Artsy shot of spoon, usually i put food on these pictures but BF does like to be unique
Told him to make his sexy chef face, this is what i got
LOVE this man!
Closeup of chili goodness
Ready for consumption, mmmmm
Thank you for cooking for me Dave, i really really appreciate it, even if i have to hear talk about how good it is for the next 3 days which is how long it will take us to eat all this chili!

Here is a quick peek of the new salad i'm in love with (Spinach with strawberries, clementines and goat cheese)! 

Just can't leave you with photos taken in bad lighting - BF refused to take food outside where i take my photos, lol! 

And i have to say BF loves photography as much as i do, and if i'm honest he is better then i am but he hasn't mastered food photography, he says he would rather just eat it!



According to the label, no artificial ingredients added, yay!!!
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Before i sign off i just want to say i totally have my happy pants on right now 

For future reference i've suddenly decided happy pants is my way of saying i'm having a great day!

Other then the whole part where i had to work 8 hours blah blah blahhhh

But on my lunch we made some final kitchen decisions and we came in under budget!!! Well under the budge the builder gave us with the extra $thousands$ we added on top but then i found out the pantry could have sliders for the shelves and we might have gone $135 over budget, teeheheheeeee

BF and i had a great time at the gym, i got all hot and sweaty and laughed my butt off with the girls at Physique 57 and he kicked some tush in squash

Then we went appliance shopping, looks like we might *fingers crossed oh please oh please* be getting a kitchenaid fridge and stove, eeeeeeeeeeee

Oh and you know, we have walls on our house now, thats right!  Pictures to come soon but just wanted to share!


Want to add a BIG thanks to Heather from Kiss My Broccoli for mentioning my blog yesterday and giving me more blog views in one hour then i usually get in one day!  Check out her blog, she has the same crazy sense of humour i do and thats always a good thing :o)

Plus i realize this was Thirsty Thursday! but in a moment of dire need, you could totally drink chili so i think we are cool xox




Wednesday, April 20, 2011

I like that its shiny

So BF and I are starting the hunt for kitchen appliances
This is my dream Kitchenaid kitchen, if its wrong
to dream about appliances, i don't want
to be right!


This is where you start imagining me in hot camo gear stalking the aisles of Lowes and Home Depot

*Is there such a thing as hot camo gear?*

Oops, sidetracked yet again!


Okay, so BF won't let me pick appliances because they are either a) VERY shiny! or b) Have cute knobs - bahahaaa so many places i could go with that but i'm a behaving blogger today (don't want to push the limits since you are already putting up with my camoflauge)

Since he insists on doing things like research, i've totally got sidetracked and decided to show you the 6 items in my kitchen i love the most!

Its a What I love in my Kitchen Wednesday!
(If you click the picture of the food shown, it will take you to the recipe)

Dehydrator - because it makes KALE chips
I have the Salton version for $39 from Walmart and no it doesn't cook evenly but if you leave it in there long enough it does it's job and will have to do till i can beg and plead my case for an excalibur with BF


Griddler - because it makes perfect PANCAKES and PANINIS
I have the Cuisinart Griddler that is a panini press and grill all in one, its pretty magical and i have had no problems with it at all!


Silpat - because it makes my COOKIES cook perfectly!
Okay, i don't have the "real" version, i can't find it anywhere, till then this cheapie PC version will do

Food processor - because it makes nut butter that i haven't blogged about yet and BANANA SOFTSERVE!
I have the KitchenAid 7 cup processor that I bought at Walmart a few weeks ago and i'm in love! It only took me about 36 hours to figure out how to use it and now we are besties!



Blender - because it makes all kinds of crazy green monster SMOOTHIES
My KitchenAid blender came into my life last year for my birthday - BF bought it for me and while some mind find that an odd choice for birthday #1 together i was beyond excited to see those red letters peeking up at me from under the wrapping paper!

Scraper - it ensures i get every last drop of batter out the bowl and nut butter out the jar!
Now while i'm sure "scraper" isn't the technical term and i'm also sure its not really a kitchen appliance i love my scraper all the same!  There are times where i pull my cookie dough out of the bowl, pop my cookies in the oven and only then do i use my scraper on the bowl!  Can't let dough go to waste my friends and i always "forget" to do it until after the cookies are in the oven :o)


Note i didn't put my Kitchen Aid Mixer on the list? Thats because i don't usually use it to cook, it just sits there and looks pretty and SHINY!

Thats all for today friends, can't believe its Wednesday already! 

One more day at work after today and then 3 day weekend, sooo excited!

Better lay out my cutest camo gear, i found this on google, what do you think? Yeah i thought it was too modest as well!

What is your favourite kitchen appliance you can't live without?

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

I'm lovin it

Its time for What I Wednesday!


What i'm lovin today - remember the cheesy McDonalds commercials featuring Justin Timberlake, "i'm lovin it?" It truly was a travesty to the ears so lets move on...


I'm lovin that my burnt chickpeas taste fabulous and my tea towel did NOT die in vain


I'm lovin my new KitchenAid Food Processor (i said that in my loudest Bob Barker voice obviously!), i might have actually cuddled it in the Walmart checkout line, the cashier had to ask me to put it down so she could scan it, there might have been a struggle


I'm lovin that i now have about 3 dozen different nut butter recipes running through my head and they are all "fancified", sorry BF


I'm lovin that i have selective amnesia and don't remember the bad ingredients in a Wendys Frosty and therefore could consume one at 9pm on a Tuesday night with no guilt 


I'm lovin my new LuLuLemon Studio pants, they don't have the same gravity defying ass lifting factor that my Groove pants do but they are soooo comfy, you can hardly tell you have pants on (don't worry i do, the real estate agent came over tonight and i wanted to avoid that kind of  awkwardness, it was already weird enough i was carrying a food processor around with me)


And lastly, I'm lovin that i write a blog not a video pod cast as you can't see the Food Processor snuggled up next to me on the couch, i'm not kidding, i wish i was


So since we are talking about desserts that you don't want to know the calorie information about, this is one of them, the ingredients are few but the taste is out-of-this-world


The photos i have for you are for the lime version i made but lemon is my fav, i would know, i've made it 3 times in the last week! 


Lemon Pudding Cake for TWO
adapted from kitchen daily

Ingredients


1 egg (room temperature)
1/8 cup of lemon juice
Zest of half a lemon
1/3 cup of milk (i use 1%)
1/2 tsp of vanilla
1/4 cup of all purpose flour
dash of salt










Directions
Preheat that oven to 350
In a large bowl mix all ingredients but egg
Break egg and put yolk in large bowl with other ingredients
Put egg white in separate bowl, whisk with electric mixer till soft peaks form
Fold 2 mixtures together and pour into 2 lightly buttered ramekin dishes
Place ramekin dishes into loaf tin and pour water into tin till it comes halfway up the ramekin dishes
Bake for 25 minutes
Serve Warm









Well i'm off to tuck the food processor into bed for the night (confession: i'm writing this post Tuesday night), happy Wednesday friends xox