Teriyaki Flank Steak with rice and grilled veggies!

Sorry I haven't posted since Saturday! Work has been crazy and I am a hot mess full of stress!!  But I made like 20 minutes in my list of things I wanted to do today  for this!Y'all know I play volleyball. They have leagues for all ages! So I was at a tournament and I wanted to get something to eat. I ordered this teriyaki chicken. I am playing at the same place on Sunday and I can't wait!!!!!!! Not to play, I want my teriyaki chicken!!!!!! It is so good!!!!!!! I love it so much!!!! Them make it with rice and grilled veggies. The best veggie in there are these thinly thin sliced sauted onions!!! I got home that first day I had it and I was making a flank steak for dinner. I was just going to wing it and throw it together but I thought it was be nice to make a teriyaki marinade!!!!!!!!!!! So I did with rice and grilled veggies and it is resturaunt quality!!!!!!!!!  To be honest, its better then one or two local dinnings! We have some terrible resturaunts here in Maryland but we also have one of the best!!!!! Did I tell Y'all? I got this awesome new pot from Williams- Sonma? I have made like 3 stews already I love it!!!!!! I don't know how I just randomly thought of that but I did! Oh, since we have talked since Saturday, lets catch up on shows! Once uponn a time!!!!!! OMG, I was crying when Owen had to run into the woods!!! It was so sad. The the guy in the car crash was him!!!! The Mary Margaret told Regina to kill her and she riped her heart out! You crazy people who don't watch Once upon a time probably have no idea what I am talking about! But, us who do do!!!!! Now, Worst Cooks in America! I had a feeling Carla would go but I wanted her to win!! I was super sad to see her go. On the red team I thought Rasheda would go home but I guess not. I think Elina and Sue will be in the finally!!!!!! We will wait and see!!!!!!

Prep- 15 minutes
Cook- 16 minutes
Ready in- 8 hours 35 minutes

Ingredients- 
1/2 cup wine 
1/2 cup soy sauce 
1/4 cup olive oil 
1/4 cup brown sugar  
1/4 cup grated fresh ginger root 
2 cloves garlic, crushed 
1 12\2 pounds beef flank steak
 1 broccoli floret
2 onions, thinly sliced
Salt and Pepper
2 cups white rice
1 cup water
1tablespoon butter
Salt


Directions- 
In a large plastic bag, mix the wine, soy sauce, olive oil, brown sugar, ginger, garlic, and pepper. Place steak in the bag, seal, and refrigerate 8 hours
 Preheat an outdoor grill for medium-high heat. 
 Put 1 tablespoon of butter, salt, water, and rice in a saucepan, bring to a boil, cover and reduce
Steam brocoli in water, season with salt and pepper when done
In s saute pan, saute onions with salt and pepper 
Remove steaks from the bag, and throw away  marinade. Place steaks on the grill and cook 6 to 8 minutes per side, to medium rare.Put on top of rive with the onions and broccoli
Serve and enjoy!!!!!!

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Pecan Cookies!!!

I can completly understand why who ever named this named it sandie!!!! It  dose not have the texture of sand but it almost looks like sand. Look at the picture don't you see it? I have never been the biggest fan of nuts. I never put nuts in my chocolate chip cookies or banana bread. Put the cookie is floury and the nuts give a great texture!!!!!!!I will say, these aren't my favorite cookies, y'all know my I am chocolate all the way. But these are soft and simple!!!! It rocks the house!!! These cookies actually came from England I'm pretty sure and they were eaten with honey and mint tea! So I don,t drink tea but these are great with hot chocolate!!!!!!! But its warm now so just eat them and you will be happy!!!!!!!!!! My dad bought this HUGE bag of pecans for me so I have been making a lot of things with pecans. I made a pecan crumble for my pork chops!!!!!! I will be posting pecan pie later!!!!! Well, I should probably get going. I have so many recipes aI want to put on today!!!!!

