New Eats

Powerade-arita

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 02:25:00 +0000

This variation of a classic will help keep your electrolytes up as the drinks go down!

Ingredients:
4oz LemonLime Power Ade
4oz Lime Margarita mix
2oz Tequila
Ice

Directions:
Combine all, shake & pour over ice. Enjoy.

Suggestions:
Mix equal parts of various Powerade flavors with desired margarita mix flavors. Add tequila to taste.

The McBeast

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 01:48:00 +0000

This isn't so much a new recipe as it is a construction of epic proportions.

(Vegans and vegetarians, you might want to stop reading now.)

It's kinda like when the Constructicons were able to merge their bodies and minds together to form the gigantic Devastator.

I have combined the 4 animal species available at McDonald's to bring you the McBeast.

The individual members of the team include:

McRib (pork)

McDouble (beef)

McChicken (chicken)

Filet-o-fish (fish)

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The McBeast

Soda pop sorbet

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 06:40:00 +0000

Ingredients:

1 can sweetened condensed milk

1 6-pack of your favorite soda pop

Directions:

Put pop in bowl and mix with hand wand mixer until all the carbonation is released. Add can of condensed milk, continue to mix until combined. Transfer to small bowls, plastic cups or even popsicle moulds. Freeze overnight. Enjoy the next day!

*add an extra can of sweetened condensed milk for added creaminess. Use a sugar-free soda for a "healthier" option.

Omelette Stix

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 02:32:00 +0000

Ingredients:

12 eggs

1/4 Chopped onion

Chopped chives

Crumbled bacon or diced ham

Shredded cheese

Salt, pepper

Salsa, sour cream, ketchup (optional)

Cooked bacon strips (optional)

Non-stick cooking spray

Special tools:

Stand mixer with whisk attachment

Silicone bar mold

Directions:

Crack all eggs into mixer bowl. Add desired chopped ingredients. Season with salt & pepper. Whisk on high for 1-2 minutes.

Spray mold pan with non-stick. Pour egg mixture into each bar section, about 1/4 inch from top, evenly distributing chopped ingredients as much as possible.

*Optional: if you want the Omelette Stix to be more finger-food friendly, add a strip of cooked bacon (mold bar length... which is about a 1/2 strip) to the mold after pouring in egg mixture. It will act like a piece of rebar and give the Stix more structural integrity when it's cooked!

Cook in oven at 250 degrees for 45 minutes, or until the bars pull themselves away from the mold. Make sure all the egg is cooked on top (no wateriness) Let rest for 5 mins before removing from pan. Put a cookie sheet on top of the mold and flip over to release Stix.

Makes about 12, 4" bars. May vary depending on size of mold, how many ingredients and egg size.

Top with salsa, sour cream, ketchup... or whatever you'd like.

Eat with fork or fingers!

BBQ bacon dog

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 07:48:00 +0000

Ingredients:

Kirkland polish hot dog

Kirkland crumbled bacon

Shredded cheddar cheese

BBQ sauce (kc masterpiece special reserve or Kilauea Fire BBQ sauce)

Sesame seed hot dog bun

Directions:

Cut a slice down the length of the hot dog. Grill or cook to your liking. Add BBQ sauce to both insides of the bun. Sprinkle a bit of shredded cheese. Add dog sliced side up. Sprinkle crumbled bacon on top and top with more shredded cheese. Put in toaster oven until cheese is melty.

Devour.

Toasted BBQ PB&B Sandwich

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 07:39:00 +0000

Ingredients:

A multigrain bread to your liking (medium heartiness)

Natural peanut butter

BBQ sauce (kc masterpiece special reserve)

Kirkland crumbled bacon

Directions:

Add peanut butter to one slice of the bread making sure you reach the edges. Sprinkle crumbled bacon onto the sticky peanut butter. On the other slice of bread, add a light to medium spread of the BBQ sauce. Put the slices together, sticky sides in :)

Toast the sandwich in a toaster over or panini press. Heat and toast thoroughly.

Eat.

