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I have never tried cooking and eating lobster ever. But whenever I went to costco, I cannot skip checking fresh fish/seafood corner because all seafood ingredients just look good. Hence, today, for the first time, I give it a shot! What we need: fresh lobster tails 3 cloves of garlic red pepper flakes 1/2 cup butter herbs - thyme and dill a little bit black pepper  a little bit salt lemon juice How to cook: * Preheat the oven over 450F. 1. Prepare garlic butter sauce. In the bowl, mix melted butter, minced garlic, red pepper flakes, black pepper, salt, and herbs. 2. Trim lobster tails. Wash them and cut the middle of upper part (I used a regular scissors). Pull out the inside and place it on the shell. See the photo below. 3. Brush garlic butter sauce on the lobster meat.  4. Cook lobsters for 20 minutes.  5. Enjoy well-cooked lobsters with biscuits.  Well-baked 😆                                                  You two, lobster and biscu

Perfect summer desserts can be any pastry with summer fruits. It is the season of peach. It is definitely good if you just eat after washing, but it is also good if you bake fruits and enjoy them as warm desserts. What we need: a half package of filo dough 3 peaches 1 cup of butter 2 Tsp of brown sugar cinnamon powder raisins How to make it: 1. Prepare fruit fillings. In the container, put peaches, raisins, brown sugar, and cinnamon powder and mix them well.  * Preheat the oven over 425F.                                        2. On the silicon mat, place two sheets of filo dough and brush melted butter. repeat three times until you stack six sheets of filo dough a total.   3. On the long-side edge, place fillings like the photo. And using the silicon mat, rolling filo dough to make a roll. before rolling   ⇩ after rolling 4. Repeat make a roll and bake them for 15 minutes.  If it looks golden brown, it is ready to be served.  5. Once all rol

When you have several uncooked leftovers or refrigerator resident veggies or meat, making homemade pizza will be a good option that you can make them go away - also, you can make a space in your refrigerator. Whatever you choose, home-made pizza always came out delicious & healthy.  Today, I found a half pound of stew beef, several sausages, and small chunks of cheese are still around my refrigerator. Let's make a nice homemade pizza! What you need: one of my favorites! Truffle sauce. Pizza sauce - any! I used truffle sauce.  Stew beef Sausage Parmigiano-Reggiano  cheese Pizza mix Some veggies - onions and zucchini How to cook: 1.Make a soy sauce-based beef stew. In the blender, add one onion, green pepper, half cup soy sauce, half cup water, some black pepper. Blend them well and make a stew sauce. Place a pot on the stove, put beef and sauce, and cook them for 30 mins until beef becomes tender. 2. While making a beef stew, prepare a doug

    One of my favorite summer events in Iowa City, Jazz Festival. This year, me and my buddy had a project, walking every night for an hour. During Jazz Festival, our destination was the Pentacrest where we can chill out with amazing live music and jazzy excitement.  And we got a bonus present, fireworks! The second day of Jazz Festival, we came to the Pentacrest again and had another amazing concert night. 

Summer is a good season to enjoy fresh veggies. This month, we got fresh bell peppers and zucchinis from Kalona and fresh sesame leaves from our garden. These are perfect ingredient for cooking healthy and hearty dishes, Salma & Dolma. Let's make them! What you need: Two bell peppers Two middle size zucchinis 15 sesame leaves (or collard greens, grape leaves, or cabbage) 1 cup of rice 1 tomato 1 onion 2 cloves of garlic 1 Tablespoon of thyme Black pepper Salt Red pepper flakes Paprika powder How to make: 1. Wash veggies. Cut zucchini into three equal parts and remove inside. But don't make a tunnel! It should look like zucchini cups. I used melon baller, and it worked very well! remove inside of bell peppers fresh sesame    Veggie cups are ready! 2. Minced onion and tomato. And mixed all other ingredients. You can adjust the amount of salt and black pepper based on your preference. rice stuffing is ready! 3. Stuff veggies us