Blog Outlook and Apple Chips!

When I first made this blog, I was all into cooking new recipes. Wow, that was almost a year ago! See..

According to this count down thingamajig, in a few more days it WILL be a year. In 2011 when I first started blogging, I was nonstop into blogging. I spent late nights reading blogs and thinking of blog topics, but I always felt bad about it because I wasn't the best blogger. I only posted fifty-something times in all of 2011. It's only February and already I've posted forty something times. Obviously, I've become better in the blogging world. But really, What does it mean to be better in the blogging world? Recently, after almost a year of having a blog, I've realized the whole concept of blogging for yourself. Today is the day I start blogging for myself - no more feeling pressured to write posts that appeal to others. No more with holding my thoughts and feelings because of the thought it will make or break someones opinion of me. From now on I'm going to only blog for me and type up these little posts from my heart <3 now let's begin again. When I first made this blog, I was all into cooking new recipes, I stopped for a while just like I stopped being a so called good blogger. On my 101 in 1001 one of my goals is to make at least 10 new recipes! It's not too difficult to find new recipes thanks to Pinterest! I swear if I were rich and had the time, I would be making everything I see on there. I did make something I saw though...

Source: vittlesandbits.blogspot.com via heather on Pinterest

Can you say apple chips?

I love dried fruit - I recently had dried apples for the first time. There were chunks of them in this apple cranberry Quaker cereal I tried. I went through the whole box picking out the dried apples. I was addicted. There wasn't too many though! So I bought a bag of dried apples and ate the whole bag in two days. My favorite kind of dried fruit would probably be bananas! So yummy. When I saw these apple chips, I had to re-pin. I wrote down and bought the ingredients to make these! There's only four things you need to make these...  

• Two apples of your choice.
• Two tsp of sugar
• Two tsp of cinnamon 
• Canola oil spray

Here's a picture of my apple chips in the making - They ended up being really good so I totally recommend, of course!

1. ) Preheat the oven to 200 degrees
2. ) Thinly slice your apples. If you don't own a mandoline (like I don't), use a sharp knife (like I did)
3. ) Arrange the apples on the baking sheet. Space apart evenly. Spray with cooking spray.
4. ) Combine the sugar and cinnamon into a small bowl - put mixture into a sieve and sprinkle evenly on your apple slices.
5. ) Bake the apples for about two hours or until dry and crisp.
6. ) Remove from the oven and let cool completely before putting them into a sealed container for three days!!

Recipes



Lately I've been trying to learn how to cook, which never interested me in my eighteen years of living - until recently. I always said I would live off of canned and boxed food. I don't know what it is but I get a joy out of making something and finding out people actually like it. So I'm working on becoming quite the chef boy r dee (if thats even how it's spelled. LOL) I'm going to list 5 simple recipes I've made over the last few days!

1. A chicken salad sandwich

Ingredients

Sliced chicken

Mayonnaise

Any choice of bread

Salt

Peper

Relish

Lettuce

Tomato

Step 1: Mix the sliced chicken with a resonable amout of salt, peper, mayonnaise, relish (and any other spices you choose to use) until it all blends well

Step 2: Toast the bred however you like it to be toasted (I only like mine toasted a little bit)

Step 3: Put the chicken salad on you're bread add a slice of lettuce and a slice of tomato and stick it with a tooth pick to hold it together and you got yourself a chicken salad sandwich!

2. Egg salad sandwich

Ingredients

6 eggs

Bread

Salt

peper

mustard

mayonnaise

Bacon (optional)

Lettuce

Tomato

Step 1- Boil eggs on a medium high a little after you start to see bubbles usually about 15 minutes!

Step 2- Take eggs out to cool off, once their cool, peal the shell off the eggs and put the eggs into a bowel

Step 3- squish and stir eggs until they are blended nicely and add a resonable amount of mayo, mustard, salt and peper. Mix well.

Step 4- Toast your bread the way you like it, and add the eggs salad to your bread along with a slice of tomato and lettuce! (and cooked bacon)

Bon appetit!

3. Curry

Ingredients

Sliced pre-made chicken (10 oz serves 4)

Cooked rice

1/3 curry powder

1/3 green onion, diced

1 small red apple, diced

Salt

Peper

1 tsp of butter

Crushed peppers

1/3 almonds

Mushrooms

1 can of cream of chicken soup

1 soup can full of water

Step one- On medium-hot; Boil your cream of chicken, water, chicken, butter, curry sauce and onions, while stiring well for five minutes

Step two- Add the remaining ingredients, stiring well for 10 more minutes

Step three- Add your curry over your rice, and enjoy

4. Double chocolate chip cookies

Ingredients

You're choice of refrigerated chocolate chip cookie dough

White chocolate chips

Dark chocolate

1tsp vanilla extract

Step 1: Preheat oven for 350

Step 2: Using a rather large bowl place the cookie dough in it and tease it with your hands until its all soft and easy to work with

Step 3: Add the vanilla extract, a fair amount of dark and white chocolate chips (usually about a cup of each)

and mix well with your hands (oh, don't forget to wash your hands really well)

Step 4: On a cookie sheet place table spoon amounts of cookie dough and spread them out so they don't all end up touching each other, place in oven and cook for at least 15 minutes or until finished

5. Strawberry shortcake

Ingredients

10 strawberries

shortcake shells

Whipped cream

1tsp sugar

Step 1- Wash strawberries and place them into a bowl, slice them and mash them well with a spoon or potato masher!

Step 2- add a tspoon of sugar and mix well, and let strawberries refrigerate for an hour

Step 3- Put a good amount of strawberries into the shells and add whipped cream to the top! Add a strawberry on top of that to make it look pretty and eat up!

See that was easy enough, but with that I really do feel accomplished! Lol. I'm going to continue cooking and one day I really will be like this dude... vvvvv

Needless to say my spelling wasn't correct! But his real name is Ettore Boiardi! I wouldn't have known how to spell that either! Well have fun making your food and desserts, I'll keep you updated on my cooking journeys! Ciao bella!