Category: Recipe

Tilapia Veracruz

I decided to kick things off the weekend with a nice Tilapia Veracruz.

Start with some fresh tilapia filets, and marinate them with some organic italian dressing. These guys are pretty thin, so it doesn’t take long to cook.

The topping is where I varied from traditional veracruz, I decided to go a bit fresher and more summer-y. With fresh grape tomatoes, cilantro, and red onion, this is fresh and delightful. And healthy!

Top, bake, and boom. You have some fresh Tilapia Veracruz.

I paired my Tilapia Veracruz with fresh avocado and some red quinoa. And I gotta say, it was delicious.

Happy eating, loves!

xoxo,
Adora

Tilapia Veracruz

2 Tilapia Filets
Organic Italian Salad Dressing
1/4 cup diced yellow bell pepper
1/2 cup diced green olives with pimentos
1/4 diced red onion
1/4 cup diced cilantro
Feta

Preheat oven to 400. Coat tilapia filets in italian dressing, then place in glass baking dish. Bake for 10 minutes, or until slightly flakey. In a bowl, combine olives, onion, cilantro, and bell pepper. Coat with more salad dressing. Pull tilapia out of the oven and cover with topping. Finally, top with feta, and bake for another 10 minutes.

Serve with red quinoa, avocado and some fresh lime.

| Posted on Friday, the 30th of May, in the year 2014 by Adora Mae

Sun Dried Tomato Hummus

Someone once told me the key to good hummus is patience…I think it’s patience and the ability to tolerate loud noises for an extended amount of time.

The thing with hummus is, you have to blend it longer than you think you should ever have to blend anything. But you blend and blend and eventually you get delicious and in my case totally organic hummus!

I like to take the tahini, lemon, and about half of the olive oil and blend those together first until pretty smooth. Then add the tomatoes and the garlic, blend until smooth again. Finally, add the garbanzo beans. Blend blend, add a little more olive oil, add some of the water the garbanzos came in, add the salt. Blend blend blend. Basically until it’s at a consistency that you can live with. I like my hummus EXTREMELY smooth so this is a long process for me, but it’s so worth it.

Top it with a little extra olive oil, and some paprika and/or cayenne and serve it up with whatever you like, I’m a big fan of falafel chips these days.

Ingredients:
1/3 cup tahini
1/2 large lemon’s juice
2 cloves of garlic chopped
1 can organic garbanzo beans (water put to the side)
3 tbsp. e.v.o.o.
3-4 olive oil packed sun dried tomatoes
Himalayan Salt to taste
Paprika and Cayenne to dust on top

xoxo,
Adora

| Posted on Sunday, the 25th of May, in the year 2014 by Adora Mae

pad thai me down

Pad Thai has to be one of my top favorite foods. I mean, it’s spicy chicken and noodles, who doesn’t love that? So I decided I needed to learn to make it myself, from scratch. The skinny reason is so I can know exactly what goes in it and cut down on the chemicals, oil, and MSG that tends to hide in take-out food. The fat reason is, I need to know how to make it to satisfy those 2 am cravings after a long night of…well, anything really.

I looked on Pinterest and found so many different tweaks and recipes that I decided to keep it simple this time and work up from there. And it turned out great! I was pretty excited. To be totally honest I inhaled it before my brain registered “hey fatty, how about taking pictures?” but thankfully Adora has more forethought than I do (so you can thank her for the pic).

Happy Pad Thai-ing!

xo. Brie.

Homemade Pad Thai
1 box rice noodles
2 chicken breasts
2 eggs scrambled
1 cup bean sprouts
3 shallots
3 cloves garlic
2 tablespoons coconut oil

Sauce
1/4 cup fresh lime juice
1/4 cup fish sauce
1/4 cup tamarind paste
2 tablespoons sugar
red chilies

Garnish
crushed peanuts
sliced green onion
lime wedge
Sriracha

Soak rice noodles in hot water for 8-10 minutes, or until tender, then drain. In a wok or large pan, sautee diced shallots, garlic, and chicken cut up into bit sized pieces. Cook over med/high heat until chicken is cooked through and begins to brown. Remove and set aside in a bowl. In the same pan, scramble eggs, then add noodles and sauce. Stir until mixed, then add in chicken mixture. Let cook a few more minutes to marry all the flavors. Serve garnished with sliced lime, crushed peanuts, green onion, and Sriracha.

