Today's Recipe

April 27, 2021 - Location: Baja California Sur, Mexico

Huevos Divorciados (Divorced Eggs)



Two fried eggs, smothered in red and green salsas, with refried beans and guacamole and cilantro leaf.

It's what's for breakfast!

Ingredients for one serving:

One large tortilla (corn or flour)

Two eggs

Half cup Salsa Roja (tomato salsa)

Half cup Salsa Verde (tomatillo salsa)

Half a sliced avocado

Cilantro leaf (for garnish)

Refried beans to cover the tortilla, black or pinto - your choice

Quarter cup grated queso blanco (white cheese)

Instructions:

Place a freshly cooked warm tortilla on a plate. Cover thinly with hot refried beans, spreading all the way to the edge.

Fry two eggs sunnyside up until crispy on the edges and done. Place side by side on top of the beans.

Using warmed salsas, spread the red over one egg as shown in the picture above, green over the other egg.

Sprinkle with the grated white cheese, and place the avocado slices and cilantro leaf on the side.

Serve it up and enjoy it!

Buen Dia!

 

April 28, 2021

Today's recipe was put together rather swiftly, seeing as we had a pot of beans made, and some pico de gallo in a bowl in the frig.

So here it is! Nachos!



Preheat the oven to 400 F, and line a cookie sheet or baking pan with tin foil (for easy clean up).

Put a layer of tortilla chips on the foil, then coat thickly with grated cheeses of your choice!

Pre heat the beans, and put the chips in the oven.

After 5 to 8 minutes the cheese should be melted and bubbly, remove from the oven.

Place a layer of hot beans on the cheese, then a layer of pico de gallo.

The nachos shown above have no guacamole, but some yogurt. It is good either way and easy to make up if you've already got high.

 

A tortilla is a round flat bread, cooked on a skillet or flat pan. Tortilla Chips are cut up pieces of tortillas that are fried and usually salted.

And yes tortillas can be wrapped for a delicious sandwich roll!

 

Today is Thursday the 29th day of April, 2021

Here is the recipe for making tortillas!

Ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup water
• 3 tablespoons olive oil or vegetable oil

Directions

1. In a large bowl, combine flour and salt. Stir in water and oil. Turn onto a floured surface; knead 10-12 times, adding a little flour or water if needed to achieve a smooth dough. Let rest for 10 minutes.
2. Divide dough into 8 portions. On a lightly floured surface, roll each portion into a 7-in. circle.
3. In a greased cast-iron or other heavy skillet, cook tortillas over medium heat until lightly browned, 1 minute on each side. Serve warm.

You can wrap tortillas in wax paper or plastic and keep them in the frig for days until used.

 

I don't remember eating suet... how does it taste?

 

Got the idea now... here in America suet is something you leave for the birds outside to eat, some kind of fat mixed with seeds for the wildlife to consume.

I just looked it up, and it is fat from beef or mutton used in pastry making like lard.

You and my Mom would have had a grand time in the kitchen... she was from Scotland and loved her strange (to us) foods like eggs wrapped in sausage, and haggis. But nobody ever made strawberry shortcake as good as Mom.

 

Do you have a sword to properly slice the haggis? Dad would do that on Robbie Burns night... he always would host a big do for that. Kilts for all, and much whiskey drinking.

 

Ahhh, a good cognac warms the soul and I swear it will kill pneumonia.

We used to drink Remy Martin VSOP when younger. Where I grew up it was a duty free port (the US Virgin Islands) and booze and luxury goods from Europe were cheap... no tax. The joke back then was that a bottle of Coca Cola for your Cuba Libre would cost four times the price of an entire bottle of rum. Dad discovered a love for Single Malts at that time... I find them way too harsh for me.

Here in Mexico they make a decent brandy or two. And it's affordable compared to anything from the EU or Britain these days.

 

Today I cooked nothing. It was my birthday.

For breakfast I was served French Toast!


And not only that I was taken out to dinner at a fancy place

Appetizer was Fried Calamari!


Oops I started to eat before I snapped the picture...

The main for me was a portobello mushroom topped with lobster, and served with an amazing tomato cream sauce.


And dessert was beyond compare... a brownie topped with chocolate mousse!




The mousse was stuffed with molten caramel, and ice cream on the side. Better than cake I say!

 

Today we have salad

 

This pizza fell out of my oven last evening. Anyone want the recipe?

 

Thanks Fritz! I turned 68 years younger... it was fun.

Those are freshly sliced jalapenos. We get 'em by the bucket here. I've been making jars and jars of pickled peppers as it's the time of year when they are abundant. I also should dry some on a line... but I have not smoked them yet. Chipotles are wonderful, and easy to get here... but I have to learn everything about Mexican cuisine while I can.

Dutch ovens are fantastic tools. I make bread in mine sometimes...