Breakfast Interrupted

The title speaks for itself. The short clip captures everything breakfast should be - fresh, lively, energizing, and yet, simple and serene.

"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!"
                                  - Alice in Wonderland

Shout Out 264

Although we are supposed to be on a summer hiatus,

we would like to take a moment to respond to SO 264.

For those of you unlucky peers who have no idea what Shout Outs are,

Shout Outs (SO) are a section from The Badger Herald and

they are exactly what you think they are:

"a shout out is to someone, something, or somewhere awesome" (citydictionary.com).

Why should we care about the Shout Outs?
1. Because getting a shout out means you have enough swagger to stand out from the other 40,000 badgers.
2. COLLEGE KITCHEN GOT A SHOUT OUT!

So in response to SO 264, 

if you like cooking, baking, or eating - we want to meet you, too.

Photo Creds: The Badger Herald

11 Summer Recipes & Necessities

As the school year has come to a close, so has the college kitchen.

Although we still cook during summer, our meals mainly consist 

of fruits and fresh veggies we get at the farmers market on Saturday morning.

Here is this semester's final post:

11 Summer Recipes & Necessities

to keep you busy while you enjoy your freedom, summer, & childish wild-side.

Come back in the fall when we will begin posting more lovely recipes we cook in our college kitchen!

1. As an English major, I can't help but say that everyone should have a summer reading list. 

Add this to yours.

2. Bacon, Lettuce, & Tomato Spring Rolls. This is summer in edible form.

Recipe is here.

3. Whimsical, pastel ice cream cups with baby spoons. 

Make your own or get them at Sur La Table.

4. Soil Mates by Sara Alway writes about how to become a garden goddess through

plotting your own veggie patch.

Get it at Anthropologie.

5. Try this Strawberry Summer Cake recipe from smittenkitchen.

Or try anything she makes because it is all delicious.

6. No summer is complete without homemade hummus. 

Thanks to Martha Stewart, you can save $$ at the grocery store 

and still dip your green beans, crackers, or whatever.

7. Something blue ice cream tool. 

Of course, it's from Sur La Table.

8. Summer is full of parties - grad parties, birthday parties, pool parties, just because parties.

And to quench all those thirsty guests you need a lot of liquids

and this one is, well, cute (and a necessity?).

Buy it here.

9. Nope, not a salad recipe. A Lemon Poppy Seed Dressing recipe.

10. A summer recipes & necessities wouldn't be complete without a new 

Summer Peach Wine Cooler beverage to add to your book. 

Coming from the #1 college party campus in America (University of Wisconsin-Madison),

it obviously contains some alcohol.

11. Summer music. Anna Sun by Walk the Moon.

Play hard, fellow badgers, and enjoy your summer.

See you in the fall!

Chocolate Chip Cookies

First, we would like to take a moment 

to say how much we appreciate all the moms out there.

This is for the moms that are not able to be with us today.

And for the children who have rocky relationships with their moms,

and for the moms who have done it with out dads,

and for the moms who have done it with dads,

and for the moms who put their children above everything else,

for adoptive moms,

for birth moms,

for all the moms out there who love their children,

we love you, too. 

Secondly, here is a simple, classic, exam week-friendly recipe

for you to make your moms (or yourself).

We are sure you already know the pros (and, if there are any, cons) of

Chocolate Chip Cookies.

So we'll refrain from giving any background and just say, make them.

Ingredients:
2 cups flour
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
12 tbsp. unsalted butter (room temperature)
2 tsp. vanilla extract
1 egg
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1-2 cups chocolate chips


Preheat oven to 325 degrees. In a bowl, mix vanilla extract, butter, and sugar. Once mixed, incorporate egg. Next mix in all other dry ingredients.

Ball up dough so it fills hand and then smush to flatten into a cookie shape. Place on a sprayed cookie sheet approximately two inches apart. Bake for 12-14 minutes until browned.

Happy Eating!

