Chocolate Cookie Dough Dessert Dip

Chocolate Cookie Dough Dessert Dip 

When we were little, we always loved to go over to Grandma's house, or stay up late with mom baking cookies while sneaking spoonfuls of cookie dough when they weren't looking. Why? Because it was DELICIOUS! And this recipe is family friendly to ALL ages. Everyone loves it; kids, teens, and adults. This dish is great for parties or for a new dessert to have late at night for a movie-rental-night with the family. And the best thing is, it's SOO simple to make! Plus, its nearly IMPOSSIBLE to get sick from it(unless you down a whole tub of it) because it has no eggs, unlike REAL cookie dough. So here is my 'Cookie Dough Dessert Dip.'
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cup of brown sugar
1/2 cup of butter
1/2 teaspoon of vanilla
1/2 cup of milk
2 cups of flour
 1/2  cup of chocolate chips
1/2 cup of whoppers (or any other chocolate-y of fudge- type of candy to your liking)
1 bag of salted pretzels

Directions:
1. In a medium bowl, mix brown sugar and butter until smoothly blended together.
2. Add vanilla and milk into the mix and stir in until its liquidy

3. mix in flour, chocolate chips, and candy until it has a dough- like texture to it.
3. cool it in the fridge for about 20 minutes, take out, and dip in with pretzels!
4. enjoy!:)

Pizza... taco style:)

During the summer, majority of american households don't want to spend FOREVER making a meal. We want something that appeals to our tastebuds, something that is quick, and easy. For me, this is homemade pizza (the easy way!). But this isn't NORMAL pizza, it has a unique twist to it. So if you like easy, yummy, summer lunch ideas, this is a fun recipe for you.

Pizza..Taco Style:)

Ingredients:
- 2 medium sized corn tortillas
- 1/2 cup of mozzarella cheese
- 2 tablespoons of chopped purple onion
- 1/4 cup of pre-made pizza sauce
- 1 teaspoon of garlic bread powder

Directions:
1. Preheat the oven too 400 degrees
2. Get out a pan that you can bake with, and place the 2 tortillas on the pan.
3. measure out the 1/4 cup of pizza sauce, and spread half of the amount of pizza sauce on one tortilla, and the remaining amount on the other tortilla.
4. sprinkle the garlic bread powder on top of the pizza sauce ( you can add more powder if you want, but be careful because it's flavor can be VERY overpowering if you add TOO much)
5. add a little bit of cheese on both tortillas.
6. evenly spread the onions on the two tortillas and then spread the remaining of the cheese on top of both of the tortillas.
7. when oven is done preheating, put the tortillas in the oven for about 10 minutes(or until cheese has melted)

8. When done, take out, let it sit for about two minutes, then put on a plate.
9. After being put on a plate, fold the tortillas in half, like a taco, and eat!
10. Enjoy!

delicious scrambled eggs and watermelon

I love scrambled eggs, it's one of my favorite things to have in the morning. Also, I love to have something sweet; like fruit, to go with it in the morning. So if your anything like me and like something sweet and like to have an egg dish in the morning, you'll love this perfect breakfast recipe.


Delicious Scrambled Eggs and Watermelon 

Ingredients:
- 4 slices of watermelon
-2 eggs
-1/4 cup of mozzarella cheese
- salt and pepper (to taste)
-2 slices of avocado
-2 tablespoons of chopped purple onion

Directions:
1. start to put the pan out on the stove, and turn the heat dial to medium. Let it heat up
2. crack the two eggs onto the pan, and throw away the shells.
3. take a plastic, spatula and mix the two eggs together in the pan so its the egg whites AND the yolk together in the egg dish.
4. once eggs are cracked into the pan, sprinkle on salt and pepper. For me, I like more pepper and salt, so it gives it more of a flavor, but do it to YOUR personal taste.
5. chopp the one slice of the purple onion, and add to the eggs while its cooking. Then, add the cheese.
(I chose mozzarella because it's more low in fat than other cheeses)
6. Keep on mixing eggs in the pan, until it is not liquify anymore (but personally for me, I like it when it's a tiny bit underdone and liquidy so it tastes a little bit moist as compared to dry and overdone.)
7. When done, put on the plate, and mix in the chopped pieces of avocado.
8.Lastly, add the watermelon on the side to the dish.

