My most favorite season of all is Fall. Sadly, here in Minnesota the fall lasts all of a couple weeks if I'm lucky. I love the crisp weather, and the leaves. I love apple cider and pumpkins, and more than anything I love Halloween. This year my life was sort of in transition. I've been moving, things have been changing, it's been painful and amazing at the same time. Painful in the sense that I lost a lot of what I thought made me, me. Amazing in the sense that I found out that there is a heck of a lot more to me than I thought. I'm still finding those things, and it's scary. It's sort of like working out, and the next day you hurt in places you didn't even know you had muscles. This year I am hurting in places in my soul that I didn't know existed, but that's good! It's making me grow in ways I never thought I would! One thing I am making sure to do is try new things, and while what I'm going to share below is not some super amazing thing like jumping out of a plane (like my super cool cousin Sarah), or traveling to cool new cities (like my sister
Megan), it's still pretty good! And don't think I won't be jumping out of planes soon, or traveling to cool cities, just starting small!
I watched Top Chef the other night and everyone was making Arancini. According to wikipedia "
Arancini or
arancine are fried rice balls coated with breadcrumbs." It smells amazing in my house right now, all thanks to this yummy recipe.
Arancini
Recipe from: Here!
I made rice earlier this week for a recipe, so it was perfect! Here are the ingredients:
2 cups cooked rice
1/2 cup mozzarella
1/2 cup Parmesan
3 eggs
1 cup Italian bread crumbs
Vegetable Oil- enough to fry these goodies!
In a bowl mix the rice with both cheeses and one egg. When fully mixed, make small balls and set them aside on wax paper.
In a separate bowl whisk the 2 remaining eggs, and in another put the bread crumbs. In a deep frying pan pour about 3 inches of vegetable oil- enough for frying the arancini. Take the arancini and dip them first in the eggs, then coat them in the bread crumbs. Heat the oil to 375 degrees, and place the rice balls in the oil.
Fry them until they are heated through, and golden brown.
Serve while hot with marinara sauce.
These little things were good, but next time I think I will add some herbs like fresh basil or maybe some garlic and red pepper flakes to add a kick.
For dessert, what better than chocolate chip cookies? These are a staple in my family. The recipe is
here!
See that little lady down below? That's Abbey, one of my pretty babies. She's trying to say- please can I have some of your supper? Tell me how anyone can say no to that face?
And now, a little reading. I am SO excited for this cookbook!!!
Happy fall y'all, and in this month of Thanksgiving, let me be the first to say, I am thankful for YOU!
