October 8, 2013
Shannon Zeta-Jonez
Beer & Alcohol, Breakfast, Camping, Lab On The GO, Main Dishes, Recipes, Tip of the Week, Travel & Music
bacon, black beans, Chicken Mole, eggs, Halloween, Hot dogs, Labor Day, macaroni salad, mashed potato, Spam musubi, spicy teriyaki ribs, teriyaki ribs
December 30, 2012
Shannon Zeta-Jonez
Appetizers, Main Dishes, Side Dish, The Lab
Coroke, egg, fried rice, fried rice balls. beets, garlic, ginger, gravy, IKEA, kimchi, mashed potato, meatballs, red onions, rice, teriyaki chicken
It started as a possible trip to IKEA for meatballs. Then we realized we had some in the freezer, cure all we needed was the gravy. A quick search on the internet and presto we had the recipe. I then started to look at what else we had to go with these delicious round balls of meat. We had left over mashed potato’s, rice, veggies, kimchi and beets. It was beginning to look like things were shaping up. I had a flashback to when I lived in LA and my roommates and I had watch the movie Mermaids one too many times and started to have appetizer nights. We called this a mermaid dinner. If you’ve seen the movie you’ll understand. If not, then watch at your own risk. I started to imagine our dinner was all round and how fun that would be and what a challenge it would be with the ingredients we had. So we started with the potatoes and took the left over onions and peppers and made Coroke, a side dish a different roommate I had back in San Bernardino used to make. Usually you would make them into small patties with meat and onion and fry them, but tonight it was veggie rounds. I also had made Teriyaki chicken a couple night’s before(also a recipe from the same roommate) and used the chicken, added some ginger, red onions, garlic, egg and presto fried rice. We used our microwave egg poacher(more on that in another post) to make them. Next the ice cream scooper and a spoon were perfect for the kimchi. We now had everything, put it all together and had a great time being silly, making our evening well rounded.
November 27, 2012
Shannon Zeta-Jonez
Appetizers, Beer & Alcohol, Deserts, Main Dishes, Recipes, Salads, Side Dish, The Lab, Travel & Music
Brandy, butternut squash, cocktail, cranberries, fennel, fennel salad, giblet gravy, green beans, mashed potato, New York Times, paprika, parmesan cheese, parsley, pie, pumpkin, pumpkin pie, squash, stuffing, sweet potato, sweet potato/potato mash, Thyme, Turkey, whiskey, whiskey cocktail
Another Turkey day has come and gone and we are sad to see it go. But we have great memories. We arrived at our destination late so we didn’t get any pictures of what was made. There was the usual suspects, stuff Turkey by Joe, decease green beans, side effects stuffing, cranberries along with a few new items. I made Jason’s famous smoked sweet potato/potato mash, there was a refreshing fennel salad, Brian’s sweet potatoes with paprika, Anna made butternut squash with parmesan cheese, fresh parsley and thyme, while Kirk made a lovely whiskey cocktail that had everyone thankful. Luckily for us Jason did take pictures and made a fabulous pumpkin pie that disappeared faster than giblet gravy! Or was it a pumpkin pie? I told everyone I would let them know what was it it but not til after. So without further ado the secret ingredients in the the pies were Butternut Squash and Brandy. No pumpkins were harmed in the making of this pie. We got the idea from The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/video/2012/11/14/dining/100000001903215/pumpkin-pie.html We thought, hmmmm interesting lets do it! The results speak for themselves. Two pies gone in no time. We also had an actual pumpkin pie and it was delicious. But I think from now on it’s Butternut Squash Pie that will be made in The Lab.
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