Monday's Menu

You guys are not even ready for the recipe I am about to give you. Everyone goes nuts when I make this green bean casserole. I saw it made a few years ago on food network and it is the bomb.com. And since Thanksgiving is just days away I wanted to share it with you so you can have the dish at your Thanksgiving feast!

Green Bean Casserole

• serves 6-8
• 2 cans of green beans
• 4 tb butter
• 2 tb finely chopped onions
• 2 tb finely chopped mushrooms
• 2 tb all-purpose flour
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 1/2 cups of corn flakes
  
• shredded mozzarella cheese

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
Place green beans in a casserole dish and set aside.
Saute onions in 2 tb butter until translucent.
Stir in mushrooms, season with salt and pepper and saute 3-5 mins.
Add in flour and stir for another minute or so to cook out the raw flour taste.
Whisk in sour cream.
Simmer for a couple of minutes to bring tastes together.
Melt remaining 2 tb butter in a small pan.
Crush cereal in a plastic bag and pour in pan with butter, toss to coat.
Pour mushroom mixture over green beans.
Top with shredded cheese.
Sprinkle buttered cereal.
Bake for about 20 mins, or until light golden brown and bubbly

via google images

Monday's Menu

Soooo we had the most delicious burgers for dinner with roasted corn and one of my favorite dishes, macaroni salad with tuna. Which I was going to give you the recipe for, I took pictures of it and everything and then I saw a commercial for this..

This my friends is Sonic's new holiday treat.. the sugar cookie blast
And it is a treat indeed. The combination of cinnamon ice cream and chunks of snicker-doodle cookie go together like lamb and tuna fish (10 points if you can name that movie) but really.. perfect combination, tastes like Christmas morning. Unfortunately, I only had a few bites before my stomach gave into the richness, and I couldn't go any further.

I have a really bad, and I mean really bad habit of seeing food on TV and having to have it. NOW. It is usually something on Food Network or Travel Channel, this is the first time I've been sucked in by a commercial. Damn those clever marketing people at Sonic, they got me.. and I'm so glad they did.

Maybe when I recover from my sugar coma I'll post my macaroni salad recipe.

Monday's Menu

I am so inspired and excited by the support of my 5 new followers (whoop!) that I have decided to do a weekly post about my adventures with cooking. Today wasn't the best example to showcase but for having absolutely no food in the house, and lacking in the time department it turned out delicious. Jimmy and I love to make pizza, and one of my cook books contained the perfect recipe for tonight..

mixed herb pizza

• serves 2-4
  
• olive oil, for brushing
• 1 quantity pizza dough
• all purpose flour, for dusting
• 1/2 cup chopped fresh parsley
• 1/2 cup chopped fresh basil
• 1/4 cup chopped fresh marjoram
• 1/4 cup chopped fresh chives
  
• 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
• 1/2 cup sour cream
• 1 tbsp olive oil flavored with mixed herbs
• 1 1/3 cups freshly grated Parmesan cheese
  
• salt and pepper

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F/200 C. Brush a cookie sheet with oil

Roll out the dough on a lightly floured counter to a 10-inch/25cm round. Place on the cookie sheet and push up the edge a little. Cover and let stand for 10 minutes.

Combine the parsley, basil, chives, marjoram, garlic, and sour cream in a bowl and season with salt and pepper. Brush the pizza base with the flavored oil, then spread the herb mixture evenly over it almost to the edge. Sprinkle with the Parmesan and bake for 20 minutes, until crisp and golden brown.

(yes, we paper platted it, but look how cute they are)

I used a pre-made dough and unfortunately didn't have time to get fresh herbs but luckily my spice rack had all of them (I halved the amount of herbs called for). Even with these short cuts it turned out great!

Try it, it was super easy and great if you're short on time. And I loved that it was different than the usual tomato sauce and pepperoni pizza we usually make. AND its perfect for our vegetarian friends, Mihir and Ankita!

Thanks everyone for the kind words of encouragement, I'm super excited about blogging again and after a test on Wednesday this blog will be getting a makeover.