Ingredients-

1 cup unsalted butter, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup finely chopped pecans

Directions-

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
grease 2 baking sheets. In the bowl of a mixer, combine the butter and vanilla. Add 1/2 cup of the sugar, then slowly add the flour and pecans and mix just until combined. Use your hands to roll the dough into balls about r, and arrange them on the baking sheets. Bake 15 to 20 minutes, until golden brown. While cookies are baking , spread the remaining confectioners' sugar out on a plate. When the cookies are done, remove from the oven, let cool 3 to 5 minutes, and then roll each cookie in the sugar until coated, letting each rest in the sugar for a minute to absorb it

Key Lime Pie

Remember how I told you about my dad and how he loves fruit desserts. He loves tarts. A lot of tarts have curd. Curd is really fresh and has a tart flavor. One of my dads favorite pie is Key Lime. Kay lime pie is so fresh with a citurus flavor and its cold and it taste,looks, and feels fresh! Look at the picture. Yes I have a picture!!!!!!! I know I have a picture!!!! I remembered at the last slice!!!!!!!!!!! I was eating and was like "wait the picture!!!!"So I did!!!!!!!! I have to say, I am, not a photographer  but I take some decent pictures!!!! Since is a fresh cold pie and with spring just around the corner this is the best thing!!!!!! This is seriously the best Sweet Saturday ever!!!!!! Lots of pictures and yummy tweets! I have no plan of how many recipes I am posting because I have hours full of work!!! Plus I have volleyball practice. Yes I do volleyball. There are leagues for all ages!!!We;; I have to go to volleyball right now so bye!!!!!!!

Ingredients-

For the crust:
1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
1/4 cup sugar
6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted

For the filling:
6 extra-large egg yolks, at room temperature
1/4 cup sugar
1  can sweetened condensed milk
2 tablespoons grated lime zest
3/4 cup freshly squeezed lime juice (4 to 5 limes) 

 Directions-

Preheat the oven to 350 

For the crust, combine the graham cracker crumbs, sugar, and butter in a bowl. Press into a 9-in pie pan, making sure the sides and the bottom are even. Bake for 10 minutes. Allow to cool completely.

For the filling- beat the egg yolks and sugar on high speed in the bowl of an electric mixer for 5 minutes, until thick. With the mixer on medium speed, add the condensed milk, lime zest, and lime juice. Pour into the baked pie shell and freeze. Serve and enjoy!!!!!!!

Double Chocolate White Chocolate Chunk Cookie

What y'all think? I am doing great with my pictures!!!!!!!!! I love these!!!! White chocolate is really sweet and the milk chocolate isn't as sweet but you have those big chunks!! A lot of the recipes I have planed to post are not chocolate. I have a chocolate cake I want to put up if I have time, so I quickly did this since I had a picture!!!!! I know its not the best picture but my camera wasn't focusing!!! Make sure you have milk when you make these because they are REALLY chocolaty and it is the best thing to have milk with them!!!!! I have a cookie baking tip to share! Under bake you cookie by like 3 minutes. They still cook out of the oven and when they cool it wont be dough just really soft cookie. I want a cookie not burnt toast.






This recipe makes a lot of cookies and my grandparents were here so we ate them in like an hour. But I made them again with just the 5 people in my family, they were gone in minutes!!!!! These go by fast! If  you make them for a party make them like an hour before the party starts, if you don't they will be gone!!!!!!

Ingredients-
2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup baking cocoa
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 cup butter,sofened
2/3 cup packed brown sugar
2/3 cup sugar

1 tsp vanilla extract
2 eggs
1/3 forth cups white chocolate chunks

Directions-

1. Preheat oven to 350
2. Combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl. Beat butter, sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract in a large mixing bowl until creamy. Beat in eggs. Slowly beat in flour mixture. Stir in chunks.Roll in to balls and put on  pan
3. BAKE for 9 to 12 minutes or until cookie's centers are set but  soft. Cool on baking sheets for 2 minutes, remove to wire racks, cool completely.

Chocolate Chip Cookie dough cupcakes!!!!

Y'all know me. I love cookie dough. I have told you the stories of me and my BFF Malina making cookie dough without the egg but using milk and eating it raw. Well there are eggs in here but you don't need to worry about it!! You freeze the cookie dough 2 hours and but cupcake batter on top so the cookie dough is frozen enough that it wont become a cookie and the egg will be cooked off!!!!! I made these with a chocolate fudge frosting. Some people find that to sweet because you already have the cookie dough so I won't post it here. You can just use a plain frosting or even by it!!!!!! You take that first bite and get a hunk of cookie dough some moist yellow cake and possibly frosting( if you put it on) If you read my first post today, strawberry shortcake, you will se how many pictures I had. I have more this post!!

Want to see the cookie dough bites? The best part!!

