Vegetable Rice

Do not be fooled by it's name!
Vegetable Rice? Bleah!

This moist rice is so irrisistable you forget about the peppers and carrots and celery inside it. And this is coming from an extremely ANTI-VEG fifteen year-old.

So it tastes great PLUS it's nutritious?
Now i want to eat it everyday.

Vegetable Rice
1 tbsp Oil
1 cup chopped onions
1/2 cup chopped carrots
1/2 cup chopped celery
1/2 cup chopped red peppers
14.5 oz chicken broth
1 1/2 cup white rice, uncooked
1 cup frozen peas (i took a stand here and excluded the peas. Absolutely hate 'em)
Salt and Pepper to taste

Heat oil in a skillet and saute onions, celery, carrots and peppers for about 7 minutes. Season with salt and pepper, to taste. Add broth and bring to a boil. Stir in rice and peas. Cover and let simmer for 5 min then remove from heat and let sit for 5 min so that liquid is absorbed.

Alternatively, if you posses a rice cooker (i do!), just pour the broth into the cooker along with the rice and peas after boiling and hit 'Cook'.

This is the life.

Carrot Cake Cupcakes

You know what cake i love more than anything?
A cake with vegetables, i mean. (my absolute favourite is cheesecake)

Carrot cake.

And do you know what would be even more awesome (and potentially dangerous) than carrot cakes?

Carrot cake Cupcakes.

i say dangerous because what's going to stop you if you have dozens of bite-sized servings of this cake?
Nothing.

Except maybe an exploding stomach.

The sprinkles were my idea. I'm all for sprinkles now. Sprinkles FTW!

So we had the cupcakes iced and ready.

I did some of them in these little souffle cups i bought and then discovered you can't actually BAKE in them.

So i had to peel out the cupcake from the liner all baked and ready AND THEN fit it neatly into the paper cup.

this is one of the plain ones. The piping was really easy, but the bag occasionally slipped from my hand and left loads of icing-less bits peeking through on my first few cupcakes.

The icing is cream cheese. I never thought cheese would be good as a frosting until now.

i told you i had a thing for sprinkles.

We tried to get a bit classy and do the others with White chocolate bits and those little silver balls we all love so well but have no idea what it is named.

Man, these were good.

Next up for cupcakes: Funfetti!

Although it may be a while before i do another cupcake.

I've been DYING to try home made Pop tarts.