My New Recipe

Ok so this is a recipe for a fish and rice medley.  If you make it, let me know if you like it.  I haven't tried it yet . . .

Ingredients

Serves Two . . . (I hope)

-1 cup of uncooked brown rice OR 1 box of uncooked Uncle Ben's wild rice
-2 fillets of catfish OR 16 medium-sized shrimp
-1/2 cup red bell pepper
-1/2 cup green bell pepper
-1/2 cup corn
-10 white mushrooms
-Assorted flour, cornmeal, salt, and pepper
-1/2 cup cooking sherry wine
-1/4 cup vegetable oil
-1/4 cup lemon juice
-4 sprigs of any of these herbs: rosemary, parsley, dill
-1 lemon

Cooking Instructions

1. Cook your choice of rice.  When done, lay aside the pot but make sure it is still warm.
2. Mix together the flour, cornmeal, salt and pepper and coat your choice of fish in it.  Fry the fish in a large pan.
3. Chop up assorted vegetables into small pieces.  Sauté the vegetables in vegetable oil.
4. Take out the fish once it is cooked and lay it aside, making sure to keep it warm.
5. Lay rice spread out onto a serving platter. 
6. Pour the cooking sherry and lemon juice into the large pan.  Saute the vegetables in this.  When done, mix into the rice.
7. Saute the fish in the sherry and lemon juice.  When done do one of the following: If you chose shrimp, go to step 8.  If you chose catfish pick either step 9 or 10.
8. Mix the shrimp into the pilaf.  Finely chop the herb(s) of your choice and sprinkle them on top of the dish.  Pore the remaining gravy (sherry and lemon juice) on top of the dish.  Cut up the lemon.  Give two lemon slices to each person.  Enjoy your meal!
9. Lay the fillets of catfish on top of the rice pilaf.  Lay two sprigs of herbs on top of each fillet.  Pore the remaining gravy (sherry and lemon juice) on top of the dish.  Cut up the lemon.  Give two slices to each person.  Enjoy your meal!
10. Cut up the fillets of catfish and mix them into the rice pilaf.  Finely chop the herb(s) of your choice and sprinkle them on top of the dish.  Pore the remaining gravy (sherry and lemon juice) on top of the dish.  Cut up the lemon.  Give two lemon slices to each person.  Enjoy your meal!

*****NOTES*****

-The salt in the fry batter, the sprigs of herbs, and the lemon slices are optional.  They only add more flavor to the dish.  If you would like it more plain, do not add them.  The same goes for poring the gravy on at the end.
-If you do not want/like all of these vegetables simply either:
a. Substitute a similar amount with another vegetable
b. Just leave it out
-Please note I have not made/tried to make this recipe yet.  Please comment on how it tastes if you try it.
-Sorry I did not specify times for cooking the fish and vegetables.  It will depend on the type of fish you chose, how finely you chopped the vegetables, how tender, crispy, etc you like to cook it, and what kind of oven you have.
-I did not specify the amount of the flour, cornmeal, salt or pepper.  It depends on how much batter you want.  I would recommend however 1/2 cup of flour, 1/4 cup of cornmeal, one shake of salt, and one or two shakes of pepper.

Once I cook this I will send a picture of what it came out to look like.  Who knows how long that will be . . . LOL.  Anyways, I will blog later!  Goodbye for now bloggers!

What's Up

Hey bloggers!  Sorry but I probably won't be posting my pictures I mentioned earlier for a while.  I think I am just too lazy to email them to myself to put on here lol XD.  Anyways this will be a short post but in my next post I will post a recipe I just made up today (4/23)!  I did it all by myself and it sounds SUPER yummy.  I haven't tried to make it yet however lol.

MCAS and stuffs

Hey Bloggers!  I know I haven't posted anything in a while . . . sorry about that.  Anyways I had a snow day today (it was pretty awesome).  I REALLY don't want to take MCAS testing tomorrow . . . ugh.  This year my grade has the longwriting assignment (5 paragraph essay) and it is just a pain in the neck to write those.  I haven't had to write one since 4th grade so this is going to be interesting . . . LOL.  All the teachers always say how your grade on MCAS doesn't do anything to your grade records and stuff soooo why do we have to take it then!?  It's just a pain in the neck AND not to mention that the teachers ALWAYS complain about how they "don't have enough time to teach us everything we need to know for next year."  It just drives me CRAZY!!!!!  Anyways for a happier turn on life I have been drawing pictures from the Disney animated film Oliver and Company!  They have turned out to look pretty good if I don't say so myself and I plan to post them shortly.  I might even change some of my pictures currently on the site to post them 24/7 but I don't know if I will or not . . . XD LOL!  Hopefully I will so everyone will be able to see it but I'll just have to wait and see. Bye for now I will hopefully post the pictures tomorrow!  Bye!

Kitty

Also if you people are wondering the cat under the Christmas tree at the bottom is my cat Bootsie!  She always loves to lay under it and since I couldn't really find any other good pictures of her, I just used that ond XD.

New Background

So you guys might wonder why I changed the background to the Earth.  Well we do live on Earth so it is part of our daily lives!  Just thought you guys should know that!

Vacation!

So my February vacation is during this week so how are the other peoples' vacations going?  As you heard before, I had my b-day party XD!  The rest of this week I'm just gonna hang out with my friends.  Leave in the comments on what you've done during your vacation!

Raven's B-Day Party

Hey!  Sorry we haven't written in a while!  This is Sally here and I just had my b-day party this Saturday! It was so much fun!  I got to go to Pinz with some of my friends and well. . . bowl!  We also went to the arcade and played laser tag!  After I invited other friends over to my house and we had a DANCE PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Ugh now Hitler's Favorite Song  (Please Don't Tread on my Cheeseburger) by Pig With the Face of a Boy will forever be stuck in my head :P.  My cake was AMAZING!  I still have some of it left and will be eating it over vacation . . . yum!  I do have some bad news in all this fun however.  Kate has left the blog and will not be posting anything anymore, allthough she will be helping me with my posts.  I have been following my best friend Tucker G. alltough I call her Avvy or Lea!  She posts all kinds of awesome stuff!  I will soon change my blog's format to make it so it looks so much COOLER!!!!!  I got a few b-day presents but I mostly got gifts for the cats at my local shelter, the Milford Humane Society.  I want to start to volenteering there when I go to drop off the stuff.  I've been doing that for the past three years and i always love visiting the kitties!  Here is the picture I had on the cake XD:

So bye for now!  I will post more later!