9. Enjoy!

Cinnamon and apple oatmeal

On weekend mornings like these, you usually want something to eat that doesn't take forever to cook, but thats the worth the time. For me, it's my homemade oatmeal recipe. Now, I have NEVER been a oatmeal fan.. at all. But this recipe is soooo yummy. Also, it's pretty low cal &low fat for breakfast.  AND, you can just warm it up in the microwave for about 2 minutes the next day for breakfast on the go!So here's my recipe for Cinnamon&Apple Oatmeal:


Cinnamon& Apple Oatmeal
Ingredients:
6 cups of water
2 cups of "Bob's Red Mill - Whole grain steel cuts oats"
1/2-1 apple
3-4 tbsp of cinnamon
2 tbsp of chopped almonds
1 tbsp of aguava nectar (or stevia)

Instructions:
1. Pour 6 cups of water into a pan and put stove on medium to high heat, until water is boiling.
2. Once water boils, turn stove heat to low, and add the 2 cups of whole grain steel cut oats mix
3. Cover pan with a lid, and let the oatmeal cook for about 20minutes.
4.While oats cook, take the apple and dice it into small, bite sized, cubed pieces.
5. When oats are done cooking, take lid off, and scoop out about 1/4 to 2/4 cup for a serving and put in a bowl.
5. Take the apple diced pieces and put it in the oatmeal mix.
6.Then, sprinkle the cinnamon and chopped onions onto oatmeal mix.
7. Mix all together, and taste. If you want more sweetness, add the aguava nectar and mix.
9. Eat & enjoy!

olive oil and garlic popcorn

One of my favorite summer snack dishes is a fresh, yummy bowl of popcorn. And no, not your average fatty-movie-popcorn. This is BY FAR, one of my favorite types of popcorn. Its great in the summer, for a movie night at home, or just for an after school snack.

Ingredients:
2 tbsp of olive oil
1/4 cup of orville redenbacher's original 'gormet popping corn'
2 tsp of salt
2 tbsp of pepper
1/2 tbsp of garlic bread seasoning

Directions:
1. Put the 1/4cup of popping corn in a microwaveable bowl. then you will want to put plastic food wrap over the bowl, from preventing the popcorn popping in everywhere EXCEPT for the bowl.
2. put in microwave for about 2 minutes and 30 seconds to 3 minutes(time will vary on the type of microwave)
3. take out popcorn when it's all done popping, and evenly pour olive oil on popcorn and move around popcorn in the bowl so that all the popcorn gets oil on it.
4. sprinkle the salt and pepper evenly throughout the popcorn.
5. mix in the garlic bread seasoning evenly throughout the popcorn (you don't need a ton because the taste of the garlic bread seasoning is very strong and goes a long way).
6. Enjoy!

(above)before

(after) Final product!

Pork Summer Dinner :)

During the summer, it starts to near towards where you're sick of the rainy, fall weather and start firing up the grill, getting out the kabob sticks, start boiling the ears of corn and making the delicious smell of BBQ. So tonight, I made a delicous pulled pork sandwhich with taziki sauce on naan bread.

Ingredients:
Costco's Smoked Pulled Pork
Traditional Naan Indian Bread (you can get it at Trader Joe's or costco)
Taziki Greek Yogurt Sauce
Avacado

Steps:
1. Take the pulled pork, and put in microwave for 7 minutes
2. Take out pork, and put in naan bread in microwave for about 20-30 seconds.
3. When done, take pulled pork, cut open package, (after sitting for about 2 minutes) pull pork apart gently with a fork
4. Spread a decent amount of Taziki sauce on the whole top size of naan bread.
5. Take pulled pork, and put pieces on only half of naan bread.
6. Cut avacado in half, throw away the pit, and put 1 to 2 avacado slices on top of the meat.
7. Fold naan bread in half to make like a sandwhich sort of dish.
8. enjoy!

P.S. - this dish also tastes yummy with a tall glass a milk!

