Brown Sugar Cookies - MYARTNF

How 'bout some nice warm cookies to warm up the weather of fall a little? Here's a new video on my channel, BROWN SUGAR COOKIES!!! Filmed by my cook, H, a.k.a. my little chum-headed brother.

The recipe is from Joanne Eats Well With Others. Thanks for the recipe, Joanne!*



Note that this is an EPIC FAIL video. More info on YT.

N

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*Joanne's site: http://joanne-eatswellwithothers.com

Stuffed Omelette - MYARTNF

Finally I have my first food video ever up on my YouTube Channel: A stuffed omelette!

In this video, my cook teaches you how to make a stuffed omelette. We He didn't do very well, but as long as you guys can do better, all's well.

This is the video.

link for YT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGZPi8yUtDw&feature=em-upload_owner

If any of you viewers try this, let me know in the comments box! ☺

N

Rainbow Fruit Salad

Oh, dear me. I apologize for the lack of posts. I got busy after Eid came and school started. But I have a recipe for you!

It is called, "Rainbow Fruit Salad." It is featured on my life blog, which I generously dubbed "Just Remember". Here's the post. Goblins for Dinner

Now then, on with the recipe.

You will need:

FOOD:

• 1 ripe yellow banana that hasn't blackened yet and that is obvious
• 1/4 of a red watermelon, not a yellow one because that would be weird
• 1/2 of an orange cantaloupe melon
• 3 green kiwis
• a bunch of black grapes or red grapes
• 1/2 of a yellow lemon (say that 3 times fast)

MATERIALS:

• A big salad bowl. This is a salad isn't it? Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, but wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
• A paring knife. For slicing. What else would you use it for?
• A large knife, or whatever you like to use for cutting big melons.
• A cutting board (unless you use your counter for cutting things on...).

You will have to:

1. Thinly slice the banana and put the slices into the salad bowl.
2. Cube the watermelon and put it into the salad bowl too.
3. Cube the cantaloupe and put it into the salad bowl too.
4. Slice and quarter the kiwis and put them in the bowl.
5. Halve the grapes and toss 'em in. Don't miss.
6. Squeeze the lemon all over the whole thing and stir it around. This is for preserving the bananas, making sure they don't brown.
7. Eat.
8. Enjoy.
9. Relieve yourself. (in the restroom! what are you going outside for?!)

Thank you for reading today's recipe. A more advanced, more tasty version of it is...

FOOD:

• a bag or carton of red strawberries, fresh or frozen, no matter
• two mangoes (or a bag of frozen mangoes if you like frozen fruits)
• two bananas (these will always be fresh. Stores rarely freeze bananas.)
• three kiwis or a bunch of delicioso green grapes
• a bag or carton of purple blueberries, fresh or frozen, no matter
• a bag or carton of red raspberries, fresh or frozen, no matter
• two purple, non sour plums or a bunch of red/purple grapes
• water
• half a lemon

MATERIALS:

• a big salad bowl
• a few small bowls
• appropriate knives
• an appropriate cutting board...

INSTRUCTIONS if you are using frozen fruits:

1. Defrost all the frozen fruits in separate bowls. (How to defrost: Put a frozen thing inside a bowl of cold water and submerge it in the water.)
2. Slice the bananas. Thickly, but not too thick. Place them in the salad bowl.
3. Slice the kiwis. Thickly, but not too thick. Place them in the salad bowl.
4. Pit the plums and cut them in quarters OR if you aren't using plums then halve the grapes (both kinds) and put them into the salad bowl.
5. Squeeze the lemon all over the bowl and stir well.
6. Eat.
7. Enjoy.
8. Relieve yourself (in the bathroom this time).

INSTRUCTIONS if you are using fresh fruits:

1. Halve the strawberries and grapes (both kinds).
2. Slice the bananas. (THICKLYYY)
3. Slice the kiwis. (THICKLYYY)
4. Cube the mango.
5. Place everything into the salad bowl (don't forget the raspberries and blueberries) and squeeze lemon over everything and stir.
6. Eat.
7. Enjoy.
8. Take a third trip to the restroom.

Thank y'all for reading this, and until next time, adios!!

