Game Time

Football season is in full swing now. Whether it is a Sunday or Monday night game for your favorite team, nothing seems to better accommodates a great football game than beer and pizza.

Being an avid Dallas Cowboys fan my self, I made sure I didn't miss out on this Sunday's game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. As far as the actual game, it wasn't our best showing, but a W is a win no matter how we get it.

Living with three other girls, getting the living room TV and prime couch spot to watch games is quite difficult. Luckily, I recently recruited another Cowboys fan, Kelsy. How? I'm not exactly sure what triggered her sudden interest but I'm thinking it had something to do with her boyfriend... ya that happens.

Back to the food. Beer and pizza always make any event worth while, but during the Fall sports seasons it seems to be on everyone's minds!

After a long weekend, Kelsy and I were craving pizza to go along with our lazy football day. After hearing a quite raunchy rumor about Digiorno pizza and being cheap college students, we decided against delivery and ran to the local grocer to grab a Tombstone pizza.
               

With a little side of ranch this pizza hit the spot. Yelling at the TV with both the good and the bad plays, we highly enjoyed our lazy Football Sunday. Even though tensions were high in my mind, fantasy football really gets me into each game, the pizza and a cold Corona was just the perfect way to end the crazy weekend. Before we knew it our plates were clean and we were already wanting more, cue ice cream. The perfect halftime break included a good old fashion scoop of ice cream from Braum's.

I sure am not mad about such a fun Sunday with Kelsy. Football, Corona, pizza, and Braum's all add up to a great meal. Healthy was not a big part of our meal on Sunday but when it is the end of a weekend or start of a week, everyone deserves a little treat. Go Cowboys!

Shrimpin'

In college you often find your self cooking the easy meals such as chicken and Mac n' Cheese. To change things up and still be able to have money in your pocket for the bar, you should try out cooking shrimp. This week I mixed things up and decided to tryout my own shrimp pasta concoction.

Before getting to the actual recipe, it is important to remember to get to “all of your food” groups, so I also incorporated a green salad with avocado. The best way to make a simple salad a little zestier is to throw on avocado, pepper and parmesan. Another good thing to add to the salad if your budget allows it is to toss in some of the Texas Toast Creaser Salad Croutons. With the health benefits of avocado for good skin, the crunch of the croutons, and the overall greatness of a salad, this is one affordable side entre to this shrimpy delight.

This meal is simple and easy for any student to whip up one evening. First thing’s first is prepare the pasta. For those who don’t know how to prepare pasta, you boil the water, and then you add the spaghetti (or linguini) to the boiling water. After about 8-10 minutes, you can check to see if the pasta is al-dente. If you think the pasta is ready then you strain the water out of the pot and the pasta can sit in the pot while you prepare the shrimp.

The shrimp is still very easy to prepare. Granted this part is preference, but I always take the tails off the shrimp before I cook them. After you detail the shrimp you toss them into a sauté pan with butter, garlic, salt and pepper. 

Let this sauté for a good 5 minutes, tossing and mixing the buttery mix all together every so often. After it has sautéed for 5 minutes, you add in the Alfredo sauce and warm the sauce until you pour all the contents over the pasta. Mixing it all together, you are now ready to prepare your plate!

Bon Appétit!

Breakfast Tab

After a long week of school and a night out with your friends, why not go back to the same bar for brunch the next morning. 

Seven 47 is a Norman favorite. With dinning and drinks, this place offers quite a selection of goodies for the local college students. By night this bar offers a great menu of food and selection of drinks. What more important is by morning comes the delicious brunch.

                 

 Breakfast is clearly the most important meal of the day no matter what time you are eating it. Between the pesto omelet and the Belgian waffle with fresh fruit, you can always fill your stomach at Seven 47. Some other items on the brunch menu include the following: French toast, eggs benedict, beignets and egg skillet. 

Quite often I find either myself or a roommate will leave our credit cards at the bar. How convenient to be able to grab your credit card and eat brunch in the same place.

This morning was no different. As I woke up and traced back through my steps of last night I realized I left my tab open at the bar. Fortunately I was able to rally up a few girl friends and we made our way back to Seven 47 to chow down on one of the best brunches in Norman. Because my tab was still open, I was able to simply add my breakfast and finally tab out.

With a full stomach and closed tab, I can highly recommend going to Seven 47 for any drink, dinning or brunch necessities. 

Chicken Pot Why?

Not sure what to eat on a Friday night? Trying to save some cash for the bars this weekend? It's time to crack out the Chicken Pot Pie.

Marie Callender's Creamy Parmesan Chicken Pot Pie sure hit the spot tonight while I pondered what to eat for dinner. Most people shy away from the frozen dinner section of the grocery, but it is often where I find myself window shopping down the isles.

This tasty delight may take close to an hour to bake but what better time than to pop it in the oven then return to either your homework or the weekly reality TV show every college student is guilty of recording.

Today I'm going to take you on a quick summary of how to indulge in this American style meal.

First thing is first, you have to preheat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Because the baking temperature is a little high you have plenty of time to finish preparing the pot pie while it preheats.

Pot Pie Frozen

The crust of the pot pie is a golden flakey crust that is made from scratch. In order to not burn the edges of the pot pie it is crucial that you wrap the edges in foil. No need to go in to extreme detail on wrapping the edge because a little crunch adds to the essence of the good stuff inside the pie.

Frozen w/ foil on edges

Here comes the easy part. After the oven is done preheating, you simply place the pie on a cookie sheet, pop it in the oven and wait for 65 minutes. What to do with those 65 minutes is completely up to you, but don't stray too far because the pie will be out before you know it.

After a good clean to my house, the timer on the oven went off. Make sure before digging into the pie you do two things. One, even though it may seem obvious, please take the foil off of the pie! And two, let the pie cool down for five minutes. This cool down will allow the inside to stop boiling and thicken.

Cooked & ready to eat

Easy enough for any college student to do & affordable too. Check out prices at your local grocer.

Bon Appetite!