Matisse's Kitchen

Did I tell you I met Buddy?

2013-02-07T20:42:00.002-05:00

VIP Pass to Buddy's Homemade for the Holidays Tour.

I got on stage and tried to win a cake - instead I got a T-shirt -I'm happy with that.

Best part was to meet the Boss himself!

If the Cake Boss is coming to your town, I recommend you go. The show was awesome..

Cooking with Scott

2012-11-28T07:51:00.002-05:00

I met Scott Mowbray - Editor of Cooking Light at Wholefoods.

We made a yummy risotto with shrimp and smoked paprika.

I had so much fun and our risotto was delicious.

Rainbow Cupcakes

2012-11-26T22:02:00.001-05:00

Even though my birthday is on Christmas Day I decided to have my party early because I wanted to take my two BFF's to see the last Twighlight movie Breakdawn Part 2. Of course the occasion called for a cool birthday cake - well cupcakes.
I did cheat and used a box of white cake mix and made it according to the instructions on the box.
Once the batter was made I divided it into three bowls and added food coloring. I chose colors that my friends liked. Pink for Megs, blue for me and yellow for Jocelyn but you can use any colors.
Layer the colored batter into cupcake tins until they are 1/2 to 3/4 full and cook as per the instructions.
I decided to use rainbow colored frosting too but you can have fun with it, be creative and create your own style. YUM!

Kale Chips

2012-07-09T17:31:00.003-04:00

My Mom and my sister love these Kale chips because they are healthy. I love them because they taste good.

You need:
Kale
EVOO
Salt

Put the Kale on a baking pan with parchment paper, drizzle with a little olive oil, sprinkle with salt to taste and broil for 5 minutes. YUM! Eat straight away as soon as they have cooled down.

I'm Back!

2012-07-09T15:20:00.001-04:00

I haven't been on for a while because I had a really busy year at school, making up for all the time I had off for my transplant and when I was sick. But I have been cooking. I have my column in Cooking Light Magazine every month and I have also made a commercial for UMPC. I have also done lots of cooking so I will post some more recipes soon.
Matisse

Mussel Alfredo

2012-03-10T12:54:00.001-05:00

Michelle Wright from WPXI came to interview me and I made her Mussel Alfredo.
Here is the story on the news.

You need:
Mussels in shells
Pasta
Nob of butter
1 cup Whole milk or heavy whipping cream
1 tablespoon Flour
garlic salt
Sliced mushrooms (optional)

Method:
Boil the water and cook the pasta to al dente.
Melt the butter in a pan and add the flour and mix until they combine.
Slowly add the milk or cream and keep the heat on until the sauce thickens.
In another pan heat a little EVOO and cook the mushrooms add to sauce.
Put the mussels in their shells in the hot pan add some garlic salt - heat.
Drain the pasta and add to the sauce (I add a splash of the pasta water to the sauce).
Plate the pasta then add some mussels.
Yum

Me and Michelle Wright

Cooking Light Magazine

2012-02-20T18:18:00.000-05:00

I am in Cooking Light Magazine. My first recipe was Fish Tacos. They were so good! You have to try them and the recipe is really easy to make.

Me at Red Lobster

Kid's Smoothie (Vlog)

2012-01-25T07:37:00.000-05:00

Last week I made a kid smoothie.
You will need;
3 scoops of ice cream
1/4 cup blue berry's (optional)
4 big strawberry's (can use frozen)
1/2 banana
1/2 cup of milk use as much as you need to make it smooth.
Blend all ingredients until smooth. Put in a glass and decorate with a strawberry sliced partway through the middle and stick on the side of the glass, add a straw. Drink and enjoy.
For a healthy option use yogurt instead of ice cream and low fat milk (I use whole fat cos I need the calories).

Mellon Cutter Review

2012-01-24T11:20:00.000-05:00

For Christmas I got a cool cheese grater (love it) and this melon cutter. I love cantaloupe so its not surprising that I got the cutter even though I really did not know what it was at first. I decided to test it yesterday since I was in the mood for cantaloupe.
Even though it is plastic it cut the melon nicely. It also can be used for scooping out the seeds. I thought it worked much better than a spoon. It says you can use it to peel the cantaloupe but I use a knife which is easier.
Out of 10 I would give it a 7. Its useful but not a must have in my kitchen.

I have been really busy cooking and writing for Cooking Light - it is so much fun. My Mom has taken some squid out of the freezer for my dinner tonight. Yum I can't wait. I still have not decided how I am going to cook it but if I can't think of anything better I like it just in a pan with some EVOO and salt (I'm not a fan of pepper). Sometimes I bread it or make a sauce or pasta.

See you soon. I have a smoothie recipe to show you.

olives

2011-12-18T07:59:00.000-05:00

This is a good!
Olives stuffed with goat cheese and crab:

Stuffed Black Olives

Black Olives
4 Table spoons of goat cheese
1/4 cup of crab
1 tsp of Greek yogurt
Tear the crab mix into thin slices.
Mix shredded crab, goat cheese and Greek yogurt.
Fill a piping bag with the filling.
Cut the end of the piping bag and squeeze the filling in to the black olives. mmmmmmmmmmmmm.