-The Professional Chef

Milkless Tropical Fruit Smoothie

YOU PEOPLE ARE ALLOWED TO COMMENT YOU KNOWWWWWWWWWWWAAAAaand I'm sorry I haven't been posting but I got sick. No, I didn't get sick from eating my own stuff, if you're wondering.

Lately I've been making smoothies without dairy because my big sister and bratty youngest brother are both lactose-intolerant. And Mother recently (like a month ago) found this healthy drink brand called 'GoodBelly.' Is that in your stores yet? It's got a real funny name, yeah? I've never liked the word 'belly.'

Anywhoooozers, TO THE POINT. So I think this happened last week (yes, I know you really want me to get on with the recipe but I have no care) and Mother and Father and Big Sister S came back from the Farmer's Market.

MOTHER: I think you'll be ecstatic if you look in the chest freezer, Nu.
NU: You got berries!?!?
(No reply.)

Blasphemy! If no one wants to answer me, I'll have their head stuffed with smoothies! Anyways, I explored the chest freezer later, and found one of my favorite frozen products. Now, what is that brand? I think it's called...Oh! It's called Nu-Can't-Remember-And-Has-To-Check-Some-Other-Time. My favorite frozen product is the frozen diced mangoes. Mmm. I can finish one whole bag in less than an hour. Them people should fill up their packages with more fruits. There was also this tropical fruit thing that had slices of bananas, diced mangoes, and strawberries. And we also had raspberries.

RECIPE

1 cup of pomegranate GoodBelly drink
half a bag of tropical frozen fruit as said in the junk above
half a cup of frozen raspberries
1/4 cup of frozen diced mangoes

They don't have to be frozen, of course, but this is a smoothie, and smoothies are supposed to be cold. So if you're using fresh fruit, add 3 ice cubes to the blender for coldness.

I like putting the berries in first and then the liquid. (Note that the amount of liquid listed never really matters. When I  made this, it came out globby and not so much liquidy. Put in more liquid and it'll slide out of the blender more easily.)

If you need help or don't understand any of this, consult your parent or comment.

-Nu

TEMPORARY NOTE: I'll have pictures, master! I will! I have to buy more GoodBelly! Just wait!

Red Raspberry Smoothie

When you feel totally useless on a lazy summer afternoon, you begin to feel sleepy (and not to mention smelly). You need something cool, sweet, nutritious and refreshing to shake your brain awake. You go inside your kitchen and find nothing - or so you think. You find nothing but a bag of raspberries in the freezer. Groaning, you get on the computer and search 'things to do with raspberries.' Instantly results pop up, and among them is this:

If You're Hungry and You Know It - Red Raspberry Smoothie

You click on the link, and then you begin making the recipe in utter excitement.

Red Raspberry Smoothie

I invented this totally myself. Shouldn't take long. No telling how much it'll make.

Ingredients

1 cup red frozen raspberries

1/4 cup frozen blueberries

1 cup strawberry yogurt

1/3 cup strawberry ice cream

1/3 cup vanilla ice cream

1 cup water

3 ice cubes

Basically, blend everything together at the same time, and if your blender breaks, I apologize. But you should also blame yourself for following my instructions.

***TIP: Frozen ingredients like to clump together when they're blended. If your blender can't blend anymore, take off the blender-jug or whatever it's called and shake it around, or use a spoon to stir up the contents.

-Nu

TEMPORARY NOTE: I know how you love pictures. I do too. Hopefully I'll get the stuff, make this thing, capture a piece of the past, and share it with you all.

Cool Sugar Cookies

NEVER MIND THE MELONS IN THE BACKGROUND, PEOPLE

This is probably my favorite recipe ever. Taken from The Greatest Cookies Ever by Rose Dunnington, I found this the most interesting recipe in the book. I guess it's because the colors caught my eye with a fishing hook and my eyes are stuck in that book for eternity.

Seriously. I really, really love this book. The best I ever found with the best advice.

The cookies I'm talking about are the ones at the top left of the picture. Yep, they're the ones, and I've made them countless times.

*counts off fingers*

I made those checkerboard ones once, they were turquoise and black - oh, and I also made a guest post for Grandma's blog on the flower ones, plus I did those pink, purple, and yellow striped ones, and those pink and blue ones. Ah, here's a blogpost by my muddah.

