Mini Meals #3 Tomato Soup and Grilled cheese!

 Welcome back!!! 

Today were making tomato soup!!! This recipe is adapted form our best bites!

The Ingrediants:

1/2 Tbsp of oil

1/2 cup of chopped onion

1/4 up + 2 Tbsp of chopped carrot

2 cloves of garlic

1 can of tomatos

1 cup of chicken broth

1/2 tsp sugar

1/2 tsp salt

1/4 tsp oregano

1 1/2 tsp dried basil

2 Tbsp cream cheese

1. Add the oil,  onions, carrot, and garlic to a pot and then cook for 3-4 minutes over medium high heat.

2. Add all the ingredieants into the pot up until the cream cheese.

3. Bring to a boil and then reduce the heat to low. Cover and simmer for 30 minutes.

4. Add the cream cheese to the pot and then blend the soup with an emersion blender until smooth. If you dont have one of those use a blnder.

5.add salt and pepper to taste!

THE GRILLED CHEESE!!! (dun dun dun daaa!!!!!)

The (best) ingredients:

1 Tbsp bacon bits ( if using vegetarian ones then skip step 1)

2 slices of bread
1 Tbsp butter.

1/4 cup shredded chedder Cheese 

2 Tbsp - 1/4 cup other cheese ( like parmesan ) :

1. Pour your bacon bits into a pan on high heat. cook them until there very crunchy. This both takes away the packaged flavor and makes your bacon bits tastier.
2. Butter one side of bothe peices of bread.
3. On the non buttered side pile up your cheese  and cooked bacon bits.
4. put the other slice of bread on and put the whole sandwich into the warm or hot pan. ( the one you cooked he bacon in).
5. Cook with a lid on over medium low heat until both sides are brown.
6. Cut in half and enjoy with your delishous bowl of soup!

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Mini Meals #2 Beef Strogonoff

So beef strogonoff is pretty much the best food ever. Like seriously. Amazing.

The Ingredients:

Butter

1/4 pound of ground beef (hamburger works)

Salt and Pepper

1/4 of a chopped onion

2 oz of mushrooms

1/4 cup beef broth

1/4 cup + 1 Tbsp of sour cream

Egg noodles

Melt some butter in a pan and fry the beef until browned.

Remove the cooked beef and add the chopped onion. Cook in the beef drippings until soft and browned.

Add the Mushrooms and cook until browned. Add the beef broth to deglaze the pan.

Add the sour cream, onions, and beef.

Pour over top of a plate of egg noodles and most important of all! Enjoy.

Mini meals #1 British Toad In A Hole!!!

These are basicly Duchies with a sausage in them! If you havent had Duchies before then you need too becuse they are SO GOOD!! !

The Ingrediants:

2 Eggs

1/2 cup flour

1/2 cup milk

vanilla

4 Sausages!

1/3 of a stick of butter.

4 mini loaf pans. Or 1 Pie plate.

1.  Preheat the oven to 450˚. Cut the butter into four peices and put one in each loaf or all four peices into a pie plate. Add the sausages into the pans with your butter.

2. Put your pan(s) into the oven to melt and brown while you mix the batter.

3. Put the milk, flour, eggs, and vanilla into a bowl and mix until all moistened. The batter will smooth out.

4. When all the butter is melted and browning take the pan(s) out of the oven and fill them about a 1/4 full.

5. Put them in the over for 12-15 minutes or until browned an puffy!

6. Remove from the oven, dust with powdered sugar, and enjoy!!!

Redo!

So new year was around a week ago and I want to cover some things:

Microwav monday:
I am no longer continuing microwave monday :(
But I am still posting microwave recipes!

Float Friday:
will continue in summer. I LOVED making floats but the season says other wise XD

Creepy Candy:
Is going to be continued on October of 2014

Sweet Sunday:
Will continue. The holidays were SO busy and I missed it :)
So it will be back soon!

Possible new things?

Budget bites! 1
Reptile review!
or meals for one ( or two!) 3 votes

Please Vote in the comments! budget bites? reptile review? or mini meals?

Roaches, Crickets, and lizards

Todays post is one of those creepy posts which include many gross, craeling, and weird photos... So as you read this remember: this is not for the faint of heart...