TC Pizza

Last night I made TC Pizza' - it is goooood!
Flat Bread
Tomato Paste
Goat Cheese
Black Olives
Mushrooms
Anchovies (optional - I like them).
Shredded Romano cheese (optional)
Garlic salt
Mix the tomato paste and goat cheese together and spread on flat bread. This is tasty enough but if you like cheese you can add Romano or other cheese.
Slice olives into tyres (circles) and sprinkle on top
Slice mushrooms and sprinkle on top.
Sprinkle garlic salt to taste

Broil for about 5 minutes or until edges are brown. Awesome Yummy!!!

See you soon - peace out!
Thank you for all the messages - I could not believe it when I saw them all!!!
I made my first dish for Cooking Light Magazine and wrote about it it will be in the March issue if you want to check it out.

Parade Magazine

2011-12-11T08:11:00.000-05:00

Thank you all for reading parade magazine pretty soon I am posting some videos - see you soon and thanks!!!!!!!!!!!! ;) :) :) :) :)

Matisse's Seafood Feast

2011-10-17T14:41:00.000-04:00

Hi Peeps

I am sick today so I am home from school watching 'The Chew', a cooking show on TV. I learned that you can mix cooked bacon, sour cream and paprika together and put on nachos or baked potato for extra flavor. You can mix almost any herb or spice with sour cream to add extra flavor.

I think I am allergic to pepper so am not using it so much in my cooking.

I found out how to make a flower out of icing. It is hard but I figured it out and I am pretty good at it now.

After my transplant mum promised to buy be a lobster. We got one from Wholey's (my favorite seafood market). I prepared it by removing it from the shell, threw it on a hot pan for a couple of seconds to heat it up and ate it with salt. It was sooooo good.

I went to Ocean City and had the kids seafood feast at Hoopers Crab Shack. It was all you can eat crab, shrimp, corn, chicken and hush puppies. Of course I ate mostly crab and shrimp.

Kids Seafood Feast - YUM!

Look out Lobster here I come!

Squid

2011-08-16T17:18:00.000-04:00

Hi it is Matisse,
I made rice paper rolls filled with squid. It is so good.
It has carrots, lettuce, squid and avocado. Avacado makes it is creamy and yummy. I love it!
Soak rice paper in water then fill and roll.
How to tell when an avacado is ripe:
It should be almost black and soft and if you can flick off the end where it was on the tree then it is ready.
Prepare it like this: Take an perring knife and cut it down the middle while turning. Twist and pull lightly apart and take the big ball. Take a spoon and scoup out the green flesh. You can make guacamnole and all you need to do to make guacamole is:
Mashed Avacado,
Diced tomatoe,
Lime juice,
salt and pepper
Mix together.

This is whole baby squid that I cleaned and filet. you can buy it already done too.

I cook my squid in EVOO, slat, pepper, lemon juice and a splash of wine (if mum lets me).

A video made for Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh (show casing Matisse cooking)

2011-05-24T12:07:00.001-04:00

In this video I was making New Zealand mussels with vegetables and lime zest. I used the brine from olives to flavor the dish.

Easter Eggs

2011-04-26T16:51:00.000-04:00

Hi   Happy   Easter
Over the weekend we used a lot of eggs which made me wonder; How   do you   know if an egg is bad?
One way is to fill a bowl with water and if the egg floats to the top it is bad. Cool right? If you crack an egg and it smells bad, it is probably not good.
You   can   do   so   many   things with eggs. You can make egg salad, omelets, hard boiled eggs, devilled eggs, even fried eggs. You can make scrambled eggs - they are so easy. So eggs are very cool.

Over the weekend I made egg salad here is my recipe:
1 cup of mayonnaise
10-12 hard boiled eggs
Salt and pepper to taste
Finely chopped chives
Finely chopped spring onion (green onion)

We also made pavlova - here is our recipe:

Pavlova - A kiwi desert
4 egg whites
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup sugar

1 tsp vanilla essence
1 tsp vinegar or lemon juice

2 tsp cornflour (corn starch)

Pre-heat oven to 350F
Beat egg whites and salt until stiff peaks form
Gradually add sugar while beating.
Continue beating until stiff.
Add remaining ingredients.
Turn mixture onto baking paper covered tray.
Shape into a circle.

Reduce oven temp to 284 F. Bake for 15 minutes.
Reduce oven tempt to 240 F and bake for 1 and 1/4 hours
DO NOT OPEN THE OVEN! Although I did when I was hunting for Easter eggs - ours turned out flat but yummy!
Let the oven cool completely before opening.
We have ours with whipped cream and sometimes a berry fruit salad.

Pavlova with berries and cream

Putting fresh whipped cream on pavlova

Filming - about my blog.