Easy 60 Second Chocolate Cake

Mostly EVERYONE loves chocolate.. your insane if you don't. And for me, I love chocolate anytime :) And chocolate gooey-yummy chocolatey cakes are THE BEST. BUT, the issue with alot of people is that they don't want to take the time to make it, OR they just can't afford the massive amount of calories or sugar intake. And coming from a family where constant dieting is a factor, I know what you're talking about. So here's my low calorie and low sugar chocolate 60 SECOND cake.. yes folks, only 60 seconds! :)

Ingredients:

4 tbsp of flour

1 1/2 tbsp of truvia or some other natural sweetener

3tbsp of unsweetened cocoa powder

3tbsp of milk

1tbsp of vegetable oil

1egg

1/4 tsp of salt

1/4 tsp of baking soda

Directions:

1. Mix all ingredients in a bowl and mix until it looks like normal cake batter.

2. Pour cake batter into normal sized coffee mug.

3. Put mug in microwave anywhere from 50seconds to 1 minute and 15seconds. (time will depend on your type of microwave

4. Enjoy!

*P.S. if the cake still seems gooey, like it's underdone, that's ok! The cake will still cook even after you take it out of microwave.

.. But DONT eat this cold because it will tend to get dry the more you let it cook, so eat up! :)

Multi Berry Frozen Yogurt

Calling all sweet tooth's!! Love fruit? Any fruity type of ice cream or frozen yogurt? So do I! Let's face it, we ALL love sweets, but apparently the bathroom weight scale doesn't like us to love sweets as much as we would like to have them. It's sad, but true. BUT, that doesn't mean you have to starve your selves from sweets, ice cream, and anything fruity that appeals to you. You don't NEED to have all that fattening, sugar junk to be satisfied with sweets. With most people, they want to be able to watch their weight, lose weight, eat healthy, but they don't want to miss out on their favorite foods. So if you love sweets, but don't want to indulge in the large amount of calorie or sugar intake for it, this is the PERFECT recipe for you. This is my 'multi berry frozen yogurt':


Multi- Berry Frozen Yogurt


Ingredients:
-6 medium/large strawberries
- 1 banana
-1 small serving container of fat free/ light yoplait yogurt
-1 to 2 tbsp of lemon juice
-2/4 cup of blueberries
-1 packet of truvia sweetener
-15 to 20 ice cubes

Directions:
1. cut up strawberries into fourths
2. cut the banana into small bite sized pieces
3. add the whole container of yogurt, fruit, and ice cubes in blender.
4. add 2tbsp of lemon juice, one packet of truvia, and about 17 ice cubes to the blender mix
5. blend

*what the mix should look like after blending
6. add more ice cubes if it's still too thick/ not liquidy enough
7. put the multi berry yogurt mix into ice cream forming cones or any other Popsicle type of container

 


*what mix should look like in ice cream cone former 
8. put in the freezer and freeze for about 3-4 hours (or until frozen). If any is left over, pour in a cup for a tasty, thick type of smoothie! :D

 

*in the freezer

*Finished product!
9. Enjoy! :)

Spicy Chile & Corny Rice

On a wet, muggy day, there's nothing better than good ol' fashioned chile with beans and meat:). But MY kind of chile is the good ol' fashioned kind..but doctored up. AND, who DOENSN'T like corn? especially with yummy brown rice? Meee! So here's my recipe of Spicy Chile & Corny Rice

Spicy Chile& Corny Rice

Ingredients:

1 can of nalley original chile with meat&beans

1 can of whole kernel corn

2tbs of LIGHT sour cream

black ground pepper

1 green  onion, finely chopped

brown rice(1 cup)

3tbs olive oil

Directions:

1) open the can of chile and put in a microwaveable bowl and put in microwave for about 3minutes.

2) while chile is cooking, chop up green onion into finely, small, chopped pieces

3) take chile out of microwave and put in chopped green onion, light sour cream, black ground pepper(to taste)

*what chile should look like after adding green onion

4) open can of corn and put in a microwaveable bowl and put in microwave for about 3minutes

5) take corn out, and put about 3 tbs of corn in chile and mix together 

6) Now, its time for the brown rice. Put in a microwaveable bowl and put in microwave for about 3 minutes. 

7) when done, take rice out and put about 4-5 tbs of corn in rice, and drizzle about 3tbs of olive oil over rice. 

8) mix together 

9) enjoy!

