It's that time of year....

It's garden time!! I started last week getting my pots and dirt already for planting vegetables and herbs. I ordered a bunch of seeds from Penny's Tomatoes, I just got them so I put them in little peat pots to germinate.  If all goes well this year I will have tons of tomatoes. I will update this blog within a few days, hopefully I will post some pictures too.

Simply Awesome Chocolate Chip and Banana Muffins

I love banana's.  Most of the time I'm eating them with peanut butter and Nutella.  Today I wanted to make something that I could have for breakfast or even a late night snack.  I found this recipe on the web but I changed it just a tad.

Chocolate Chip and Banana Muffins
1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup dark brown sugar
1 1/2 cup butter melted (unsalted)
2 cups mashed overripe bananas (I used 3 big ones)
3 eggs
2 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
2 1/2 tsps. of baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1/2 cup of chocolate chips (coated in flour)

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line two 6-cup muffin tins with liners.  I had extra batter so I did another 6 cups later.  In a large bowl, combine the sugars, melted butter, bananas, and eggs; mix well.  In another bowl combine the flour, baking soda and salt.  Add the dry ingredients to the wet and whisk until the batter is evenly moistened.  Stir in the chocolate chips.
Spoon the batter into the prepared muffin cups, bake for about 25-28 minutes, until a toothpick is inserted in the center and comes out clean.  Let the muffins cool for about 10 minutes, before turning them out on a rack to cool.

Serve with ice cold milk! Enjoy!

Recent Comments/ New Job

I just wanted to thank everybody who left comments on my blog, it makes me happy that people are actually reading this.  Oh by the way I am WORKING now... I am a teachers aide/assistant/lunch helper/diaper changer.. I'm having a lot of fun teaching the little kids, mostly the 2 year olds.  Not too fun is getting sick from the many germ refrigerators that I play with each day.  I've been getting colds more often that I can even remember and I think I had some sort of flu last week... So back to making chicken soup or Jewish penicillin this weekend definitely!!!

POM Glazed Pork Chops

About a week ago I received a case of  POM Wonderful 100% pomegranate juice, I was so happy I got in the kitchen and started to cook again.  I decided to make glazed pork chops.  I know that pork and fruit go pretty good together so I wanted to give this a try. I served this with roasted cauliflower.


4 center cut pork chops

1 8oz bottle of POM wonderful 100% pomegranate   juice
2 garlic cloves
2 tsp finely chopped rosemary
1/4 orange juice
2 TBS brown sugar
a pinch of red pepper flakes
salt and pepper
olive oil

Heat olive oil in the pan, season the pork chops with salt and pepper, brown the chops.  After brown, add the POM, garlic, rosemary, orange juice, brown sugar and lower the heat to medium.  Cook the pork in the sauce until the internal temperature of the pork is 170 degrees. Take out the Pork chops and let them rest, Bring the sauce to a boil, then reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer, add red pepper flakes.  Continue to simmer until the sauce reduces to about half.  Enjoy.

I'm Thinking...

I'm thinking about changing the name of my blog to something like "Unemployed and blogging".  I've been unemployed for over two years now, I'm educated, street smart and probably smarter than some of the people who try to fix my computer over the phone. I hate to say that but it's true.
 I love to cook, read recipes, and other food blogs.  I think blogging makes me happy and I'm really going to work harder to update this page more often.  I'm also addicted to Twitter. That's all for now.  I'll be cooking soon and posting pictures.

I'm Back....

It's been a while since I've blogged, I've been cooking and I even took a cooking class with my sister at Whole Foods Market.  It was a class on Julia Child's Classical French Techniques. We made Petites Chaussons with Roquefort Cheese, Soufflé aux Épinards, Coq au Vin, Fonds d' Artichants Mornay,  Gratin Dauphinois and La Tarte des Demoiselles Tatin.  The instructor was very cheerful and answered all our culinary questions.

When we made the Coq au vin (chicken in red wine with onions, mushrooms and bacon) we were taught how to cut a whole chicken into eight pieces.  It was a little messy... (this is my sister, she wasn't too happy)