Good afternoon all. I hope this blog meets you in great spirit. Today is a great day and I am so excited to post a new blog as always. This is about my sweet baby girl, Zozo. Zozo wanted cookies and we baked some together. Zoe surprises me everyday with her sass and communication ability. Watch the video and see what we did.
Don't let anyone steal your joy!
Maryam
Hello wonderful, amazing, sweet and lovely people. I hope this blog meets you well. Today is a beautiful day. Thank you for stopping by today. In today's blog, I want to share the easiest and best chicken recipe I ever tried. It so happens that I came up with it lol...
I used to make complcated chicken strips but never really got the texture or taste I really loved until now.
10 Boneless, skinless chicken strips
Progresso Bread crumbs
Zatarains Creole seaoning
Vegetable oil
Place 10 skineless, boneless chicken strips
into a mixing bowl
Add a teaspoon of Zatarains seasoning
Mix seasoning until chicken is covered
Add 1/3 cup Progresso bead crumbs and mix
Set chicken aside
Add 1 1/2 cups vegetable oil to a frying pan
Let heat for about 3 minutes at medium high heat
place chicken strips in oil and let side cook for 3 minutes
flip over and let other side cook for another 3 minutes
Lower heat to medium and let cook for another 2 minutes per side
Life chicken out of oil and place on a flat plate
Let cook for 3-5 minutes
Now you are readty to eat with any dipping sauce of your choice
My baby girl prefers ketchup
I hope this inpired your culinary curiosity.
Don't let anyone steal your joy!
Maryam
Good mornign wonderful, amazing, sweet and lovely people. Thank you for checking out my blog today. Here is a recipe for you. Enjoy!
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SIMPLE MAC AND CHEESE
Here’s what you will need:
A box of Barilla pasta or any kind you have
1 tbsp of olive oil
1 tsp of salt
3 ½ cups of mild cheddar cheese or American cheese
1 Quart heavy cream or 946ml
3 cups of water
A saucepan
½ tsp ground black pepper
DIRECTIONS:
Set stove at medium high heat
Place saucepan over stove with 3 cups of water
Let water boil
Add olive oil
Add pasta to boiling water
Let cook for 8 minutes
Drain water
Turn stove down to medium heat
Add milk
Add salt and black pepper
Stir until well combined
Add cheese
Stir content until well combined
Cover pot and let cook for 5 minutes or until cheese is melted
Turn off stove
Let cool for 5 minutes and serve!
Good morning, wonderful, amazing, sweet and lovely people. I am grateful for the grace to be alive today. I hope you are also. Today is a beautiful day. Welcome to Maryam's Joyful Life.
So, it is Labor Day in America and I am happy to make this post in honor of the amazing men and women in the workforce and business who keep the engine of society flowing. To teachers, nurses, doctors, first responders, military, builders, essential workers, business men and women, pastors, spiritual leaders, mothers and fathers, Thank you! Everyone who contributes to making the lives of others better, thank you! We are all in this together. May God bless and keep all of us In Jesus Name. Amen!
May the the Angels of peace, love, healing, joy, protection and abundance surround each and everyone of us now and forever, Amen!
Now let's make this day one of celebration for all.
Here's my favorite holiday pie recipe. Enjoy!
This recipe is from: https://celebratingsweets.com/maple-pecan-pie/
Ingredients
Pie crust (or use your favorite 9-inch deep dish unbaked pie crust):
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1 ¼ cups all purpose flour, plus more for rolling out the dough
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1 tablespoon granulated sugar
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½ teaspoon salt
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½ cup chilled unsalted butter, cut into small cubes
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¼ cup ice water, plus more, if needed
Filling:
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6 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into pieces
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1 cup packed light brown sugar
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⅔ cup pure maple syrup
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½ teaspoon salt
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3 large eggs
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¼ teaspoon maple extract OR 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
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2 cups chopped pecans, toasted, if desired*
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non-stick baking spray
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flaky finishing salt
Instructions
Pie crust:
In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, and salt. Add the cubed butter and use your fingers or a pastry blender to cut the butter into the flour, doing so until the butter is broken down into pea-sized pieces. Add ¼ cup ice water and stir with a wooden spoon or rubber spatula until the dough starts coming together. Then use your hands to bring the dough together. If necessary, add another tablespoon of cold water. The dough should just be sticking together. Try not to overwork it.
Transfer the dough onto a piece of plastic wrap. Flatten it into a disc and wrap it up. Roll the edges of the crust on the countertop (like a wheel) to smooth out the edges. Transfer to your refrigerator for 1 hour (or up to 2 days). Note: If you're planning on toasting your pecans, now would be the time to do it.
Let the pie crust sit at room temperature for several minutes until it is no longer rock-hard, but still cold (this will depend on how long it was the fridge). Roll out the dough on a floured surface until it is a 12-13 inch circle.
