Living Insanity's Loving Food

  Happy Lunar New Year!  I made some spicy peanut noodles and roasted brussel sprouts.  I also got to use my new ramen bowls! Ingredients: Ramen noodles 2 tablespoons peanut butter 2 tablespoons soy sauce 1 tablespoon chili crisp in oil 1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar 2 teaspoons sugar a little water to thin sauce if you want hot water from the wet noodles helped thin and combine my sauce.  the peanut butter was hard to get combined.

I made some chicken fajitas on my cast iron grill.  The leftovers become a quesadilla.  I need to make chicken more often and I need to use my grill pan more often!    

 I haven't been taking many food photos since Christmas.  I save so many recipes, but don't make a lot of them.  Hopefully something interesting will be posted soon!

I did the usual cookie platters for Christmas Eve dinner and Christmas day.  No new recipes.  Oreo truffles, Buckeyes, Snickerdoodles, frosted sugar cookies.    

  After making stuffing balls I had a craving for more stuffing.  This time I just made the stuffing without eggs and didn't bake it.  Sliced ham, scalloped potatoes, and another round of sausage stuffing. For the ham I made a glaze.  Orange juice, sugar, honey, mustard, cinnamon on the stove top boiled down to a thicker consistency.  Poured over the ham.  Ham went into the oven for 15-20 minutes to warm up. Scalloped potatoes are my usual recipe.  You only need butter, onion, milk, flour, cheese, and thinly sliced potatoes.  I have seen people do the layers differently.  I do a layer of potato, then sauce, potato, sauce.  I personally like bread crumbs on top, but my boyfriend doesn't.  I put bread on only half.  We use a mandolin to get our potatoes thin.  If I use a knife they take forever to get soft.  

This year I was in charge of the famous stuffing balls. Ingredients: several carrots, diced several stalks of celery, diced onion, diced 2 boxes of Aldi brioche rosemary and garlic stuffing 2 eggs, beaten chicken broth 2 rolls of Jimmy Dean sausage salt and pepper 1 stick butter, melted Directions: cook sausage and remove from pan saving the drippings add vegetables to pan and sautee add some stock and cook until carrots soften put stuffing mix in a bowl add the cooked sausage and vegetables stir together add melted butter add stock if needed for correct consistency add in the eggs form balls and place in fridge Then bake in the oven