Yoga Pants Kitchen

Monday, April 13, 2015

Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream

I scream, you scream, we all scream for OH MY GOD LOOK BEHIND YOU!

Just kidding.

Ice cream?

Heehee?

Ice cream. Iced cream. Cream that has been iced.

I am a firm believer that ice cream is fine to consume ~~heavily~~ all year round, but now that spring has finally shown itself (halle-flippin-lujah), I want it mooorree! I had heard rumors around the internet that one can make ice cream without one of those fancy ice cream churner things, and after much research I found that oh heck yes 'tis true! Seriously people, 2 main ingredients, plus whatever flavor combos your little heart desires. Looove!

Since this was my first rodeo, I stuck to the regular vanilla. It came out tasting exactly how vanilla ice cream should taste, so Imma get a little more cray next time around.

What you will need for a batch that will serve 3-5 depending on each individual's serving size:

2 cups of heavy cream
1 can of sweetened condensed milk
2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
1 cup (or more) of M&Ms
Sprinkles for extra color

Using a hand mixer, whip the heavy cream until soft peaks form, about 10 minutes. Pour in the sweetened condensed milk and vanilla, and fold to combine. Add in the M&Ms, stirring to combine, then add the sprinkles.

Pour into a loaf pan or other container and freeze for about 7 hours.

Psychedelic ;)

Xoxo

Jillian

Friday, April 10, 2015

Screen Capcha Friday

As I scroll through Instagram/Facebook on the ~~hourly~~ daily, I find myself screen shotting things that make me LOL, things that make me get a little teary, and things that I screen shot and immediately send to Boyfriend with a "please buy me onneeeeeeee" text (it's usually a puppy FYI). Here are a few screen shots, or screen caps as I call them, that I had in my Camera Roll this week.

I hope you all had a great week! As I write this I am watching the first ever episode of Grey's Anatomy. Remember that time George (RIP) promised that woman that her husband would make it through surgery and then he died?!? That's how I knew this show would eff with your emotions and wahh, it has, and continues to do so, and I can't look awayy. The End. Have a great weekend!

Yeap

#Easter

Are you sensing a theme?

Yeap

Lolz

Every.Day.

Heehee

Hangryyyy

HA!

Xoxo

Jillian

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Hot Pockets!

I hope you read that title as is should be read. HOT POCKETS!!

That's what I kept singing while I was making these babies. Much to Boyfriend's ~~chagrin~~ joy (<-- because he loves the sound of my voice, duh!).

For Christmas (of 2014, that is) Boyfriend said that we could take a cooking class at Sur La Table and we finally did it this past weekend! Yes, I know that it is almost Christmas of 2015, but I couldn't decideeee what I wanted to doooo. I finally decided on one of their "Date Night" classes, where we made an endive salad with gorgonzola cheese (freaking drool everywhere), steak with compound butter (extra raw obvi), a potato hot pocket thing (the sort-of inspo for this post), and mini chocolate molten cakes for dessert (I'll have 4 please). It was so much fun and I highly recommend ~~dragging your significant other kicking and screaming~~ taking one!

I wanted to make mini Hot Pockets because a) I wasn't feeling making something super fancy for dinner and b) I wanted to use my new favorite baking tool - ze puff pastry. During our class we cut up some onion, potato, parmesan cheese, and chives, sauteed the ish out of them, and made puff pastry pockets. Soooooo gooood!

Oh yeah - and I wanted pizza.

Now, this recipe is not at it's full potential, but I did want to share it with you because I feel with a little ~~twerking~~ tweaking it could be ah-maze-ing-a.

What you will need for 4 pockets:

1 box of puff pastry, thawed
Mozzarella cheese
Pepperoni
Marinara sauce
1 egg, whisked - to be used for egg wash

Set the oven to 430 degrees (Yes, that is correct. Those were the instructions on the box #wellokthen).

Thaw the puff pastry as per the package instructions.

Cut each sheet of puff pastry in half, width-wise.

Note: This is how Boyfriend did it and his came out huge. I was being difficult and wanted to do it my way (cutting the pastry into 3 pieces width-wise), which resulted in smaller, not-as-stuffed-pockets. Boyfriend:1 Me:0

Place the cheese, pepperoni, and sauce on one end of the pastry, then, using a pastry brush, paint the edges with the egg wash. Fold over and press down the edges with a fork. Bake for about 5-8 minutes, depending on the strength of your oven - they can burn quickly!!

So crispy, but unfortunately not as stuffed. I should listen to Boyfriend more often.

JUST KIDDING!!!

Xoxo

Jillian

Monday, April 6, 2015

Easterrrrr

Twas the night before Easter and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, excepting for me becawse I was making some Pinterest dreams come true lolzzz I hope you all enjoyed your Easter/Passover weekend. We had dinner at my house and then went to my cousin's for dessert. There was so much food, I felt like I should have taken out the Thanksgiving spandex. Here's a roundup of all of the food deliciousness :) :)