Making Rainbow Taco Salad (Raddish)

For my birthday, I got a six month membership to something called Raddish. Raddish is a cooking club for kids, and it sends one box a month full of three recipes, cooking tools, patches, table talk cards, and the first box provided an apron.

The first recipe me and my friend made was rainbow taco salad. First, we made the ground beef. We added 2 tsp of cumin, 1 tbsp of chili powder, 1 tsp of salt, and 1/2 tsp of ground pepper. After that, we cut the romaine into thin pieces.  Then, I cut up the cabbage and the avocado. Then, we added the corn, chips, cheddar cheese, and the salsa into four separate bowls.

The rainbow taco salad was delicious.  I am so happy that I get to make all these recipes. I can't wait to make more food!

Making Blueberry Pie

Today, I made blueberry pie with my grandparents. I hope you make this, too!

First, I gathered all the ingredients:

• 1 refrigerated pie crust
• 4 cups of blueberries
• 1/2 cups of sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon of grated lemon
• 2 1/2 tablespoons of cornstarch
• 1 tablespoon of butter

After that, I combined one cup of the blueberries, the sugar, cornstarch, and 2 tablespoons of water in a medium saucepan. 

As soon as we put the saucepan on the stove, we brought it to a boil and we stirred the mixture until it became thick. After that, we took the pan off the stove. As the mixture cooled down, we stirred the butter in. 

Then, I stirred the remaining 3 cups of blueberries and the grated lemon peel into the mixture. Next, we put the mixture into the pie crust. 

It was a little hard to make the lattice with the pie crust. 

Later, put it in the oven that was preheated to 350 for 30 minutes.  Finally, you take it out of the oven and you have a blueberry pie. 

I had a lot of fun making this pie with my grandparents. Thanks for reading!

Making Ramen

Today, I made homemade ramen. It was delicious! If you want to make this, I am going to teach you how I made the ramen. But, if you haven’t read my last blog about how I got the ingredients for the ramen, then you should probably read it before this one.

First, you should boil water in a pot. Then, you should put your dried kelp in the water and let it sit in the water for 15-20 minutes. While the dried kelp is sitting in the water, you should put eggs in a different pot of boiling water and let the eggs simmer in the pot for 6 minutes. After 6 minutes, you peel the shells off the eggs, and cut the eggs in half. Then, you're done making the eggs.

These are the eggs after the are finished

After 15-20 minutes you remove the dried kelp from the water and keep the water. After you’re done with that, you put bonito flakes in a strainer. Then you leave the strainer with the bonito flakes in the water for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes, you get a rubber spatula and squeeze the water out of the bonito flakes to get more flavor out of them.  After this, you throw out the bonito flakes and again- keep the water adding miso to the strainer with the strainer halfway in the water.  Stir the miso around in the strainer with a rubber spatula until the miso dissolves.  Do this again 2-3 more times to get the most flavor. That makes the broth.

 I am stirring the miso around in the strainer until it dissolves

 After I did the last step 3-4 times, I am now tasting the broth

The finished broth!

Get another pot and boil the noodles in the hot water.  After doing this, keep the hot water in case people want more noodles (but you don’t have to).  At this point, you are done with boiling the noodles.

Boiling the noodles

When you’re done boiling the noodles get a cup of soy sauce, half a cup of mirin (sweet cooking wine), half a cup of sake (rice wine), and garlic. Mix up all the ingredients and take your 2 pounds of pork belly, roll it up, and tie it with string. Then, pour the marinade over it in a new pot and put a lid on it on the stove. Turn up the stove so it is cooking, and turn the pork periodically for 3 hours (I would suggest doing this step before you do anything else). Once you’re done with that, cut up the pork and put it on the stove in a pan until the pork is fully cooked.

This is the pork after I first put it in the pot 

 This is the pork after the pork has been in the pot for almost 3 hours

This is the pork after it was in the pot for 3 hours when you cut it up, and  put it on the stove in a pan

After that, you can get all the fix-ins which are:  green onion, bamboo shoots, bean sprouts, fish cake (cut up), and the soft-boiled eggs you made earlier. You put everything together which are the broth, the noodles, the pork, and all the fix-ins. That makes the ramen!

 This is the fish cake cut up

I hope you enjoyed my blog about how I made the ramen. I hope you make it too. Thanks for listening!

This is the finished product. Enjoy!

Ramen Ingredients

Today, I made ramen and I am going to tell you my experience at the Asian grocery store. I am also going to tell you what some of the ingredients are in the ramen. I hope you enjoy!

First, we got to the Asian grocery store and looked for the ingredients. We kind of got sidetracked because there was a whole section of  Pocky! Then, we got all of the ingredients. 

                                                                                                             

These are the best noodles to use when you make the ramen!

This is the pork

The pork was one of the best parts of the ramen! We also ran into some cool things at the store.

 This is huge!

It's bigger than my face!

                                                                               

 I was kind of scared of the fish

That was crazy. Here are some more pictures of what the ingredients are.

This is Dashi Kombu 

This is soybean paste white type

 These are fish flakes. They were hard to find.

This is Ozeki Sake on the left, Sweet Cooking Sake in the middle, and Soy Sauce on the right

These are fish cakes 

 Green onions

These are soybean sprouts

I hope you enjoyed my experience at the Asian Grocery store.

In the next blog, I will show you how I made the ramen.  See you next time!

Sriracha Chicken

My mom makes a lot of different recipes for chicken and I decided I wanted to learn how to make one of them. This type of chicken is called sriracha chicken and this video will show you how to make it. The hardest part of the recipe was probably flipping the chicken. 

I used tongs to flip the chicken

If you want to make this recipe for more people you should double it.I thought this recipe was very good and that you should definitely make it at home. I hope you enjoy it! 

Here I am putting the sauce on the chicken.

  

All done!

Swedish Meatball Pasta

Today, I made a recipe that is one my favorite foods. I made this recipe with my friend,
Elise. It was called Swedish Meatball Pasta. The recipe is right here.

Chopping.  Notice my dog!

I thought flipping the meatball was the hardest part. Make sure you use plenty of  oil or butter so it doesn't stick. The meatballs were falling apart so make sure you are very delicate with them.

Also look at my dog's back next to Elise!

Here's how it looked when we were done.  Delicious!

Also.  Bowie loves to smile in pictures.  Here's a closeup.

He loves to smile in pictures.  A LOT.

I thought this was delicious and I hope you like the pictures of my dog!

 p.s. My friend started a blog, here is my friends blog! https://asuperwomansguidetocooking.wordpress.com/

4th generation green bean casserole

Today I made green bean casserole with my grandpa. This recipe has a story behind it.

My great grandma (Papa's mom) found this recipe and taught my Grandma Kathy how to make it. Then, my mom and then me.

Here's how you make it. First, preheat your oven to 350. Then, we sauteed the onion over medium heat.

Sauteeing the onions

Then, we added three drained cans cut green beans. After that, we added one can cream of mushroom soup and a little milk to wash out the can. Next, we added one jar of Old English Cheese. After that, we added three slices of cubed bread.

Ingredients

Mixing!

Then we mixed it all together and we put it in a large 9x13 pan. Then we put it in the oven for 30 minutes. At the end, we topped it with crispy french fried onions. Next, we ate it and it was so good!

Before baking

After baking

I had so much fun making this with my grandpa and I hope you make it too. This recipe is special!