Showing posts with label cooking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cooking. Show all posts

Thursday, November 25, 2010

In The Kitchen: Homemade Spaghetti Sauce

Considering the fact that I tend to make this dish at least once every pay period for our house (every two weeks). I figured I would include the posting of this to my blog.

Homemade Spaghetti Sauce is recipe followed to an extent but has room for creative additions. Every time I actually make this sauce, whether it is meaty or not, I always end up tweaking the ingredients just slightly.

The most recent time I added more onions and garlic than usual, so I had to counter the acidic flavoring by sprinkling more brown sugar.

Funny, I never thought to do that when I originally started making this recipe until Joe had mentioned it to me (gotta love a man who knows a little something something in the kitchen)! Joe said the garlic and onion was overwhelming at times, that he could hardly taste the tomato. Besides it causing him alot of unnecessary heart burn and indigestion.
TOO much acid will cause these unfortunate and yucky feelings...hence why the brown sugar became a staple in my recipe.

What is great about sauces, is they are easy to make, always end up with more than you need, and they are great to freeze and use at another date.

When we do this sauce, I end up with enough to feed 2 adults, fill 2 decent size containers that could be eaten as lunch or dinner left overs, and (if its the non meaty version) enough to freeze for another 2 person course.

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Now, when it comes to sauces everyone will have their own extra additions and tricks, and it will take several makings of the sauce to get it to where you like it. So far, I have enjoyed the sauces I have come up with.

If you want to know how I do my personal homemade Spaghetti Sauce then check on the video !

Sunday, October 24, 2010

In the Kitchen: Easy Creamy, Cheesey Chicken Enchiladas

As much as I enjoy blogging about my make up passion, I do like to state that I feel like I'm a unique and overall rounded individual.

When I started off my YouTube Channel, I wanted to touch basis on all my various interests and make videos on them. I only hoped that others would be interested in watch the videos.

One of the most watched section other than my living in Germany Series and my make up tutorials is my In the Kitchen Series.

Whenever I do these types of videos, I tend to relay heavily on my wonderful and amazing assistant (and husband) as he tends to me my camera man. As well as at times my extra pair of hands when I need something stirred so that it doesn't burn.

In the In the Kitchen Series, I share my favorite dishes that I have learned from family, friends and the back of some random soups or boxes! Never doubt there is always a way to make a dish your own...just by playing with a few ingredients!


One of these, make it my own dishes I recently posted on my channel was Old El Paso's Creamy, Cheesey Chicken Enchiladas.

I gave the original recipe a little spin, making it more of a lazy man recipe (or so easy that even a non cooker could manage it).

This dish took overall about 30 minutes from start to finish to cook, which is great especially when you have hungry mouths to feed. Plus if you follow the directions exactly as it is on the El Paso Enchilada sauce can you will have more than enough for two people (cause that is all that is in our household...and Joe doesn't mind left overs).

Located below is the video of how to make the dish!!!