My Very First Poached Egg

This morning for breakfast, I was determined to try poached egg. It sounds really hard to do, but I'll tell you right off the bat, it's not. All you do is gently slide in an egg into water that is just below the simmering stage, and let it cook for about 3-6 minutes. Ours ended up being something like 8 because we have an old burner. So, I buttered an English muffin half and slid the slimy egg onto it. I took a bite, and as the orange yolk slid into my mouth, I knew right away that this egg had descended from heaven above... well, maybe our barn, but close enough. I would seriously recommend eating a poached egg if you haven't already.

Turkey Burgers w/ Pot Pie Gravy

Turkey burgers are pretty simple. Just take 2 pounds of ground turkey and mix in dill, flat parsley leaves and chives. Then just separate them into patties. Then, you grill them. The gravy is pretty simple, too. You just chop up onion, celery, and carrot and sautee them for about 7 minutes. Then, you throw in some chicken broth and flour. Then you add a hand full of baby peas. When you eat it, you put the patty on an English muffin half and put the gravy on top. Delicious! Stay tuned! I'm planning to make chocolate-covered pretzel slims!

Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream

My mom and I went to Trader Joe's the other day and saw a box of tiny peanut butter cups. That gave us the idea to make a replica of a Dairy Queen Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Blizzard. So, we came home and looked up a recipe to make vanilla ice cream. It was really simple. We just added cream, half & half, vanilla and sugar to a bowl, mixed it up, and put it in our ice cream maker. After it was done, we stirred in the peanut butter cups and put it in the freezer. We took it out a few hours later and it tasted almost exactly like it!

Homemade Pop-Tarts

I made some homemade Pop-Tarts with my friend Morgan, and I'm still waiting to eat them. What we did was pretty easy. We made a kind of dough similar to pie crust and rolled it out. Then we cut it into long rectangles and laid them on a baking sheet. Then we chose our own fillings. For mine, I chose raspberry jam, Nutella, and raspberry jam with Nutella. Morgan chose raspberry jam, Nutella, and strawberry rhubarb jam. Then we put them in the freezer and baked them another day. We made glaze for them and they were super tasty!

Lo Mein Noodles and Sweet-&-Sour Chicken

When I went on a field trip to the zoo with my church buddies, I stopped at a Chinese restaurant in the food court called the Tiger Wok. I ordered sweet-&-sour- chicken with some lo mein noodles, an egg roll, and a small soda all for just $4.80! While others got a burger or a slice of pizza for $7.80. I think I got the best deal of the group. Well, I got home, and I went on and on about how good it was, so my mom and I just agreed to make it rather than to go to a restaurant.

It started with making the sweet-&-sour sauce and the sauce to put with the lo mien. Then, my mom cut the chicken into little nuggets, which she then had to deep-fry in our pan. They had to be fried twice, but it would've been quicker if she did it in a wok like the recipe said, but a deep-fryer works, too.

I poured the sauce over...

Then, I put the noodles on a platter as well as the chicken.


My stuffed animal panda bear, Ping, was happy to be in a picture of him and some Chinese food!

Even though it was not exactly the same, it was equally as good as the Tiger Wok.