Lightly spritz a 9-inch deep dish pie plate with non-stick spray, then transfer the crust to the pie plate. Trim and fold/crimp the excess crust around the edges. Place the crust in the refrigerator for about 20 minutes while you prepare the filling.
Filling:
Preheat oven to 350°F. In a saucepan over medium heat, melt butter. Add brown sugar and maple syrup and whisk until smooth and combined. Bring the mixture to a low simmer (bubbles forming around the perimeter of the pan), then remove from the heat. Pour the mixture into a bowl to cool for 15 minutes.
Add eggs, salt and extract to the syrup mixture, whisking until combined.
Sprinkle the chopped pecans in the bottom of the uncooked pie crust. Pour the syrup mixture over the pecans, rearranging the pecans if necessary. Lightly spritz a piece of foil with non-stick spray. Cover the pie with foil and bake in the center to lower third of the oven for 30 minutes. Remove the foil, then continue baking for another 15-25 minutes (approximately), until the edges are set but the center of the pie is still a bit jiggly (like gelatin). Sprinkle the top of the pie with a few sprinkles of flaky finishing salt. Place the pan on a wire rack to cool completely, then transfer to the refrigerator. Serve at room temperature with Tillamook Old Fashioned Vanilla Ice Cream.
How To Make Maple Pecan Pie:
- Line a pie plate with a standard pie crust (use my homemade recipe or your favorite pie crust). Place the pie crust in the refrigerator while you assemble the filling.
- Heat butter, brown sugar and maple syrup in a small saucepan until smooth and combined.
- Whisk eggs, maple extract, and salt into the syrup mixture.
- Sprinkle pecans over the bottom of the unbaked pie crust, then pour over the liquid mixture.
- Cover with foil and bake for 30 minutes, then remove the foil and bake for an additional 20 minutes.
I hope this inspired you. I love eating pecan pie during the holidays with a scoop or two of vanilla ice cream and it always does the trick.
Thank you for checking out my blog today. Have a delightful Labor Day!
MARYAM
Don't let anybody steal your joy!
What's up wonderful, amazing, sweet and lovely people. I hope this blog meets you well. Today is a beautiful day. Thank you all for joining me. You guys are so amazing. Today we are sharing an amazing recipe from one of my friends and subscribers Lizzie. Check her out on Cooking with Liz . Please subscribe to her and let her know I sent you.
Here's what you will need in Lizzie's own words
How to easily prepare baked chicken and potatoes dinner dish. Here are the spices that I used to season my chicken. You can use your own spices. Paprika, All Seasoning, Lemon Pepper, Salt, Roasted Garlic Powder and ground ginger.
Here is the video please watch:
Don't let anyone steal your joy!
Maryam
EASY HOMEMADE GRAVY
What you will need:
2 packets of .87 oz brown gravy mix
¼ tsp salt
½ tsp crushed red peppers
½ tsp knorr beef bouillon powder
2 tbsp all purpose flour
¼ cup chopped onions
1 tbsp olive oil
DIRECTIONS:
Place a saucepan over medium high heat
Let heat for 2 minutes
Add oil to saucepan
Let heat for 2 minutes
Add onions
Cook until onion is translucent
Get a mixing bowl
Open gravy mix and pour into bowl
Add 2 cups of water
Add all spices
Mix until you get a loose batter
Empty bowl content into saucepan
Stir saucepan content until onion mixes well with gravy
Taste for salt taste
Add a sprinkle of salt as needed
Cover pan and let boil
Keep an eye on pot to handle overflow
Turn off stove and let pot sit on heat for 5 more mins
Let cool for 5 minutes
Serve over mashed potatoes and rice or even biscuits
Hello everyone, thank you for checking out my blog today. I am grateful for each and everyone of you. Today is Bank holiday and I was thinking about what I could share today that would help make your holiday sweet and I thought to share my favorite recipe with you.
I hope this puts a sweet spin in your dessert recipe today. I have many more recipes for you on my new book: 12 Easy Dinner Recipes : https://www.maryamsjoyfullifeapparel.com/listing/12-easy-dinner-recipes?product=1451
PEANUT BUTTERSCOTCH CHIP COOKIES
Here’s what you will need:
2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1 cup butterscotch chips
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 sticks of butter
½ cup peanut butter
1 large egg
A baking sheet
Two mixing bowls
1 wisk
1 wooden spoon
1 scoop to scoop cookie dough
¼ cup warm water
DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven 350 Fahrenheit
In one of your mixing bowls,
Mix flour, baking soda, salt and baking powder together
In the second mixing bowl,
Stir in butter
Sugar, egg, and vanilla extract
Stir until combination is pasty
Mix flour and wet ingredients together
Add water if flour mixtures is too thick
You want a smooth mixture
Add peanut butter to dough
Finally add butterscotch chip
When mixture come together in one pasty dough,
You are now ready to place in fridge
Cover dough with a plastic wrap and bowl lid
Place in fridge for 15- 20 minutes
Get your baking sheet and scoop dough out and make sure to
Leave the 1 ½ inches apart
Bake for 12 minutes
Enjoy!
