Ingredients:
Whole pitas (wheat or white will be fine, though I think the white tastes better for this)
Cooking spray (plain, garlic, or olive oil flavour)
Salt
Garlic Powder
Set your oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit to preheat. Line a baking sheet with foil. Yes, you really do have to line it.
Separate the layers of the pita, so that you have 2 thin pita halves. You don't need to be perfect here, just do your best. Pile the pita halves on top of each other and then cut into wedges, getting at least 8 wedges per pita (more if large pitas). Unless you like really big chips and then feel free to do larger cuts, but I've found that 8ths work perfectly for crispiness. Line the pita wedges on the baking sheet. You will probably have to do this in batches, as there's only so much you can fit on one sheet. We tend to make tons of chips when we do, so we use 2 pans and do maybe 3 batches (6 pans total). Once the wedges are pined up, spray with cooking spray evenly. Don't go too heavy on that, but enough for spices to stick to the pitas. Sprinkle with salt and garlic powder, depending on your personal tastes. I don't recommend using garlic salt as a combination, because it usually ends up far too salty that way. The sheet goes into the oven until they are lightly browned. I don't have an exact time for you, because it depends on how dark you like them. Either way, leave them in long enough to brown and crisp. Transfer to a bowl and let cool while another set sits in the oven.
Variations:
Try different spices, like cumin (nice and smoky), paprika, chili powder, etc.
Try squeezing a bit of lemon or lime on them to make them a bit tangy
Try doing a sprinkle of cinnamon and sugar for sweet chips
I hope you all try these and enjoy them! ~Risie :o)
- Location:at my office
- Mood:
accomplished - Music:chasing cars, snow patrol
Ingredients:
Cucumbers, peeled then chopped into bite-sized cubes
Tomatoes, chopped into bite-sized cubes
Onions (I prefer white), diced
Garlic, finely minced
Salt & Pepper
Olive oil (or grapeseed oil)
Lemon juice, fresh squeezed
Parsley and dill, finely chopped
In a bowl, mix the cucumbers, tomatoes, and onions. In a small separate bowl, mix equal parts lemon juice and olive oil (or grapeseed). Add garlic and a couple pinches of salt and pepper and mix with a fork or whisk. Pour the dressing over the salad, but don't drench it. Add a little parsley and dill, mix thoroughly. Taste and adjust level of salt/pepper/herbs accordingly. Serve with homemade baked pita chips (that will be the next recipe I upload) and enjoy!
**I realize there are no amounts up there, but that's because it needs to be in the proportions you like it. In my family, it's always been really heavy on the tomatoes, because my younger sister would pick them all out and eat them, so we needed more tomatoes to counter-balance her
To make it lighter? Don't do equal parts of the lemon juice and oil, but instead do about 2:1 or 3:1 (acid:oil).
The reason I listed grapeseed or olive oil is that we have a family friend who hates olive oil, so we use grapeseed when he's coming over. It's almost tasteless and certainly more mild than olive, so give it a try if you're curious or if you don't care for olive oil.
I've listed some variations below. I suggest making the salad traditionally first, so that way you have some idea what it's supposed to taste like before you make any changes. I've made this salad so many different ways and any of the below (or a combination of the below) can make it equally delicious.
Variations:
Use cherry or grape tomatoes instead of larger tomatoes to make the salad have a summery sweet taste
Use purple onions instead of white
Use shallots instead of garlic
Throw in a bit of chopped mint
Omit the dill (only use parsley) for a more mild taste
Use half lemon juice and half balsamic vinegar for the acid component of the dressing
Add some crumbled feta (or other goat's milk cheese)
Add some chopped meditteranean olives
I hope you all will try it! I think you'll really like it. It's fresh, fast, easy, and healthy- what more could you ask for?
~Risie :o)
ETA: I've posted the pita chip recipe.
One of my favs breakfast or snakes includes this simple recipe. And because I'm crazy for pina colada! ;)
Tropical Fruit Shake
1/2 mango
2 tbsp. frozen pina coloda mix (or 1/8 tsp. natural coconut extract)
1/2 banana, frozen
4 strawberries, frozen
6 ice cubes
1 1/4 cup milk
1 heaping tbsp. high- quality protein powder (optional)
1 tsp. flax oil (optional)
How to prepare:
In a blender, process all the ingredients until thoroughly mixed and serve.
