Salad King

I never been to salad king before but I heard a lot of good things about it. I finally got to go to salad king today. The experience was different from what I expected; basically there are these long tables that all the guests would sit at, so you could be sitting next to strangers but I can dig it. I like to see what other people are eating and always make new friends. I don't really have much to say except the food was really good and it lives up to what everyone has told me about it. Oh and a word of advice 1 chili is equivalent to 10 chilis lol. I got the green mango salad it was pretty good except that it did get overwhelming for me because it's sour, I got the chicken Kari noodle and it was delicious and my friend got the seafood fried rice and from the one bite I had I fell in love.


FYI this post was written about a month ago I just never hit publish. Whoops

WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER!!!

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wooot!! wooot!! Guess who won the triple whammy cookbook giveaway from Living the Sweet Life .... yeah you guessed it!! MOI!!!

The cookbooks are on it's way so I can start cooking up a storm!!!!

I have a list of to dos that I need to write out!

To Do
OF COURSE UPDATE BLOG!!!
to find the perfect chocolate chip cookie
(needs to be fat not FLAT, chewy and delicious)
making at least a recipe from my cookbook once a week or every other week =)

soo... I haven't posted anything since this blog got start but I have been keeping up with my journeys, I've just been to lazy to post! I have also started to go to the restaurant on the new food network Television show "You Gotta Eat Here". I'll do some posts on that soon. So keep an eye out for a lot of postings coming soon =)

Wrath of the Cookbooks!!!

These are my cookbooks (there are more, there just isn't enough space on my shelf =)) that I have looked at and put tags in for recipes I really want to try out and have never got a chance to do so. Well I am making the time now to try a recipe once a week from one of these books, not sure what book I want to cook from yet though, just have to wait and see.

"Superkid" Ice Cream Cake Recipe

So let me tell you why I would come up with this crazy idea since I do not like SUPERKID ice cream at all. My boyfriend's birthday was just last week and he got 2 dairy queen ice cream cakes and a red velvet birthday cake courtesy of Sugar Therapy. Randomly on his birthday, his sister goes to me and says something along these lines "Laura Secord should make ice cream cakes because a SUPERKID icecream cake would be awesome". Then it clicked in my head A's birthday is next week I should make her this for her birthday. This was just a basic recipe not even a recipe really just because A does not like the cookie crumb part of an ice cream cake =( but it is a stepping stone to more to come.

Ingredients and Tools
Piping Bag, Tips and Couplers
9inch cheesecake pan
Spatula
kitchenaid professional mixer
Saran Wrap
4 hand packed tubs of Superkid Icecream (has to be from Laura Secord)
1 tub of irresistable natural vanilla ice cream
Vanilla
Butter
Icing Sugar
Rose colour Food colouring

Before doing this, I placed the pan in the freezer for about 6 hours.

The ice cream was taken out of the freezer for about 10 minutes to soften up just enough to spread it around the pan if it gets too liquidy the ice cream won't freeze up right.

I actually didn't have enough vanilla ice cream, so my boyfriend had to run out to get me another tub, he got me a tub of chapman's vanilla ice cream and we used probably half of that.

Step 5: Placed into the freezer overnight to harden up

Tick Tock. Tick Tock.

TADA!! this is how it looks like after I took it out of the freezer. Not to bad I'd say. To get it out of the pan, I took a mini bbq lighter around the outside of the pan to loosen up the pan and pop the cake came out with the help of some friends.

But I'm not done yet, I have to make the icing and attempt to decorate this cake.

Buttercream Icing
1/4 cup of room temperature butter
1/2 tsp of vanilla
1 cup of icing sugar

Be careful of the food colouring because it can stain your fingers like this!!

The final product!! It wasn't as nice as I hoped it would be but it was a crowd pleaser I'd say. I was pretty worried about the superkid not turning out nicely since it was a mixture of colours but all the colours came through nicely =).


After making this ice cream cake, I grasped on to a few things that might make things less messy.

1. freeze the pan with the saran wrap
2. in between each layer to place the pan back into the freezer to harden up a bit
3. purchase more hand packed tubs