Kayleigh's Dinner

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Raisin Cookies

I am a stress baker. When I get stressed, I stop doing productive stuff and instead create delicious cakes, cookies and breads. So naturally my first response to my quantum midterm next monday was to make cookies. Naturally. 

I used a recipe from How Sweet It Is and it turned out wonderful! Nice big, fat cookies! The recipe is for only chocolate cookies but I used half chocolate chips, half raisins. Next time I make them i am going to do cranberries and white chocolate chips! Yum!

This is a scrumptious tiramisu cupcake from Cupkate’s Cupcake Truck. I got it at off the grid in Berkeley after trekking up Shattuck in the rain and it was SO WORTH IT! Seriously, such a cool food truck atmosphere! Next time I will be bringing more than five dollars so i can nom on some artisan hipster food. 

Corned Beef and Cabbage

Classic Irish St. Patrick’s Day food! This is some of the best and easiest I have ever made! One of my friends kept eating it for two hours straight and told me repeatedly “Kayleigh, this is the best corned beef I have ever had.” I was honored to say the least! This year, I did everything in the crockpot and that turned out to be a fantastic decision! The meat was tender and not too salty. The potatoes, carrots, and cabbage absorbed all the flavor from the beef and the spices. And my apartment smelled like an Irishman’s heaven for a good 7 hours! Here is the recipe:

• 2-3 lbs corned beef (or you can brine your own brisket!) with the spice packet
• 4 russet potatoes, cubed
• 1/2 lb of carrots, cut into 1 inch pieces
• 1 onion cut into wedges
• small head of cabbage cut into wedges
• 2 Tbs sugar
• 2 Tbs Apple Cider Vinegar
• 4 cloves crushed garlic
• enough water to cover the entire piece of meat

Place the carrots, potatoes, and onions at the bottom of the crockpot. Add the spices, sugar, vinegar, and garlic. Place the meat on top then add the water. Top with cabbage. Cook on low for about 8 hours or until veggies are tender and meat is done.

Serve with Guinness Extra Stout, Colcannon, Irish soda bread, and Irish whiskey cake for a complete meal!

Recipe Adapted from here.

Ramen. The quintessential college food: quick, easy, and delicious. However, those flavor packets are loaded with msg and without anything else its a meal of all carbs and no nutrients. YUCK. So instead I like to dress my ramen up, cook it in broth, add veggies and an egg. There is really no way you can mess it up! Its the perfect “spent all day working on physics and econ problem sets and haven’t eaten since breakfast” food. And that is an accurate description of my day today sooooo…

Kimchi Ramen

• 1 packet of Top Ramen (throw that flavor packet where it belongs…in the trash)
• 2 cups low sodium chicken or vegetable broth
• Handful of baby spinach
• Handful of sliced mushrooms
• 1/4 cup of kimchi
• 1 egg
• Sriracha to taste

Boil the broth and add mushrooms and kimchi. Let cook for a bit then add the ramen noodles. Once they soften, crack an egg into the soup and let cook for about a minute. Add the spinach last and serve with sriracha.