Enjoy!
:)
Edited because I wrote water instead milk, Sorry for that...*blushes*
- Mood: accomplished
Ingredients:
- Romaine lettuce (chopped)
- Arabic pita bread (toasted and broken into bits)
- Parslane leaves
- tomatoes (chopped)
- cucumbers (chopped)
- onions (chopped)
- sumac (spice that can be found at Middle Eastern stores)
- lemon juice
- olive oil
- white vinegar
- salt
- crushed garlic (must crush with a bit of salt)
How to prepare:
In my opinion if done in this order, it will make the salad even more delicious. Have all the chopped vegatable in a bowl. Add the crushed garlic, salt and sumac. On top of that add the lemon juice, white vinegar, and then olive oil. It's important to add the toasted pita bread bits last, that way it won't get soggy but crunchy. Mix well and voila! Great to have with a side of hummous.
That will be my next recipe :)
It can be anything from breakfast to dinner, from snacks to drinks, from appetizers to lunch. Anything. The only requirement is that it's fresh and healthy. If you don't have a recipe, but you can share a tip to make any meal healthier, we welcome those tips as well.
So I'll start by sharing something that we like to have for breakfast.
Cottage Cheese & Fruit
For each person, serve an ice-cream scoop of low-fat (or non-fat) cottage cheese in the middle of a dinner plate. Surround the cheese with easy to eat chunks of your favorite fresh fruit. My favorite combination is strawberries, cantaloupe, and peaches. But you can put as many different kids of fruits as you like. Then drizzle some honey and add sliced almonds on top.
It's yummy, fresh & healthy.
Ingredients:
- 4-5 red potatoes (peeled and sliced as if you were making french fries)
- 1 leek (thinly sliced, as much of it as you can slice)
- 2 bacon slices, diced (this is optional, but it really gives the soup a great flavor)
- 2 quarts of chicken broth
- 1 8oz can of tomato sauce (or you can make your own tomato sauce by pureeing in a blender 3 ripe tomatoes, a clove of garlic, and a small chunk of onion)
- salt to taste
How to prepare:
In a soup pot, heat a bit of olive oil and sautee the diced bacon and sliced leek for about 5 minutes. Then add your tomato sauce and a pinch of salt, and let it cook at low heat for about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the broth and bring to boil. Then, add the sliced potatoes and let them cook, covered, in medium heat until tender. Taste and add salt if needed. You can serve with grated cheese if you wish.
Pretty easy, don't you think? And it really is delicious.
Ingredients - Ingredientes:
Chopped Onions - Cebolla rebanada fina = 1 1/2 of a cup / taza. (I usually use an onion and a half more or less because I like it.)
Butter - Manteca = 3 tablespoons / cucharadas.
Flour - Harina = 1 tablespoon
Salt - Sal = 1/2 teaspoon / cucharadita.
Milk - Leche or Broth - Caldo = 1/2 liter (which according to my converter means 16.90 Ounces or 2.11 cups) / 1/2 litro.
Pimentón = to your liking - A gusto.
Nutmeg - Nuez Moscada = to your liking - A gusto.
Worcestershire Sause - Salsa Inglesa = to your liking - A gusto.
Grated Cheese - Queso rallado = to your liking - A gusto. - This one is a good choice.
