Baked Zucchini Chips

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Zucchini is something that we eat in my house a lot. We all like it, all except my sister. So I got a recipe for zucchini chips off of pinterest. I decided to try it when I found extra zucchini in the fridge.

The recipe uses the following ingredients
1 zucchini, sliced at an angle
1/4 cup milk
1/4 cup panko bread crumbs
2 tbsp. plain bread crumbs
2 generous tbsp grated cheese
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
A sprinkling of crushed red pepper

Put the milk in one bowl and all the other ingredients in a separate bowl. Dip the zucchini first in the milk and then into the dry ingredients. Put them on a greased rack on a cookie sheet. Bake at 425 for 30 minutes.

Before the oven

After the oven

So there are your zucchini chips. I honestly did not like them, but I think that it is just because I put too much bread crumbs on the zucchini. So try it out and let me know if it is just me who this recipe didn't work out for. Have fun!

Original recipe

Microwave Cookie in a Cup

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Fun fact about me, I am a chocoholic. Seriously, you put chocolate anywhere near me and it will disappear into my stomach. So when I see a pin for a chocolate chip cookie I know that I have to try it. I saw this pin about 10 minutes before I finished eating said cookie. I saw this, showed my mom, and then went to the kitchen.

Just a random thought that just popped into my mind. My future husband, whoever he is, will be a lucky man. All those jokes about woman belonging in the kitchen will be a little true. I love to cook. Almost any time of day. He asks me to make dinner, done. And I'm an amazing sandwich maker. Haha. The only rule I will have is if I cook, he washes the dishes. I hate doing dishes. Anyway, I digress.

So this recipe is one of the quickest dessert recipes in the world. It took less than five minutes.

First gather your ingredients and your microwavable bowl (like a small soup bowl)
1 tbsp melted butter (you can use the bowl you are making the cookie in)
1 tbsp granulated sugar
1 tbsp brown sugar, packed
1 egg yolk
3 drops vanilla
1/4 cup flour
2 tbsp chocolate chips
Pinch of salt

Mix. Microwave for 40-60 seconds. Voila! Your chocolate chip cookie in a cup, or in this case bowl. It was bigger than I thought so I split it with my mom. It wasn't a normal cookie texture, but it was still good. I will definitely make this again.

One good thing about this recipe is that you aren't tempted to eat the whole batch of cookies you made. It is also super easy. Here is the original pin.

If you have a chocolate craving here is a solution without having to make a lot. I plugged in the recipe into the awesome LoseIt app (which I highly recommend) and it came out to about 350 calories in one of these. But they are quite large and I split mine, so really I only ate 175 calories and it still satisfied me. So indulge yourself and try out this recipe.

Homemade Hummus

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So, I absolutely LOVE hummus. During the last spring semester I probably had hummus like three times a week, but it was always store bought.

I saw on Pinterest a recipe for hummus so I figured, why not? This is the picture from the pin that caught my attention


This recipe didn't have too many ingredients in it. And it was super easy. All you need is garbanzo bean, tahini sauce, cucumber, oil, lemon juice, cilantro, pickle juice, garlic powder, salt, and paprika. Oh, and don't forget the blender/food processor.

All of the needed ingredients were either in my pantry or easily found in the store, except the tahini sauce. Tahini sauce is impossible to find in my area. So, I made it myself. This is the recipe I used: Tahini recipe

So once you make or buy the tahini sauce you put 2 regular size cans of garbanzo beans, 1/2 a cucumber diced, 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil, 6-7 tablespoons lemon juice, 1/2 bunch cilantro, a dash of pickle juice, 1 teaspoon garlic powder, 1/2 cup tahini sauce, and a 1/2 teaspoon each salt and paprika into a food processor or blender. You blend it until it reaches your desired consistency. And ta-da! You get hummus.

I found that I had a little too much cucumber, not enough garbanzo beans, not enough lemon juice, and definitely not enough paprika. So I just added whatever I felt it needed until I felt it tasted good. Be warned, this makes like 2 1/2 pounds of hummus. That is a lot.

I ate so much of this that I almost made myself sick. It tasted so good. I will definitely make this again.

Here is my finished product (after I ate about half of it)



It looks kinda plain but don't be fooled, it is delicious.

I got this recipe from here

First Post!!

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So, this is my first post in this blog. Yay! Well anyway... I'm devoting this blog to all of my cooking endeavors. I get soooo many recipes off of Pinterest and other websites so I've decided to start trying them all. Why not blog my awesome new creations, or disasters. As you could probably tell from the blog title that I am a college student. Along with school I work so much. When fall semester rolls around I probably won't have much time to blog, much less cook. I will be living mainly on frozen meals. Haha. Well I hope you enjoy my tales of trying new recipes. I will of course include the recipe I am making and the link to where I found it. So, eat up!