Showing posts with label food and cocktails. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food and cocktails. Show all posts

Saturday, August 3, 2013

Easy And Delicious Chicken Recipes

Korean BBQ Chicken recipe from To Food With Luv

Chicken Paillard recipe from Eye Swoon

I believe this is my first ever food post! I am an awesome eater, but I really don't know much about what I am eating or how to prepare it. When it comes to cooking I mainly do the same old chicken and veggies and that can get pretty dull. I decided to spice things up a bit and found two chicken recipes I wanted to try from Pinterest. The first thing I decided to try was Korean BBQ chicken. I really should give my husband all the credit because he is the one who prepared it and we grilled it at our friends Rachel and James' house. According to my husband, it was very easy to make and and everyone agreed that it tasted outstanding.  

My husband and I double teamed the chicken paillard Thursday night. The recipe has you beat the chicken breast with a tenderizer mallet, which I do not have, so I improvised and put the chicken in a gallon ziploc bag and beat it with a regular hammer. This worked beautifully and when the recipe called for using a mortar and pestle to create a paste with garlic cloves and salt, the ziploc bag and hammer came to the rescue again!  We decided to cook the chicken in a skillet rather than on the grill and it turned out very tasty. The garlic paste hardened and created a thin flavorful crust on the chicken. 

Overall, both recipes were a success and I can't wait to make each dish again. 

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Prof. Hancock And Lover School In Mixology

The Hemingway Daiquiri 

The Mezcalvador Dali

Ramos Gin Fizz

The Yellow Jacket

Ahhh, the joys of summer! Baseball, cookouts, swimming, camping and of course the fine art of  boozing. If boozing is indeed your summer activity of choice, may I suggest you shake things up a bit and draw some inspriration from the above cocktails created by my friend Amelia and her boyfriend Eric. Amelia just finished her first year of grad school at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Eric is a lawyer and the two live in an adorable apartment, on an adorable block in the adorable neighborhood of Park Slope in Brooklyn. With school out for the summer the two toyed with the idea of taking a mixology class, but then decided to forgo the classes and simply teach themselves with a few books and a supremely stocked personal bar. That ocean of booze behind the drink in the last pic is a glimpse of the liquor acquired for their new hobby. These two aren't playing! Looks like all their efforts have paid off because each of the drinks they have made looks amazing and worthy of being on the Mad Men set. 

pics by Amelia Hancock
Books used by Amelia and Eric: