Friday, January 31, 2014
Sunday, January 26, 2014
Homemade Blueberry/Apple Muffins
Ingredients:
- 3 cups minus 2 tablespoons flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- Heavy pinch of salt
- Dash of Nutmeg
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1 egg
- 11/4 generous cup plain, unflavored yogurt
- 2 cups fresh blueberries
- 1 cup diced apple
- Vanilla Extract
- Turbinado sugar
- Cupcake paper cups:
- Preheat oven to 385 degrees.
- In a large bowl sift flour, baking soda, nutmeg, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
- Add apple and mix well
- In another large bowl whisk together sugar, oil, cap-ful of vanilla, egg, and yogurt. Add the dry ingredients and stir to a count of 10.
- Add blueberries, reserving 1/2 cup, to mixture and stir 3 times.
- With an ice-cream scoop put mixture to paper cupcakes.
- Sprinkle remaining berries on top and press down lightly. Sprinkle turbinado sugar over top.
- Bake 20 to 25 minutes and allow cooling completely.
Thursday, January 2, 2014
Mediterranean Beef and Veggie Kabobs
Ingredients:
4 Callisons
Mediterranean Garlic Herb Seasoned Skewers
1 1/4 pounds
boneless beef sirloin, cut into 2-inch chunks
1/2 cup
white wine
8 slices of zucchini
8 (1 1/2
inch) pieces red onion
8 (1 1/2
inch) pieces of green bell pepper
8 (1 1/2
inch) pieces of red bell pepper
Perfect
pinch - Mediterranean herb seasoning to taste
Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
Preparation:
Soak skewers in white wine for 10 to 15 minutes.
In a medium bowl mix all veggies and add oil and seasoning.
Thread onto a skewer in the following order: beef-onion-zucchini-beef-green
and red pepper, using 1 piece of each. Repeat 1 more time. Repeat with remaining
skewers.
Let them sit for 10 to 20 minutes in refrigerator.
Place on a preheated medium-high grill and cook until beef
is cooked for about 4 to 5 minutes per side.
What are seasoned skewers?
They are a 100% natural, fat and sodium free way to season
foods from the inside out. Callisons Fine Foods seasoned skewers release
natural oils and herbal extracts into the food as it cooks, infusing your food
with flavor. If you don’t find these skewers, don’t worry just use any regular skewers,
and make sure you seasoning them and they will be good as well!
Pasteles of the Colombian Coast
The Colombian coast pasteles are similar to tamales, except
that pasteles are made out of rice, while the tamales are made from corn dough.
Another difference is that tamales are wrapped in banana leaves, or corn leaves,
and the “pasteles” are made with bijao leaves.
The Rice:
As the main ingredient is rice, its preparation should be
careful. To do this, first rinse the rice. Mix it with vinegar, colored oil
(annatto), chives, garlic, sweet pepper or bell pepper, and salt, and let it
stand for a few hours.
The Meats:
The other part of the preparation has to do with meat.
Traditionally is used pork, beef and chicken, but I used leftover turkey for
mines. These meats are cooked with peppers, garlic, onion, tomato, salt, and
colored oil (annatto). When finished, this stew is saved to add it later to the
pasteles.
The Veggies:
In small containers sliced peppers, onions, potatoes,
carrots, green beans, and add green peas. The use of olives and capers shows
the Arab cuisine influence.
Preparation
Arrange two bijao leaves crosswise. Spread a layer of rice
on the bottom of the leaves, and then add meats. Follows with a layer of the veggies
mentioned above, and ends with another layer of rice on top. The last step is
to fold the leaves until well packaged, and tied then with a string.
In a large pot add enough water to cover all pasteles (make
sure the water is boiling before placing the pasteles.) Add salt and vinegar and
cook for 1 ½ hour until the pasteles are cooked.
Ingredients:
For
the Rice:
4 cups of
rice
½ cup of
vinegar
½ cup of
colored oil (annatto)
4 pieces of
crushed garlic
Salt to
taste
For
the Meats:
3 pounds of
different meats
1 cup of chopped
tomatoes
1 cup of
chopped onions
1 cup of
chopped peppers
2 pieces of
crushed garlic
Salt and
black pepper
The Veggies:
2 cups of
sliced carrots
2 cup of chopped
green beans
2 cups of
peas
2 cups of
sliced of potato
1 cup of
green olives
1 cup of
capers
Monday, December 30, 2013
Happy New Year 2014
May God bless you in this New Year, and all the desires of your heart may come through!!!
Memory Hunt Bible Verse Game
Write each word of the Memory Verse on a separate piece of
paper.
Hide the individual words around the room.
Ask the children to find the words and lay them out in the
correct order.
Recite the Memory Verse.
Repeat several times.
Stack the Cups Bible Verse Game
What you will need:
Paper Cups and a
permanent maker.
How to Play:
Before you start test to
see how many cups can be stacked on top of each other and still stay standing.
Stack the cups so that two bottoms are together and then two tops. The cups I
used would only allow five cups before they became to tipsy. Before class write
words from a Bible verse that you are memorizing on the cups so that when you
stack them they are in order. Write the words so that they are right-side up
when the cups are stacked.
You can also use this
game to review the books of the Bible. Give each player or team a set of cups
with the words on them. On the word "go" see which team can stack the
cups in order first without any of the cups falling off.
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