Looking good huh!! I don't know how many cookie dough bites this was supposed to make but mine made a lot!! If you have any left over dough make cookies!! So you put batter then dough then more badder on top so the cookie dough will be in the middle then you put more on top




Ingredients- 
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 
1/4 teaspoon baking soda  
1/4 tsp sea salt  
1/2 cup butter, softened  
1/4 cup white sugar  
1/2 cup brown sugar 
1 eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup mini semisweet chocolate chops
1 box of yellow cake mix, any ingredients called for on the box 

Directions-

1. Whisk together the flour, baking soda, and sea salt; set aside. Beat the butter, white sugar, and brown sugar with an electric mixer in a large bowl until smooth. Add 1 egg and the vanilla extract and beat until smooth. Mix in the flour mixture until just incorporated. Fold in the chocolate chips, mixing just enough to evenly combine. Form the dough into size of a tablespoon balls, place onto a baking sheet, and freeze until solid, about 2 hours.
2. Preheat an oven to 350  Line 24 muffin cups with paper liners.
3. Beat 3 eggs in a large bowl with an electric mixer to break up. Add the cake mix, water, and canola oil, continue beating for 2 minutes on medium speed. Spoon into the cupcake liners, filling each 2/3 full. Place a frozen cookie dough ball on the top center of each cupcake(see in pictures).
4. Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the cake portion of the cupcake (not the cookie dough, that will be raw) comes clean, about 20 minutes. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes before removing

St. Patrick's day Green sugar cookies with gold

Well hello there traditional sugar cookie. You look different. Did you get a tan? Of wait, your green! Well aren't you perfect for St. Patrick's day!! So I was making green cookies went I went the baking section of My kitchen. I found these gold sprinkles. They look like gold so I put then on!! I used pillsbury because this was really last minute!! I used the dough in rolls meaning not already cut out into circles. It us in a roll!
Here is what I used to make then pretty




Ingredients-
2 packs pillsbury sugar cookie dough, in rolls

3 tsp of green foods coloring( more if you want dark green)
Gold sugar sprinkles

Directions-
Preheat an oven to 350, lightly Grease a baking sheet
Put dough in a bowl and mix in green food coloring till the green shade you want, roll into balls
Put on sheet, sprinkle with the gold sprinkles
Bake for time called on box, serve and enjoy!!

Strawberry Shortcake!!!!!!!!

I have told you guys a few times about how my dad has never been a huge chocolate fan. He likes pie and tarts. Lots of fruit desserts! This year for Valentines day I made my dad this cake. It is right up his alley with a not to sweet cake fresh strawberries and the whipped cream, isn't very sweet at all!!  This is such a traditional cake!! My dad always says he loves simple and elegant and that is the definition of this cake!!!!!!!!!! Oh yeh, to pull the elegant off a put a rose next to it! We had 2 roses and one was dying so I took the petals and made it look nice and ready for a picture.




This is such a moist cake and the whipped cream soaks on a little to make it nice and sift. You have probably had strawberry shortcake but you haven't had this one! Like all my pictures? I have been trying to get better with pictures and I have like atleast 4 for the strawberry shortcake!!!

Most of my recipes have pictures today but not all! Sorry, but I ate them all before I took the picture. I could just take a picture of my stomach!!!!!!!(Inside joke)!!!
I told you have I have a bunch of pictures of this!!!!!!!! They are all really simular of the same cake but they all look good!!!! Y'all want to see a top angle picture? Sure you do hold on......


Looking good right?! To decorate it I just spread some whip cream, and put strawberries on it! It looks homemade in a really good way!!!! This recipe makes 2 8 inch cakes. You cut the cake in half lengh wise so The strawberry shortcake is only one cake and you can wrap the other and put it in the freezer!!

Ingredients-
3/4 cup unsalted butter
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
3/4 cup sour cream
1/2 tsp orange zest
1/2 tsp lemon zest
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
2 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda

For the whip cream-
1 cup heavy whipping cream
3 tablespoons sugar
1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
1 pint fresh strawberries, hulled and sliced

Directions-
Preheat oven to 350, Butter and flour two 8-inch pans
Cream the butter and sugar on high speed until light and fluffy in a electric mixer
On medium speed add eggs one at a time, sour cream, both zest,and vanilla, Mix
Sift together flour,cornstarch, salt, and baking soda. On low speed,slowly add flour mixture to the butter mixture and combine until smooth.
Pour the batter into pans smooth tops with a spatula and bake in middle oven for 40-45 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Let cool for 30 minutes, then put on a wire rack
To make filling for ONE cake-
Mix in a mixer or by hand till firm, Add sugar and vanilla. Slice one cake. Slice one cake in half. Place one half on  a plate. Spread half of the whip cream on top. Put on sliced strawberries.Stack the other half on top and cover with remaining cream and strawberries! Serve and enjoy!!!!