Delicious Drinks #2: Iced Coffee

New Series
I've decided that there aren't enough easy to make beverages out there, so I'm going to be posting a series of recipes for drinks that are easy and quick to make.  This post is the first of the series.

Recipe Info
I don't really like coffee, but I do like coffee ice cream, and the caffeine in coffee.  This recipe is much quicker than others I have seen, that take days to make.  I found this on a website, and sort of made it my own.  I used this once and got very energetic, it was probably the wrong time to drink a large amount of coffee.  This is very and is like the last recipe, just cold coffee.  

Recipe
(Makes one serving, ingredient size is approximate)
Ingredients:
-Coffee grains and water/ instant coffee mix and water
-Ice
-Milk (optional)
-Sugar (optional)

Directions:
Make coffee as you usually would, but make it about twice as strong.  For example I usually use about 3 scoops, making this I use 6 scoops but the same amount of water.  Next add the coffee to a glass with ice and add milk and sugar to your liking.  Enjoy.

Delicous Drinks #1: Iced Tea

New Series
I've decided that there aren't enough easy to make beverages out there, so I'm going to be posting a series of recipes for drinks that are easy and quick to make.  This post is the first of the series.

Recipe Info
This is really quick and easy and takes about 2 or 3 minutes to make.  It is real iced tea, not like the stuff you buy in a store.  It tastes like tea.  I made up this recipe and have used it a few times myself, it's very simple and is honestly just cold tea.

Recipe
(Makes one serving, ingredient size is approximate)
Ingredients:
-2 cups water
-A tea bag for your favorite tea
-1 or 2 tablespoons of sugar (more or less, whatever you like)
-Ice

Directions:
Start by boiling the water as you would to make tea.  Add the tea bag to it and let it steep for as long as you like.  Add sugar and ice.  Mix.

Graham Cracker Crust

Well, I've been posting a lot.  A while ago I really wanted pudding in a graham cracker crust, so I went on my all time favorite cooking website; Allrecipes.  I looked for a graham cracker crust recipe and found one that worked out really well.  Here is a link: Not sure this is the right recipe but it looks like it.  I then just made pudding from a box, and made mini pies.  It was very yummy.

How To Make A Pasta Medley

I guess I get my strokes of cooking brilliance when I am especially hungry.

One day I was super hungry in my house and I really wanted to have pasta with tomato sauce. My mom had pre-made tomato sauce a while ago and we froze it just for this reason.  The problem here was the pasta.  So I grabbed all the half empty pasta boxes around the kitchen that didn't have enough pasta left to actually make a full batch and put it on the table.  I came up with a revolutionary idea:

1. Get all the random pasta shapes from around your kitchen
2. Look at the times that it takes to cook each one
3. Put them in order from which takes the longest to cook to the shortest to cook
4. Boil some water
5. Find the difference between the longest cooking and the second longest
6. Put the longest cooking in and cook for the difference
7. Put the second longest in and cook for the difference between that and the third longest
8. Continue until you get to the one that takes the shortest amount to cook
9. Cook the shortest for the full time
10. Eat your very delicious pasta

Example:

 Let's say that I have penne (about 10 min), macaroni (about 9 min), and farfalle (about 14 min).  I would first put in the farfalle for 4 minutes.  Then I would add the penne for 1 minute.  Then I would add the macaroni for 9 minutes.  

After I made this I added some pasta sauce to the pot and some cheese and ate it.  It was delicious.  I have pictures:

Here it is in the pot

Here it is on my plate with sauce and cheese

Cooking Something Random

I haven't posted in a while.  I don't really have that much to post about.  But I am posting now, I'd like to talk about cooking something random.  You could probably have figured that out from the title of the post.  Recently my dad was coming home late and we hardly had any food in the house.  I was really hungry and wanted soup, as I usually do.  I love soup.  So I looked around my kitchen and found some random things that would go well into soup.

• Chicken Broth
• Chicken Breast
• Broccoli
• Cooked Pasta
• Milk
• Many Different Spices

First I boiled the chicken broth, and while it was boiling I cut up the chicken breast and broccoli.  After the chicken broth seemed to be boiling I added the cut up chicken.  I let that sit for a little bit and then added the broccoli.  Then I added the pasta and some milk for an unknown reason.  Milk just sounded like it would be yummy in it.  Then I raided my spice cabinet and added many random spices to make it tastier.  Broccoli is very sweet, so I added some salt.  From what I can remember I added celery flakes, onion powder, garlic powder, and tons more.  

I was honestly expecting it to be totally disgusting, because it didn't come from a recipe, but it was actually fairly good.  My point being that I didn't want to make something without a recipe, but once I tried it I found that I was actually happy I had done it.  Never be afraid to cook something random, because you might find that afterwards you have a bunch of delicious soup. 

First Video/Pasta Sauce

ive never made pasta sauce on my own, but today i got hungry and needed food, so i made some.  i have a smart phone now so i took a video of it.

A Cooking Weekend

This might not be of any importance to you, but I made some stuff this weekend and I thought I'd tell you about it, and maybe you'd want to make it yourself!

The first thing I made was Mulligatawny soup.  You can find more info about the book where this recipe came from on my links and books page (or click here lol).  It was really good, I heated up some frozen Naan bread for it, because the soup's origin was India and I thought I might reunite the 2.  I didn't really use the right rice (I used this lemon flavored rice) because it was the only rice we had in the house, so it tasted lemony, but still good.  Normally I use brown rice.

I also made some chocolate pudding, which was really easy, I topped it with some homemade whipped cream and chopped pecans.  I don't have a picture, I might add one later, but I forgot to take it.  I've made it a couple times before, always really good.  Click here for the recipe.

On Sunday I made bread and butter.  I've made them both before and the bread was much easier the second time.  The bread was delicious, and was granted a special trip to the grocery store for yeast and bread flour.  I would not recommend using normal flour, but you probably can, but if your going to make the bread just go all the way.  We put the two bread loaves in some old bread bags, so they look
very official. Click here for the bread recipe.
I like to toast the pieces and put some of my butter on them, the butter tastes just like the stuff you get at the store (as chef john says in the link I will give) but it's still fun to make and a little extra with the bread.  Click here for the butter recipe.


This post has taken an unusual amount of time because I've been blasting Bohemian Rhapsody.