Yummies in Our Tummies

A list of the things that are yummy in our tummy and I hope that they are yummy in your tummies too!

Meals:

• A Cowboy Sandwich
• Ramen Noodle Chicken Stir Fry
• Goulash 
• Meatloaf 
• Mini Cinnamon Rolls Quick and easy, done in 15 to 20 minutes. 
• Chili 
• Shish Kebabs (Kabobs)  Perfect for a BBQ party
• Lemon Garlic Shrimp Can use for shish kebabs or whatever you want
• Italian Stir Fry 
• Lemon-Lime Pork Chops 
• Orange Pork Chops 
• Tacos "Homemade" taco seasoning recipe

Snacks:

• Pizza Crescent Rolls
• Spicy Chicken Nachos! Hot and spicy but so good.

Cookies:

• Snicker Cookies
• Peanut Butter Cookies There is no flour in this peanut butter recipe!! 
• Oatmeal Cookies  Cookies that are actually very good for you. 
• Insane Brownie Cookie  It's a cookie and a brownie in one...
• Oatmeal Cherry Cookies Use raisins, dried cherries, dried blueberries or dried whatever fruit

Desserts:

• Chocolate Cover Rice Krispies

Cupcakes: 

• Reindeer Cupcakes Really cute and fun for the Christmas holiday.

Misc: 

• Ranch Dressing 
• Italian Dressing
• Chicken Marinade Great for the Shish kebabs

Cool Birthday Cake

Today is my birthday!!

I'd be excited if I didn't have to work and go to class on it. To make it better I got all of 45 minutes of sleep.

Anyways, I wanted to be really creative come up with something cool  but I have about 20 minutes before Hank wakes up. I feel like such a mother, blogging when the baby is sleeping. I love little Hank though.

Since I didn't come up with anything, I thought I would show you guys the coolest birthday cake I've ever gotten.

 

 

A really good friend of mine from high school stepmom wanted to get me a Barbie cake. I really don't care what the cake looked like so I said sure. 

And I totally loved how it turned out. I don't think I will ever have a cake that is this cool. 

Brandon Inge was my favorite Detroit Tiger, however, since the Tigers released him a few months ago he is now just my favorite baseball player. I want to name future son Inge after him. 

Over and out,

A Engineer in the Kitchen

The Chicken Marinade

I know such an original name, hope I don't come up with another marinade for chicken because what am I going to call that...Chicken Marinade Junior or The Second.

Anyways, this is so amazing it's not even funny. It is really just a little bit of that a little bit of this.

From left to right: Dried oregano leaves, garlic powder, dried thyme leaves, ground mustard, dried rosemary leaves, salt and pepper. Mix all of the spices together add some red wine vinegar and olive oil.

Ingredients:

• 2 tablespoons of red wine vinegar
• 1/3 cup of olive oil
• 1 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
• 1 teaspoon dried oregano leaves
• 1 teaspoon dried rosemary leaves
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon ground mustard
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper

Directions:

• Mix all of the spices, vinegar and olive oil together in a resealable containter
• Add chicken breast 
• Give the container a good shake or two
• Let marinade in the refrigerator over night
• Grill chicken until no longer pink in the middle

 Enjoy,
A Engineer in the Kitchen

Lemon Garlic Shrimp

I LOVE shrimp.

I love it raw, I love it grilled, and I really think I'd love it anyway you could give it to me.

From left to right: lemon juice (you can use fresh but I'm lazy and don't like squeezing lemons), garlic (once again laziness, cloves would be excellent), cilantro leaves, crushed red peppers, thyme leaves, and parsley leaves. Oh and I left out the olive oil opps. Mix all together in a small bowl or bag, something that is resealable.
 

Add about twentyish shrimp, shake a little and place in the refrigerator for two to three hours. When ready place on place on grill.

Ingredients:

• 2 teaspoons of minced garlic (4 cloves if using cloves)
• 1/2 cup olive oil
• 2 tablespoons of lemon juice
• 1/2 teaspoon of crushed red pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
• 2 teaspoon dried parsley
• 1/2 teaspoon dried cilantro leaves
• About 20 shrimp Enjoy,

Directions:

•  Mix all of the ingredients in a resealable container
• Add shrimp 
• Give container a good shake or two
• Mariniate in fridge for about 2 to 3 hours
• Grill

Enjoy,
A Engineer in the Kitchen

Shish Kebabs

Is it kebabs or kabobs...does it really matter?

I like kebabs cause everyone I know says kabobs and I like to be different.

The thing that makes kebabs the best thing in the whole world if you are feeding more then one picky person (Big-D can be rather picky and I had friend over that is kind of picky as well) is that everyone got to make their own. Okay I made Big-D's lets be honest here. 

I am also very happy that I got the HUGE grill because we cooked a lot of food all at once. From left to right, red potatoes, corn on the cob and the shish kebabs in the really cool rack thingy that I got from Target. 

For the veggies I used green, yellow and orange peppers, a sweet onion and pineapple (I know that's not a vegetable.) For the meat I used sirloin streak marinated in Italian dressing, chicken marinated in what I will call the chicken marinade (I know I am so clever) and Lemon Garlic Shrimp.

The red potatoes were first boiled until a knife stuck in them smoothly, and then I cut them into eighths added about a half a stick of butter (cut up into chucks) and sprinkled with pepper and Accent. Then used some tin foil to steam the potatoes on the grill.

The corn on the cob was soaked in water for about 30 minutes before they were placed on the grill.

The skewers were stuffed with as much yumminess that we could possibly put on them and cooked until chicken (may concern) was fully cooked.

Stay tuned in for the next couple days I will post the marniades that I used for the steak, chicken and shrimp.

Over and out,
A Engineer in the Kitchen

Laundry Room Update

We have been working on relocating the laundry. The washer and dryer is currently in the dining room and that greatly bugs the crap out of me.

Now that we officially have the electrical permit, I decided to work on it for a little bit last night. I didn't get all that far since I had to pull down some nails and boards but I did at least put the electrical boxes up where I wanted the new outlets to go.

View from the hallway minus the doorway to the laundry room. It's easy to keep Hank out of there if he can't get in from the hallway and we have a old closet door in front of the small opening.

 Looking from the office, still need to take down a few small pieces of drywall but for the most part gutted and cleaned up.

 

Where the stacked washed and dryer will go.

Doorway that will lead into the hallway.

I feel like I have been pulled in so many different directions over the last couple weeks that I can't seem to get anything done. Guess it doesn't help that I only have one day off a week and who really wants to work on their one day off.  Oh well maybe by next weekend I will have the last couple of pieces of drywall down and the wiring in and some new drywall up (I can't completely enclose the room until the inspection but I'd like to most of what I can have up up.)

Anyways, I still have Linear Algebra homework that I need to get done.

Over and out,

A Engineer in the Kitchen

This Is What The Boys Were Doing...

while I was cleaning the house, making dinner for tomorrow (had to marinade some steak and chicken) and doing laundry.

I promise I will post lots of new recipes this week.

Before Hank climbed in bed and decided to use my pillow (that little brat) he was helping me with the ten loads of laundry (in the pictures below I was at like three loads). I mean seriously how do two people produce ten loads of laundry. Easy they don't do laundry for like three weeks.

"Mama, can we please go to bed yet?"

Good thing he barely sheds or his mama wouldn't be to happy with him.

Alright time to go finish the dishes and then off to cuddle with that little cutie.

Over and out,

A Engineer in the Kitchen