Easy Tostadas

Tostadas

Happy Cinco de Mayo!! In honor of this fab holiday, I’m sharing one of my super quick go to meals. My tostadas are kind of like one big nacho.

This healthy recipe is easily Gluten Free, Kosher, Vegan and Vegetarian (I have no cheese on it but it can be added 🙂 ) Check out my super cool gif below. It’s my first time making one so don’t judge 😛

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Easy Tostadas
This healthy recipe is easily Gluten Free, Kosher, Vegan and Vegetarian.
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350. Spray each side of the corn tortillas with cooking spray then sprinkle chili powder on them. Lay them flat on a sheet pan and bake for 7 minutes until hard. Once finished, spread in this order: black beans, black olives, guacamole, and pico. They're ready to eat!

 

Say Hello to our new look!

// Welcome to our new look // Our much anticipated new design is finally up! We hope you enjoy it as much as we do! I want to give a special thanks to Rion Dooley deardooley for creating this extremely usable site. Thank you Daniel Good Pop for helping create the name and font of the logo, and Zach Cut To Create for making all of the awesome videos and being the official taste tester!

{ Happy Thanksgiving! }

Today happens to be one of the most glutenous days to be thankful for, Thanksgiving.  I’m sure everyone has lovely dreams of gorging themselves with traditional foods like sweet potato casserole, turkey, green beans, and pecan pie. I really enjoy this holiday surrounded by family and friends but hate feeling sleepy and immobile.  Unfortunately (maybe not), I have 2 turkey meals today. Those of you who are as lucky as me, I hope you have a good plan of action. As for me, I plan on the first meal being a taste of everything while the second is a plate full!

I’ve cooked a whole slew of things from pies to green beans. My favorite is of course the desserts. My partner in crime from Cut To Create and I made yet another video ** Pie Pops ** Enjoy!

The Foodie Chef Makes Pie Pops | Cut To Create from Cut to Create on Vimeo.

Moroccan Cooking with Grandma Lalouf

I had such a pleasure learning the Moroccan way of rustic cooking with my best friend Lindsey and her grandmother.  After a year of asking Lindsey to invite me over to her grandmothers, I was finally granted my wish!  I was invited over to her grandparents lovely home for a very filling lunch with the family and then a cooking lesson.
It was really interesting to hear stories of life in Algeria and Morocco when times were rough.  The style of cooking directly mirrored this. The way grandma cut the eggplant without a cutting board was very minimalistic and interesting to me.  All of the dishes had bold strong flavors from garlic to turmeric. They were all delicious and unique in their own way.  She taught me how to make the eggplant dip which is very similar to babaganoush. The recipe is to follow…

Needless to say, I had a wonderful time and hope to get an invitation back for yet another lesson 🙂










 

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Grandma Lalouf's Eggplant Dip Recipe
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Instructions
  1. Cook eggplant in oil for 10 minutes then remove. Cook tomato for about 10 minutes. Add eggplant, garlic, chili oil and salt to cooked tomato. Simmer for 1 hour uncovered.
  2. This dip not only can be served with pita chips, vegetable cridite, but even spread on bread for a different sandwich!
  3. Cooking option 2: leave out the tomato and add lemon juice (to taste) and cumin (1 tsp)
  4. Enjoy!