Onigiri with Short Bread Cookies dipped in Green Tea with milk

The other day, I was short of money for groceries and raided the dusty cabinets. I found an old can of salmon and rice and went to work making rice ball. Here is a recipe for perfect sushi rice! With the salmon I made four different flavors: Eel sauce, Teriyaki, mayonnaise and soy sauce. The last two were my favorite. For Mayonnaise – just make it like your favorite tuna salad. I added capers and celery. The best was the soy sauce base. I added equal part soy sauce and rice vinegar. I used the seaweed to mark which rice balls were which and using saran wrap I spread a bed of rice down, put the salmon filling in the middle and closed it up into a ball! Easy and delicious.

For dessert/snack I totally recommend you take Girl scout short bread cookies and dip them in Green Tea with Milk. So make half a cup of green tea and fill the rest up with milk, add a little bit of sweetener and voila! Perfect. We have been using this liquid sweetener that’s geared for diabetics, really sweet and no calories!

Fruit Pizza

First of all, I must give credit to my co-worker Julia. This is her amazing recipe – not my own.

For the crust: Roll out sugar cookie dough into a “pizza” shape. I usually put it on a cookie sheet instead of a pizza pan so it gets a more long shape vrs circle, but make whatever shape you want! I also use box sugar cookie mix, but if you want to make your own recipe – it’ll work no mater what! Bake until the dough is brown on top – you don’t want if undercooked but at the same time I like my cookie soft, so its different for each person.

For the sauce: Take 8oz cream cheese and 1 cup sugar and whip together. Spread over the cooked cookie crust once it has cooled.

Decorate: Take your favorite fruits and top the “pizza”. My favorites are strawberries, Kiwi, and mandarin oranges. Now enjoy!