Phat Chef

Here's a little something different for y'all. I'm going to start by saying I LOVE Chinese food. Well, American Chinese food anyways. I've never had the real stuff. REGARDLESS, Crab Rangoon's are my absolute favorite thing so, in typical Phat Chef fashion, I set out to make my own because... Why buy what you can make yourself? (Even if they're not as pretty) Crab Rangoon Ingredients: 1/2 lb imitation crab meat or lump crab meat 3 stalks of scallions, very finely chopped 1 tsp Soy Sauce 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce... (Worchestershire? Warcesterchire??) 1 tsp Sugar 1 pkg Wonton wrappers (or you can make your own. They're reeaallyy easy) 1 pkg (8 oz) Cream Cheese 1 water ( I know there's no measurement there so just fill a condiment cup and set aside. It's not an actual ingredient. ) Directions: Separate your imitation crab meat into weird fine threads. (Kind of makes you uncomfortable once you realize it's an odd stri

This is the most basic and simple pancake recipe and the pancakes come out so thick and fluffy it's ridiculous. Once I started making pancakes from scratch I never got them from a box or a Bisquick Shake & Make. No offense but honestly...where's the comparison here? I don't have an actual picture of the pancakes because I haven't made any here lately but as soon as I make some I will take a picture and delete this whole last sentence!  Basic Pancakes Ingredients: 1 Egg 1 1/2 C flour 3 1/2 tsp baking powder (and make sure its a TEASPOON and not a TABLESPOON. I confused the two once and ended up having to make sooo many pancakes because you can't really take it out once its in there so I just added more flour and everything else. What's a girl to do?) 1/2 tsp salt 1/4 C sugar 1 1/4 C milk Directions: Combine wet ingredients Combine dry ingredients Mix together Heat pan to medium heat (either a greased pan or a nonstick if you f

T hese are an all-time favorite of mine! This is actually my mothers recipe that she's been using for at least 25 years. I'm excited for this! Peanut Butter Cookies Ingredients: 3/4 C of store brand peanut butter (If you prefer to use Jif by all means go ahead. My mother and I, however, both agree that Jif, or any name brand peanut butter such as Peter Pan, all have a lot of oil and it makes for an oily cookie once you add your butter. Speaking of butter...) 1/2 C of butter (1 stick), at room temp. 1 1/4 C firmly packed light brown sugar (When I say firmly packed, I mean it should hold shape well after you've beat the measuring cup to get it out) 3 tbsp milk 1 tbsp vanilla 1 egg 1 3/4 C all-purpose flour 3/4 tsp salt 3/4 tsp baking soda Directions: Heat oven to 375 degrees.  Mix your peanut butter, butter, brown sugar, milk, and vanilla. Beat on medium.  Add egg. Beat until barely blended.  Combine your flour, salt and baking soda in a se

Okay, before I even begin on this one I want to start with the disclaimer that I am NOT 100% Hispanic. I'm probably more like 12%. That being said I won't be providing an authentic flauta recipe this time around. Maybe in the near future I'll expand and go for authentic but as for now this is Tex-Mex. I would like to take this time to confirm that although I am not as Hispanic as some of us would like, I AM 100% Texan so there's that. Now, enough about my Ancestry.com and let's get to this! Rolled Chicken Tacos Ingredients: 1 1/2 C shredded chicken 6-8 oz Cream Cheese (I have used the whole 8 oz and it seems to be almost too much when you add the shredded cheese. Which brings us to our next bullet...) Mexican Blend Shredded Cheese 1 can of Chopped Green Chiles Yellow, Green, and Red Bell peppers (not necessarily the WHOLE peppers but just enough for color and taste...but mostly c o l o r .) Onion (maybe equal amount of onion to peppers.) T

Greetings Eater,            I would like to start by welcoming you  my blog and thank you for sticking around to read it. I encourage you to leave comments here or to even follow the Instagram account for this blog at the link  here  and to leave some words there, whether you enjoyed it or not.            Let me tell you what this blog is. I'm sure some of you may have assumed this is a food blog and you would have assumed correctly! It's nothing fancy. Just a few recipes and some food that I've tried and wanted to share.           I'm not trying to take myself too seriously and I don't want you to do that either. I just want for us all to have some fun and be a little silly. Food shouldn't be taken so seriously. Sure, it's nice to make it look pretty and if you're on Chopped and there's a lump sum of money involved then you MIGHT consider taking it seriously. However, if you're on your phone, tablet, laptop, or, dare I say, desk to