Pumpkin and Ginger Soup

A great soup from Jamie Oliver.
See you think you have seen it all in terms of flavours and recipes, and then someone else comes along and blows your mind one more time, that has been the case of this recipe, credit also to my husband who showed it to me.

INGREDIENTS:

• 1 kg pumpkin.
• green onions.
• 75 grams of ginger 
• some basil.
• olive oil
• 1 litre of vegetable stock 
• 125 ml of coconut milk
• 1/2 of chili powder.
• 1 lime. 

STEPS:

1. Dice up the pumpkin in cubes  and then put in pot with grated ginger, green onions, and saute slowly with some oil. 

2. Add the vegetable stock, coconut milk and chili powder, bring to the boil and then simmer for 30 minutes. 

3. Puree with food processor or mixer and theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen do NOT forget to add the touch of touches: the lime!  Yum, it will blow your mind the combination of the sourness of lime with this soup.

JUST BEAUTIFUL. 

Berries and vanilla ice-cream

A very simple recipe that only requires these ingredients:

INGREDIENTS

1. -2 cups of frozen berries.
2. - 2 spoonfuls of butter.
3. -Vanilla ice-cream

Very simple recipe. Just melt the butter in a saucepan and then add the frozen berries at low heat. Let it simmer at low heat for 5 minutes and then you will have this wonderful acid and creamy sauce that becomes a wonderful sauce.

That's it! Add some ice-cream and you have a tasty easy dessert. 
Say I do! 

Lazy Marinera Pasta

Back to cooking! 
Lost count of the last time I wrote here.  But much has happened:

1. I got married!!!
2. I planned a wedding!!!
3. I made it happen!!!

Boy that was SO much work. Anyone that has planned a wedding knows that what I am saying is true. A wedding is crazy work but worth it cause it's once in your life and then you have memories forever.

To my point, I realized that I have abandoned cooking, one of my joys in life. So I have been looking at new recipes to spice up my life, I should say here, our lives.  So I am back readers to keep discovering new flavours and make life more fun since we have to eat everyday.

So here is a lazy recipe that I do when I only feel like boiling pasta but becomes a substantial and tasty dinner, "pasta marinera" I call.

All you need is:

Ingredients
-500 grams of pasta.
-3 cans of tuna.
-2 cans of mussels
-750 grs of peeled tomatoes made puree. (tomates triturados).

So this is all you need, you throw that all together when the pasta is boiled, and voila, you have a great tasty meal. The tomato sauce works incredibly well with these fishy flavours. Kenton was even impressed by how good it all tasted.

By the way the photo is Strasbourgh from last month.

Taco Casserole

This recipe comes from a blog I found in this blog Bebe a la Mode that I followed for a long time. Britanny don't ever stop writing. 

I did it yesterday for my Bible Study and it worked pretty well. So easy, and a good meal. 

Ingredients: 

-300 grs. of ground beef
-1 can of refried beans.
-1 can of red beans.
-Taco seasoning.
-One bag of tortilla chips or nachos.
-1 bag of mozarella chips.




STEPS 

1. Place tortilla chips crushed at the bottom of the recipent and put aside.
2. Brown the ground beef and add taco seasoning to it. 
3. Now add the refried beans and the red beans to it and mix well. Also you can hava a few diced tomatoes.
4. Place it all in the dish and add more crushed tortilla chips and the grated cheese.
5. Bake it for 20 minutes.
6. Then you can add avocados, diced tomatoes and cilantro, etc..or lettuce, sour cream.

Voila! This is a good recipe you all.

Mushroom and Garlic Creamy Soup

Found this FANTASTIC soup in this site Budget Bytes 

Now, warning, it did take a looooooong time to make, approximately one hour, but it was worth every minute. Perfect for a cold night, just like last night.

INGREDIENTS

• 200 grms of white mushrooms.
• 200 grms of portabella mushrooms
• Some shitakii mushrooms (optional)
• 3 cloves of garlic.
•  1/4 cup of cream (nata liquida for cooking).
• Thyme (tomillo)
• 2 spoonfuls of flour
• 2 spoonfuls of butter.
• Vegetable stock.
• 4 cups of water.
• Olive oil.
• Black pepper.
• Salt.

STEPS 

1. Cut up the mushrooms. Leave half sliced and the other half diced it up.
2. Now in a big pot add the mushrooms with some olive oil, a bit of salt and the pepper.
3. Now add the garlic crushed, or very finely sliced.
4. Have it all in the saucepan until the water of the mushrooms disolves and you are left with tiny mushrooms and the garlic.
5. Now add the butter and the flour and it will seems like strange cause it gets thick like a paste, but do not be afraid.
6. Now add the 4 cups of water with the vegetable stock and let it all bring to a boil.
7. Now THIS is when the soup gets thick.
8. And now, add the cream which will make it velvety and beautiful and finally
9. Add the thyme, loads of it so that it has a great balance between mushrooms, garlic and thyme.
10. Voila, enjoy.

Great, great recipe you all, it tastes just as good as it looks. My boyfriend flipped at how good it is.

I will definitely make it again.

Pineapple Chicken Teriyaki

Yum! 

another great recipe from Steamy Kitchen. My boyfriend says I am 1/3 spanish, 1/3 american and 1/3 asian! wow! compliment! 

Very easy and tasty this recipe, basically this recipe is a marinade recipe.

Also you can do variations such as sticking it in the oven or doing it as a stir fry sauce. Also you can marinate the chicken with the sauce for a while. Endless combinations. It is great for bland and tasteless meat such as turkey, chicken and even pork. 

So here it is:

Ingredients:  

-1 can crushed pineapple (300 grs).

-3 tablespoons of honey.

-1 teaspoon of grated fresh ginger.

-3 garlic clove, finely minced or grated.

-2 spoonfuls of thick soy sauce.

-500 grms. of chicken. 

Steps:

1. Make the marinade, sautee in a large saucepan the ginger, and garlic and sautee with a little bit of oil.

2. After it is slighly golden add the honey, the thick soy sauce and the crushed pineapple with the juice of the can.

3. Stir it away and let it simmer in low fire for 10 minutes.

4.  Now add your chicken to the marinate. 

Pretty incredible recipe you all. My Bible study loved it.

Spicy Chinese Mustard Greens with Garlic and Ginger

I loved cooking this recipe the other day at home.

I had been looking at these amazing greens at the Bangladeshi store and finally bought them.

Then I found this awesome recipe in Steamy Kitchen, that will make you drool and thought I would adopt to these incredible Chinese Mustard Greens, and yes, it worked, like amazingly.


Ingredients: 


-Mustard Greens or any other green.
-Canola oil or any oil.
-Garlic crushed.
-Cayenne pepper flakes.
-Ginger crushed. 

The way you do this is the following:

1. Place in the wok about two cups of water so that you can steam the veggies.
2. When the water is very hot or boiling you need to place the veggies cut in half.
3. Th way you do this is placing the hard stems FIRST, and then on top you place the leaves. See photo.
4. Once they are tender, about 7 minutes, remove them from saucepan and throw away the water.
5. Now place the canola oil and add the garlic crushed, the ginger and the cayenne pepers and sautee them but DO NOT LET THEM BURN or it will taste disgusting.
6. Once they have browned for about 2 minutes, add the greens and spread it even.

That's it. Now serve with soy sauce and buckle up.....soooooooooooooo tasty....yum...
You'll love them. 

I like this type of recipe for when you have a meat that it's completely tasteless. You know?