Sundays are most commonly known for relaxation and refueling to prepare for the hectic week to come. Most families come together, share stories, go to mass or share a meal together. This is where they reconnect to each others lives and mourn the week to come. Not in my family!
Recipes for the Soul
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Sunday Fun Day!
Sundays are most commonly known for relaxation and refueling to prepare for the hectic week to come. Most families come together, share stories, go to mass or share a meal together. This is where they reconnect to each others lives and mourn the week to come. Not in my family!
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
I love you, you're perfect... now EAT!
It is a common saying that the way to a mans heart is through his stomach. I've always been taught exactly that and have been raised around recipes that can turn a mans affection from like to love! Any dish made by my grandmother can turn any man but her famous Valentines Day chocolate cake dessert is one that will change your life!
5 tablespoons crème de menthe liqueur
1 16 ounce can chocolate syrup
1 8 ounce container cool whip, thawed
Exhausted? Wake Up!
1 1/2 lbs. ground beef
1 1/2 tsp. Adobo All-Purpose Seasoning
2 tbsp Olive Oil
1 cup finely chopped onion
1/2 cup finely diced green pepper
1 tsp. Minced Garlic or 2 cloves minced garlic
1/2 tsp. dried oregano
1 8 ounces can Tomato Sauce
1 tbsp Red Cooking Wine
1 tbsp Cider Vinegar
1/2 cup water
1/4 cup Pimientos, diced
1/4 cup Pitted Spanish Olives, sliced
Directions:
1. Season the meat with the adobo and set aside
2. In a skillet heat oil on medium. Stir in the chopped onions, diced green pepper and garlic and cook until the vegetables are tender and just slightly colored.
3. Stir in the meat, breaking it up as you brown it. When browned, pour off the excess fat.
4. Stir in the oregano and cook for 1 minute. Stir in the tomato sauce, wine, vinegar, water, pimientos and olives
5. Bring to a boil, lower heat, cover and simmer for 30 minutes. Stir occasionally.
Hot Temper!
I am the youngest of three girls. I remember sitting in a corner at the age of four and watching my middle sister go into a hysterical rage because she did not want to wear her hair in a ponytail. My grandmother and mother raised us and I always admired and observed their ability to stay cool, calm and collected during a moment of "crisis" such as this. My middle sister spent her life complaining, screaming and overall being obnoxious! Every time her fits would act up, I would see my grandmother walk over to the stove and begin bringing out ingredients.
Here is the cure to a hot temper!
Spanish Frisuelos : A Spanish dessert much like crepes
Ingredients:
- 1 - 3/4 cups of flour
- 4 eggs
- 2 cups plus 1 tbsp milk
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 1 tbsp lemon zest
- olive oil (a few drops for cooking)
- Dulce de leche nutella
Directions:
- Mix all ingredients together in a blender (minus the olive oil and dulce de leche)
- Heat up frying pan
- Put 2 drops of olive oil on pan
- put 2 tbsp of mixed ingredients in center of pan
- move pan seesaw motion until the frisuelo begins to peel off
- Flip frisuelo to cook other size.
- Put frisuelo on plate
- Put 3 tbsp of dulce de leche and roll frisuelo inward
- Refrigerate for about an hour if you would like to serve it cold, if not sit back and enjoy it warm right from the stove
In my opinion, this recipe is simple to follow and easy to swallow! It is absolutely delicious and easy to put together so there is no excuse to not try it out. Watching my grandmother put it together is one thing but once I did it on my own it came out exactly as I remembered it. Try it out, you have nothing to lose and plenty of soulful calories to gain!