*You might have to find the right balance of bread to BBQ sauce to pb, depending on if your BBQ sauce is sweet, tangy, spicy... As well as the heartiness of the bread.

Bacon chocolate chip cookies

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 09:38:00 +0000

Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies

Recipe by HeatherB, modified by TomE

Yields about 4 dozen, 3-inch cookies

10-3/4 oz. (1-1/3 cups) unsalted butter, cold

1 -1/2 C. packed light brown sugar

1 C. granulated sugar

2 large eggs, cold

1 T vanilla extract

17oz. (3-3/4 C) unbleached AP flour

1-1/4 t table salt

1 t baking soda

8 oz. semisweet chocolate chips

8 oz. crumbled bacon

Arrange oven racks in the upper and middle positions of the oven. Heat the oven to 375F.

Using a mixer fitted with a paddle, beat the butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar, starting on low speed and gradually working your way up to high speed until the mixture is light and fluffy, about 3 minutes once you reach high speed. Scrape the bowl and beater. Add the eggs and vanilla and beat on low until blended. Beat on high until light and fluffy, about 1 minute. Scrape the bowl and beater.

In a medium bowl, whisk the flour, salt, and baking soda. Add this to the butter mixture, and stir with a wooden spoon until just blended; the dough will be stiff. Stir in the chocolate chips and bacon.

Drop rounded measuring tablespoons of dough about 2 inches apart onto two lined baking sheets, pat dough down slightly. Bake until the bottoms are golden brown, 8 to 10 minutes, rotating the sheets halfway through for even results.

Remove from the oven, let sit for 3 to 5 minutes, and then transfer the cookies with a spatula to a wire rack to cool completely.

Variation: add 1/4 cup of peanut butter when adding bacon and chips. Or after baking, a light smear of pb on top of the cookie is delicious!

Note: Use butter and eggs right out of the refrigerator so the dough stays cool and the cookies maintain their thickness during baking.

BBQ Bacon CousCous

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 23:47:00 +0000

Ingredients: 10 oz pearl cous cous 1 tbsp butter 1 tbsp salt 1/4-1/2 cup chopped bacon bits your favorite bbq sauce optional: 1 fuji apple 1/2 onion Directions: cook cows cous per its instructions. typically a little more than 1:1 water to cous cous. bring water, butter, salt to boil. add cous cous. boil about 5 min. water should be all absorbed. add bacon. add a good squirt or two of bbq sauce. just enough to coat the cous cous. stir. consume. Variations: if it's a spicier bbq sauce, add apple to sweeten a bit. if a sweeter bbq sauce add the onion. either way, dice about half the apple or onion and stir into cous cous.

Bacon Stuffing Pie

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 23:33:00 +0000

Ingredients

1 box stuffing (stove top)
1 can chicken stock
1/4 stick butter
1/2 - 3/4 c crumbled bacon
pastry pie crust
cheese slices (velveeta)
1 broccoli florette

Directions
Make stuffing per its directions. (bring chicken stock, butter and bacon to a boil. add stuffing. mix and fluff)

defrost and pre-bake pastry crust. (400 deg for 12 min) let cool. put stuffing in pie crust. pack the dressing even with the top of the crust.

steam broccoli in bowl with 1/2 cup water in microwave for 2 min on high.

arrange cheese slices on top of dressing.

sprinkle with bacon. add broccoli to center of pie.

put back into oven for about 5 min or until cheese is melty.

Devour.

Chocolate Haupia Mini-Pies

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:38:00 +0000

Ingredients:
3"-4" pre-made mini pie crusts
1 package haupia mix
coconut water
chocolate snack pack pudding
whipped cream
shaved coconut
chocolate sprinkles

Directions:
Make the haupia mix as directed. i like to use coconut water for extra flavor. if you'd like the resulting haupia to be softer, add 50% more water. as the haupia cools, it will start to firm up. keep an eye and spoon to it so it doesn't firm up too much and you can stir it a bit to keep it a little more creamy. once sufficiently cooled, fill a pie crust about half way. give the haupia a little more time to cool. once the haupia is firmer, spoon some of the chocolate to fill the rest of the pie. two large spoon-fulls or half a snack pack container should do the trick. chill or serve immediately. prior to serving, top with whipped cream, coconut chavings, sprinkles, etc.