I was going to make a post on these on my old blog, The Light's the Limit, but never got it done, as there were a great lot of pictures to be uploaded. But, as of now, it shall be done! LET THE RECIPE COMMENCE!!! *summons caramel-shooter*

The ingredients are...

1 stick of unsalted butter, 1 egg, 3/4 cup sugar, 1/4 tsp salt, 1 1/2 c flour, and two different colors of food coloring. Ah, the fun part.

♦ Addition: You need egg wash to make your cookies shiny. To make this, crack an egg over a bowl and beat it with some water.

These are sugar cookies. They will be very sweet. I like 'em that way - but no one else in the fam likes 'em.

*smacks self* Unhealthy me.

I did have a video of these cookies being made, but they're on the hard drive which is connected to the other computer which muddah is using and it's got a great many cables to be unplugged and all that junk.

Anyways. To the point.

***WARNING: These cookies require chilling for two hours in the refrigerator. Make sure you have enough time for everything.

It's all settled. The ingredients are above. Get them out and follow these directions.

1. Cream butter and sugar in a mixing bowl with an electric mixer. Crack in egg and blend well. Add flour and salt.
   

   
   
   
2. Separate the dough in half. Color each dough ball individually. Wrap and chill the dough for 15 minutes.
   
   
   

   
   

   
   

   

   
   
3. After 15 minutes, roll the dough and shape them into rectangles. Wrap and chill them for 20 minutes.
4. Make egg wash. ♦
5. Remove and unwrap frozen dough. Brush egg wash on one rectangle and place other rectangle above. Brush egg wash on top. Roll into a log. Be sure you have a spiral pattern.
6. Freeze log for 2 hours.
7. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Grease a cookie sheet. Unwrap log and cut it into slices about 1 cm thick. Place on the cookie sheet and brush with egg wash. Place in oven. Bake for about 10 minutes.

All you do after is wait for 'em to cool, stare at the lovely colors, and hand 'em out to your family. I hope they like the cookies. If they don't, hrmph. Spiteful curmudgeons.

-Nu

PS: I will have this post updated soon with pictures. ☺

Butterscotch Brownies

First recipe of the blog! And we've (whoever WE is) got brownies to start off with!

They aren't exactly brown, but they're brownies.

 

This recipe was taken from a book called The Ultimate Cookie Book. It doesn't exactly have an author, but the recipes are good (most of 'em).

Anywho.

Yield: It depends on how you cut 'em. If you greedily make 'em big, you'll get less. If you generously make 'em small, you'll get more.

Duration: That depends too, considering how long you take to do things.

Ingredients (these are all American measurements)

1 cup softened unsalted butter

1 3/4 cups brown sugar

2 eggs

2 1/4 cups flour

1 1/4 cups butterscotch chips

1 square semi-sweet chocolate, melted

Yeah, so take out the butter first before everything. Don't melt the chocolate yet as it's for drizzling.

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F, or 180 degrees C. Grease and lightly flour a 2 inch deep rectangular baking pan.
2. Beat the butter with the sugar until creamy. Add eggs and beat until fluffy.
3. Sift the flour and fold it into the batter. Fold in the chips.
4. Pour all the batter into the baking pan and smooth it evenly. Bake for 25 - 30 minutes, or use the toothpick trick.
5. After baking, let brownies cool. Drizzle with melted chocolate and cut into bars or squares, whichever you prefer.

There ya go! All done. Yum.

-Nu

PHOTO CREDIT: My sister's iPhone 3.

Hello, All You Sweet-Tooths.

Greetings. Welcome to If You're Hungry and You Know It. I am Nu.

Are you hungry? Need a drink?

Well, don't just stand there with that hideous face on. Get inside the kitchen and move it! (Plus bring a device inside to access my blog.)

This blog consists of recipes, perfect for any day, sweaty or freezing. We've got it!

...whoever 'We' is.

Anywhooooooooooo... from summer fruit smoothies to winter warm cookies, you'll be sure to find this blog useful.

Now, stop reading this and get your ingredients. Even though you haven't chosen a recipe yet.

-Nu