Thank you Brie for transcribing our pad thai making experience!
xoxo,
Adora

| Posted on Thursday, the 20th of March, in the year 2014 by Adora Mae

at home fast food

DIY mcmuffins are super easy. I’ve been making them for the week and then freezing them.

Crack eggs into large cupcake tins and bake at 350 for 15-20 minutes. Then I add that egg to an english muffin, with canadian bacon and a thin slice of cheddar. Wrap them up and freeze or refrigerate them and microwave them when you’re hungry.
xoxo,
Adora

| Posted on Saturday, the 9th of November, in the year 2013 by Adora Mae

bang bang at home (the easy way)

Get your mind out the gutter! We’re recreating Bone Fish’s famous bang bang chicken tonight! With frozen chicken bites – it’s pathetically easy.
You need:
Frozen breaded chicken (popcorn chicken or larger pieces that you’ll have to cut up after baking) [bake as directed]
1/2 cup Mayo
3 tbsp Sweet Thai Chili Sauce
Sriracha to spiciness preference
Green Onion
Lettuce

Take the chicken you baked and toss it in the already combined sauces. Drop the saucy chicken onto a bed of lettuce and top with green onions. Serve with chopsticks.
xoxo,
Adora

| Posted on Thursday, the 7th of November, in the year 2013 by Adora Mae

fastest easiest cheesiest enchiladas

These are the simplest, fastest, easiest cheese enchiladas ever! They take less than 5 minutes to prep and then you just put them in the oven at 375 for 20 minutes. Bing Bam Boom, you’re good to chow down.

Yep, that’s string cheese. Next time – red enchilada sauce for sure.
xoxo,
Adora

| Posted on Monday, the 28th of October, in the year 2013 by Adora Mae

Lemon Raspberry Tart

New recipe time! Ingredients and Directions at the bottom, pictures of the process below. This is unbelievably easy and amazingly delicious.

Ingredients:
12 ounces cream cheese
2/3 cup sugar
1 cup Chobani vanilla greek yogurt
2 eggs
4 tbsp. flour
Zest of a whole lemon
Juice of half a lemon
1 carton fresh raspberries

Directions:
Mix all ingredients together in a bowl
Blend until smooth
Pour into a graham cracker crust
Bake for 30 minutes at 375º
Cool for an hour
Leave in fridge for at least 3 hours (up to overnight)
Top with Raspberries

Enjoy!
xoxo,
Adora

| Posted on Friday, the 25th of October, in the year 2013 by Adora Mae

Sweet Asian Gravy Chicken

What started out as me making up a “orangish chicken” recipe off the top of my head ended a little differently. Josh said it was good, but didn’t taste like chinese food. He called it a “Sweet Asian Gravy Chicken” and despite it not turning out as expected, it was actually DELICIOUS. So, here’s how you make it! (Ingredients at the bottom of this post)

Sweet Asian Gravy Chicken
1 pound of chicken breast cubed
Prepared white rice
1/2 cup chicken broth
1/4 cup teriyaki
1/4 cup orange juice
Fresh grated ginger if you have fit
Sriracha to preference
1 tbsp. sesame seeds
Mix all together in a bowl and add:
1 tbsp. cornstarch
1/8 cup cold COLD water
Stir stir stir stir

Sear chicken in a pan on Medium
Pour mixed liquids over chicken
Cover and let sit on Medium for 10 min
Stir occasionally as the corn starch will settle to the bottom

Remove from heat & let sit for 3 min.

Stir and spoon over rice over rice

| Posted on Wednesday, the 2nd of October, in the year 2013 by Adora Mae

Sunday Morning Waffles

This morning I made waffles for two that are as easy as Sunday morning itself. Recipe at the bottom of the post.
Waffles for 2
2 1/4 cup flour
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
3 tbsp. sugar
1 egg
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla

Combine all the ingredients, mix well and pour over a hot waffle iron. Then, ENJOY!
xoxo,
Adora

| Posted on Sunday, the 22nd of September, in the year 2013 by Adora Mae

Leftovers

Josh made this Sesame Chicken recipe last night and it was so good I didn’t even stop and take a picture to share with you guys, but here is a picture of the leftovers that I inhaled for lunch today.

Yummy. Yummy. Yum. Yum. Yum.
xoxo,
Adora

| Posted on Friday, the 20th of September, in the year 2013 by Adora Mae