Variations:
Always start with the haupia base. then instead of chocolate, try:
banana pudding with a couple banana slices as garnish
vanilla pudding with chopped macnuts on top
lime pudding with some graham cracker crumbles
caramel pudding with salty pretzel bits on top

... the pies are so small, it's easy to make quick combinations to try!

Tom's Hawaiian Papayamole

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 01:18:00 +0000

Ingredients:
Small Strawberry papaya - very ripe
6 Small cooked shrimp - w/o tails
A few green onions
Lemon
Hawaiian sea salt
Red pepper flakes/chili powder/ichimi togarashi (optional)
Sugar (optional)
Ritz crackers

Directions:
Cut and de-seed the papaya. Scoop out and cut into bits. Chop up shrimp. Combine and add a squeeze of lemon juice and a pinch of salt. You may keep the papaya/shrimp chunky like salsa, or food process it so that it's more smooth like guacamole. Once it's at the consistency you like, stir in green onions. Spoon onto crackers!

Variations: you may also substitute sugar for salt, an a sweet onion for the green onion. This will make it sweeter vs savorier. And if you're like me, I need more kick so I garnished with some red pepper flakes, etc.

Ps this recipe was originally the idea of Divemaster Tom Wong. If you enjoy it, don't thank me, thank the Wong Tom. :)

Tako Tacos

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 07:25:00 +0000

The inspiration for this came from always seeing, but not ordering tako poke when I order my ahi poke... And the fun name! In this recipe I used tako poke / already marinated octopus, as I figured they've already added some spices that will taste good. I used rice and some cabbage for some diversity of textures. And added additional spices and soy sauce to taste. This is good when the rice is warm, but other items are cold.

Ingredients:

Taco shells
Chuka iidako (whole baby octopus)
Tako poke
Spicy tako poke
Shoyu soy sauce
Nori Komi furikake
Ichimi togarashi
Seaweed
White rice
Brown rice
Shredded cabbage

Directions:
Place all ingredients in separate containers and build your tako taco to your liking. Add seasonings as needed. Enjoy!

In 3 taco photo (L to R): tako poke with seaweed, white rice, and some furikake and togarashi; white rice, cabbage, chuka iidako and shoyu; brown rice, seaweed, togarashi, furikake and spicy tako poke.

Banana Rice

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:16:00 +0000

This is just a little change-up for those of you who like oatmeal and bananas for breakfast. Today instead of using oatmeal, I used last night's white rice!

Ingredients:
Rice
Banana
Brown sugar

Directions:
Combine rice and banana in bowl. Stir / mash the bananas and rice until your desired chunkiness has been achieved. Sprinkle the top with brown sugar ad microwave for 2-3 minutes until the sugar has melted.

Maybe toss in some raisins? Yum.

Hot Shoyu Poke Sub

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 04:01:00 +0000

Ingredients:
Hot Shoyu Poke w/brown rice
seaweed salad
soy sauce
wasabi
wheat bread sub bun

Directions:
Deconstruct the poke bowl. nicely re-layer the poke.
top bun
seaweed salad
poke
wasabi
soy
brown rice
bottom bun

Enjoy!

Crushed Red Pepper Tea

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 21:32:00 +0000

Ingredients:

1-2 packets of crushed red pepper (like you get with pizza)
1-2 little creamer buckets (optional)
honey (optional)
hot water

Directions:
Steep the crushed red peppers in the hot water. using a reusable tea bag or coffee strainer helps... unless you like your tea "pulpy". add honey to sweeten if you'd like. also, if you drink the tea straight, the spiciness will stay with you. however, if you add the creamer, the tea is still spicy, but it doesn't bond with your mouth/throat as much. i recommend 1 red pepper packet to one "normal" mug of hot water. ideally 1:1 pepper packet to creamer bucket as well.