Parsley - Perejil = 1 tablespoon / 1 cucharada
Spanish Version:
1. Dorar la cebolla rebanada fina en la manteca.
2. Agregar y mezclar revolviendo la harina y luego agregar la cucharadita de sal.
3. Después ir agregando gradualmente el medio litro de leche o caldo. (Yo uso leche, nunca lo probé con caldo).
4. Hervir lentamente hasta que las cebollas estén tiernas.
5. Condimentar con sal, pimentón (yo uso el dulce), nuez moscada y salsa inglesa.
6. Espolvorear cada porción con queso rallado (yo salteo esto) y perejil.
English Version:
1. Sear the onions with the butter.
2. Add while stirring the flour and then the salt.
3. After this start adding the milk or broth slowly. (I use milk, haven't tried it with broth).
4. Boil the preparation slowly till the onions are tender.
5. Condiment with salt, Pimentón (Paprika), nutmeg and Worcestershire sause.
6. Sprinkle the grated cheese and the parsley on top of each plate.
Voilá!! Now enjoy! Let me know if you made it and how it came out. ;)
- Location:Home Sweet Home
- Mood:
hungry - Music:Regina Spektor - Better
I thought I'd start you off with my famous Chicken Soup. My nana taught me a little trick and it works so well that Steve's grandma (who was an excellent cook) proclaimed my soup better than hers.
Nana Roz's Chicken Soup
Ingredients
1 whole chicken. I use a kosher pullet but you can use what you like. Pullets and Yearlings work the best as they are fattier and give a better taste to the soup.
1 bag of soup greens- onions, celery, carrots, turnip, parsnip (white carrot)leeks, dill, parsley
Chicken Bullion cubes.
Salt
Directions
1. Rinse chicken thoroughly and discard giblets. (You can put them into the soup if you want to)
2. Put chicken into a large pot (dutch oven or soup pot) and cover with cold water.
3. Put on stove and turn to high.
4. Chop the celery, parsnip and carrots.
5. half the onions and turnip
6. Rinse the dill and parsley
7. Let the water boil and watch when the scummy stuff from the chicken starts to float to the top. After about five minutes, remove from the heat.
8. THIS IS THE TRICK FOR PERFECT SOUP- Dump the water out of the pot, rinse the chicken in cold water and rinse out the pot.
9. Put the chicken back in pot and cover it with fresh cold water. Add all the vegetables and 2-3 bullion cubes.
10. Cook on high until it boils- cover and simmer until the chicken starts to fall off the frame. (about 45 minutes or so)
11. Serve with Matzoh balls or boiled egg noodles. Or you can just serve it as is.
As with most jewish type recipes, it's better on the second or third day so make ahead and put it in the refrigerator and reheat it the next day.
Enjoy, :)
- Location:the kitchen
This is my most favorite way to eat tuna...
Tuna (ceviche style)
INGREDIENTS
2 cans of Tuna
1 large tomato (chopped)
1 or 2 fresh jalapeño or serrano peppers (chopped or sliced)
Chopped onion
2 Green Lemons
Plain tostadas
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Mustard
Mayonnaise
Avocado slices
Valentina hot sauce (or whichever you prefer)
On a bowl mix the tuna, tomato, onion and peppers... add the lemon juice to taste.
You could also add salt, black ground pepper and some mayo...
If you didn't add mayonnaise to the tuna salad, then you can mix one tablespoon of mayo with 1/3 teaspoon of mustard and spread some over the plain tostada.
If you can't get tostadas, just grab some corn tortillas and bake or fry them until they're hard (like tortilla chips)
Add a layer of the tuna salad and one of the avocado slices.
Sprinkle some hot sauce on top
- Mood: hungry
OK enough of that, here's the recipe
Huevo en hoyo (Egg in a hole)
INGREDIENTS:
1 slice of bread
1 Egg
1 slice of ham
Butter / cooking oil
Maple syrup
First you need to make a hole in your bread with the rim of a glass, just put it on the center of the slice, push down and take that piece out.
On a non-stick frying pan melt some butter and put the slice with the hole in it.
Break an egg and pour it on the center of the bread. Let it cook a little and then flip it over.
On a separate pan heat your slice of ham and just put it over the 'egg in a hole' when it's done.
Pour some maple syrup over it.
Eat away!! =)
- Mood:
amused
I can't remember where I got this recipe, but I've made it several times and it's super good
Ingredients:
6 slices of day old bread (you can used regular sliced bread, I've also used day old french bread)
2 Tbs melted butter or margarine
4 eggs, beaten
2 cups milk
3/4 cup white sugar
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp vanilla extract
Optional: raisins
Instructions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. Break bread into small pieces and place into an 8 in. square baking pan.
