Sunday, October 4, 2009

Shrimp, Bread, Beef

So a few random ones for you today. First, I decided on a light dinner last night. So some lemon garlic shrimp salad was perfect, I guess this is more along the lines of everyday boring than a cheesecake, but it was tasty. This was enough shrimp for two salads.
-1/2 pound of shrimp
-2 tablespoons of butter
-2 teaspoons of lemon juice
-1 teaspoon of crushed garlic

I don't like a lot of veggie in my salad, get over it.

Next, I've been in a bread making mood/mode lately (note to Santa, bread machine please). This week I tried some cinnamon bread, because even bread shouldn't be healthy. I used this recipe. I didn't use the raisins because I don't like how they taste in bread (and because that would make it slightly healthier). If you attempt this, please note it makes 3 loaves of bread! If you are like me, you only have one bread pan, and you've suddenly got a counter full of dough and aren't sure what you've got yourself into. For the record, after letting all three rise for one hour, I froze one, put the second in the oven and left the third out and put it in the oven when the first came out. The second cooked loaf was denser then the first but otherwise no big deal. Haven't attempted the frozen loaf yet, so I don't know how that turned out. This probably looks slightly better than it tastes, but heat it up and throw some butter on and it makes an amazing breakfast.




Lastly, I made some amaaaaaazing chili for dinner tonight. This was very easy to make and tasted great. Recipe for this one is here. At this point you're saying the same thing I was when I first read the recipe, "mmmmmmmm bacon", now you know why I made it. By the time it was done the stew meat was falling apart, so I pulled it apart and made nachos out of it, greatest idea of the day. The evolution of my nachos:







That's all for now. I promised Lily we would make applesauce donuts, so those should be up soon.