2011-04-13T13:29:00.000-04:00

Thank you

2011-03-27T14:12:00.000-04:00

Thank you to Fraanz's pre school teacher and Paula Dean for my package. I LOVE it!

Thank you Mrs. Lamanga for my cake turn table and decorating kit and book. I made this cake.

I have another post today below.

Mahi Mahi

2011-03-27T14:03:00.000-04:00

I made Mahi Mahi. First I made a marinade.
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Marinade Recipe
Lemon zest
Lime zest
Crushed garlic
Lemon juice
Lime juice
Thinly sliced lemon and limes
3 bay leaves
EVOO
Salt and pepper
Dash soya sauce
Massage the lemon and lime zest and garlic into the fish. Then put all the ingredients into a plastic bag with the fish. Leave in the fridge until you are ready to cook.


Mahi Mahi in marinade

Then I heated up some EVOO in the skillet and cooked the fish for a few minutes on each side.

Mahi Mahi in skillet

Then I ate it! I also steamed asparagus drizzled with hollandase sauce. I topped the Mahi Mahi with some slices of lemon and lime that I heated in the skillet with the fish.

MahiMahi with asparagus.

Shopping at the strip district

2011-03-15T14:17:00.000-04:00

On Monday my and mom went to the strip district and got squid, mussels, mahi mahi and chicken. We also got 3 lemons and 4 limes, 1 cantaloupe, 5 whole garlics and 1 jar of anchovy and some spinach - yum.
For dinner we made lemon pepper chicken which we marinaded in lemon pepper, pan fried to seal in juices and finished off in the oven. I find this keeps the chicken moist.
I made a really yummy spinach salad with fresh mozzarella cheese and olives and my home made zesty dressing.

Here is my dressing recipe:
The juice and zest of one lemon
Juice and zest of one lime
Salt and pepper
1 finely minced garlic clove
Onion zest
splash of olive oil
Oil from the olives that I put in the salad

Mix together and put on salad.

We went to a little cafe and had tomato and basil Margaretta pizza and a pastry. It was good.


Spinach salad


Margaretta pizza

Colangelo's Baked Goods

Fish and Chips

2011-03-05T14:34:00.001-05:00

Fish and chips - NZ style

On   Wednesday my mom and I went to the   strip district. We got   squid   and    whole    fish. The man serving us thought it was unusual to get squid tentacles and he did not really know much about the fish he gave us either.
I   learned how   to   bone   and    filet a    fish (I will have video up soon). It   is   really hard.
Dad and I made fish   and chips with pouched eggs and   calamari. I made beer batter out of the edmonds cook book.

I   think   I am   going   to have a go   at   making   clam chowder.

Messy Day.

2011-02-28T19:39:00.000-05:00

Today   I   tried to   make    cupcakes they turned out    terrible. The    inside of   the   cupcakes were raw and   we do not   no why so   that   didn't go well. Then I had   to   start making dinner. I   made meatloaf with creamy mash potatoes and sauteed onion and   cabbage with roast carots and parsnip.
I    just    invented a new recipe. It is fresh diced tomatoes, fresh diced mango, the juice and zest of one orange, and    the   zest   and   the   juice of    1   lemon, fresh diced pineapple, 1    diced red onion, salt and    pepper    and   EVOO (extra virgin olive oil), spring onion, a dash of garlic powder. Recommended    on crackers with butter and cream cheese or with corn chips.
Well   enjoy and Bon Appetite!

Quiche in a Cup Cake Maker.

2011-02-27T19:40:00.000-05:00

Today is the second day of blogging. Today I made mini quiche with my Mom. We made bacon, onion and corn quiche and roast chicken. I used the cupcake maker my friend Maddie gave me when I was in the hospital. I think the quiche had too much flour. I used a recipe from the edmonds cook book which used 1 cup of pancake mix and 2 cups of milk. I think it was too much milk and flour and not enough eggs. My family ate them though.

Saturday 26th Feb, 2011 - first post - yellow cake.

2011-02-26T17:41:00.000-05:00

Today I baked a yellow cake with my dad and it turns out all this time I have been decorating cakes wrong, but I learned the right way to do it. You need to let your spatula sit in warm water and keep dipping it in the water.

The cake mix came in a box which I was not happy about but mum was going to the supermarket so I was stuck with dad and the box!

I did have to do a lot of work:

I had to crack 3 eggs

measure the water and oil

and yes I did use the hand mixer but I finished it by hand - so no, I was not cheating was I? You tell me, but hey I'm only a kid but I've got A lot to say about cooking so keep coming back so my grand parents are not my only audience! You can leave me a message but my mum has to check them first so it won't show up straight away.

Here is a picture of my cake and of me and the cake. I did make my own icing from scratch - see recipe below. Cake Boss look out here I come!

Icing Recipe:

1 cup of confectioners sugar or if you are a kiwi (like my grandparents)- icing sugar.

a dash of vanilla essence.

a dash of boiling water - be careful because it thins out easily.

a dash of food coloring

for the chocolate I put in cocoa powder instead of food colouring.