Fries

Fries are one of the amazing tasty pleasures of food when cooked correctly. What I mean by that is have you ever eaten NYF fries in silver city and you say wow these fries are really good but, then you get a little deeper in the cup and you go ask for a refund. That’s what I mean. If you ever come over to my house and we have burgers or something I will make my famous French fries and those are good fries. Once I had a couple of friends over in the summer and I made some fries and it took more time to make the fries then to eat them. There are two general kinds of potatoes that you see almost every day. Those potatoes are white potatoes and sweet potatoes. I prefer the white potato more then the sweet potato but my brother is the opposite. For me the best kind of ketchup is a ketchup named hunts but you can only get that ketchup in the states. In stead of always deep frying your fries you can bake your fries in the oven at 350ºF. I prefer eating my fries deep fried because I love the taste of the oil you cook it with. I use corn oil to deep fry my fries.

Cookies

There are many different kinds of cookies in the world, such as peanut butter cookies, cinnamon cookies, sugar cookies and many more tasty cookies. You can buy cookies at the store premade were you have to put in the oven, some that are already made to pop in your mouth and you have to buy the ingredients at the store for homemade. In my opinion I think that homemade cookies are the best tasting cookies. Except for the time that me and my friends were chilling at my house and my mom said let's make some sugar cookies. So we all helped her to make the cookies and when we were all done we put them in the oven till they got golden brown. Once they were done we started to eat them and said eww there is no sugar in these sugar cookies. True story we still talk about that even today. There are also cookies for tradition. In my family my mother makes birds nest cookies once a year they are really good. Do you have any cookie traditions? Cookies are also great for presents. You can put the cookies in a container and send them to people you love. They are also great for dessert when you have enough for everybody.

Steak

Many of you, like me love to eat steak. Steak is one of the best tasting meats when it's cooked correctly. For me the way I prepare steak is to put a layer of Montreal steak spice on each side. Sometimes I'll go on the internet and look for a marinade sauce and make that, but every time I make something from the internet I think that the Montreal steak spice is always better. I don’t know how you make it but, for me I prepare the steak with the spice and I turn the bbq on at 400°, once the bbq is at 400° throw your steak on and cook it. Now if you weren’t born yesterday you should know what medium rare is or rare or well done. Now it's ok if you don’t know what it is, but it's how red you want your meat in the middle. For me I think that medium rare is the best way to cook your steak but everybody has there own opinion. If you are like me and like to eat your steak with steak sauce to make it better you can either go on the internet and make one or go buy one. In my opinion for the steak sauce Heinz 57 is the best and the one in the states A1 steak sauce is horrible for meat/steak.

Salads

There are many varieties of salads: oil and vinegar, caser salad, potato salad, macaroni salad, peanut salad, ginger salad, green salad, jello salad and of course greek salad. For the people who have eaten at my house and have tried my moms salad they have said that it is so good that it could be in a restaurant, if you know my mom you would know that she works at St. Edmond. One day she was making salad for her class for a reason unknown and all the kids said that it could be in a restaurant. As I was saying before there are many different salads like potato salad. Potato salad is my least favourite salad for some reason I don’t know why but I just don’t like the taste. The best salads are between caser salad and oil and vinegar. They are both my favourite. If I had to choose between one or the other I would chose the oil and vinegar because you could have regular oil and vinegar or balsamic vinegar. My uncle makes the best balsamic vinegar. To make caser salad take the leaves and put them into a bowl, next put the white caser sauce in the bowl with the leaves and add the croutons to the bowl (if you want really good Cesar salad make sure the croutons are garlic and butter) and if you like you can add bacon bits.

Clam pasta

My favourite food in the whole world since I was ten years old is clam pasta. I can't believe how much I love clam pasta; the taste is so amazing that every time I think of clam pasta I drool a little. There are two variations to clam pasta, one with red sauce and on with no red sauce. My favourite is the pasta without the red sauce, even thought that the one with red sauce is very good. To make red sauce clam pasta start out like any other sauce with olive oil in a frying pan and add the onion and fry them next add the garlic and of course fry them and add chili peppers and again fry them. Add a can of clams with the water juice from the can. If you're lucky like me maybe you'll find some razor clams. Next add some tomatoes and then boil them two to three minutes and then add some white wine and simmer it for 2 - 3 minutes and add 5 mls of red wine vinegar. In a separate bowl, boil some linguini and when it's all ready add to the frying pan and heat for one minute. To make regular clams it's much easier then the red sauce clam pasta. Start out with fried garlic golden brown in olive oil, add rinsed baby clams, parsley, lemon juice, half cup of water and then add salt and pepper, after all that simmer for five minutes. Pour over cooked linguini noodles and serve.