*Final Products!:)

Creamy Veggie Soup

Okay, soo I've been in a soupy type of mood because of the icky, rainy weather lately :) & I stumbled upon this soup recipe. If you like anything cheesy, creamy, and with veggies, THIS is the way to go! Hope you like it , here's my version of Creamy Veggie Soup:

Creamy Veggie Soup 


Ingredients:
1 3/4 cups of chicken broth
1small onion, diced
1/3 cup all purpose flour
1/4cup(4tps) of butter
1/2 tps of pepper
1/2 tps of salt
2 cups of milk
2 1/2 cup shredded cheddar jack mix
3 cups chopped, steamed of carrots, cauliflower, broccoli, peas(& any other veggies you like)
Directions:
1) Cook the veggies in a glass bowl, covered in saran wrap in the microwave for 3minutes and 30seconds while you get the soup ready
2)Cook the chicken broth and chopped union in a small saucepan for about 15 minutes
3) heat the milk in a medium sized glass bowl for about 1-2 minutes
3)in another medium sized bowl, melt the butter, then add flour, and salt&pepper. Cook while stirring constantly, for about 2 minutes, then whisk in warmed milk.

 *what the soup should look like after adding the milk to the butter and flour mix
4) pour the milk and butter mix into the onion and chicken broth mix, and stir on medium heat for about 8 minutes, or until the soup is thickened.

*what the soup should look like after adding the milk mix and chicken broth mix together
5)Add cheeses to the soup and stir until cheese has melted. Stir in veggies and add more salt and pepper to taste, if needed. If the soup is too thick, you can whisk in some more milk or chicken broth. OR if it's too thin, you can still simmer the soup a bit longer til it thickens up.

* Finished Product! :)
6)enjoy!

Black Forest Cherry Cupcakes

everyone loves sweets..right? & for any potluck/family or friend party, here's a delicious treat that kids AND adults will adore. They're oober easy to make, low priced, and simple. This is my momma's famous black forest cherry cupcakes :) hope you like it!

Black Forest Cherry Cupcakes

Ingredients:

-  1 package of Betty Crocker's chocolate moist cake mix

-1/3 cup vegetable oil

- 1 cup water 

-about 1/2- 1 sticks of butter

- 2 1/2cups of powdered sugar

- 1tsp of vanilla extract 

- 2 tsp of milk 

-1 can of 'wilderness cherries'

Directions:

1) Take a large bowl, and pour in the package of Betty Crocker's chocolate  moist cake mix, vegetable oil, and water. Mix together with a whisk. 

2) Preheat oven to 225 

3) take out a muffin tin tray, and put in cupcake paper holders in each muffin compartment. 

4) take a medium to large sized spatula, and pour batter mix into each muffin compartment (make sure that it's a little less than halfway full or else it WILL overflow when baking.) Continue doing this throughout ALL compartments of muffin tin 

5) when done preheating, place the muffin tin tray into the oven, timing for about 21 minutes. (and when you take the cupcakes out, it IS okay if they seem a little mushy, or not like fully cooked cake mix. Because you want them to come out more as done like brownies & moist rather than a cake.)

* cupcakes baking in the oven 

6) while the cupcakes are baking, get out a large bowl. You will also need a hand mixer with up to 2 whisks'

7)put in 1/2 stick of butter, 2 1/2 cups of powdered sugar, 1tsp of vanilla extract, and 2tsp of milk in the bowl. On the hand mixer, plug it in and power it on the low speed setting and mix the ingredients in a large bowl. 

8) add another 1/2 stick of butter if the frosting is clumpy still, so it softens it out, OR add a little bit more milk.

9) once the cupcakes are done, take them out of the oven, take them out of the muffin compartments, and lay them out on a open spaced countertop& let the cupcakes cool for about 5-10 minutes. 

10) repeat steps 2-5. when the second batch is baking, start icing the cupcakes that are now done cooling down. 

11) take the can of 'wilderness cherries' and open it with a can opener and put about 2-3 cherries on per cupcake. 

12) continue to do what you did with the first batch with the rest of the batches until the chocolate cupcake batter is gone. 

enjoy!

*Finished Product! :)

Baked Italian Parmesan Tomatoes

On dark, wet, long Saturdays, there's plenty of times when you just want to stay home. But your appetite doesn't. A lot of the time you'll want to just lounge around the house with your hair back, in sweats, no make up on (this may be very familiar to lots of young moms or college students).. Am I right or wrong?

Wait, no, you really shouldn't answer that. I'm right. 

