May'lon Cuisine

12/03/2025

Recipe alert 📣
It has been nice weather for 2 days and I’m already trying to bring out the salads 😂. This orzo pasta salad with homemade lemon vinaigrette is a PERFECT addition to a grilled dinner or any spring/summer dish.

Bring water to a boil with 2 tsp chicken bouillon. Add in the orzo until it starts boiling again and reduce to medium and cover. When the water is boiled out of the pot it is done. (6ish minutes)

Cut the veggies and add the orzo!

Combine the dressing ingredients in a blender except the oil. slowly pour in the olive oil to combine (reel in previous post for reference).

Put in fridge too cool!
Add Parmesan or some feta. I added Parmesan! 🤪

Ingredients
*a cup of orzo
*2 1/4 cups of water
*chicken bouillon
*2 baby cukes
*cherry tomatoes
*parsley
*one red onion

Dressing
*2 garlic cloves
*1/4 cup of apple cider vinegar
*one lemon juiced
*1tbs Dijon mustard
*1tbs of honey
*1/4 cup of olive oil
*salt and pepper to taste

16/02/2025

Cacio e Pepe NEEDS and DESERVES shrimp! Very simple pasta dish with a lot of flavor and quick to prepare. I attempted to make a video but it just wasn’t in the cards yesterday 😅

-12 oz bucatini pasta. (Read your labels. There should not be 284738 ingredients in your pasta).
-a cup of pecorino Romano. I used parmigiano reggiano because I grabbed the wrong one from rushing 😅
-cup of reserved pasta water
-2 tbs of fresh cracked pepper. More if you’re like me and love the pepper taste. Trust me, you want to use fresh cracked.
-lemon
-shrimp if using

*Bring a pot of salted water to a boil and add the bucatini.
*when pasta is done cooking, take out a cup of the water and drain the rest of the pasta.
*add a tablespoon of olive oil to the pan and add pasta.
*if you’re using shrimp, add the shrimp that you cooked to the pasta. (Please don’t make me sad and use fully cooked shrimp from the frozen aisle of the grocery store. ☹️)
*add the pepper
*add the cheese and water little by little until it makes a creamy sauce.
*plate and add more pepper and cheese if you’re like me 😂
*squeeze a little bit lemon on top to make this dish POP!

14/02/2025

Happy Valentine’s Day! 🤗

15/01/2025

Craving this dirty rice from a few months ago 😩😩

08/01/2025

I tried a ton of sandwich bread recipes. Some with all purpose flour, some with wheat flour, others with bread flour. Recipes with milk instead of water. This recipe I found is by far the best recipe I have found for sandwich bread so far!

Recipe from

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBE4VGIOOee/?igsh=MWhjeWdiOXo0ZTEweA==

2 cups of warm water 110-115 Fahrenheit
1 tablespoon of yeast
1/4 cup of honey
2 tsp of salt
2 tablespoons of olive oil
4 1/2 cups of flour

Chef tips******
-I used King Arthur all purpose flour. I found that a good quality flour makes a better bread.
-Yeast dies at 120 degrees Fahrenheit so you want your water to be less than that. Mine was 113 degrees.
-You will see the yeast bubble and “bloom” if this does not happen then your yeast is dead and your bread will not rise. Start over with fresh yeast. Happens to the best of us 😔
-The honey feeds the yeast! I mixed the honey with the water before adding to the yeast.
-I used olive oil instead of avocado. I always buy the olive oil that has a light taste.
-used 4 1/2 cups of flour and an extra 1/4 when rolling into a log because it was a little sticky. *sprinkle a little flour at a time until it’s workable
-***** To have a professional looking loaf, pinch the seams of the bread after rolling it in a log. The seam of the bread should go on the bottom of the pan and the pretty side on the top.
-If your kitchen is very cold put the dough somewhere a little warmer to proof the dough. *warm not scalding hot since yeast dies in heat*
-When done baking slide a butter knife around the bread pan(should not have stuck) and turn the bread pan upside down to take the bread out and have it cool on a wire rack
-Wait until the bread is completely cool before you cut into it or you will end up with not a great texture from all of the steam.

23/10/2024

23/10/2024

Michael Myers but Chef version 🔪🍒🥧

02/09/2024

18/08/2024

Missing soup season 🥹

04/08/2024

CATCH OF THE DAY 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

Fresh caught fish in a lightly breaded Parmesan crust, green beans, creamy Parmesan polenta, AND a garlic lemon butter sauce with crawfish 🥰🥰🥰

10/07/2024

Stuffed shells with vodka sauce is as amazing as it sounds! The best part is that it is packed with protein. I am definitely not a cottage cheese person but blending cottage cheese to take away the weird texture and making a cottage cheese and ricotta mixture for more protein is SO GOOD! 🤤🤤🤤

24/06/2024

Hello 👋🏾

I am starting to upload some of my most popular recipes to my website for download. My first segment of recipes will be those that you can make for a date night in to impress a special someone! The very first recipe is my fork tender braised beef short rib recipe that is unique to any of short rib recipe out there!

My website link is in my bio and the recipes will be under the recipe tab.
It’s a one page recipe so no you don’t have to scroll all the way to the bottom to get to the good stuff 😂

Maylon-cuisine.com

27/05/2024

Where are my chimichurri lovers atttttt?

Bacon risotto, seared scallops, sautéed shrimp, and chimi!

01/04/2024

16/02/2024

Vodka rigatoni with a chicken cutlet 😮‍💨
“Tell me when to stop” on the aged Parmesan cheese 😂

29/01/2024

I had every intention on taking myself out to lunch today to get a steak but since I was very undecided where to go I made one myself and I am so happy I did even if I have to clean up the dishes I didn’t want to make 😂 but at least now I have the rest left over to eat for dinner 💁🏾‍♀️👩🏾‍🍳

-beef filet with a caramelized onion red wine Demi, asparagus, and mashed.

-crab cakes with a remoulade.

These micro greens are near and dear to my heart because I grew them in my greenhouse 🥹

-made with love🧡 while taking it back and listening to album 😂

25/01/2024

Currently basking in big bacon energy 🥹

Orzo with center cut bacon and sautéed garlic, peppers, and onions!

16/01/2024

Ramen has me in a chokehold right now 🥹 had some left over ramen dough and made some chicken Katsu ramen with sriracha and teriyaki glaze. Extra green onion to make up for me forgetting the other day 😂