Monster Mash: I came up with the name for these ridiculously good mashed potatoes and it is a pre-requisite that you have to be listening to the "Monster Mash" song while eating them. First thing on the list: Purple Potatoes. Ms. Boyardee picked these babies up at the grocery store and I was flabbergasted (it's a word) as I had never seen these things before. She steamed the potatoes up, mashed them together with some kale, and added some mozzarella cheese. We saw a similar recipe at Ms. Boyardees favourite restaurant, The Green Door, before, but she had to add her frankenstein twist of purpleness. I added some Sriracha for a little kick and they were a graveyard smash...great side to any meal....or a massive bowl as a main in my case.
Homemade Pasta: Ms. Boyardee and I have been making homemade pasta.....from SCRATCH.....for a couple of years now but we haven't broken out the pasta machine in a while and one night we cracked open a bottle of red, threw some Fats Domino on the music machine and went to work ( Fats Domino...how could you not listen to a man named Fats Domino when cooking...it just fits). I didn't think we should blog about it but Ms. Boyardee said homemade pasta is "cool". If that's cool....consider me Justin Bieber ( I'm assuming our fans are mostly 12 year old girls.....I may be a belieber too).
The recipe is simple for the pasta: shitload of flour shaped into a bowl, add eggs, veggie stock, olive oil and mix slowly together until its in a ball....it takes awhile. We add spices, garlic and oregano which gets rolled into the pasta and looks pretty cool. You let the pasta sit for about 20 minutes, then you quarter the pasta ball and run it through the pasta machine. You need a wide set (like my woman**) configuration on the pasta roller and sloooooowly decrease it making it thinner and thinner until it's pasta size. Ms. Boyardee and I then added the pasta cutter and made our own fettuccine noodles. To dry them...we used our own coat hangers and hung them on our key hooks*. Because it's fresh...It takes two seconds to cook, we then made our homemade sauce, the meal was so good I think Mr. Boyardee may be looking for Ms. Boayrdee's recipe.
* Side note...we went out for drinks afterwards and came back to some of our dried hung pasta on the floor....our dog oscar....who is a tiny Weiner dog ( badass I know) jumped up and ate some raw pasta...make sure you refrain from making this mistake.
**Ms. Boyardee is far from wide-set but insisted I keep that joke
**Ms. Boyardee is far from wide-set but insisted I keep that joke
Veggie Quesadilla (pronounced K-saw-Dill-Ah): This recipe is pretty simple and is one of Ms. Boyardee's pinterest ventures, Goat cheese, mozzarella and a veggie mix (onions, peppers, eggplant, garlic, zucchini, portobello mushrooms) between two whole wheat pitas. The reason we wanted to try this was to use our BBQ for the first time this year. We cracked a beer, threw the quesadillas on and waited....and waited.....and waited.... after 35 minutes we then determined with a genius mind that the propane was low. Ms. Boyardee who may be a little particular in her food endeavours...insisted on broiling them after the BBQ to get a crisp on them...I was banned from eating them until a crispiness up to Ms. Boyardee's standards was met. I fainted from hunger...but when I awoke....they tasted CRISPY and delicious.
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