Pear Sauce

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 03:08:00 +0000

This recipe isn't anything out of the ordinary, but I'd been eating some apple sauce lately and decided I wanted some pear sauce! So I bought a bunch of pears and made some. Totally natural, no sugar added. Yum!

Ingredients:

10 pears (bartlett)
lemon juice

Directions: Peel and core pears. Peeling is usually easier if you do it first. After coring, use the regular blade on your food processor and start processing them. Add a good squirt of lemon juice to keep it from getting too brown. Process until a slightly chunky, but liquidous texture is created. Keep refrigerated.

Try Try 'Ems

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:36:00 +0000

Ingredients:

bread or pizza dough
crumbled bacon
alfredo sauce
fresh ground black pepper

Directions:
prepare your dough as directed, then roll it out and cut into 2" x 10" or so strips - maybe a pinch narrower. create an even number of strips. cutting the dough with a pizza cutter works well. brush on alfredo sauce atop each strip. sprinkle every other strip with crumbled bacon. grind pepper over all strips. turn over non-baconed strip onto a baconed strip (alfredo side down). this will make a long, skinny alfredo-bacon-pepper sandwich of sorts. lightly press together, and maybe even pinch the edges together a bit to help it stay together. do this for each pair of dough strips. give 2-3 half twists for each strip. then bake as directed for your dough... or maybe about 400 degrees for 15 minutes or so (convection), at least until dough is golden. remove from oven. brush the twist-strip with alfredo and pepper again in the edge/cracks where you see the bacon inside part.

consume. (he go, eh?)

notes: when brushing the final alfredo, you can also choose to use butter. the alfredo / pepper combo makes the twist taste similar to biscuits and gravy. experiment with maybe... ground beef/pizza sauce/cayenne... bbq sauce/cheddar/pulled pork.

* what's with that name? ...well, instead of something obvious, like "alfredo bacon twists", i happened to be watching an episode of Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe. they were in hawaii making "dirt shirts". the silk screen lady, had a shirt that said "try try em" on the front and "he go, eh?" on the back. "try try em" is a means of encouragement/suggestion to try whatever it is you're doing. "he go, eh?" is a response/confirmation stating that what you just try-tried was a success. (of course if what you tried wasn't good, then "he no go". anyway, as i was making these, watching the show and then eating this new creation, and in the spirit of hawaii/my inventive recipes, i named these twists as such! give this (or any of my recipes) a shot. you might just like them. Try try the Try Try 'Ems!

Have You Tried That With Bacon? (HYTTWB)

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 07:10:00 +0000

This is just a quick post to plug a spin-off site of RumYumYum... called Have You Tried That With Bacon?

HYTTWB is dedicated to BACON. Not just anything BACON, but new recipes and concoctions involving, revolving around BACON.

http://haveyoutriedthatwithbacon.eloph.com/

BACON, the ~~other white~~ only meat.

Spicy Caramel Bacon

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:45:00 +0000

Ingredients:

1 cup Caramel Sauce
1 tbsp Cayenne Pepper
Bacon

Directions:

line a cookie sheet with foil or parchment paper. preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cut bacon into pieces, or halves, or just leave whole. place on pan. mix caramel sauce and cayenne. (of course you may reduce the cayenne a bit, maybe 2 tsp instead of 1 tbsp so it's not so spicy) brush the caramel sauce on the bacon. bake for 20-25 minutes. 20 minutes for chewy bacon, 25 for crispy bacon.

devour.

Caramel Sauce

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:39:00 +0000

Ingredients:

1/3 cup water
1 cup sugar
2/3 cup heavy cream (40%)

Directions:
in small saucepan, the heavier the better, combine water and sugar over medium heat. stir to combine with wooden spoon. once all the sugar is dissolved, put heat on high for about 5 minutes, or until a light-brown/amber color starts to appear. do not stir during the 5 minutes, and be careful not to let the amber get too dark. then reduce to low heat and add a few spoonfuls of the heavy cream, a spoon at a time, while stirring. be very careful, as initially the mixture will bubble and foam up. once you've added a couple of spoonfuls, you may pour in the rest of the cream. continue to combine, then remove from heat and let cool.

once cooled, pour on your favorite ice cream, meat or just go at it with a spoon.