Roaches:

Dubia Roaches are a species of roaches form central and south america. They are around 2 inches in adult length. Dont be afraid. They are high in protine and have an amazing meat to shell ratio. That sounds nasty but it is still very important to know how much actual food your pet is getting. Another creepy plus is that Dubia roaches are soft shelled so impaction is less of a problem. Dubias do not climb smooth surfaces but they have been known to jump as high as 8" but this isn't common. Make sure you have a lid if your container is lower then about 10". All you need is fruit and egg cartons. Some use substrate which is nice for the roaches but hard when you are trying to fish them out of the dirt for feed its a bit anoying. They can either eat somekind of roach chow and water crystals or fruit and veggies.

Pros: one roach = 4-5 crickets, High protien, easy to breed, not smelly, easy to breed, they live for a long time, and have soft shells

Cons: They need heat, they need moisture, they die in the presence of mold, their ROACHES!

Crickets:

These little things are annoying! Crickets are the classic feeder insect but they are one of the most annoying. They are a good baseline amount of protien and fat and are easy to buy. But they do jump, smell like the dead, escape, and have a short lifespan. They will eat just about anything so as long as they have a sorce of water which isnt in a dish ( they'll drown). Crickets are good to start with but are NOT good for breeding. Breeding is easier to do then wax worms and super worms but the nymphs are a nightmare to keep contained. And the nymphs can climb smooth glass so no matter what people tell you they will climb the glass



Pros: Easy to buy, easy to find and modiratly easy to care for.
Cons:Extreamy Smelly!, climbers, jumpers, and they chirp... loudly...

Mealworms:

Meal Worms are the larve of the Darkling beetle. they are about an inch long and are very thin. First DO NOT go down the mealworm path. Meal worms have a lot of chitin in their shells. Chitin is a hard to digest and meal worms have a LOT of chitin. This can cause impation which is when food builds up in the digestive system until theres enough to block the system. Its nasty stuff so if you need to get meal worms only feed your lizard the freashly molted ones. You can tell this becuse they will be a waxy white color. You need to also take your mealies out of the fridge and into a special container which where the can fill with wheat bran and a slice of potato.

Pros: Extreamly easy to care for, simple to feed to your lizard, and are easy to breed.

Cons: They escape the feeding dish, Way too much chitin, And they have a slightly short life span.

Wax Woms:

Wax worms are catapillers of the wax moth. There abou 1/2-3/4 inches long and are waxy white. Be careful with these becuse they are very fatty. Also make sure to check the container that you get becuse there a bit expensive and somtimes the container is full of dead ones! O_O They are mostly fat and have little protine. These are good treats for little lizards but arew too fatty for adults.
Pros: fatty, delishous, and nourishing
 Cons: Too fatty, die easily, impossible to breed/

Pill Bugs/Sow Bugs:

These are... an odd choice of food. Ive used these a few times when Ive run out of food but don't use these. While they will work you need a very strong lizard to eat them. There shells are very hard and are filled with chitin so try and stay away from these.

Pros: none.

Cons: too much chitin, possible parasite risk, etc

Lizards:

Leopard Geckos:

Leopard geckos are SUPER easy to care for. There are five main things to take care of :

Heat, Food, Water, vitamins, and the tank.

Heat: You need two lights. a day and a night light. Depending on your climate and tank size you will need a diffrent wattage. The lights must not BE UV! These will KILL your lizard! A night light can be one of two things: A clay light or a red glass. 

Food: Read above for the correct food choices.

Water: So You need water conditioner. This basicly  takes out chemicals which can damage you lizard. 

Vitamins:  You need calcium dust  which you can either leave in a dish in there tank or dusted on crickets. You also need D3 vitamins used the same way as the calcium.

Tank: So the rule is  that you start with a 10 Gallon tank and add 2.5 gallons per lizard. 

3 lizards = 15 gallon. 1 lizard = 10 gallons

But you can keep two lizards in one 10 gallon tank. Another rule to keep track of is that you should never have more then one male while you can have as many females as you like.

Becuse of my limited knowlage of other species I am not writing more. I will update this.