Anyways, on these days you want to have a gourmet meal at home without spending all that cash with having it delivered to your house, you can easily make a blissful, light tasting, yummy italian side dish that goes great with some salad & a veggie burger, a doctored up italian pasta, or even some garlic-cheese bread toast& salad. So here is my baked parmesan tomato italian side dish

Baked Italian Parmesan Tomatoes

Ingredients

- 1 tomato (4 tomato slices/sliced horizontally)

-1/4cup of grated parmesan cheese(or any other bake-able cheese that you would prefer)

-1/2tbsp rosemary

-1/2tsp garlic spread  

-1/4tsp salt

-ground pepper(amount varies depending on your taste)

-4 tsp safflower oil

Directions

1)Preheat oven to 450

2)place baking sheet on a large or medium sized cookie sheet, then add the tomato slices

3)next, add parmesan to top of tomatoes slices, along with oregano, salt&pepper

4)Drizzle with oil 

*What they should look like before being put in the oven

5)Once done preheating, put in oven and bake for about 15 minutes; or until tomatoes are tender

6)enjoy!

Grilled Tunafish Taco&Tzatiki Rice

Love fresh, tuna fish tacos? Who said you had to go to a mexican food joint to have a delicious mexican dish? Well, you don't! All you need is at home. Here's my grilled tuna fish taco & tzatziki rice

Grilled Tuna Fish Taco&Tzatziki Rice


Ingredients
- 1/2-1 cans of tuna fish "chicken of the sea"
- 1tbsp mayo
-pinch of salt and pepper
-2 white corn tortillas
-1-2 green onions
-1/4 of an avocado
-1tbsp (per taco) of refried beans
-1tsp of cheddar jack shredded cheese(per taco)
-1/2 cup of leftover white jasmine rice
-2tsp tzatziki greek yogurt dip





Directions
1)Heat stove on high
2)Take 2 tortillas and put 1 tbsp on each taco
3)Put about 2tbsp of tuna on each taco
4) chop up green onions so it's diced up, small pieces
5)split chopped amount of green onion between 2 tacos and spread evenly on top of tuna
6)cut 1/4 of avacado into 6 pieces, and put 3 slices on each taco
7)put 1tsp of cheddar jack cheese on each taco
8)Fold taco tortilla hotdog style

*What taco should like before cooking on the pan
9)spread flafflower oil evenly on pan before cooking tacos
10)cook tacos on each side for about 2-3 minutes, or until crispy brown

*Taco cooking on pan
11)when flipping tacos on each side, drizzle safflower oil on the other side of the taco so it cooks quickly &well
12)while cooking the tacos, heat white rice in microwave for 45seconds
13) when rice is done heating, put in tzatziki greek yogurt dip &mix together
14)enjoy!

*Final product!:)

No-Bake Cookie Bars

Everyone loves dessert, you're crazy if you don't! Most people think to make a good dessert, you need to go to the grocery store, buy all those expensive ingredients, pay for something very costly, and then have to make it at your home. But what they don't know, that's soo far from the truth! You can very little, but make an amazing, delicious, dessert with no cost. How? In your own pantry of course!
& for those simple, easy make desserts for after a good meal, here are my easy but yet oh so yummy no bake cookie bars.



No-Bake Cookie Bars


Ingredients:
-1/2 stick of butter
-3/4  bag of mini marshmallows(if you want an extra sugar-not so high calorie yummy taste, try the coconut coated marshmellows. They're my favorite!)
- 4 cups of honey nut cherios
-1tps of vanilla extract
-2 cups of chocolate chips
-2tbsp of peanut butter

Directions:
1) First, you'll need a large Tupperware bowl & a spatula for mixing
2) take the 1/2 stick of butter, and the 3/4 bag of mini marshmallows in the large bowl

