Concerned and I know it

I made one of my favorite recipes tonight!  This recipe is cheap, fast, and delicious.  I always make it when we have company, and everyone is ALWAYS impressed.  My mom used to make this when I was a child and I only made a few modifications.  I remember as a child we were always fighting over the pepperoni, so I doubled that. I also added extra oregano since my husband likes it like that.

The first thing you have to do is pick some music to listen to while you cook.  This is very important and sets the mood for the meal.  Seriously, you want your pepperoni to be happy and tasty.  I chose to listen to several songs, including Adele's Rumor Has It and Gotye's Somebody That I Used to Know.  Here, I was listening to LMFAO, and LM was fairly concerned.



OK, now that you have your mood music, it's time to get cooking.  The ingredients you need are 1 green bell pepper, one red bell pepper, 1 onion, vegetable oil, 2 packages of pepperoni, 3 cans of Italian diced (or stewed, depends on how big you like your tomato chunks) tomatoes, spaghetti noodles, oregano.

Get your water heating up for the noodles.  When it's hot enough, throw in the pasta.  I'm going to trust you know how to cook pasta.  I use about half a package, so you use however much you want.

Put 2-3 tbsp of oil in a big pan and put it on medium heat.  Cut up your bell peppers and onion.

Add these to the hot oil in the pan, and cook until the onion gets soft, stirring frequently.

While thats cooking and you're stirring frequently, cut your pepperonis in half.  You can cut them up smaller if you want, or not at all-whatever you want.

When they're cut up, add them to your pan.

Saute this until the pepperoni's warm.  All of the food in the pan should be warm saute'd.  When it is, add your 3 cans of tomato sauce.

Add your oregano and stir. Bring to boil, then it's time to eat! Drain the noodles, serve you up some and cover it with sauce.  Make some garlic to go with it. Enjoy!

Ingredients:

2-3 tbsp veg oil
1 red bell pepper
1 green bell pepper
1 onion
2 packages of pepperoni
3 cans (15 oz) of Italian diced tomatoes
oregano (optional)
spaghetti noodles


Cut up bell peppers and onion and saute in pan over medium heat until onion is soft.

Slice pepperoni in half and add to peppers and onion. Saute for 5-8 minutes.

Add 3 cans of tomato sauce; bring to a boil.  Add oregano if desired.

Pour over cooked spaghetti noodles.

Alligator good!

I am going to try to post my first recipe on here!  It's not a recipe I've ever made before--one of my best recipes will be posted later this week.  But tonight, I made alligator.  Yup, alligator.  I'd had it before in Baton Rouge when I was there for a French teaching conference, and loved it.  So this weekend I went to a farmer's market and there was a Swamp People-type man selling fish, shellfish and alligator.  I done bought me some gator! I decided to make something up, thinking that blackened alligator tail with a homemade remnoulade sounded good.  And you know what? It was!

First, I googled 'bkackened alligator.'  I love blackened chicken, but didn't know how to do it.  I found a recipe at exoticmeatsandmore.com that worked well for me.  Here are the ingredients:

1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon paprika
1 teaspoon garlic powder

1 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper

½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
½ teaspoon freshly ground white pepper

½ teaspoon dried thyme

½ teaspoon dried oregano

½ teaspoon dried chives

(I didn't have any chives, and a good substitute is onion roots, which I also didn't have.  So I put some onion powder in.)

Mix all these ingredients up then put on a plate.

I had 1lb of gator meat, which I cut up into big chunks for easier grilling.

I melted about 3 tbsp of butter in the bowl I mixed the spices in, cuz I'm lazy and didn't want to dirty another dish.  I brushed the chunks of meat with butter, then rubbed them in the spice mix.  After they were coated well, I plopped those suckers in a pan and grilled them on medium-high.  Every time I flipped them I basted with more butter.  





I grilled them til they were done!  Cut into them like you would chicken.  I'm not a chef so I don't do well with times and temps--I go by sight and how they taste.  Sorry.

For the remoulade, I used a recipe from foodnetwork.com.  It was OK--too mustardy.  I'm not including it on here, so you can find your own or buy some from the store.  If you make it I hope you like it!

Bonne chance mes amis!