Simple Sauteed Shrimp

(Serves 3-5)

We all love a home cooked meal. We all love it even more when that home cooked meal is easy-to-make.  This shrimp recipe is not only quick and simple, but sure to delight you and your family. So roll up those sleeves and let's get cookin' good lookin. 

Ingredients:

1/2 onion

1 lb of deveined shrimp

1 - 2 garlic cloves

Fresh thyme

Fresh lemon

Other herbs of your choosing

Your favorite seafood seasonings

Olive Oil

Directions:

1.Slice and dice that onion and garlic

(Chop onion and mince garlic)

2.Grab the lubricant and heat it up

(Warm the skillet on low heat, add olive oil)

3.Caramelize the prep, and toss in the green

(Brown the onions, toss in the thyme as well)

4.Add the garli to the party

(Once onions are soft, add garlic)

*Time out 4 a Tasty Tip*:  I love to add fresh herbs to the cooking oil, to infuse it with flavor before adding the main ingredients. 

Ok, so back to business

5. Massage in a secret spice blend 

(Create a dry-rub using your own blend of your favorite seafood seasonings.)

6. Everybody in the pool

(Add season shrimps to pan with onion, garlic and herbs.)

7. Let them get  nice tan

(Cook well until they turn a redish/orangish hue)

8. Shower your super simple shrimp

(Squeeze in fresh lemon juice)

Add lemons directly to the pan to allow shrimp a chance to absorb all the flavor

Serve with corn and green beans

Garlic, #IASOTea sachet, onions

Add fresh herbs to olive oil to infuse flavor

Be careful when using seasonings like #OldBay, they tend to hide a lot of salt

I encourage you to create your own blend

 Enjoy, you did dat!

Smokey Cheesy Toast

Smokey Cheesy Toast

1 slice per serving

This cheesy bread snack, is made for adults, but loved by kids. Super easy to make and super fun to eat.  So if your tum tum need's some pleasing, I hope you're ready for some cheesin'.

Ingredients:

Aluminum foil or parchment paper

Cummin

Tumeric (Cummin's BFF)

Smoked paprika

Black pepper

Red pepper flakes

1 Cheese grater

1 Baking sheet

1 Teaspoon of Olive Oil

2-4 Pieces of Deli-sliced whole wheat or whole grain bread 

2-4 blocks (or bags) of your favorite cheese

Directions:

1. Get it hot in here. Get it hot in here! Get it hot hot hot...ok ok

(Preheat your oven to 300)

2. Go on and lay it downnnnnnnn. You really got it lay it downnnn (C-Breezy back when he was just Chris Brown)

(Lay foil or parchment paper on the baking sheet)

3. Put it down down, like a merry-go-round (Fall Out Boy)

(Put your bread down on your covered baking sheet)

4. Make it rain then. I'ma make it rain, uh! (Travis Porter)

(Drizzle olive oil on your bread)

5. Chop and screw the cheese

(Shred your cheese)

*Unless you are sayin' eff the shredding, and grabbed a bag or two of shredded cheese (no judgement, I still use it some days). If so, hopscotch down to #6. (You know you remember hopscotch)

6. Smother the bread in cheese. Yes, smother it. Cover it. Smack it, flip it, rub it down....oh noooo!(Bell Biv Devo)

*Be sure to shred, or grab out the bag(s), enough cheese to satisfy your private love affair with cheese. (Oh what?!?! Like I'm the only one who has a secret love affair with cheese.) 

7. Sprinkle me, sprinkle me main (E-40)

(Sprinkle your seasonings: cumin, turmeric, black pepper, paprika, and red pepper flakes over your cheese smothered toast). 

