DIY: Vegetarian Casserole

Hey guys! Today I figured that I would do a cooking post since 50% of the votes from last week's poll was for cooking/baking posts. What I am going to be making is a vegetarian casserole that I modified from this recipe. Lets get started!

Prep Time: 20 minutes Baking Time: 75-85 minutes Total Time: 95-105 minutes
(I know that's a lot of time but it's just soooo good!)

My casserole with cheese on part of it.
Did I mention it was delicious?!

Ingredients:

• 3 cups vegetable broth 
• 1 1/2 cups uncooked brown rice
• 1 1/2 cups onion diced
• 3 tablespoons soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1/2 teaspoon oregano 
• 4 cups cauliflower diced
• 4 cups broccoli diced
• 2 cups red pepper diced
• 1 1/2 tbsp garlic powder
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese (optional)

Step 1:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees celsius. Combine vegetable broth, rice, 1 cup of onion, soy sauce, butter, oregano and garlic powder in a 3 qt casserole dish. Put the dish in the oven and cover it; letting it bake for 65-70 minutes or until the rice is tender. 

Step 2:

While the rice base is cooking; cut the cauliflower, broccoli, red pepper and carrots. After the vegetables are cut put 3 tbsps of olive oil into a large frying pan and begin to saute the vegetables until they are tender.

Step 3:

Once the rice is tender spoon the vegetables on top of it. Cover the casserole dish and put it back in the oven to bake for 10 minutes. Now if you would like add cheese to your casserole. You can always just put cheese on some sports and leave some spots without cheese. Voila. You're done!!! Enjoy your casserole.

I hope you guys enjoyed the post and also the casserole! Don't forget to comment if you have any suggestions for future posts. If you like this blog please share it on any social media that you use as it helps me out a lot :-) 

Tie-Dye Cupcakes!!

My first real post is actually here?! I know, unbelievable right? Haha well this post is going to show you how to make tie-dye cupcakes!

 To start you need enough bowls for the amount of colours you want, any type of white cupcake batter, food colouring and a muffin tin along with cupcake liners.

The essentials!

 After your batter is all prepared pour it into separate bowls. I had four bowls for four colours. Once you have the batter put into your bowls, begin creating your colours. I made blue, green, purple and pink although the picture only includes the blue, red and the purple before it was mixed.

My coloured batter.

Once you have mixed your colours, it's time to get creative! Now you can choose your technique for 'tie-dying' your cupcakes. You can flick the batter with the spoon, swirl it or just create a pattern by layering the colours. Do whatever you think looks best. Get creative!

Cupcakes ready to be baked!

My approach to the tie-dye cupcakes was to begin by layering the colours so that when you bite into the cupcake there is a continuous change of colour throughout. Once it was close to being full I began to swirl and flick the batter to create very random designs. I had no plan for the design and just did what I thought looked good. 

Cupcakes fresh from the oven.

The creativity doesn't have to end here! You can dye your icing  to add more colour if you would like or just use plain icing. I used plain white icing so that when you bite into the cupcake you get a nice colourful surprise. 

The cupcakes with icing

Cupcake with a bite taken out of it. 

ps: sorry for the blurriness, that was the best picture that I got and I just couldn't leave it out!

Have fun making your cupcakes and don't be afraid to make a mess and get creative! Leave a comment if you tried this and tell me your opinion on this. Any suggestions for new posts are welcome! :-)