I hope this recipe inspired you. I have more recipes for you in my simple book: https://www.maryamsjoyfullifeapparel.com/listing/12-easy-dinner-recipes?product=1451
What's up wonderful, amazing, sweet and lovely people. How are you all doing today? I hope you're all having a great day today and are not letting anyone steal your joy. Welcome to Maryam's Joyful Life. Today is a beautiful day. Thank you for checking out my blog today. I appreciate you with all of my heart.
So it's 3 days to Christmas and my birthday. I am so excited for this year. Life has been one colorful ride for me this year. I have had many downs and ups but the ups have far outweighed the downs that I am still in shock of the goodness of God in my life.
Had no idea that I was a popular blogger or that what I did really mattered until this year. My spiritual eyes opened this year and my intuition is at diamond peak. I am truly amazed at the changes.
This year, I celebrate my birthday and Christmas with Jamaican cuisine. I love Jamaican food. My sweet Zozo does too. So, it was a no brainer to prepare a Caribbean style menu for Christmas/My Birthday lol...
Here are the things on my menu this year:
Jamaican Oxtail
This delicious looking oxtail stew is from https://www.saveur.com/braised-oxtails-recipe/ my mouth is watering just looking at this picture.
Rice and peas
This delicious dish was made by https://www.grillingcompanion.com/recipe/jamaican-rice-peas-recipe/ I can't wait to cook mine.
Fried Plantain
I love fried plantains and can't wait to cook some for Christmas and my birthday. This eye-catching fried plantain is from https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020517-maduros-fried-sweet-plantains
Vita Malt Coconut and Hibiscus Flavor
Have you tried this drink? It is absolutely amazing! I just tried earlier today and am super excited to drink more of it at Christmas.
Steamed Cabbage
Steamed cabbage is delicious. I really like steamed cabbage. It will be a great feast for sure.
African Hen
I bought 10 lbs of African hen. This picture from https://cuisine228.com/african-fried-chicken/ really captures the spirit of my fried chicken plans. There's something about African free range chicken. You have to cook them for long time and fry them to a crisp.
Cake
You can't have a birthday without a cake to go with it. I am so looking forward to my chocolate cake. My kids lol... are already asking for a slice of the cake and it's not even my birthday yet. I keep explaining to them that it's not time yet.
Finally, I will add a whole lotta LOVE to the special day!
Thank you for reading to the end.
Have a very Merry Christmas!
Weight-loss doesn't have to be scary and boring. You don't have to eat tasteless and bland food in order to reach your goals. In fact, to lose weight, you can still eat what you like but in moderation and increase your physical activity .
The reason why most people never reach their goal is because they try too hard and apply hard-to-follow techniques that only work for a few people. Being a fitness and health enthusiast, I can tell you from experience that you can still eat what you love but in moderation and be able to reach your goal. I have to clear up some misconceptions though.
Dieting alone will not get you to your ideal weight. However, dieting in addition to increased physical activity to burn calories and fire up your metabolism will get you there anytime. By dieting, I don't mean eating tasteless and unappealing foods. I mean cutting down on the amount of food you eat and substituting non-nutritional foods for nutritional foods. It takes discipline and commitment to stick with your plan and ultimately reach your goals. I believe you can reach your goal. There are days when you're going to feel like quitting but don't quit. Keep the picture of the person you want to become at the end of the journey on the screen of your mind.
Here's a recipe I think you might want to add to your list. Vegetable noodle soup!
I decided to make this amazing pot of vegetable noodle soup. I am super excited to share the recipe with you.
What you will need:
1 pack egg noodle
1 teaspoon salt
a tablespoon of minced or chopped garlic
2 tablespoons of chopped onions
3 tablespoons of olive oil
a teaspoon of Weber's Kick'n Chicken Seasoning
A sprinkle of Ground black pepper
A teaspoon of Knorr Beef
2 cups of water
1 Green Bell Pepper
1 Red Bell Pepper
Slice Bell peppers into four parts each and blend until coarsely blended with little bits of pepper still showing.
Get a saucepan or soup pot. Place on the stove-top at medium high heat.
Pour your olive oil into the pan. Let heat for about 2-3 minutes.
Add your chopped onions and garlic and let cook until onions are translucent.
Then add your blended Bell pepper mix. Stir until content mixes completely.
Add your water and all spices. Cover your pot and let content boil. This should be between 8- 10 mins.
Add your pasta and let cook for about 10 minutes. Turn off the heat and let simmer for 10 minutes extra.
Get your favorite bowl out and serve yourself. This is delicious.
The great thing about this meal is that it's very light and it satisfies your taste buds too. It's a very low calorie meal.
I hope this inspired you.
Have an amazing day.
With gratitude,
Maryam