3. Drizzle butter over bread
4. In a medium mixing bowl, combine eggs, milk, sugar, cinnamon and vanilla. Beat until well mixed.
5. Pour mixture over bread, then lightly push down with a fork until the bread is covered and soaking up the mixture.
6. Bake in the oven for 45 minutes or until the top springs back when lightly tapped.
Cheesecake
WE'LL NEED:
1 6in. Cookie pie crust
FILLING:
8 oz. Cream Cheese
1/2 Cup granulated Sugar
1 teaspoon Lemon juice
1 Egg
TOPPING:
8 oz. Sour cream
2 teaspoons granulated Sugar
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
Preheat oven at 300ºF
Mix all the filling ingredients until smooth
You could add some kind of fruit to the filling, but it has to be in small quantities or else it won't hold, unless you add an extra egg or a ts. of flour, or maybe even corn starch. I've experimented with it and always forget to add a little extra something to hold it in place and it's a disaster waiting to happen *lol*
Spread it over the crust and bake for 30 minutes at 300ºF
Prepare the topping (sour cream, sugar, vanilla) and spread it evenly over the rest.
Bake for an additional 10 minutes.
Let it cool and refrigerate.
You can add fruit to top it off, I've used plain strawberries, strawberry/kiwi, peach, mango, cherries and pineapple and it's wonderful =)
NOTE: For a 9 in. plate of cookie crust you'll need: 12 oz. of cream cheese and 2 eggs for the filling and 16 oz. sour cream and 4 ts. sugar for the topping, everything else can remain in the same quantities ;)
ADDITIONAL NOTE: I've also used regular dough pie crust instead of the cookie and it's really good, but you'd have to bake the crust for about 10-15 minutes prior you add the filling, otherwise it can be raw or the filling overdone if you wait for the dough to cook properly =)
- Mood: happy
Mmmmmm yummy!! This is one of my favorite desserts, it always makes me happy when I eat it and it's extremely easy to make. I just love the strawberry one, so here goes:
Strawberry & Cream Cheese Gelatin
INGREDIENTS
6 oz. Strawberry flavored gelatin (the one that uses 4 cups of water to make)
8 oz Cream Cheese
8 oz Strawberries (fresh or frozen)
2 Cups hot water
Dissolve the gelatin in 2 cups of hot water.
On a blender, put the cream cheese, strawberries and HALF of the contents of the gelatin.
Blend it thoroughly until it's all liquid, it will turn a nice shade of pink
Pour HALF of the contents on the blender on a container.
Pour the remainder half of the plain gelatin and blend with the rest of the liquid.
Now you can pour all of the liquid on the same container.
Separating the liquid like this will make the gelatin appear with two layers, the top one will turn out soft and bubbly... it's yummylicious!! ;)
Let it cool and refrigerate for a few hours or overnight.
You can do it with any fruit you like, if you can't find the gelatin on a specific flavor, you can always use the natural flavorless one.
- Mood: cheerful
This is a really hearty dish and can be made with leftovers!
Ingredients:
1.5 lbs of meat (either ground beef or shredded pot roast if you have it)
8-10 large button mushrooms, sliced
1/2 bag of frozen mixed vegetables
1/2 onion, chopped
4 or 5 large red potatoes
1 cup shredded cheese (I use mild cheddar)
1/2 cup of milk (warmed in microwave)
1 tbs of margarine
salt
pepper
Instructions:
Start by cutting up and boiling the potatoes. Once they are soft, drain the water and tip the potatoes back into the pot. Add margarine, milk and cheese and mash them with a potato masher. Season to taste and set aside.
Then prepare the meat. Sometimes I use leftover shredded roast, but if I don't have that then I brown ground beef. Add the onion, mushrooms and whatever seasonings you enjoy and let them cook a bit.
Once the meat is fully cooked (or in the case of the shredded roast, heated in the microwave) put it into a casserole dish or bowl. At this point mix in the frozen mixed vegetables.
Next spread a layer of mashed potatoes on the top of the meat mixture.
