Andes Mint Chocolate Cookies

Baking has never been my forte, mainly because I don't have a sweet tooth and don't need to bring out my baking sweets skills.  The husband on the other hand has many sweet teeth, so I feel compelled to make him some treats. These tasted almost like mint chocolate chip ice cream, so soft, so chewy, so good! Enough of the talking, let's get down and minty.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup olive oil
• 2 eggs
• 1 box chocolate cake mix
• andes chocolates

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Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. Mix them all up except for the chocolates
3. Dollop cookie dough with a spoon 3 inches apart on a greased cookie sheet
4. Bake for 10-12 minutes
5. Place andes chocolate on top immediately after baking and spread around.
6. Serve!

So good. So easy. Happy eatings Everyone!

Fast and Easy Salmon

If there is one seafood that I crave more than any other it's salmon, beautiful pink and diverse salmon. I had de thawed a pound of salmon filets the night before but found I had very little time to actually prep a fancy meal, but sometimes beauty lies in simplicity and time can't hold me back from making simplicity delicious. So here is a short and quick recipe that turned out so good and only took 15 minutes!

Simplistic Salmon

Ingredients:

• 1 lb salmon filets
• 1/8 tsp sea salt
• 1/8 tsp fresh ground pepper
• 1 1/2 tsp rosemary
• 2 cloves garlic roughly chopped

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. Prep salmon with all of the spices and spread your garlic evenly over your filets.
3. Usually cooking salmon in parchment paper and on a cookie sheet makes it look prettier but I had no parchment paper and both of my cookie sheets were on the dishwasher. So I used a glass dish.
4. Bake for 12 minutes. 
5. Serve!

Voila! Enjoy this quick and tasty dish! Happy Eatings Everyone! And enjoy some Neil Diamond, my cooking companion for the past two nights:

Thai Pizza

In a perfect world Thai food and Italian food walk hand in hand with almost anything. But alas this is an imperfect, twisted world that decides keeping the two apart is the best idea. The loop hole in all of this is of course pizza. One of the most easily manipulated foods on the planet, pizza doesn't contribute to the segregation of our favorite cuisines, instead it offers up the white flag and allows pretty much any cuisine flavors or influences onto it's doughy land. So here we are, an easy, delicious and perfectly fused Thai Pizza.

Ingredients for Sauce:

• 2 tbsp peanut butter
• 2 tbsp sesame oil
• 2 tbsp soy sauce
• 1tbsp brown sugar
• 1tsp sesame seeds

Ingredients for Pizza:

• handful of basil
• 1 tbsp of olive oil
• 1 1/2 cup spinach
• handful of peanuts
• 1 cup of red bell pepper
• 2 cloves garlic
• 1 pizza dough (pre-cooked)

Directions:

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees.
2. In a large sauce pan heat up oil and sauté your spinach, basil, pepper and garlic.
3. Spread sauce on pizza dough and spread around your pan ingredients over the dough.
4. Bake for 10-15 minutes.
5. Serve!

If there's one thing I love more than cooking, its Chet Baker. But the two go so well together so I won't compare my love for the two here. 

Your dough can be made at home or bought at the store, I made my own and pre baked it for about 15-20 minutes! Happy Eatings Everyone!