Sopapillas
We enjoyed some homemade sopapillas during this past Hannukah. If you are not familiar with them, sopapillas (pronounced sew-pu-pee-uz) are yummy New Mexican fry bread. They taste scrumptious drizzled with honey or stuffed with pinto beans and fixin’s. My New Mexican raised Hubby introduced me to them. I have two recipes for sopapillas – a […]
A Photo A Day: November 15
Today was so chilly that I didn’t even set foot out of the house all day! I know I’m a wimp when it come to this cold weather stuff. 🙂 Mrs. Sayuri had gymnastics and Hubby took her, so I stayed home with Baby Girl and got some images of her doing one of her […]
Tropical Bounty – Cas Fruit Uses
Cas (Costa Rican Guava or Psidium Friedrichsthalianum) is native to Costa Rica and a member of the guava family. It is a good source of Vitamins A and C as well as iron and calcium! The leaves of the guava can also be useful in tea for cases of diarrhea caused by amoebas. Cook a […]
Homemade Natural Chocolate for Yom Teruah
Mrs. Sayuri and I whipped up a batch of natural chocolate the other day. It was quick and easy. We spooned ours into a Biblical Holidays chocolate mold in anticipation and preparation for the coming fall feasts, specifically Yom Teruah, The Day of Trumpets, expected to fall on the eleventh of September (This coming Sabbath, […]
It’s Eugene Ma’am.
That is one of my favorite lines from the book Watch Out for the Chicken Feet in Your Soup by Tomie dePaola. The story is of a boy named Joey, who takes his friend Eugene to visit his Italian immigrant grandmother. As they are walking to her house in the beginning of the book, Joey […]
Beet Red… I Mean Pink
Recently we baked up a batch of gingerbread cookies. (See Project Monday : Baby Shower Favors – Little Gingerbread boys for recipe) These were made as part of our birthday gift to Bear, my daughter’s friend—to go along with her felt tea bags and felt cookies. Bear’s mommy told me she couldn’t stop talking about […]
Slice of Pizza Pie
Hubby is our resident pizza maker. And he makes the best pizzas around! He has a few tricks up his sleeve that I’ll share with you here. He uses this whole wheat pizza dough recipe with a few slight changes as noted below. Hubby’s Ingredients 1 tablespoon honey 1 1/2 cups warm water (slightly more […]
