New Brinner Bowling Tradition

So NEOUCOM has a wonderful tradition of Tuesday night bowling. I got recruited to bowl on a team with my roommie and our two buddies Ryan and Kyle. The first night of bowling, Ryan had us all over for some eggs, bacon and pancakes. MMM....so I thought it was only fair to return the favor. This past week we made little egg cups and pancakes. Delicious!!

The egg cups I think I saw one day on the food network, and said how hard can that be!

Line a muffin cup with turkey (i think any thinly sliced meat will do though)

Brown some hashbrowns and I threw in some spinach at the last minute.

let the hashbrowns cool so that they can be put into the muffin tins.

top with some grated cheese (cheddar)

crack an egg on top of the muffin tins (on per cup)

Top with some bacon, becuase nothing could be bad with bacon!

Bake for like 20 minutes, until the eggs are cooked to your liking.

Curry, Squash, and Girl Talk

Thursday night Jess, Jess, and I had big plans to make extravagant food. When we finally met up, we were all sleepy from the day, and very hungry! So we decided to make quick food, so we had more time to relax and chat! The dinner menu became acorn squash with chile lime sauce, yam curry with bananas, bruschetta, and OREOS! Mike hung out with us too, he can't pass up good food.

The acorn squash recipe was taken from the smitten kitchen site. Thanks Deb!

2 acorn squash

1/2 tsp black pepper

1 tsp salt

6 tbsp olive oil

1 garlic clove (Jessica used more because she is afraid of vampires ;) haha)

1 1/2 tbsp fresh lime juice

2 tsp finely chopped fresh hot red chile, include seeds (we all inhaled this and had to go outside to recover)

2 tbsp chopped fresh cilantro

Put oven racks in the upper and lower thirds of the oven and preheat to 450 degrees. Halve the squash lengthwise, then cut off and discard stem ends. Scoop out seeds, and cut squash lengthwise into 3/4 inch wedges. Toss squash with black pepper, 3/4 tsp salt, 2 tbsp olive oil in a bowl. Then arrange in 2 large shallow baking pans, with the cut sides down. Roast squash, switching position of pans halfway through roasting, until squash is tender and undersides are golden brown (25-35 minutes).

While the squash roasts, mince the garlic, and mash into a paste using the rest of the salt. Transfre paste into a small bowl and whisk with lime juice, chile, cilantro, and 1/4 c olive oil. Drizzle over roasted squash.

The sweet and savory of this dish was to die for!

You will have to talk to Mrs. Silver for the curry recipe, because she was fully in charge of this delicious creation!

Careful, the curry jumps on people, and stains shirts!

The bruschetta was just 4 tomatoes, 2 cloves of garlic, basil, salt, pepper. Needed onions we thought, but we didnt have any. We then rubbed bread with garlic, toasted the bread, and enjoyed!
We were too tired for dessert, so we went to the store looking for the halloween oreos, but they didn't have any. So we disappointingly settled for the plain ones. :)

the raspberry cupcake contest

Ok, sorry this took so long to post, but I had to hunt down the pics!

I made these for Sydnee's birthday, and they were a hit. Kales and her mom were going around the house trying to find things to dip in the frosting, because it was soo delicious!

The Recipe:

CUPCAKES:

9 Tbsp. unsweetened cocoa powder

1 1/2 c cake flour

1/2 tsp. salt

1 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp baking powder

1 stick unsalted butter, room temp

1 1/2 c sugar

2 eggs

1/2 c strong coffee

1/2 c milk

Preheat oven to 350. Sift together cocoa powder, cake flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda in a bowl. In another bowl, beat butter and sugar until smooth. Add eggs one at a time until smooth. Mix milk and coffee together. Stir in 1/2 dry ingredients, add coffee/milk mixture, add other 1/2 dry ingredients. Pour in muffin cups and bake for 20 minutes. Cool completely before frosting

FROSTING:

1 c unsalted butter

5 cups powdered sugar

1/2 c seedless raspberry jam

Place butter and jam into mixing bowl and cream until well incorportated. Add powdered sugar one cup at a time until desired consistency.

Frost and roll edge in chocolate sprinkles and top with a raspberry!

I win!