Noms by Q

I probably do a taco night every few weeks. It is one of the first things I put together while learning how to cook. Usually I do this with ground bison meat, but there's some bison flank steak in the freezer that needs to be used, so it gets to be made into yummy taco meat. Components: 1)  Taco meat (Meat, cumin, paprika, chipotle chili powder, garlic, salt, pepper) 2) Roasted corn and black beans (I use 1 can of each, fried in some avocado oil until the corn starts to char.) 3) Guacamole (Avocado with garlic, salt, pepper, lime juice) 4)  2 Sliced bell peppers and 1 onion to fry with the meat. Other Miscellaneous Taco Stuff: 1) Shredded Iceberg Lettuce 2) Shells (can be whatever you prefer, today I used taco salad bowls) 3) Salsa / Spicy mayo 4)  Spicy Mayo (Siracha and mayo mixed together) 5)  1 lime. Some of it for juice, some of it for garnish. Sometimes I don't add the black beans to the corn and heat up a can of refried beans instead. It mostly depends on what...

About a week ago I picked up a lemon thyme plant. I got it thinking of this interesting blueberry muffin recipe I saw using the herb, but it's sitting out on the porch looking cute, and I wanted to use it for a dinner. Most recipes that come up when searching for meals using lemon thyme involve regular thyme and lemon juice. I want to use my new plant child, so I'm going to have to improvise.  Mostly following this recipe:  https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/skillet-chicken-with-creamy-lemon-thyme-sauce/ Ingredients for the chicken: 6-ish Chicken thighs (I used 7 but one of them is on the smaller side) A drizzle of olive oil to coat the chicken Salt and Pepper to taste to season the chicken. Ingredients for the lemon thyme sauce: One small onion finely minced 1/3 cup Heavy cream 1 1/2 cup Low sodium chicken broth 1 1/2 tsp Minced garlic 1 tbsp Minced fresh lemon thyme (or regular thyme and some lemon juice) 2 tbsp Butter for frying Salt and Pepper to taste Making this broccoli ...

 This is a copy of a salad from a restaurant from the west side of Washington where I used to live. This is their website:  https://www.purplecafe.com/woodinville/ Above is the description for the salad. My mom used to make this a lot, and now I make it often when I need an easy meal during school days. Ingredients for the salad: 1 Granny smith apple cut up 3 Large stalks to celery cut up 5 oz Spinach 1/3 cup dried cranberries (or to taste) 2.25 oz Sliced almonds Ingredients for the chicken: 3 chicken breasts Garlic Salt, Pepper, Italian Seasoning to taste (really whatever seasoning you think goes well on chicken. How I season depends on my mood most days) A drizzle of olive oil to coat each chicken breasts Ingredients for the vinaigrette: 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar  1/2 cup olive oil 2 tbsp cranberry dijon mustard (or regular dijon mustard and cranberry juice)  2 tbsp honey Salt and Pepper to taste I started by brushing the chicken with olive oil, sprinkling on sea...

So, the original plan for today was a hearty meaty stew using bison chip steak. Think medieval tavern food, fit for a knight who just got back from rescuing a maiden from a dragon. I woke up this morning, went to go grab the chip steak from the freezer to get that defrosting, and there was no chip steak to be had.  I was salty, but then I saw the turkey kielbasa sausage hanging out in the freezer below where the chip steak should have been. I remembered that I also had some andouille sausage in the fridge leftover from when I made jambalaya a while ago, and then a plan started to form. I found this recipe online, and took inspiration from it:  https://www.honeyandbirch.com/potato-kielbasa-soup/ I didn't have carrots, which are part of that recipe. I also decided to add black beans to the soup, since the andouille sausage has a spicy kick, and for some reason my brain associates black beans with spicy things. The beans add protein too which is nice. The components of the soup o...

Scones and the mango I found on sale at the grocery store :) I would love to say that the scones were ~made from scratch~ but I used a box mix. I require much more caffeine to do fancy baking in the morning. I substituted the water in the mix for milk to make them a little richer. They were really yummy! This is the box I used if anyone wants to make scones too.