Mussel Alfredo

Michelle Wright from WPXI came to interview me and I made her Mussel Alfredo.
Here is the story on the news.

You need:
Mussels in shells
Pasta
Nob of butter
1 cup Whole milk or heavy whipping cream
1 tablespoon Flour
garlic salt
Sliced mushrooms (optional)

Method:
Boil the water and cook the pasta to al dente.
Melt the butter in a pan and add the flour and mix until they combine.
Slowly add the milk or cream and keep the heat on until the sauce thickens.
In another pan heat a little EVOO and cook the mushrooms add to sauce.
Put the mussels in their shells in the hot pan add some garlic salt - heat.
Drain the pasta and add to the sauce (I add a splash of the pasta water to the sauce).
Plate the pasta then add some mussels.
Yum

Me and Michelle Wright

Cooking Light Magazine

I am in Cooking Light Magazine.  My first recipe was Fish Tacos.  They were so good!  You have to try them and the recipe is really easy to make.

Me at Red Lobster

Kid's Smoothie (Vlog)

Last week I made a kid smoothie. 
You will need;
3 scoops of ice cream
1/4 cup blue berry's  (optional)
4 big strawberry's  (can use frozen)
1/2 banana
1/2 cup of milk use as much as you need to make it smooth.
Blend  all ingredients until  smooth.  Put in a glass and decorate with a strawberry sliced partway through the middle and stick on the side of the glass, add a straw.  Drink and enjoy.
For a healthy option use yogurt instead of ice cream and low fat milk (I use whole fat cos I need the calories).

Mellon Cutter Review

For Christmas I got a cool cheese grater (love it) and this melon cutter.  I love cantaloupe so its not surprising that I got the cutter even though I really did not know what it was at first.  I decided to test it yesterday since I was in the mood for cantaloupe.
Even though it is plastic it cut the melon nicely.  It also can be used for scooping out the seeds.  I thought it worked much better than a spoon.  It says you can use it to peel the cantaloupe but I use a knife which is easier.
Out of 10 I would give it a 7.  Its useful but not a must have in my kitchen.


I have been really busy cooking and writing  for Cooking Light - it is so much fun.  My Mom has taken some squid out of the freezer for my dinner tonight.  Yum I can't wait.  I still have not decided how I am going to cook it but if I can't think of anything better I like it just in a pan with some EVOO and salt (I'm not a fan of pepper).  Sometimes I bread it or make a sauce or pasta.

See you soon.  I have a smoothie recipe to show you.

olives

This is a good!
Olives stuffed with goat cheese and crab:

Stuffed Black Olives

Black Olives
4 Table spoons of goat cheese
1/4 cup of crab
1 tsp of Greek yogurt
Tear the crab mix into thin slices.
Mix shredded crab, goat cheese and Greek yogurt.
Fill a piping bag with the filling.
Cut the end of the piping bag and squeeze the filling in to the black olives. mmmmmmmmmmmmm.

TC Pizza

Last night I made TC Pizza' - it is goooood!
Flat Bread
Tomato Paste
Goat Cheese
Black Olives
Mushrooms
Anchovies (optional - I like them).
Shredded Romano cheese (optional)
Garlic salt
Mix the tomato paste and goat cheese together and spread on flat bread. This is tasty enough but if you like cheese you can add Romano or other cheese.
Slice olives into tyres (circles) and sprinkle on top
Slice mushrooms and sprinkle on top.
Sprinkle garlic salt to taste

Broil for about 5 minutes or until edges are brown.  Awesome Yummy!!!


See you soon - peace out!
Thank you for all the messages - I could not believe it when I saw them all!!!
I made my first dish for Cooking Light Magazine and wrote about it it will be in the March issue if you want to check it out.

Parade Magazine

Thank you all for reading parade magazine pretty soon I am posting some videos -  see you soon and thanks!!!!!!!!!!!! ;) :) :) :) :)

Matisse's Seafood Feast

Hi Peeps

I am sick today so I am home from school watching 'The Chew', a cooking show on TV.  I learned that you can mix cooked bacon, sour cream and paprika together and put on nachos or baked potato for extra flavor.  You can mix almost any herb or spice with sour cream to add extra flavor.

I think I am allergic to pepper so am not using it so much in my cooking.

I found out how to make a flower out of  icing.  It is hard but I figured it out  and I am pretty good at it now.

After my transplant mum promised to buy be a lobster.  We got one from Wholey's (my favorite seafood market).  I prepared it by removing it from the shell, threw it on a hot pan for a couple of seconds to heat it up and ate it with salt.  It was sooooo good.

I went to Ocean City and  had  the kids seafood feast at Hoopers Crab Shack.  It was all you can eat crab, shrimp, corn, chicken and hush puppies.  Of course I ate mostly crab and shrimp. 

Kids Seafood Feast - YUM!

Look out Lobster here I come!