3)melt in microwave for 1 minute or until marshmallows are melted (not liquid.. just melted).
4) Take out of the microwave, and add 4cups of honey nut cherios to the mix
5)Don't mix quite yet! First, add 1tps of vanilla extract for that vanilla-yummy-scented-flavor
6) Now mix! :) & make sure that all of the ingredients in the bowl stick together without falling apart (the marshmallows should help with that. If they are not sticking, add more melted marshmallows to the mix) using the 'fold-in' method.
7)add 1 cup of chocolate chips to the mix and continue to mix
8)Now you'll need a glass baking/casserole dish that is measurements of 9x13
9)spread the mix in the bowl evenly throughout and make sure its packed
10)now take a medium sized bowl, and add remainder of chocolate chips in the bowl.
11) put in microwave for about 1 minute (or until chocolate chips melt)
12) when you take the bowl out of the microwave, stir it with the spatula so no chocolate chip clumps are in the mix
13) after mixing, add the amount of peanut butter in the chocolate chip bowl mix and stir until the two ingredients are morphed
14) pour the mix evenly across on top of the dessert in the pan. (if you run out, make some more peanut butter and chocolate chip mix.. Which would mean repeating additional steps #s 10-14)

*This is how the chocolate chip/peanut butter mix should look like on the dessert in the glass dish and how it should be spread evenly through

15) when all done, let the dessert sit for about 1 hour so then it's ready to be served
16) enjoy!

*Finished Product! :) 

Rainy Day Pizzas

During those rainy, icky, stay-inside-days, nothing beats a good pizza. But no need to waste about $20 on   pizzerias like Alfy's, Pizza Hut, or Dominos! Not when you can make it in your home save yourself the cost of all that mullah for only one cheap tasting pizza! you can make it in your VERY own home. And even without the drastic time taken up. Here's a how to on making an easy, customized, homemade pizza:

Rainy Day Pizza

Ingredient:

-2cups of mexican shredded cheese blend

-1/4 cup of pepperoni (or ham/turkey)

-left over crusty bread OR hoagie rolls 

-1cup  bbq sauce

-1 piece of rotisserie chicken breasts(w/out skin) cut into bite size pieces. 

-1/2 cup of tomato sauce

-5-6 pieces of dices of pineapple (cut those diced pieces in half to spread evenly across pizza)

-*other additional pizza toppings

-thin tomato slices(cut in halfs)

Directions:

1) put about 6-8 pieces of bread evenly on large cookie sheet

2) spread tomato sauce evenly on 3-4 pieces of bread, and bbq sauce on the other 3-4 pieces of bread

3)for tomato sauce pizzas, spread cheese evenly on those pieces of bread. For the bbq pizza, spread about       3-4 pieces of chicken on the pizzas. 

4)cut tomatoes and spread them across ALL pizzas (about 2 1/2 slices of tomato on each pizza)

5)put pineapple ONLY on the bbq pizzas. (bout 2-3 pieces for each pizza)

6) put additional pizza toppings on both pizzas *optional

7) add another good amount of cheese to top on ALL the pizzas

*What the pizzas should look like BEFORE put into the oven

8) Preheat oven to 400

*cooking in the oven 

9)cook for about 15minutes; or until cheese has melted

10) enjoy!

*Finished Product! :)

Ham&Egg Breakfast Cup

If you ask most people, they'll say they love any type of breakfast foods; especially anything that has to do with eggs, ham, cheese, onion, the whole deal. For me, I love eggs, ham, toast, anything simple and fresh that doesn't take forever  to make for breakfast that's gives the morning something that's a little different. So here's breakfast with a twist of creativity. 

Ham&Egg Breakfast Cups:


(ingredients)
-about 1/2-1 slice of ham(for each ham cup) but the amount of ham slice used per cup depends on the size of the ham slice you use
-1 egg per ham cup
-2 green onions
-any type of cheese for a topping
-salt&pepper
-sour cream
Directions:
1) Preheat oven to 400
2) while oven preheats, you'll need a muffin tin with about 12 muffin compartments.
3) Line each compartment of a regular muffin tin with 1/2-1 piece of ham (or other lunchmeat, but i prefer ham because it brings out the salty flavor in the egg)
4) crack only ONE egg in each muffin tin compartment
5) if you want, sprinkle salt(not a ton, a small amount is good), and pepper onto the egg
6)when oven is done, preheating, place in oven for about 14-17minutes if you like your eggs all the way done, but if you like your eggs like mine; done but a little runny/soft at the top, cook for about 10-14minutes.

(the picture above is what it should look like cooking in the oven)

5) when done, top with green onion for a extra yummy taste, and if you want, cheese for topping(I chose mexican shredded cheese blend)
6) enjoy!

The finished product! :)
& for an extra boost of flavor, add a small spoonful of sour cream on top of each of them. Tastes great with a small glass of milk also!