Master Chef

As my roommates very quickly found out, I love to experiment with food.
This conversation has happened more than once around here:
"Emma, what are you making?"
".........I don't know."

Basically I get some sort of idea in my head and go to town with what I have or what I think will taste good. Here is a taquito recipe I came up with the other day:

I should warn you, I rarely use measurements...I just add stuff until it looks right.

Cream cheese

Canned Chicken

Corn

Lime Juice

Garlic Pepper

Sharp Cheddar

Red Taco Sauce (I recommend using something with some actual spice and/or flavor to it)

Cumin

Cheyenne pepper (don't know how to spell that)

Soften up the cream cheese in the microwave first so it's easy to stir, then just add everything in to taste!

I used corn tortillas, but my mom says that flour would have done fine.

Warm up the corn tortillas in the microwave until they bend without breaking.

Add a little of the mixture and roll it up!

Put them on a pan and into a 350 degree oven and let them bake for....oh, say 10 minutes.

My tortillas ended up cracking quite a bit, so you might want to spray the tortillas with water or something...but I'm no expert.

My restaurant of choice...

Photo Challenge: A picture of your favorite place to eat.

I eat here almost every time my parents come into town and decided to take me to dinner! SO good.

The Sweet Pork Burrito is the way to go!

Also, there's the ever-present Taco Bell :)

I'm a fan of the $5 Box. So worth your money.

Pie and Moustaches!

First of all, Happy Pi Day everyone!
This is quickly becoming my favorite holiday ;)
One of my good friends, Kyle, was feeling ultra ambitious today...
So we ended up making eleven pies.

Yes, you read that correctly. Eleven. As in one one...11...Once...you get the picture.

Here are a few pictures of our evening:

Derek was "Maria" today. Maria is their dishwasher.

Lauren and I took care of most of the pie fillings.

Mastermind and pie crust maker

As well as making fillings, I also rolled out lots of dough. I find that hilarious because I'm not particularly gifted at it...

Here they are all done! Melissa also helped peel the apples :)

Nice face Kyle ;)

Cheesecake, Lemon Meringue, Coconut Cream, Pecan, Apple, Pumpkin, Two Chicken Pot Pies, Fudge Ice Cream...thing, And I think there was another Coconut one too.

At around seven we took a break from our pie making and went to our separate FHE activities. 

Actually...I think I'm the only one who was in a different FHE group...lame.

Anyway, guess what the activity was in my group?

Yep, you guessed it. Pie making. 

I guess you could say that I'm a little pied out right now.

Cody cutting the Key Lime Pie. (Kinda amazing that they came up with ANOTHER flavor of pie that Kyle didn't eh?)

And this is what we did while we were waiting for the pies to be done. 

Yes, we made moustaches.

Jeffrey trying to look "subductive".

That's a direct quote.

He's kinda brilliant haha

This is Jim...affectionately called Jimberly. 

He will probably kill me if he reads this.

Overall, today was a good day! Lots of laughs and memories made.

I love Pi Day

♥

3.14.11

Experiment gone RIGHT!

So, sometimes we get a little .... creative when it comes to cooking.

Over a month ago Mystie and I were hungry (go figure).
We decided on chicken, but we wanted to marinate it.
We had nothing.
So this is what we came up with:
Lemon juice
Cinnamon
Nutmeg.


It turned out like this:

To be honest, not bad!

Then, today I was invited down to Apt. 7 for pancakes.

Kyle was reading through the recipe and realized that he had no buttermilk

and I didn't have enough...

So, here were the options:

Milk

Half milk and half buttermilk

Egg nog

Based on my last post, is there any debate about what we picked?

So, Egg Nog pancakes it was!

We were both a little skeptical about how they would turn out,

but the end result was Phenomenal!

I'm thinking that we're gonna have a new Christmas tradition!

Blessing number 25

I would definitely have to say that I am grateful for 

FOOD!

It's crazy how much food just happens

to turn up on the Thanksgiving table.

It makes me so grateful for the opportunity

we have to have it

because I know a lot of other people don't.

I love most everything about 

the Thanksgiving meal, 

but my absolute favorite today was 

the new stuffing that Lindsay made.

It was a cornbread stuffing that had 

peppers and other forms of deliciousness in it.

It looked something like this

and tasted even better!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Blessing number 16

Reed's Dairy :)

I can't tell you how much I have missed living a mile away from Reed's Dairy.

They have the world's best ice cream/chocolate milk/cheese curds!

Every time my family is in Idaho Falls we make a special stop

to get some of their scrumptious ice cream :)

This particular flavor is Pumpkin Pie!

Heaven on Earth!

Blessing number 5 :)

Blessing number 5

 Service and POPCORN!

 Every Friday at the institute they hold a "Food and Forum" which is a mini-fireside followed by lunch. Today was the first time that I went, and it was a very good experience, so I think I'll be making it a regular thing.

We talked about service because a couple had just gotten back from their mission in Nauvoo. They shared some really awesome stories about families that had been converted. They also told us that in all the years they've been doing the Nauvoo pageant they haven't been rained out even once! Craziness I tell you!

Anyway, after the speakers were done we moved into the gym for hamburgers. The refreshments were leftover from the Halloween dance, which was fine by me because it was absolutely delicious popcorn from the Popcorn Shop!

Have you ever heard of The Popcorn Shop? It's an awesome business here in Poky that makes every flavor of popcorn imaginable. My favorite is Pumpkin Pie Cheesecake :) The first time you go in you get a free cup of popcorn free, which rocks. 

The flavors were Tutti-Frutti and Pumpkin Pie :) I actually don't know if Tutti-Frutti was a flavor, but that's what it tastes like. That one's pretty cool because it's orange and purple for Halloween :)

After the lunch was over a bunch of people started grabbing the leftover bags from the buns and stuffing them with the popcorn. Kenna, Mystie, and I decided that it was a fabulous idea because this popcorn is usually pretty expensive. Here's what we came away with:

Just so you know, bags this big at The Popcorn Shop cost upwards of $10, so this is a huge treat! YUMM!