Popeyes Three Tenders Meal

I love these tenders but sometimes they are dry and require a beverage.

Nathan's Honey BBQ Wings

So far these BBQ wings are my favorite ones at Nathan's. They are tangy-sweet, and the kinda crunchy: similar to that of some Chinese places make their General Tso's chicken. I had a coupon for these, but they are so good that I don't mind paying the regular/full price for.

Cheese Pizza

Made this pizza couple of hours ago using an 18oz ball of dough that I got at the nearby Italian bakery for $2, about 9.5oz of Rinaldi's pasta sauce [got the jar on sale for $1.00] and cheap store brand of mozzarella cheese. The pizza turned out really good, after 11-13 minutes in the preheated 500-degree oven: sauce and cheese really stood out, but the pizzad dough was a bit burned underneath and could really be better, with more flavor to it. 

Olive Garden's Spicy Calabrian Wings

Got these wings couple of weeks ago at the Flatiron Olive Garden [near the  23rd Street] location and the concept of these wings is pretty good, but what I got was overcooked [dry] and unplucked [couple of] wings. I ate them all and wished that the cooks would pay better attention to the food that they cook. Cheesy white dip/sauce was kind of average and the portion of spicy red sauce was measly [not that I used it, but there was too little of it].

Aussie Dog with Cheesy Roadside Sauce and Banana Peppers

I was checking out what food I had in the fridge, when my eyes caught a pack of smokies that I bought a while ago on clearance for $0.99 at the Riteway store. I took the pack out and checked the date, only to find that according to the package, it expired 9 days ago, and there was some liquid build-up on the back of the package. I knew that I had to use these ASAP before they got any worse, so a sandwich for a good plan for them. I rinse these wienies, cut them in halves, fried them in oiled pan, then added some BBQ sauce and let it fry some more, then added some mustard and let it heat as well. Next came the mozzarella cheese, than followed 3-4 minutes later by provolone slices. I toasted the bread in the oven, and stuck a small metal tong in the slit so the it would be easy to stuff it with the wienies. Once everything was done, I filled the bread with wienies and topped them off with some banana pepper rings. I call it Aussie Dog because that was the best name from the other 4 names that I written for it, and it kinda fits and sounds good. And Roadside Sauce is because BBQ and mustard kinda what I would expect someone to cook with on the side of the road.

Sweet and Sour Pork Fried Risotto

I was curious about a risotto dish for some time now since I heard about it on TV bunch of times [especially on that Gordon Ramsey's Hell Kitchen show], heard people talk about it but I never seen it or tried it. I googled for it and pretty much got that its a creamy rice. I figured that I can make my own risotto, and to make it simpler, I could just get the prepared ingredients in the local Chinese and mix them together on the wok. For $5.95 I got the Lunch Special Sweet and Sour Pork, with Pork Fried Rice and Small Chicken Noodle Soup. The local Chinese place makes the best fried rices compared to other Chinese places that I visited, and I mean it. I tried making my own fried rice but I never got nowhere near close as any Chinese place makes it, and ended throwing out my own home-made fried rice. So I figured that I can combine the Pork Fried Rice with Chicken Noodle Soup, and let the water air-out, then add some Sweet and Sour [red] sauce and let it thicken up with the rice, and there I would have my own risotto. And so I made it like that and it turned out pretty good; I hate plain white rice and pretty much any other kind of rice that is wet and/or sticky, but this "risotto" turned out to be very edible and to my taste. I knew that it would turn out well because many times before, I ate pork fried rice and kinda mixed-in the red sauce into it. So there you go! I also added some corn oil to the wok before I threw in the pork fried rice into it.

Mixed Sauce Roasted Chicken Wings

I marinated these raw chicken wings in a "mixed sauce" that consisted of mayo, cheap BBQ sauce, mustard Taco Bell's mild sauce and a teaspoon of McCormick Grill Mates Montreal Chicken Seasoning. They turned out to be very tasty and I will make some more of these in the near future.

Velveeta Original Shells and Cheese Cup

7-Eleven Chicken Dippers

Got these at 7-Eleven a while ago for $2.17. There are 6 chicken dippers plus they let you take 1 of 3 Heinz 2oz sauce cups that they have available [regular price for the sauce cup is $0.39 plus tax]. These are kinda like more rounded nuggets, and I think that they would taste much better fresh, rather than reheated under a warmer, but dipping them in the sauce makes all the difference.

Leftover Chicken Sandwich

The chicken breast meat in stuffed roasted chicken from Mama Liza's store was too dry, so I cut it out from the breast bone and decided to make a sandwich out of it. I fried it with some island mango sauce, got it on top of the 4-day-old bread [that I made into a toast in my gas oven] and finished it with some Creamy Italian dressing. It tasted well and I liked it.