May 1, 2010

done

Yesterday I finished my education at the University of Southern California. It was a bittersweet moment, but I can only think of one way to celebrate...

by watching this amazing video.


Some US Soldiers in Afghanistan remade Lady Gaga's "Telephone" music video. Bravo men, I am still laughing.

April 29, 2010

IRON CHEF : avocado


I have a few friends that I regularly cook with. We all enjoy making creative dishes, but my favorite part is eating them. A few weeks ago, we randomly discussed our love of avocados and guacamole. As a native Southern Californian, I LOVE Mexican food - so guacamole provided for a nice mouthwatering tangent. Although initially a digression, avocados triggered a genius theme for our next gathering - Iron Chef Avocado.

As frequent viewers of the Food Network, we thought it would be fun to apply some of the challenges of Iron Chef to our own recipes. Last night we had our avocado adventure, and the recipes were certainly unique. See below for our creamy green creations... but, unfortunately given the investigatory nature of our recipes there are no exact amounts of anything. We played the trial and error tasting game with these dishes, and I think we won.


Avocado Deviled Eggs

avocados
hard boiled egg yolks
mustard
worcestershire sauce
chives
salt and pepper

mix ingredients to pipe into hard boiled egg whites
(we essentially replaced any sort of dairy ingredient with avocado)


BBQ Chicken Avocado Quesadillas
My recipe! I call it BBQdillas

olive oil
corn tortillas

(all inside the tortillas)
jack, cheddar, and mozzarella cheese
pre-cooked chicken marinated in BBQ sauce
red onions
tomatoes
avocados
basil

cook in the oven

Avocado Dessert Drink
This recipe is not an original. Apparently this drink is part of the cuisine in Brazil, Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Hawaii

avocados
sugar
milk
ice

blend

Avocado Risotto
Not totally sure of all the ingredients, this was a magical melting pot of taste

rice
chicken broth
onions
tomatoes
pickled garlic and garlic pepper
(we had no fresh garlic in the pantry)
capers
salt and pepper

(mixed in after preparing risotto)
parmesan
avocados

heat on the stove

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I hope you're willing to try some of these recipes or be a little creative yourself. I'm making those BBQdillas again tomorrow!


April 22, 2010

GAME OVER, RESTART

I believe I have several posts stating my desire to blog again, like the post before this one.

I wrote: "Because I have returned to my blog..."

Wait, what? I returned to my blog? Yeah, but for a brief moment in September. All those posts were filled with intentions but I never followed through. It's hard to make promises to an optional activity that communicates to a virtual abyss (or virtually everything). I hope to change that now as I'm ending school and have more free time.

Restart. Blogging...