Black Angus Gift Card

One year for Christmas, Santa gave me a Black Angus gift card.  I've had that card for three-four years, but being a starving college student (jk, I'm not starving), I finally found a reason to use it.

When my friend and I went, I got a fancy steak topped with blue cheese and mushrooms.  It was sooo good and my friend, who loves cheese, especially blue cheese, suggested we make this for dinner one day.  Our homemade version was super delicious and not nearly as expensive as Black Angus (:

 Ingredients:
- flank steak
- mushrooms
- onions
- blue cheese ...is it spelled bleu cheese?

This yummy dinner was super easy to assemble, especially because I had already made the steak ahead of time.  First I caramelized the onions and sauteed the mushrooms.  Then I microwaved the meat on 70% or 80% power, a trick my mom taught me so that the meat wouldn't be overcooked and chewy.  Then I took a baking sheet lined with foil, put the meat on and topped it with the onions and mushrooms, sprinkled some blue cheese on top, and popped it under the broiler for a few minutes.  We ate it with salad with...blue cheese dressing, of course (:

Homemade Cheesy Macs

This is inspired by the Grilled Cheese Truck.  My friend and I went to the Food Truck Festival in Pasadena and after having our delicious Cheesy Macs, we decided that we wanted to make our own at the dorms for Super Bowl Sunday.

For the Cheesy, we used fresh white bread from Von’s and sliced cheddar cheese.  For the Mac, we used a box of Kraft Mac and Cheese and added a little extra cheese.  These amazing sandwiches are extremely easy to make—it’s like making a grilled cheese sandwich with mac and cheese on the inside.  They’re soooo yummy and definitely a new favorite (:

The bread, which was delicious on its own [=

Our finished product!  Cooking in the small dorm kitchen was tough but they still turned out delicious [=

Cheeeeese [=

Yumm!

Food Truck Festival!

My friend and I went to the First Annual Food Truck Festival at Santa Anita Park in Pasadena in January and it was AMAZINGG!!  We were lucky to have beautiful weather that day, which made waiting in line worth it (I waited in line for the Grilled Cheese Truck for 2 hours!!  Sounds insane, but the food was sooooo good!)  We also got to try Fresh Fries, and Cool Haus which were also realllyyy good [=

Front of the Grilled Cheese Truck

Back of the Grilled Cheese Truck 

Cheesy Mac Melt! [=

Cheesy Mac and Rib Melt
We also got a S'mores Melt but we ate it before we could take a picture [=

I had the Cheesy Mac and Rib [=

Cool Haus and Fresh Fries

My friend was smart and went to get fries while I waited for the Grilled Cheese Truck.  We got curly fries with a garlic dipping sauce and sweet potatoes fries (yummm) with a chipotle sauce.  They were soo good!!

Sweet Potato Fries

Curly Fries

Here's the Cool Haus Menu

We decided to get scoops rather than a sandwich, but if you get a sandwich, they give it to you with a edible paper!  I had Guinness Chip, which is the top scoop, and Thai Tea, which is my favorite Boba drink flavor! They were both really good and we were definitely full after our long day of eating [=

The Sweets Truck

The Lardon Truck where they have everything bacon!  Someone in line behind us said they had a bacon brownie! 

Tapa Boy LA

Lobsta Truck

Ragin' Cajun

Knockout Tacos Truck

First Post!

So here's my first post!  This is a dinner I'm pretty proud of; I got a big pack of pork over Super Bowl Weekend because it was on sale and I froze them with two pieces in a bag.  This was actually pretty simple to make.  I had all the ingredients on hand and all I had to do was assemble it! (:

Apple Stuffed Pork Chops with Pineapple-Orange Gravy, topped with caramelized onions and mushrooms

I got the recipe from Food Network online (Apple and Onion-Stuffed Pork Chops with Orange-Pineapple Gravy by Sunny Anderson) and I tweaked it.

My ingredients:

- Bone-in pork chops

- Fuji apples (peeled and sliced thin)

- Orange Juice

- Pineapple Juice (I took the juice from canned pineapple chunks)

- Onions 

- Mushrooms

The cook time was about the same on the recipe.  I just used salt and pepper for the seasoning.  I also caramelized the onions and threw in the mushrooms while cooking the onions for the topping.  It was delicious and I ate it with white rice (: