This dish was pretty simple and tasted so flavourful! I was searching up recipes to make for dinner because my mom wanted me to make dinner to help her out and this one sounded appetizing. It only took 20 minutes to make, I got the ground beef out, put it on the stove and cook it through till there is no pink. In the meantime I got the rice going. I then mixed together soy sauce, sesame oil, red pepper flakes, ground ginger, and brown sugar, I added it to the ground beef and let it simmer for two minutes. That was pretty much it, I served it to my family and it was one of my families favourite meals I made. It was super rich in flavour, it had a bit of a kick to it but the rice helped match it and everyone had seconds to the point there was no more food left.

For dinner this week I decided to make chicken parmesan and roasted broccoli because it sounded delicious and I made chicken parmesan before and it turned out really well so I wanted to attempt making it a second time. For the broccoli, I drizzled a bit of olive oil, some salt, pepper, garlic powder, and onion salt. I then put it in the oven for 20 minutes. For the chicken, I tenderized them, had a bowl with flour, salt, and pepper. The next bowl I had stirred eggs and the last one I had Italian breadcrumbs. I put the chicken in each bowl in the order I wrote and then added them to the pan. I cooked the chicken in the pan for 2-3 minutes on each side, I then put them in a dish that surrounded it with tomato sauce. After the chicken was all in that dish, I added a bit more tomato sauce to cover it and then added marble cheese because I didn’t own mozzarella, I added some leftover breadcrumbs to give it more flavour and finally added parmesan. This meal turned out well. I thought at first that I should have another side because it wouldn’t be filling enough for everyone but the chicken was extremely filling. No one went hungry that night!

This meal was delicious! I was wanting to make butter chicken but I couldn’t find two essential spices so I had to choose something different but similar. It needed one of the same spices as the butter chicken but I just searched up alternative spices to use instead so I could still make it. Instead of garam masala, I used curry but when I was eating it, I couldn’t taste anything off, it was so flavourful, probably the most flavourful dish i’ve made so far. The chicken needed to marinate for ten minutes to an hour or over night if possible but I chose the recipe just before making dinner so I let it sit for twenty minutes but it still was really moist. The only problem I had was the rice, I followed the instructions on the package to make it for 6 people and it for some reason barely had enough for 4. There was 5 of us eating and my mother was eating later due to a massage so I had enough to make more for her. Other than that, everything else turned out very well. I would make this meal again, it tasted delightful, next time I make it I will make nan bread to go with it!

This time I wanted to try something different to the chicken so I decided to eyeball the chicken. I tenderized the chicken and squeezed lemon juice from a fresh lemon and added garlic powder, onion powder, rosemary, and salt for seasoning. I then cooked it for 15 minutes. For the fettuccine Alfredo sauce I followed a recipe. I added butter, salt, pepper for seasoning, dried parsley and I again didn’t have heavy cream so I searched up how to make homemade heavy cream. And of course parmesan cheese to make it cheesy. The pasta took a bit longer to cook, it tasted good. I added carrots because I knew there was any vegetables so I added them. I’d definitely make this again everything was delicious.

This is the first time I made cottage pie, I’ve always thought it was called shepherds pie but when I was searching up recipes I realized that shepherds pie uses lamb but cottages pie uses growing beef and that’s what I used. It turned out really well. I added mustard to the mashed potato to give it more favour, I read in the comments that it tastes better with it. I didn’t realize it takes an hour to cook but it was totally worth it, it tastes so heavenly. I first added the meat and onions to the pan and let the cook. I added the spices and then worked on the potato part. It needed Nut meg and it needed the regular things that mashed potato needs. After the meat was done, I needed to add the carrots, I didn’t have the celery but I don’t like celery so I didn’t mind.

I decided to make pasta for my family. My mom wanted me to cook with the ground beef hat was in the fridge and it was going to go bad soon so I found a recipe and cooked it. I’m used to making Kraft dinner from the box for a fast lunch so this was something different for a change, a challenge. I had every the recipe asked for except for heavy cream so I attempted to make my own. I searched up how to make heavy cream, the internet told me to add 2 teaspoons butter and a 3/4 cup of whole milk, I had both ingredients so I tried it. I melted the butter and whisked in the milk slowly as the recipe instructed and it turned out well. While eating the dish I honestly couldn’t tell a difference. I found it really interesting and this was my favorite meal I cooked all week!