Iced White Chocolate Mocha

Finals week (n.): 1.) worst week of a college student's life 
                                                                2.) week of pulling all nighters, living in the library, eating delivery
                                                                 food, caffeine overdosing, sweatpants, and lack of showering

We all know that during finals week

a trip to sbux or the local coffee shop is inevitable.

But when you don't have the money or time to leave your cosy abode,

we have just the recipe to keep you awake.

Sweet, iced, caffeinated, and the perfect finals week beverage:

Iced White Chocolate Mocha.

Probably not the healthiest drink, but who really cares.

It's exam week and this will wake you up.

Ingredients (makes two):

2/3 cup dairy milk

6 tbsp. white chocolate chips

Coffee

Ice (optional)

Whipped cream for topping (optional)

First, make coffee. While coffee is brewing, heat and mix white chocolate chips and milk in a sauce pan until they are fully incorporated and melted.

Pour the white chocolate milk mixture half way up a coffee mug. Fill the rest of the mug with coffee. Add ice and top with whipped cream.

Easy peasy.

Happy studying and coffee drinking!

Food Creds: Food.com and picture from sbux.

Georgia Peach Pancake Cobbler

Along with April showers,

comes peach season!

We have been scouring the grocery store for about a month,

waiting - hoping - for the grocery store shelves to carry peaches, 

but no luck...

until yesterday night!

Of course, we bought a bunch of peaches 

and it only seemed fitting that we start our day off with some

Georgia Peach Pancake Cobbler.

Sweet, summery, and filling. 

Everything a breakfast should be.

Ingredients (makes 2):
4 sliced fresh peaches (skin on!)
1 - 1 1/2 cup almond flour
1 tbsp. ground flaxseed
1 egg (or 4 medjool dates, pitted)
3 tbsp. cane sugar
4 tsp. brown sugar
2 tsp. cinnamon
2 tsp. vanilla extract
1/2 cup coconut milk (or any other type of milk)


Preheat oven to 425. In a bowl, mix sliced peaches, brown sugar, 1 tsp. vanilla extract, and cinnamon. Divide the mixture between two oven-safe bowls and place in the oven for 10 minutes.

While the peach mixture is cooking, take another bowl and mix flour, flaxseed, egg, cane sugar, 1 tsp. vanilla extract, and coconut milk together (if the mixture is too runny, add more flour - but don't make it too thick either).

Once the peach mixture is done cooking, remove bowls and turn the oven temperature down to 375. Pour the pancake mixture on top of the cooked peaches. Place back into the oven and cook for 35-45 minutes (until tops start cracking as seen in picture below). Remove and enjoy warm!

Happy Eating!

Food Creds: adapted from Healthful Pursuit.

Homestyle Chili

The recent streak of cold weather called for

some home-style warmth.

And with K sick, A decided to make A's mom's delicious recipe.

Homestyle Chili

is sure to make you feel at home, cozy, and full.

Healthy, easy, and easily storable,

this is a recipe we swear by to get through cold winter (and spring) months.

Ingredients:
1 29  oz. can Tomato Puree
1 14.5 oz. can Diced Tomatoes
1 14.5 oz can Stewed Tomatoes
1 lb. ground beef
1 chopped white onion
2 cloves chopped garlic
1 small can Tomato Juice
Tomato Paste
1 can kidney beans
Cumin
Chili Powder
Salt & Pepper


Brown the meat in the bottom of a large cooking pot. Drain out the grease and mix in other ingredients. (Hint: make sure to drain out all the bean juice before adding the beans to the pot). Adjust spices to taste and cook to a boil. If you want less chunkier chili, add a cup of water. Once at a boil, reduce heat to a simmer for a few minutes. Then enjoy! Chili is easily stored (either in the freezer or refrigerator) and can be warmed up  in the microwave in about 2-3 minutes (make sure you remove from the microwave at the halfway time and stir).

Happy Eating!

Food Creds: Mary Bosworth