Strawberry Mascarpone Toast

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:40:00 +0000

Ingredients:

fresh strawberries, sliced
mascarpone cheese
bread

Directions:
toast bread. spread mascarpone on toasted bread. top with sliced strawberries.

* Inspired from a dish i saw in a movie, this recipe sounds simple, but I'm working out some of the details to make the flavors mesh well. A few things... mascarpone is a cheese, but is often used in place of butter. It has a mild flavor and can be flavored easily. Very spreadable, like a soft cream cheese, just not as strong of a flavor. Honey makes a good flavoring. With that in mind, initially i chose to use a "sweet honey wheat" bread. I used a "fancier" bread, not the cheap $1 loaves. This kind of bread is a little denser, but I found that while I was looking for a honey note in the bread, the dark wheat-ness flavor took over. So, next time I might try a honey-white, or a lighter grain bread. An oat-berry bread might go well also. But overall, I recommend a lighter-flavored bread. And as far as the strawberries go, I currently got mine out of season, so they weren't as ripe, and were a little tart, which I actually liked. But I could imagine some really fresh and ripe strawberries being very flavorful. And a final note about the toasting of the bread: i'd recommend letting the toast cool a bit so that you can get a better layer of mascarpone without it melting on still-hot toast.

Goes great for breakfast or a snack! Either way, delicious!

UPDATE: so yes, i bought and tried a honey wheat berry bread. much lighter in color and flavor, so it doesn't overtake the other flavors. and i did aim for something with honey to give the dish a little extra touch of sweetness.

Ghetto Brittle

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:06:00 +0000

Ingredients:
2 sticks of butter
1 cup of sugar
16oz package of mini chocolate chips
1 cup chopped
1 package of saltines

Spread saltines on cookie sheet (line w/ aluminum foil)
Melt butter & sugar together
Pour butter/sugar mixture over saltines
Bake in oven at 400 for about 7 minutes (butter/sugar will bubble-remove from oven before it gets too brown)
Pour chocolate chips over crackers and spread as it melts
Sprinkle with pecans
Freeze for 1 hour
Break into pieces
Enjoy!

Yes, I stole this recipe from a friend of a friend at a party... so I didn't invent it. Wish I had though, these are delicious! Trust me... just give them a chance!

Cocoa-Cashew Banana Bread

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:32:00 +0000

Ingredients:

2 c flour
3/4 c sugar
3/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 c chopped cashews
3 very ripe bananas
1/4 c vanilla yogurt
2 large eggs
6 tablespoons butter, melted & cooled
1 tsp vanilla extract
4 tablespoons cocoa powder

Pre-heat oven to 350. Grease loaf pan or even 9x9 glass dish.

Combine and wisk all dry ingredients. Set aside.

In mixing bowl, hand mix (or use kitchen mixer on low) to combine wet ingredients. Slightly lumpy is ok.

Combine wet & dry ingredients, folding until just mixed. Do not over mix. Put batter into your pan/dish.

Bake for 45-50 minutes. Err on the side of slightly less to avoid drying out the bread. Remove from oven, let cool 5 minutes and then transfer to wire rack.

Enjoy!

* recipe adapted from "the best cookbook ever" p 391

Chai-Spiced Hot Cider

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:08:00 +0000

Ingredients:

64 oz apple juice
3-4 chai tea bags
1-2 cinnamon sticks

Heat the apple juice on stove top or with steamer. Add tea bags and cinnamon sticks.

Serve and enjoy!

* If drinking from a travel mug, put one of those cinnamon sticks directly in your mug!

Mashed Orange Marmalade Yams

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:32:00 +0000

Ingredients:

5-6 large yams
8oz orange marmalade
1/2 tsp nutmeg (or 1/2 fresh ground nutmeg nut)

Quarter yams and boil with skin on in large pot until fork tender; about 20 mins

drain and put in large bowl. add marmalade and nutmeg. combine with hand mixer until fairly smooth. leave slightly chunky if desired.

enjoy!