8. Just a touch of oil, a little bit (Slave <---All this time, I never knew this was their name)

(Drizzle olive oil over finished masterpiece, cuz you just mastered that piece! of toast :) 

9. Commence to getting your grub on

(Enjoy)

Soundtrack:  Chris Brown Take You Down, Fall Out Boy Sugar, Travis Porter Make it Rain, Bell Biv DeVoe Do Me Baby, E-40 Sprinkle Me, Slave Just a Touch of Love

"Cheesy, Yummy"-my critics approve

How could you NOT have a secret love affair with cheese? Just look at that!!!!

Italian Stuffed Chicken Breasts

Italian Stuffed Chicken Breasts

Serves 2-4

These Italian seasoned, stuffed with goodness, drizzled with some heck yea, chicken breasts are scrumdidiliumptious. Buleeve dat! So, Sassy Chefs, let's roll up our sleeves, and get cookin' good lookin'!!!

Ingredients:
1/4 Onion
1/4 Green pepper
1 Garlic clove
1 Block of Parmesan cheese (or bag if that's your twist - I still use it sometimes)
1 Handful of cherry or grape tomatoes (the little ones)
1 Roasting dish
2 Skewers (Or a handful of toothpicks - my normal "go to" but we ran out. Thanks, Uncle Dave!)
2 Chicken breasts 
Homemade dressing/vinaigrette or olive oil
& a partridge in a pear treeeeeee (Nah, not really, but it felt right!)

Directions:
1. Turn up the heat
(Preheat the oven to 350)
2. Smooth out the sheets
(Lay foil over baking dish)
3. Brutally take out your frustration on your veggies
(Dice onion, green pepper, tomatoes, and garlic)
4. Torture your cheese with the grater
(Grate your cheese, about a half of cup.  But anyone who knows me, knows the more cheese, the better)
5. Use fingers to marry the ingredients together
(Mix all your prep)
6. Sprinkle a snowfall of seasonings over your newly-prep
(Season the prepped veggies and cheese)
7. Make it rain olive oil or homemade vinaigrette
(Drizzle oil/dressing over seasoned prep)
8. Perform the finger marriage one mo' time.
(Blend all the seasoned prep, cheese, and oil)
9. Side Piece dat
(Set aside for later)
10. Decorate your bird
(Season Chicken) *Cheat code: preseason meats before freezing, or marinade before cooking
11. Split dem chicks
(Butterfly the chicken breasts)
12. Lay it dowwwwwwwn, down down (Dwele! No, nobody? Just me? Ok, I'm kewl wit dat)
(Lay butterflied breasts on baking dish)
13. Raaaaain downnnn onnnn theeee (SWV! No? I give up....)
(Drizzle oil over seasoned, butterflied breasts and the baking dish)
14. Make sweet seasoned love with breasts and foil
(Rub the oil over breasts and pan simultaneously)
15. Saturday night dat side piece
(Grab those prepped, seasoned, cheesy veggies=your stuffing)
16. Shove it in there (it's ok, we've lubed it with the oil/dressing)
(Stuff your breasts with your stuffing & drizzle one more time with oil/vinaigrette.)
17. Perform open-breasts surgery
(Use toothpicks or skewers to close the breasts - sealing in that cheesy goodness)
18. Snuggle them under the covers 
(Cover with foil - spray the top blankie so any cheesy goodness that oozes out isn't sacrificed)
19. Take it to the heat
(Put in the 350 degree oven for 35-45 minutes)
20. Interrupt the interlude 
(Uncover halfway through & reduce heat to 325)
21. Let them catch their breath 
(Let your meat rests)
22. Slice & Serve
(Serve whole breasts to adults, cut in half for children)
23. Back yourself on the back, your da ish
(No really, you're da ish)
24. Bon Apetit 
(Enjoy)

Prepped Veggies & Hand-Shredded Cheese

Mixed veggies, cheese, seasonings, and homemade vinaigrette

Butterfly your chicken breasts

Butterflied breast, mixed filling, homemade vinaigrette

Stuffed breasts

Skewered stuffed breasts

2 skewered stuffed breasts (raw)

Cooked Italian Stuffed Breasts

Fin