Tasty Tuesdays: Noodle Dishes

If I had to eat one staple for the rest of my life, it'd probably have to be noodles. I remember back in my college days I would eat 2 bags of Happy Mie (this brand of dry instant noodles) every day. This probably wasn't the healthiest of diets but it's now time to change that. I've been Pinterest-ing quite a few noodle dishes. Hopefully I'll get a chance to make these soon because they look friggin delish!

1. Dan Dan Noodles (link)

2. Easy Lo Mein (link)

3. Beef Chow Fun (link)

4. CPK's Kung Pao Chicken Copycat (link)

5. Drunken Noodles (link)

6. Chicken Pad Thai (link)

7. Pad See Ew (link)

8. Singapore Noodles (link)

9. Black Pepper Stir-Fried Noodles (link)

10. Yaki Udon (link)

Hope you enjoyed these recipes! I know I will when I do start cooking these! 

I'm salivating just posting these pictures! Have a great week!

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Tasty Tuesdays: Tofu Recipes

I love tofu and would prefer it over chicken. So when it came to compiling recipes, I ended up with quite a few tofu recipes. Here are some of the easiest ones I've found.

1. Tofu Chorizo (link)

2. Agadashi Tofu (link)

3. Stir-Fried Tofu and Peppers (link)

4. Ma po Tofu (link)

5. Asian Garlic Tofu (link)

6. Spicy Tamari Tofu and Broccoli (link)

7. Coconut Red Curry With Tofu (link)

8. Spicy Kimchi Tofu Stew (link)

9. Brussels Sprouts And Tofu Stir-Fry (link)

10. Ginger-Garlic Tofu (link)

11. Spicy Crispy Tofu Recipe (link)

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Tasty Tuesdays: Chicken Recipes

One of the delights of cohabitation is figuring out how to cook for two. You've got two people with their own likes and dislikes and you have to come to a compromise. For us, I'm the lover of all Asian food and he's the lover of Mexican food. He also likes to eat chicken (for health reasons) and I'm all about the tofu life (the only meat I'll eat is Korean BBQ lol).

Last year I found a chicken recipe that I made to death (I would just make the chicken and not the pesto part). Now I'm on the hunt for more chicken recipes. As a part of my new years resolution, I'm trying to compile a bunch of recipes that I can actually cook. Here are 10 chicken recipes I'm really looking forward to cooking!


1. Quick Lime Cilantro Chicken (link)

2. Sriracha Lime Chicken Chopped Salad (link)

3. Sriracha Chicken and Broccoli Lo-Mein (link) 

4. Crock-pot Sweet Garlic Chicken (link)

5. Skinny Chicken & Broccoli Alfredo (link)

6. Chicken Fried Rice (link)

7. PF Chang's Chicken Lettuce Wraps (link)

8. Grilled Beer Marinated Chicken (link)

9. Honey Balsamic Chicken Tenders (link)

10. Pan Roasted Rosemary Chicken (link)

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Tasty Tuesday: Honey Soy Tilapia

We bought a freezer pack of tilapia from Costco and after work, it looked like the easiest thing to cook. I looked up a recipe for a marinade with ingredients I already had around the house and this recipe from All Recipes came up for Honey Soy Tilapia.

I doubled all the ingredients for 4 fillets and threw in the brussel sprouts afterwards. The recipe turned out pretty good. I found out that I wasn't a big fan of tilapia. I guess I never really had tilapia before but I'm not a fan of how rough the texture is. I prefer a softer fish. I'll probably end up trying the marinade on chicken to see how that goes.

As for future recipes, I want to find more tofu recipes because I prefer tofu over any meats except KBBQ of course lol. If you have any recommendations, leave them below!

Tasty Tuesdays: Pesto Chicken Pasta Salad

Lately I've been trying to cook a little more in an attempt to not only save money but to eat a little bit healthier. As someone who is just starting off in the cooking department, many of the recipes I find online are extremely overwhelming. They have way too many ingredients or the directions are really convoluted and I have trouble understanding what it is they want me to do. Also, on most days I'm cooking these meals, I've just come home from work and there isn't much time to cook a crazy fancy meal. In these Tasty Tuesday posts, I hope to showcase some of the recipes I've found online and show you what the finished product looks like. I know when I go online and look for recipes, I take a look at the pictures and my finished product usually does not look like that lol. Also, you never know if these recipes you find online will taste good either. Hopefully this will be a great resource for those of you just starting out with cooking. Now lets get started!

If any of you are like me, you pretty much love Costco. Whenever we go there, we usually stock up on the necessities such as boneless chicken thighs and ground beef, etc. We keep all the meats in the freezer until we need to use them. I just found the "Defrost" button on the microwave so I've been using that for the quick "Shit! I forgot to put the meat in the fridge to defrost" moments. The nice part about the Costco prepackaged chicken thighs is that they are already separated into approximately 1 pound pouches. For my microwave, you put in the meat, push the "Defrost" button and enter in the number of pounds you're defrosting. Defrosting a 1 pound pouch takes about 10 minutes.

So I went to Costco and bought all this chicken. What to cook with it all?! When I got home from work (around 4:45pm), I started looking online for chicken thigh recipes. I came across this one from Real Simple (love them!), Pesto Chicken Pasta Salad.

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I noticed that I didn't have the olives or bocconcini but I felt like the core of the pasta salad would still be there minus those ingredients. I happened to have bought a container of pesto from Costco so this recipe was perfect.

1. First off, I start off by preheating the oven to 400 degrees. 
2. Then I boil a pot of water. 
3. While the water was coming to a boil, I stuck the package of chicken into the microwave to defrost. 
4. While both of those things were happening, I mixed the salt, pepper, and olive oil. 
5. Once the water comes to a full boil, I put in the pasta. 
6. While the pasta is going, I start rubbing the chicken with the mixed salt, pepper, and olive oil. 
7. Once all the chicken has been thoroughly rubbed, I throw the chicken into the oven and set the kitchen timer for 20 minutes (I like my chicken really juicy so I don't want it to be too cooked).
8. Cut/shred the chicken.
9. Mix the chicken, pasta and the pesto sauce. And tada! You're done!

thoroughly rubbed chicken

the finished product

For veggies, I had a bag of frozen brussel sprouts so after I removed the chicken from the baking tray, I threw the brussel sprouts on the same tray, sprinkled some salt and pepper over them and threw them back into the oven for a few minutes (look at the bag for estimated cook time).

I love this recipe because everything can be done in about 30 minutes time. The thing that takes the longest is baking the chicken and what I usually do is go watch a YouTube video to "wind down" from the day while sipping on some vino.

Hope you guys enjoyed this very simple recipe! 

Please leave any recipe suggestions below and I will attempt to cook them!

Thanks for reading!