No red sauce clam pasta
2 cloves Chopped garlic
Quarter cup of olive oil
1 can rinsed baby clams
Quarter cup Chopped parsley
Juice of one lemon
Half cup of water
And salt and pepper


Red sauce clam pasta
3 cloves of chopped garlic
Quarter cup of olive oil
1 can of clams
Sprinkle of chile peppers
2 onions

Tuna pasta

Ever since I was a child my mom always made amazing food. One of those amazing foods is tuna pasta. Now a lot of people do not like tuna but would love tuna pasta. I'm sure of that because every time one of my friends comes over they thank my mom for making such a wonderful dinner. I hope that one day everybody I know will be able to try such a wonderful dinner. Any way let's get back on track, it is very simple to make tuna pasta. Simply start out with a jar of red pasta sauce, then in a pan put some olive oil with one clove of garlic and put some onions in the pan and wait till they get golden brown after that put the jar of red sauce and wait till it starts to boil, after that strain the water from the tuna can. Then throw it in the boiling water and put the heat on low, wait till the tuna cooks and make your tuna pasta. The first time I made tuna pasta I did not chop up the tuna (thought it wasn’t bad) it was in big chunks and didn’t taste as good. Make sure you enjoy the wonder full meal of tuna pasta. The taste will amaze you.

Noodles

Of course everybody knows what noodles are, but does anybody know how there made or how to cook them. I know I do and you will too after reading this blog if you didn't know. Now there are also many different kinds of noodles; and some can be used in different recipes, like manicotti noodles witch you put cheese in and roll up or lasagna noodles, the big long noodles. My Nona use to make gnocchi with me when I was very young. She would make her gnocchi with her special ingredients and when they became the texture of what they should be, she would make little balls and then take her fork and make an imprint of the fork on the gnocchi. To cook the noodles of penne for an example; you start out by boiling water and when the water is done boiling take a table spoon of salt and put it in the water for a few seconds the water will stop boiling but when it starts again to boil you should put in the noodles. After five minutes of boiling and stirring the noodles check to see if there ready by taking one of the noodles out and put it under cold water and see if it's ready. If it's not ready keep checking it. Have you ever wondered how to eat them with a fork and spoon well it's simple. Simply take one utensil in to one hand and the other in the other hand and swirl the fork in the pasta and put it on your spoon and twirl it even more on your spoon and put it in you mouth.

Red sauce pasta

For generations the Tramontozzi have made an amazing blend of pasta sauce. It has been passed down from generations; starting with my great grandmother to my grandmother to my mother and then to me. Someday I when I’m blessed of children of my own I will show them the Tramontozzi secret. (The real secret?) There are many variations to the red pasta sauce but today I will only be talking about the red pasta sauce. (What I mean by variations is different things you do with the sauce.) To start out you must have all your ingredients. Those ingredients are one onion, 3 cloves of garlic, olive oil and tomatoes. To make the best pasta sauce ever, you start out by taking out a pan and putting it on the fire and putting the olive oil in and also the garlic and the onions. Wait till the onions and the garlic get golden brown and then throw the tomatoes when there golden brown. Let it cook all day on low heat for best results. Make sure you stir it so the amazing sauce it doesn't get burnt. When the sauce is done cooking you should strain the sauce so that you don’t have any tomato seeds in the sauce; and that’s how to make the sauce. You can also make a lot of the sauce and can it in jars and the will fresh forever. Now you know the Tramontozzi secret.

Rice crispies

Ever since I was a kid my mom and I use to make rice crispies squares. She told me to count 30 marshmallows and throw them in the big yellow bowl. (When I was five six years old my friend Morgan and I loved marshmallows. Every time she would come to my house we would eat a lot of marshmallows. For some reason we were crazy about them. I remember all the times that me and my friend have shared every time that I eat a marshmallow or think of marshmallow.) I use to always sneak a marshmallow or two from the bag when I was counting the marshmallows for my mom. I remember that she use to put the big yellow bowl in the microwave for 30 seconds. That would make the marshmallows very soggy like the clouds in the air. Later we would add the rice crispies as if we were pouring rain in the clouds. Then we would stir the rice crispies in the marshmallows and if you’re a five year old kid that's pretty hard. But it was still fun because I was able to lick / eat the spoon. Now that's something you will remember for the rest of your life. My mom would turn on the stove for the temperature it is suppose to be and I would watch the rice crispy batch cook in the oven. When I was 14 I went to my friends’ house and we made it but the thing we didn't do was put it in the stove but it was just better because it wasn't hard. Another time I went over to my cousin's house to baby sit and he had made Peanut butter rice crispy squares they were amazing. I love rice crispies and I always will.

Homemade Perogies

Dough: 1 cup Sour cream
2cups 1/2 Flour
Salt & Pepper

Filling: 6 Potatoes
1 Onions (chopped)
half a cup of Shredded Cheddar Cheese
Salt



Ever since I was a kid, my mom use to always make my family and I perogies for dinner. The first time I ever took a bite of a perogie I felt like I was in heaven. The cheese from inside the perogie bursts out like a volcano eruption; it was also very hot so it burned the tip of my mouth. For some reason I eat my perogies with Hunts ketchup; I don’t know if you eat it like that but I know that there the best like that. Some people like my brother enjoy their perogies with onions; not my idea of a perfect perogie but whatever floats your boat. Like everybody knows you don’t have to make perogies from homemade you can go buy it at the groceries store. The first time I tried to cook perogies I had no help and all the ingredients were all over the place. The flour was flying in the air, the sour cream was on the ground and the salt and pepper was in my hair weird enough. My experience was very short because I don’t like perogies anymore.