Saturday, August 2, 2014

So I had these peaches...

I thought about what to do with some peaches on the counter here at home, and I came up with this sweet dessert. You will never guess what MYSTERY addition is in this dish. :)

What you will need:
2 ripe peaches
2 cans Pillsbury Crescent Rolls
2 sticks of butter
1 and a half cups of Sugar
1 Teaspoon Vanilla
Powder sugar
1 can of Mountain dew (yep!)
Cinnamon
(I also used a Cinnamon Sugar grinder)

So this is really easy. 

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. 

Butter a 9x13 pan. Peel your peaches (potato peelers work great!) and pit them. Next cut each peach   Into 8 slices each (16 total). 

Next open up your Pillsbury crescent rolls, 

place a peach in a single crescent roll, 

sprinkle the cinnamon sugar on the peach 


and roll it up. 

Continue for all peach slices. Place each one in the buttered pan. They are going to be close and touching. 


Next your going to melt the two sticks of butter in a bowl and add the sugar stir. Next add the vanilla and mix again. 

Then pour over the crescent rolls. 

 Pour the can of Mountain Dew around the edges of the pan.  (You can see that I have a whole 20 oz bottle- but I measured out 12 ounces) 

Next I sprinkled some powdered sugar and cinnamon on the tops of the mixture.

Stick it in the oven for 40 minutes. 

It was amazingly good.
As soon as you take your dish out you will see liquid at the bottom the of the pan. I promise it's okay and won't taste bad! It will be soaked up as soon as it starts to cool. 

ENJOY!
















Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Fried rice!

So this girl ventured into cooking fried rice! I found a recipe on Pinterest and then I tried it. I love that website. 

So enough jabber let's get down to it. 
You will need: 
3 Tbs Sesame seed oil
1 cup of the mixed peas and carrots thawed 
1/2 an onion or one whole smaller one
2 teaspoons minced garlic
2 eggs 
3 cups (cooked) white rice. I made mine right away but the website I went off of said to use day old rice because it works best. 
1/4 cup soy sauce (I did use the less sodium soy sauce and it still tasted great) 

Start off with your burner on medium-high heat. Use either a large skillet or wok. (I used a large skillet) Add in your sesame seed oil and let it heat up a little. Then add your mixed veggies, garlic, and onion sautée until soft. This is the part where if you needed to cook some white rice (because you don't have any leftovers)- do it. I just used minute rice. Three cups of that stuff is 1 and a half cups of uncooked rice and 1 and a half cups of water. Follow their cooking instructions on rice. I find that 5 minutes does not get y rice the right texture so I usually wait about 8 minutes until I am at fluffy consistency. 

In a bowl LIGHTLY scramble the eggs (don't go all crazy now). In the pan push the veggies, garlic and onion over to one side and pour your lightly scrambled egg on the empty side of the pan. This part sould only take about a minute but you are cooking the egg-scrambling it. Once it's no longer runny you mix all of it together. Turn your heat down to medium-low. By this time I am
Pretty sure your rice is either about done or completely done- so were going to just pour it in the skillet. If you want to follow it just like me then you don't even mix it yet- pour over the soy sauce then mix it all up. Now all you are waitin for is it to be heated thoroughly. 
I am pretty sure I you used leftover rice then you would be waiting for it to heat up but since our new rice was just made it's basically done unless you want the flavors to mingle ;) a bit. Viola!!!