My Moms Specialty: Curry Chicken and Roti

       One day I'll be able to try it on my own, but I need to perfect my chicken cooking first. I'm 100% Guyanese so you already know curry chicken is the "thing" in my household. My mom makes the best I've ever tasted. I had to try really hard not to get the curry all over my fingers because the stain is so hard to get out. But sometimes I cant help it, I must get my fingers all up in it so that I can eat it ow its supposed to be eaten. Here of some pics of my mom's curry chicken and roti.When I try to do it myself, I'll be sure to post the pictures and the recipe up. :) <3

Get your fingers all in it!

Discovery!

Hey guys! I'm in New Jersey for the week and I just wanted to talk about something that I found out about at breakfast time! Nutella. I've never heard of it before and my aunt introduced it to me by making nutella, avacado,and banana sandwich. I had half and it blew my mind. It could be used as a substitute for peanut butter, as it is made with hazelnuts. It's so sweet I swore it is chocolate. When I return home, I will be buying some and placing it in my fridge pronto.

Journal: Feb 13th- Weekend

Today I woke up early again and decided to get things done. I originally planned on going to the YMCA to work out.. but that didn't happen because I had no bus fair...so I got my homework out of the way..then I cooked! This time I chose another recipe from Ateyya. It was a chili cheese casserole, made from ground beef. First while I was cooking the ground beef, I seasoned it with a mixture of salt, garlic powder, and black pepper. Then I added chopped up onions.When it turned completely brown, I added the chili sauce, with beans, and cooked it down. Then I prepared a pan with a layer of tater tots at the bottom. Then I poured the chili mixture into the pan. I preheated the oven to 375 degrees. After I flattened it out, I added a layer of  shredded mozzarella cheese at the top and popped it in the oven for a little over 20 minutes. And here are the results!

The casserole.

The meal. I had some leftovers from the corn casserole i made last week, and it still tastes slammin

Then later on, to avoid adding any more pounds to my day, I had some mango and grapes. It was worth it. Light but satisfying. 

Home sick :( But still Productive

I seem to have caught some sort of cold. But that didn't stop me.I had hominy , which is a Caribbean porridge made of boiled corn. I couldn't really taste it but hey.. And I also I decided to try some recipes on my own because I refuse to just sit around the house and do nothing. Firstly, I created the wonderful corn casserole that I learned how to make from one of my childhood teachers. Here is the link to the basic recipe: Link- All Recipes Dot Com. The only thing I did not use from the recipe is the sour cream, because thats not how I originally learned how to cook it. It came out beautifully.

             Then I made sweet and sour chicken inspired by Ateya. Here is both of them on my plate.

  

          Live each day to the fullest, whether you're traveling around the world, or you're laying sick in your bed.

Food Food Food

For the past couple of days, I've been eating some miscellaneous foods. There was almost nothing in my refrigerator... Sometimes you have to make something out of nothing.

On the top:  Baked mashes potatoes with a kind of bread on the bottom and cheese on the top.On the bottom:  half of a small baked potato..Pretty good.

Some of the delicious chili my brother made...and I made a Guyanese cheese and butter Sammich. They taste soooo good combined.

                                                         Sometimes the simplest things are enough.

And lastly, Last night I went out to eat with my church family to the famous Gabby's Pizza, who was on Rachel Ray's show, and is recognized for being the best in Queens New York. I had the baked ziti with meatballs on the side...Excellent I tell you! I clobbered that plate like I haven't seen food for a decade.

Heaven

                                           ...Now off to the gym

Journal: Feb 2nd- Snow Day!

So today I was off from school because there is some potential harm in traveling on ice.

I woke up really this morning thinking " Hmm I have been thinking a lot about cooking lately. Time for breakfast." So I whipped up some pancakes, french toast, and some homemade syrup for my mother and I to share. She taught me before how to make this chunky syrup by boiling together cherries, cranberries,  sugar, and cranberry sauce, and it came out weird looking but yet so appetizing. To top it all off I sprinkled some confectionery sugar on top.   I was very contented. This inspired me to cook now, so I'll be trying some recipes from Yes, Divas Can Cook. I love this blogger I've been looking at her recipes for a while on her blog and on YouTube and she makes me just want to...cook. I want to try her Southern pecan pie recipe...Can you say yum?

So here's my french toast & pancakes  with my chunky fruit 'syrup'. I'm quite satifsied with the results. Delicioso.

For lunch my mom made Pholouri, and if you aren't familiar with what exactly that is, it basically a Caribbean dish made from flour, yeast, split peas powder,and curry.  It is so good. She also made this kind of sauce, made from avocado like guacamole but much more flavorful to act as a dip. The best lunch I have had it a while. Don't you just love good food?

Pholouri