Volleyball: March 2014

French Toast Parmesan

This recipe is a variation of making french toast which usually that adds grated parmesan in the usual ingredients for a tasty breakfast.

Ingredients:
2 eggs
1/2 cup milk
1 oz finely grated parmesan cheese
minced garlic
salt and pepper
chopped parsley
chopped scallions

Direction:

Whisk eggs, milk, minced garlic and parsley. Add salt & pepper. Soak both sides of bread in the mixture. Then

Simple Baked Sweet & Sour Chicken Recipe

Sweet and sour chicken like those from Chinese restaurants can easily be made from your own kitchen using common ingredients. Here's one that I found from Food.com and made with some changes to make it healthier (hopefully). The differences have been noted below.

Sweet & Sour Chicken

Ingredients
(adapted from http://www.food.com/recipe/baked-sweet-and-sour-chicken-413483)

For the Chicken
3-4

Simple Delicious and Healthy Idea: Sliced Tomatoes on Breakfast Toast

Here's something quick, yet tasty and good for you in the morning if you don't have time to prepare a hearty breakfast.

All you need are
toasted bread
cream cheese
sliced tomatoes
minced garlic from a jar
olive oil
salt and pepper

Directions are quite simple. Toast bread and spread cream cheese on it. Slice tomatoes and rub with minced garlic. Drizzle olive oil. Salt and pepper to taste.

Chicken and Shell Pasta on Creamy Cheese Sauce Recipe

Can't get enough chicken dinner. Now that summer is around the corner, grilling and barbecuing is in my mind and, I'm sure, to many others. This creamy and cheesy pasta recipe has bite-sized grilled chicken as a main ingredient. Should be fun and yummy to make for a small group of guests.

Creamy Chicken Pasta

Ingredients for 6 servings
1.5 lbs. boneless, skinless chicken breast
2 heads of

Crispy Roasted Potato Recipe

Think about this dish for Easter. It will certainly make quite an impression to your guests. This crispy roasted potato will definitely go well with the baked ham that you're serving. Kudos to Martha Stewart (basic recipe) and SmittenKitchen (goat cheese and crisp pancetta topping) for giving us a wonderful potato dish.

Crispy Roasted Potatoes

Ingredients
source: http://www.marthastewart.com/

Simple Easter Baked Glazed Ham Recipe

This easy recipe to bake ham comes in handy during other holidays such as Thanksgiving and Christmas as well.

Baked Ham With Brown Sugar Glaze

Ingredients:
4-5 lbs boneless ham
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup honey
1/2 tsp ground cloves
Direction:

Wrap ham in foil and bake at 350 deg F for one hour.

In a saucepan or small pot, heat brown sugar, honey and cloves until sorta runny. Pour honey

Sweet Oatmeal Bread Recipe

Sweet Oatmeal Bread Baked w/ Honey

INGREDIENTS:
1 package active dry yeast
11 ounces bread flour, plus extra for kneading
1/4 cup toasted uncooked old fashioned rolled oats, plus 1 tablespoon, divided
1 teaspoon kosher salt
12 ounces leftover, cooked old fashioned rolled oats, at room temperature
1/4 cup warm water
2 tablespoons agave syrup
1 tablespoon olive oil, plus extra for bowl and pan
1

Three Cheese Baked Mac n Cheese Recipe

Baked Mac and Cheese

Ingredients:
1/2 lb elbow macaroni (cooked al dente)
5 tbsps melted butter
1/2 cup flour
1 cup hot whole milk
1/2 tbsp salt
1 tsp pepper
1 tsp ground nutmeg
1/2 cup panko breadcrumbs
12 oz shredded gruyere
8 oz shredded cheddar
6 oz chunky goat cheese
Directions:

Preheat oven to 375 deg F. Also start boiling your macaroni so that it's cooked al dente by the time you're

Simple Coleslaw Recipe

Vinegar-Based Coleslaw

Ingredients:
1 small head purple cabbage, shredded
1 small head green cabbage, shredded
2 carrots
1 red onion, cut into thin strips
3/4 cup mayo
1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
1 tablespoon hot sauce (optional)
1 green pepper, sliced into thin strips (optional)
1 red pepper, sliced into thin strips (optional)
Direction:

Mix everything in a bowl. The addition of peppers and

Mexican Rice Stuffed Pepper Recipe

Stuffed peppers is a great all-purpose dish. They can be appetizers or they can be casual main course. My favorite stuffing to use in stuffed peppers are usually grains of some sort.

There's a recipe here for quinoa stuffed peppers. In this particular case, Mexican rice is used primarily. Some leftover quinoa is thrown in and can be seen in the picture, but these are not part of the recipe and

Simple Homemade Buttermilk Biscuits Recipe

Biscuits From Scratch

Ingredients:
2 cups All-Purpose flour
1 tbsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
8 tbsp of chilled butter
1 cup buttermilk plus more for brushing on the top of the biscuits
Direction:

Preheat oven to 450 deg F.

Add flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt to a large bowl. Mash in butter with your fingers, working quickly because you don't want the butter to

Sautéed Lentil-Thyme-Leek-Spinach-Beets Salad

Ingredients
1 tbsp oil
1 tbsp butter
1 small leek, cleaned and trimmed
1/4 medium onion, diced
1 1/2 tsp dried thyme, or 1 1/2 tbsp fresh thyme
3 garlic cloves, chopped
1 1/2 cup fresh spinach, chopped
2 cup prepared lentils
1 bunch beets – peeled, diced to 1/2 inch and roasted
3 scallions, chopped
1 tbsp chopped cilantro
1 tbsp chopped parsley

Direction

In a pan over medium heat, add oil and

Spring and Easter Cupcakes w/ Chocolate Swiss Meringue Buttercream Icing & Cadbury Egg Decor

Cupcakes are a fun way to greet the spring season. We usually have an event in church for Easter and a few of us bring food for fundraising. The past few years, I and other members bring cupcakes. As always, the fun part for me is baking and decorating them.

There are some choices to make when it comes to cucpakes. The first one is on the cupcake itself. Do you make a chocolate cupcake,

Colored Deviled Eggs Recipe

Springtime is about colors and that includes food. Deviled eggs do not have to be the usual white and yellow color that's already tasty in most cases. There are ways to spice up the eggs for more colorful presentation.

See this video for dyeing the eggs. Then follow the recipe below to make the eggs filling. It's almost identical to another deviled egg recipe in this blog, but with addition

General Tso's Chicken Recipe

Adapted from http://prettygirlfood.com/post/42241481089/general-tsos-chicken-ingredients-serves-4-1-4

General Tso's Chicken

Ingredients for 4:
1/4 cup chicken stock
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar
2 tablespoons hoisin sauce
2 teaspoon Sriracha sauce
2 teaspoons sesame oil
3 tablespoons sugar
1/3 cup + 2 teaspoons cornstarch, divided
1 pound boneless skinless chicken