end of semester baking!

So Monday night I was invited to a Hanukkah party with my fellow HT student teachers at our teacher's house. I decided it would be nice to bring dessert and since one of my classmates is vegan, I thought of making the krazy chocolate cake (a recipe courtesy of my mom) since it is vegan friendly. Naturally, I had to make the amazing oreo cream cheese icing (pictured in the mixer pre-oreo), so I only iced half of the cake (also pictured) so my vegan friend could enjoy as well. The cake was a hit!

I am really learning to love baking when I get the time, and it is so great having the kitchen aid mixer (courtesy of adg's mom). The cake recipe was featured previously on QCC.

!חג חנוכה שמח

Happy Hannukah from QCC! Last night, the first night of Hannukah, I had a Hannukah/Shabbat dinner here with some friends. I had a fun time setting the table with our blue plate ware from Adam's family and lots of gelt and dreidels.

For dinner, I made some oldies but goodies: kosher roast chicken, green beans, and a salad. Also featured are some delicious latkes courtesy of Chef Cohen and a store-bought challah courtesy of Wegman's.

Happy TGiving from QCC!

A belated happy Thanksgiving to all of QCC's loyal readers :)

(I am responsible for none of the amazing wonder pictured in these photographs...this is all mom, my extraordinary muse)

weekend delights

This weekend I made a recipe from Bon Apetit magazine, given to me by my mother, and featured before on QCC: a Chile Cheese Tart (a quiche, basically). The tart features eggs, cheddar cheese, chile peppers, hot sauce, ground pepper, all whisked together and baked in a pie crust. Yum! We enjoyed the quiche for a couple nights and there is still some left over.

I also made a chicken ceasar salad this weekend. I roasted 2 split chicken breasts (bone-in), removed the meat and put some on top of my homemade ceasar. There was extra chicken so I mixed some of the chicken in Frank's hot sauce and made us buffalo chicken wraps for Monday's lunch. Great weekend full of delicious food.

spaghetti!

Adam made delicious spaghetti and meatballs and I made my homemade low fat caesar salad. The plating isn't great, but QCC readers can't deny how delicious it looks, right??

Tuesday night's comfort food dinner

Sorry for the lack of posts recently...I'm working on it!
Rundown of last night's delicious dinner:

• Chicken breasts marinated in the Soy Vay Terayaki sauce and then grilled on the Foreman
• blanched green beans cooked in soy sauce--an oldy but goody!
• garlic mashed potatoes (delicious but not homemade....i used the boxed stuff)
• salad!

Great dinner! Stay tuned for spagetti and meatballs tonight--

salmon dinner revisited

I prepared a salmon fillet and a mozzarella, tomato, basil salad for dinner tonight. I used the last of the basil from my basil plant that I have been trying to grow in the apartment, unless of course I can save the plant and it starts to grow again.

This meal was delicious. I heart salmon...and mozzarella tomato basil :)