orange iceing

Well if I give you acupcake recipe, you should probably have a icing recipe!
       Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon grated orange rind
• 3 tablespoons soft butter
• 3 tablespoons orange juice

Directions. Mix all ingredients together, starting with only 2 tablespoons of orange juice. If the frosting is to thick then add additional tablespoon of orange juice Eat, love and enjoy life!

Chef B.

Cup Cakes

My vanilla cupcake recipe.

 

Ingredients.

• 2 cups all-purpose flour.
• 1 1/2 cup sugar
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• half teaspoon salt
• four large egg whites from large eggs
• 1/2cup shortening
• 1 cup 2% milk
• two large eggs
• 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

recipe directions.

Preheat oven to 350°. Line cupcake pans with paper liners. Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, shortening, milk and vanilla in a large mixing bowl. Mix at low speed for two minutes. Scrape bowl. Add egg whites and mix at high speed until fluffy and smooth, approximately 2 minutes. Fill liners half to two thirds full of batter. Do not overfill. Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in pan, then remove from pan and place on wire rack to cool completely. Frost and decorate your vanilla cupcakes as desired. Eat, love and enjoy life! Chef B.  

Creme Brulee

Creme brulee
Prep time 15 minutes .
Cooking time.
One hour.
Ingredients.
1 quart heavy cream.
1 vanilla bean,split and scraped.
1 cup vanilla sugar, divided.
6 large egg yolks  .
2 quarts hot water.
Direction
preheat oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit.
Place the cream,vanilla bean, and inflation into a medium saucepan and set over medium-high heat and bring to a boil. Remove from the heat, cover and allow to sit for 15 minutes. Remove the vanilla bean and reserved for some other time.
One medium bowl, whisk together half a cup sugar and egg yolks until well blended and is just starting to lighten in color.
Add the cream , a little at a time, stirring continuously. Pour the liquid into 6 (7 to 8 ounce) ramekins.Place a ramekins into a large cake pan or roasting pan. Pour enough hot water into the pans that it comes halfway up the sides of the ramekins. Bake just until the creme brulee is set, but still trembling in the center, approximately 40 to 45 minutes. Remove the ramekins from the roasting pan and refrigerate for at least two hours and up to three days.
Remove the creme brulee from the refrigerator at least 30 minutes prior to browning the sugar on top. Divide the remaining half cup vanilla sugar equally among the six dishes and spread evenly on top. Using a torch melt the sugar and form crispy top. Allow the creme brulee to sit for at least five minutes before serving.
I truly hope you enjoy this desert!
Eat, love and enjoy life!
Much love,
Chef B.

NO GMOs

Hey guys let me know what you think!
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the challenge

As you all know I live to cook and help other so I’m just would like you to look at just one thing you can do to make sure we can all enjoy life longer. I know most of us feel over whelmed with all the green stuff, eat right.... and so on.  Want to just challenge you to just one thing for one day one thing you think you can do that for me and you and the planet? Are you ready to try? I’m going to try for life cold turkey. So here is the challenge go without using plastics for one day! That means no water bottles and no buying things with any plastic at all. That means the bags you use to bring you grocery store.

I have found that it can all be mind numbing when you are just hit with it all day. So, I have just found that if you can just take one thing at a time then it is easy.

So, I’m not sure if it’s I’m 40yrs old or I’m a dad. But the other day I found that I needed to make a big impact in my life and my family’s life. That does not mean I’m selling everything and putting my kids in grass skirts and living in a drift wood house. I’m just going to try to live life better.

Ok, so I’m gone to put something’s in front of you and you can pick can pick one or more:

·         No bottle water

·         Eating only food that list the ingredients with things you know what it is

·         Only shop the 4 walls of the supermarket

·         Shop at co-ops

·          Shop at farmers markets

·         Don’t buy anything with fluoride in it

·         Ask if you water is fluoridated (all bottled water is)try to prove me wrong

·         Make brown bag lunch for a homeless person

·         Challenge me to do things

·         Live outside your comfort zone

1.Why is it that you can buy a meal at McD's for under $5 bucks but it cost more to eat fresh food?

2.Why are kids getting diabetes?

I'll tell you why we are buying and eating processed junk

Please have fun with this and make this a dialog.

Eat, love and enjoy

Chef B.

let's talk food

Zucchini Bread

Ingredients

• 3 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 3 cups sugar
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 4 eggs, beaten
• 1/3 cup H2O (water) LOL
• 2 cups grated Zucchini
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice
• 1 1/4 cup chopped walnuts(OR WHATEVER NUT YOU LIKE) LOL

Directions

Ok let's get to it!

Turn the oven to 350 degrees F to preheat. Grab a large bowl, now take all the dry ingredients and put them in the bowl and combine. Ok, now grab one more bowl and put all wet items in and combine (zucchini is wet) LOL! Now mix the wet into the dry, add the nut and fold in. Well how do we make bread? That's right with loaf pans. So, go grab 2 standard loaf pans, spray them with nonstick spray, and split the batter between them, bake for 1 hour, or till tester (toothpick) comes out clean. Well if you would like to use smaller pans or muffin pans then you need to lower the cooking time the smaller the pan.

Once they are done pull from oven and let cool on rack.

I like to slice myself a piece and spread some creamy butter over it and let it melt just so it soaks in but is still cool then I bite and enjoy.

I hope you love this as much as I do.

Eat, love and enjoy life!

Chef B.