Making Fresh Mozzarella!

So I got a chance to make fresh mozz on my work with last week. What is a work with???? One job that I do is go around with sales reps from food distributors and visit their customers with samples of our products that they carry. This helps promote our products and creates awareness of what they can order from their sales reps. Well one of the lines we represent is Polly-O cheese. It's a high end cheese line from Kraft. We sell mozz curd for chefs to take and create fresh mozz that they can either tie in knots and be creative or just slice up. I learned how to do this last week and the sales rep had me take some home to practice making it. So here it is!

You heat the water up to 160 degrees, place a strainer or colander in the the water and began working the curd with you hands to help it form together. Here are pics below!

Broken up curd

Yay working it together with my fingers!

Just keeping it a simple shape, I am no professional....yet! lol

My tomatoe Mozz Salad!

It was yummy, just ask Mikey I looked up and it was almost all gone!!! Always a good sign:) I had fun doing this, hope you enjoyed my adventure!!

Taste the Rainbow!

Don't you just want to grab this bag of skittles out of your computer screen!!?? I do!!!! I absolutely love love skittles, well let's put it this way I love any kind of fruit chewy candy! I am always trying to run to the gas station to get my fix! Mikey (my fiance) is always telling me I need to stop eating candy all the time lol yep he takes on the role of the scolding parent getting onto their kids because of the unneeded sugar rush haha! Well I was reading the back of my skittles yesterday and guess what!!?? My skittles have 50% of my daily vitamin C in it!! So take that Mikey and any one else who tries to deprive me of my yummy chewy fruity sugar highs!!!! Yes that is the only thing I got to back myself up, besides the fact that I am a good girl and I deserve some skittles!

.....btw Mikey only comments on my need of my fruity sugar high candy he never scolds me, I just like to build up arguments in my head to win;)

Go to Salad!

Hello yall!!! It has been a while since I've done a post, life has been keeping me pretty busy lately so when I have time it's more of time to hit the bed! ha! Well anyways I just wanted to share a quick go to meal that I have probably about 3 times a week. It's very figure friendly and once you try it out you will be hooked! It's a salad with ground turkey meat. I know it doesn't sound appetizing but trust it is!

Build your salad however you want, I normally do tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, bella mushrooms, and I throw in an avocado every once in a while. I use Robusto Italian dressing made by wishbone, soooooo yum!

For the meat you take reg ground turkey, not the white meat since to me it is dry and has no flavor. You heat up a skillet to medium and break up the ground turkey meat in it. Once you put it in the skillet sprinkle some garlic salt over it. Just keep an eye on how much you sprinkle try not to dump too much! Then just brown it up and throw it over your salad and enjoy!!!

Try this out one night I promise you will love! I hope yall have a great week, and I will try to not keep you hanging so long again!

B-day Hostess!

Hello yall!! I hosted my friends Birthday party this past weekend and I wanted to share with you what I made. I almost forgot to take pictures of the food again, so as you will see the displays are half eaten lol I really enjoyed myself and we had so much fun!!!!

I asked Gina what her favorite cake was and she said chocolate and cheesecake. So I took premade cheesecake from work (one of the many reasons that I love my job!) and used it in the cup cakes. I let some cheesecake thaw out and then I place it into a baggie. I cut off one of the ends of the baggie. Once I had the chocolate cake batter into the muffin pans I then took the cheesecake baggie and piped the cheesecake down inside the center of the batter and then put them in the oven. For the topping I used chocolate icing and dusted it with powder sugar. Then I took another piece of cheesecake and cut lil squares of it that had crust attached. Popped it into the freezer for a bit to harden back up. Melted semi sweet chocolate chips and once melted I poured it into another baggie and snip just a little bit off of the edge. Then drizzled it over the mini cheesecake bites, and placed them back in freezer for a bit. Then I placed the bites on top of the cupcakes and hooray a tasty lil dessert:) If you decide to make this try and keep the cupcakes in the fridge for as long as you can before the party to help keep the cheesecake in good condition.

Quick snap shot of some of the food. I took baguettes and made miniature pizzas. Then did cantaloupe, kiwi, and pineapple skewers. Gina likes Greek salads so I came up with Greek salad bites:)

The first thing onto the tooth pick is your olive, traditionally for a Greek salad you would use kalamata olives but since I had already gotten black olives for her favorite type of pizza I used them. Next a cube of feta. Then a piece of tomato, when you chop up the tomato remove the insides so it won't be runny. Next is one or two pieces of romaine lettuce folded over. For the toothpick to stand up you use a cucumber on the bottom, once you slice the cucumber cut the circle in half so that the toothpick will be inserted into the hard part of the cucumber and not the seeded part. Once finshed I dashed a lil salt and pepper over the top and I had a side bowl with Greek salad dressing in it for people to dunk their bites:)