Put uncovered into the oven at 350 until the top begins to brown (about half an hour or so).
This is I think the most traditional, or well known, mexican drink ever!!... so I had to put it in here ;)
INGREDIENTS:
1 size Tequila
1 size Lemon juice
Ice
Salt
When I say size I'm referring to the glass for tequila shots, it's called 'tequilero' or 'caballito' (horsey) and that's the measurement used for this kind of drink.
On a blender put some ice, the tequila and lemon juice (nowadays it's popular to use other flavors as well) and grind it well.
Put some lemon all around the rim of a glass and pass it over salt (excuse my translation but I kinda got stuck here *lol* ... I guess you get the point).
Pour your margarita and Drink away!!
- Mood: amused
INGREDIENTS:
Flour tortillas (they have to be flour NOT corn)
Cheese
Fresh salsa or chopped tomato/onion
Avocado
Oil
First heat your tortilla a little so it doesn't break, then add some cheese (you could add some kind of meat if you like) and bend it in half as a taco.
Heat enough oil on a frying pan and deep fry it until it gets a nice shade of brown... flour tortillas tend to rise so it will be soft and flaky.
Wipe the excess oil with a paper towel.
Open it and put some avocado slices and the salsa or tomato and onion.
Mmmmm yummylicious!! =)
INGREDIENTS:
4 Large zucchinis
1/4 Small onion
1 Cup cheese (monterrey, mozarella, oaxaca, manchego)
Tomato sauce
Butter / Margarine / Oil
Wash and slice the zucchinis.
Cut the onion in long thin slices.
Put the butter to melt on a skillet, add the zucchinis and onion.
Add as much as you like of the tomato sauce.
Put the lid on and let it cook slowly until the zucchinis are getting soft.
Add the cheese and let it melt on the top.
Serve with white rice.
3 Large potatoes
1/2 Large mild green pepper
1/4 Small onion
1 garlic clove
1 1/2 Cup cheese (monterrey, mozarella, oaxaca, manchego)
Salt to taste
Wash and peel your potatoes and cut them in squares.
Slice your pepper (this is only for flavoring but you can skip this if you don't like it).
Put them on your pot with enough water and add the onion and garlic clove. Cook slowly.
(You can saute them in butter before you add the water).
When the potatoes are getting soft (we don't want to overcook them), you can extract the onion and garlic.
Add the cheese until it melts.
We'll need a charcoal grill for this one ;)
Mulitas (little mules)
INGREDIENTS:
2 Corn tortillas
Grilled steak
Cheese (Monterrey, Mozarella, Oaxaca, Manchego)
Guacamole
Salsa
Grilled Steak:
Get some lean cut steaks and season them with garlic salt and black ground pepper on both sides, put them on a deep dish. Cut some oranges in half and squirt the juice over the steaks, add some slices of onion and cover with some aluminum paper. Let it rest for 2 hours or more.
Cook your steaks on the charcoal grill. You can add a squirt of beer over your steaks while cooking them.
Grill some green onions and jalapeño peppers on the side.
Chop the steaks when they're done.
Over one tortilla put some meat and cheese and the other tortilla on top.
Heat until the cheese is melted.
Open it and add guacamole and salsa.
Serve it with some of the grilled onions, peppers, and fresh radishes on the side.
ooo
P.S. If somebody doesn't stop me soon, I'll keep posting recipes like crazy *lol*
Menudo Blanco (White Menudo)
INGREDIENTS:
Panza (stomach meat)
White Hominy
Onion
Garlic
Clove
Laurel
Oregano
Clean the stomach as much as you can. Cut it to 2 in. squares.
Put it on a large pot, fill it with water and add a quartered onion and 2 garlic cloves. Cook it slowly.
When the meat is soft, you can extract the onion and garlic, add the hominy, oregano, a pinch of clove and the laurel leaves. Salt to taste.
Serve it on a bowl, add some chopped onion, lemon juice and chile de árbol or some kind of hot sauce if you like.
Menudo Rojo (Red Menudo) ... Same as white just add some red chile based sauce with the hominy and the rest of the ingredients.
Some people don't use hominy in this.
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