Hannah's summer pasta salad

Ingredients:

• Bow tie pasta
• Broccoli 
• Tomato
• Chopped black olives
• Creamy italian dressing
• Onion

Cook the pasta in a pot of boiling water and steam the broccoli in a different pot. Drain the noodles and coat in olive oil so they do not stick together. Now put the broccoli and the pasta in the fridge to chill.

Chop up a tomato and onion and slice the olives.

You will not use the whole onion, seeing as it is just there to add a little kick.

There are no measurements for the olives and tomatoes because it is a personal choice how much you would like in your salad. You can use any vegetable you like but these are my favorite for this recipe.

Once the pasta is chilled, add the broccoli, finely chopped onion, diced tomato and sliced olives. Stir together and slowly add in the creamy italian salad dressing. Add until all of the pasta and vegetables are coated evenly.

NOTE: Must add salt and pepper to taste.

Now your summer pasta salad is ready to serve and certain to leave people asking for more. <3

Enjoy.

Hannahxox

Hannah's stuffed mushrooms wrapped in bacon.

Ingredients:

• 8 whole fresh mushrooms
• Spinach (I used trader joes frozen spinach)
• Shredded Mozzarella cheese
• Ritz Crackers
• Onion
• Minced garlic
• Butter
• Bacon
• A BBQ

So amazing!!!

Start up the bbq so it is ready when you are.
Chop one half of and onion and sate' with a tsp of minced garlic.
Add 1 1/2 cups of the frozen spinach to the pan and stir until all the ice is gone and the spinach is soft.
Mix in half of a sleeve of finely crushed ritz crackers and mix together.
Turn the heat to low and mix in 1 cup of mozzarella cheese.
Keep stirring and folding until it becomes one mixture.
Turn off the heat and stuff the mushrooms.

(I would hope you have been smart enough to take out the stem and clean the mushrooms before you started this process) ;) hahaha

Wrap the mushroom in bacon and stick a tooth pick half way through to hold the bacon in place.

Close the bbq and cook until the bacon is exactly how you like it.

Hannahxox

Hannah's new and improved ramen noodles

This is one of my favorite recipes because it it super tasty and extremely cheap.
You will need:

• 2 Beef ramen noodles
• Chopped veggies of your choice (I chose zucchini, onion, mushrooms)
• Olive oil
• Soy sauce

You might be tempted to use a different ramen flavor.... I highly discourage it.

Bring water to a boil and throw in your ramen noodles without the seasoning packet.  You're going to let it boil for  a few minutes but you don't want it to be soggy.  Keep an eye on it.  A little stiffness in the noodles is not bad.

In the meantime, stir fry your veggies.
In a medium sauce pan, on medium heat, use 2 tbsp of olive oil to coat the pan.  Pour in the vegetables and stir occasionally.  Pour in 2 tbsp on soy sauce to coat the vegetables and give them flavor.  Open up the ramen sauce packet (you will only need one) and sprinkle about a quarter of it over the veggies.

Next, drain the noodles and add it to the pan with the vegetables on low heat. Mix them together and add the rest of the flavoring packet to the combination.
NOTE: If you arent keen on too much salt then just flavor the noodles slowly with the remaining seasoning until you are satisfied with the flavor. The whole packet might not be necessary.

Hannahxox

Hannah's cheese stuffed hamburgers.

Get your BBQ ready because summer is here.

I will be sharing a few of my favorite BBQ recipes with you in the next few days. 

Starting with the ultimate crowd pleaser. A huge juicy hamburger stuffed with cheese.

Ingredients:

• 3 tbs worcestershire sauce
• 1/4 of an onion (chopped)
• 1/4 cup of ketchup
• sliced cheese of your choice
• 1 1/2 pounds of ground beef

Mix all ingredients together in a big bowl.
Form big patties about the size of your hand.
Make sure you have an even number of patties because you will be doubling them up.
Take one slice of cheese and rip it into fourths and place them in the center of one patty. Once you have your favorite cheese covering the center of your burger, take another patty and set it right on top and seal the edges. The cheese will melt and spread, coating the whole inside of your delicious burger.
I know this hamburger seems too huge to eat right now but you have to remember that it will shrink to almost half of its size while it is cooking.
Now that your burgers are ready to cook, its time to get that BBQ going and make the whole neighborhood jealous.

-Hannahxox

Mashed potato martinis

This is perfect for any kind of cocktail party or event. Its colorful, pretty, and definitely delicious.
All you need to do is fill the martini glass with mashed potatoes and top it with anything you would like.

In this picture:

• sour cream
• cheese
• chives
• bacon
• pepper
• artichoke pesto

-Hannahxox

We're out of Eggs

I was so hungry this morning and I haven't gone grocery shopping in a while so I made breakfast out of left overs. Best breakfast ever :]

Things I used:

• Left over white rice from some Asian place my mom went to.  
• 1 hot dog
• onion
• Frozen bag of California style vegetables.

First: I heated up a small saucepan with a little olive oil inside, chopped up a few onions (just enough for me to eat) and I threw in some rice with about a tablespoon of water (the rice absorbs the water so that when the rice is heated up its not hard, it tastes like the first time you cooked it).
Second: I tossed in some frozen vegetables- yes, frozen- and diced one hot dog.

I let all this sit in the pan, stirring occasionally on medium heat, while heating a bagel in the toaster.

This meal took me about ten minutes, maybe even less.  I paired it with an onion bagel and strawberry Yoplait yogurt. I admit my eyes got bigger than my stomach but it was delicious non the less.

-Alyssaxo