Thursday, August 25, 2011

Cooking: Sesame-Orange Chicken

Hello Universe! Meera here! 
The other day, I was browsing one of my favorite websites, which I have mentioned before http://www.elleandblair.com/! I wouldn't mention it so much if I didn't go to their website as often as I do. Anyway, I am getting off-track. Like I said I was on the website and I saw that Blair had written about a recipe she really liked, which was Sesame-Orange Shrimp. I was really excited when I saw it and decided to make it for dinner. The results...... *insert drum roll here*.....the dish turned out really well. I thought it was delicious. I tweaked the recipe a tad, adding less sherry and more orange juice. Rice is definitely a must  to accompany this recipe. Also when making this dish I would recommend using black, or white and black mix of sesame seeds instead of just white. The black seeds will stand out better and give the final product a more finished, fancy-restaurant look. The bottom-line is I would make this recipe again, it was pretty easy and very yummy. 

<3 Meera

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Chocolate Bananas and Blueberry Syrup

Hello Everyone!   
     I have two cooking... experiences to talk about. I guess I'll start with the most recent one, which was this morning. 

Chocolate Banana Wontons
 I was craving crepes with bananas and nutella, but as goes for most cravings, I usually get them when I am feeling particularly lazy, so I did not feel like making crepes. But alas, light bulb, etc, we had spring roll wrappers in our fridge!  So like any normally person I decided to use that instead of crepes. The spring roll wrappers were very hard so I soaked them in water which made them very slimy. I spread some nutella on the wrapper, then sprinkled some diced bananas on, then topped that off with more nutella. I made two more and then I heated up some oil in a pot. A trick that my mom taught me today to check if the oil is ready, is to sprinkle a little bit of water in the oil. If it crackles and pops it is ready. So one at a time I fried each little wonton ( I decided to call my creations wontons, I'm not exactly sure what is defined as a wonton ... but I'm sure this qualifies). The first one worked pretty well, but the other two kind of fell apart and the last one did not get cooked very well and became saturated with oil, I think I did not have the oil hot enough. I toweled the wontons off and took a big bite of the first one. It was amazing! Crunchy on the outside fried banana on the inside surrounded by melted nutella ! Yum! It was like banana chocolate bliss, the banana had so much flavor!  As for the other two, they weren't as good, but I don't care because the first one was so good. In my opinion, it was better than a crepe stuffed with bananas and nutella. I would add a picture but I ate the first one before I remembered, and the other two were quite ugly. 

Greek Yogurt with Blueberry Syrup

This next one I made yesterday. We had Greek yogurt in the house, which made me really excited because the last time I had Greek yogurt it was so delicious and smooth, like some sort of pudding. So boy was I surprised when I took a bite of the Greek yogurt we had, and it was super sour! Since I served myself a big bowl of the stuff I figured I had to eat it. I decided to make a quick blueberry syrup to make the yogurt sweeter. So I threw a couple handfuls of blueberries in a pan with some water, sugar and vanilla. I brought the mixture up to a boil and poured it over the yogurt. And it was really good! But I have now learned to serve myself a small amount of something before I'm sure I like it.  

<3 Meera!

Friday, July 29, 2011

What?!?! Back-to-School Commercials?!?!

Hi Everyone, 
   Recently I have noticed that there are a bunch of back-to-school commercials, ads, everything. You just can't get away from them! Stores may be all excited for the new school year so the can make a killing on school supplies, but I'm not! I am still enjoy my summer so please take the commercials back until September, or at least late August! 
    So that's my little rant on back-to-school ads. Mostly I don't like them because I don't want to school to start yet and my summer to be over. But side note, I really do enjoy shopping for back-to-school supplies, just not in July! 
   That is all for now :P 
<3 Meera