Feta Cheese Crazy!

I have been very into feta cheese lately. I'd been wanting to do something with feta and pesto again, and when I went out to a restaurant on Sunday night, I got a feta/mozzarela/pesto calzone.

Quick interlude. I have no pictures of any of this because my frickin' camera will take $130 plus tax and shipping to fix. AKA I need to buy a new camera. This was taken a while ago, but I wanted to experiment with decorating with fondant, so I made a firefly cake in honor of the summer! Here it is!

So then on Tuesday, I made a really yummy pizza with a pesto sauce with mozzarella and feta cheese. Quite yummy!! It was a lighter dish, but we ended up eating the whole thing between two of us, which was probably unnecessary. I wish I'd had leftovers. All I did was just make a basic pesto (a cup of basil, 1/4 cup olive oil, small amount of walnuts, 3-4 cloves of garlic, half a cup of parmesean cheese) and blended it. I say blend, because I don't own a food processor, and that's what I'm supposed to do, food process. Then I just spread it over a pre-made pizza crust (no time to make that) and put a light layer of mozzerella, then a thick layer of feta. Put it in the oven at 450 for 10 min (ish).

On Wednesday, I just made chicken, boneless chicken breasts that I forgot to marinate in advance, no less, but it turned out really well. I marinated it in a mixture of olive oil and milk, with a little garlic, salt, pepper, basi, and a LOT of rosemary. I only marinated for about 20 min, then cooked the two chicken breasts at 350 for half an hour (I always forget how long... THAT'S how long.) They were on the pinker side, so longer than that if you worry, but I really hate overdone chicken so I err in the other direction. ANYWAY, when I took it out, I generously sprinkled feta cheese over it. My boyfriend's reaction to it was, "Damn it, you watch too many cooking shows. This is really good."

Last night I made a shrimp scampi. I wanted to put feta cheese on it (because I'm so into feta right now) but I was convinced into parmesean. It was still pretty good. I'm also still eating the homeade fudge I made last week.... which was really easy! I mean, it wasn't fun to clean out the sugar-evaporated milk mix, but the results are really amazing!

As far as cooking in the future goes, I'm not really sure what I'm going to be making next week and whatnot. Groceries are getting pretty expensive, and while I'm in a feta cheese mood, I'm not really too inspired right now. Plus, I'm getting more and more busy, since I'm starting classes in addition to working a research job and 30+ other hours a week. But in any case, I'll try to blog more. Hope you're eating yummy things!