Pinterest Party

My friend from college, Christine was coming to visit me this weekend and we were thinking of things we could do.  Since we both love to cook, I thought it would be fun to make Pinterest inspired recipes.  I always go on Pinterest for ideas but I never really get a chance to make them.

She sent me a few links that she liked and I picked out a few.  Off to Market Basket I went and returned home with a cart full of groceries for our fun filled day of cooking.

The first recipe we started with was the “Philly Cheesesteak stuffed bell peppers” courtesy of “Quick & Easy Recipes”.

This was a great Atkins friendly recipe with minimal carbs.  We didn’t follow the recipe to the exact and left out the butter and the first layer of provolone cheese. We threw in a couple of sweet red bell peppers for contrast against the green peppers.

The recipe came out delicious and we will definitely make this again!

NOTE: We started drinking and multi tasking in the kitchen so there aren’t many step by step pictures for the next few recipes.

Skinny Girl Margarita, Cosmo, Pina Colada

We started on the buffalo chicken bites courtesy of Laloosh. Again, we didn’t follow it exactly as we used regular flour instead of whole wheat and regular cream cheese in stead of fat free.  Even using their exact recipes, I am skeptical of the Weight Watchers points the website claims, (5 pieces for 3 WW points). I find that too good to be true.

These little bites of heaven were to die for! They are a nice twist of a similar recipe that I already make, Kelly’s buffalo dip recipe.  We will definitely be making these again!  I think I would just use a little less buffalo sauce since it was a bit on the salty side.

Lastly, we had a dessert recipe that was a disaster turned into something wonderful by accident.  We intended on making an Oreo & Ice Cream sandwich cake recipe by Kraft.  Being the “know it all” that I am, I didn’t fully read the instructions upfront and I messed up making INSTANT PUDDING! Who does that? First the milk was supposed to be COLD and I boiled it so the pudding was clumpy only to REALIZE that the pudding mix was supposed to be mixed with the jot fudge and not prepared per the instructions on the box.

Nevertheless, the sandwiches started melting and would stay true to the “square form” so my nephew and I threw in all the ingredients into a trifle dish to make an Fudge Oreo & Ice Cream sandwich trifle.

In addition to the Pinterest food, we also made buffalo chicken wings, phad thai, dumplings and Kelly’s buffalo chicken dip.

I picked up a bottle of Moodlight Meadery Kurt’s apple pie, alcohol made from fermented honey.  I tried it at a previous wine tasting and really liked it. The alcohol content is a bit steeper than wine and beer and it tastes just like apple pie.

Overall, it was a fun night and the Mo brought out the Johnny Walker Blue Label (not to be confused with the Dewar’s in the picture)

We had a big sleepover and made breakfast the next morning with waffles, English muffins, Kringle (courtesy of the Omnilite), western scrambled egg casserole, bacon, sausages, pepperoni and provolone croissant role ups and fresh cut strawberries.

 Dessert was cake for my brother’s 31st birthday.

Now taking orders Steak and Cheese Egg Rolls for Super Bowl Sunday!

Mami Eggroll is now offering Steak & Cheese Eggrolls for 

Super Bowl XLVIII!

25 Shaved Steak and Cheese egrolls (50 pcs when cut in half) for $ 20.25

Number of platters that will be made are limited, so get your orders in early!

All orders must be placed by January 18th 

Pickup ONLY!

Available pickup: 

Saturday, February 2nd

Sunday, February 3rd: Noon to 4:30 PM

Heating Instruction: 

Preheat oven to 400 degrees

Place tray in oven uncovered  for 10 minutes

Serve with your favorite cheese dipping sauce. 

I like Tostitos’s Salsa con Queso

Reservation Request

Steak and Cheese Eggrolls

Mami’s "Philly" Cheesesteak

Mami’s “Philly” Cheesesteak

Cheesesteaks are among the highest calorie/fat/sodium sandwiches you can eat but they are delicious! They are one of the best late night meals after a long night of drinking.  The Mo and I used to eat it all the time when we were younger and just started dating many years ago.  We would bar hop in downtown Lowell and end up at Santoro’s on Gorham street or grab one to go from Fio’s.  My favorite place was Suppa’s by the UML campus that had an amazing teriyaki steak and cheese.  Their Suppa’s “Steak Stick”, which is wrapped in pizza dough and fried to “perfection” was also featured on the Phantom Gourmet weekend TV show.

I’m glad we put our bar hopping, midnight indulging weekends behind, but I guess, ONCE in a LOOONG while I can swap all my WW extra points and activities points and indulge in this tasty sandwich.  I rarely make this sandwich, maybe 2 or 3 times a year at MOST.

Shaved Steak

There’s too many renowned cheesesteaks joints in philly including Geno’s and Pat’s  which has been featured numerous times on a variety of food broadcasting.  Obviously, we are 6 hrs away from Philly, so I have no choice but to make one at home.

The shaved beef caught my eye at Market Basket over the weekend when the manager announced the sale and the case of the shaved beef was adorned with Fantini sub rolls and sliced peppers and onions.  I decided the sale was good enough so I bought a couple of packages to make sandwiches and steak and cheese eggrolls.

Ingredients:

• Frozen or freshly shaved beef
• Cheez Whiz or Velveeta 
• Optional: Mushrooms, Peppers, Onions
• Sub Rolls
• Pepper
• Optional: Dry Italian Seasoning

Directions:
I like to quickly rinse the shaved beef before I cook it to remove any excess blood from the raw meet.  When cooking beef with excess blood residue, it leaves behind an unpleasant “gamey” tasty.  After rinsing, set aside in a colander to drain.

Cut up vegetables into slices and roast them in a small pan until they are almost over cooked (or to your liking) 

In a large hot skillet, add the shaved beef, a dash of pepper and a dash of dry Italian seasoning.
It is very important that the skillet is large so that the beef evenly coats the pan and there aren’t “hills” of beef that doesn’t cook evenly.  After about 8-10 minutes on high heat, the beef should be done.

Add the cooked vegetables to the beef mixture and set aside.

In a small saucepan, warm the Cheez whiz or Velveeta cheese until a creamy smooth consistency.  Optional: You may use the microwave also.

Velveeta

Slice the sub rolls lengthwise and toast in a toaster oven on 350 degrees for 3-4 minutes until warm.

Remove from oven and add the beef/vegetable mixture.

Top it off with the melted cheese and serve with fries. In our household, I have to make 2 different batches of fries since the Mo likes steak fries and I prefer seasoned fries.

Market Basket Frozen Fries

Enjoy ! I also make a to go box for my little brother.