Tasty Tuesday!

“Doubtless God could have made a better berry (than the strawberry), but doubtless God never did”
-William Allen Butler


Hello! I have a great dessert recipe for you today! It is SIMPLE to make and sure to delight!! You can substitute blackberries or even add them in if you would like - be creative! Why not try it for Mother's Day? Enjoy!

“The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice”
-Proverb



Rice Pudding Brulee with Fresh Berries

Serves: 6

Ingredients:

* 1 cup fresh blueberries
* 1 cup fresh raspberries
* 22 oz Rice Pudding (found in most dairy sections)
* 1/4 cup turbinado sugar (aka: sugar in the raw)
* 6 strawberries, sliced

Equipment needed: 6 ramekins (3 1/2" wide & 2" deep)

Directions:

1.) Preheat oven to broil.
2.) Spoon blueberries and raspberries evenly between ramekins.
3.) Cover berries with rice pudding.
4.) Sprinkle rice pudding with 2 tsp sugar.
5.) Broil just to melt sugar, 3-4 min.
6.) Garnish with sliced strawberries.

(If you have a culinary torch, brown the sugar with it instead of using the broiler)


“What will come from the briar but the berry.”
-Irish Proverb


Silly Joke of the Day:

What did the strawberry say to the watermelon when they were introduced?
.........Berry nice to meet you


Have a great day and remember: Go Ahead & Indulge!

Mangia Monday

Hello and welcome! I have couple tasty recipes for you today. Hopefully you will enjoy them as much as my family and I do!

I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.
-Barbara Grizzuti Harrison




Rotisserie Chicken Tacos

Servings: 6

Ingredients:

* 1 whole rotisserie chicken, meat shredded
* 2 cups salsa (I use mango)
* 6 flour tortillas
* 1 head Boston lettuce, large leaves torn in half
* 3 medium tomatoes, diced
* 1/4 cup cilantro, stems removed, chopped rough (optional)
* 6 oz sharp cheddar cheese, shredded

Directions:

1. Heat salsa on medium, and bring to to simmer, in large saucepan.
2. Add chicken and simmer 5 minutes more.
3. Lay tortillas flat on work surface, then top with lettuce, chicken, tomatoes, cilantro, and cheese.
4. Roll and serve.


Rice is born in water and must die in wine.
-Italian Proverb




Sofrito Rice

Servings: 5-6

Ingredients:

* 7 oz. Sofrito thawed (I use Goya)
* 1 pkg Con Coriander and Annatto (Sazon Goya)
* 1 box Valencia Rice (Goya/12 oz.)
* 3 cups water
* 16 oz Black Bean Soup, warm

Needed: Braising pan

Preheat oven to 275 degrees.

Directions:

1. Heat sofrito and seasonings in braising pan on medium-high.
2. Stir in rice. Cook 1 1/2 min.
3. Add water; bring to a simmer. Cover.
4. Transfer to oven; bake 50-55 min until rice is tender.
5. Top each serving with 3 tbsp. bean soup.


Recipe: A series of step-by-step instructions for preparing ingredients you forgot to buy, in utensils you don't own, to make a dish the dog wouldn't eat.
-Author Unknown

Have a great day!

Until Tomorrow: Go Ahead & Indulge!

Friday Food Facts!

Hello!

Welcome to another edition of Friday Food Facts. I aim to stimulate not only your brain cells, but your taste buds as well!

Research tells us fourteen out of any ten individuals likes chocolate.
-Sandra Boynton

The Four Classes of Vegetarians:

1.) True Vegetarians: Does not eat anything from animals, cooked or processed.

2.) Lacto-Vegetarians: Eats dairy products.

3.) Ovo-Vegetarians: The only animal product eaten is eggs.

4.) Pesco-Vegetarians: Do not eat red meat, but will eat fish, chicken, eggs and dairy products

Stressed spelled backwards is desserts. Coincidence? I think not!
-Author Unknown

Coffee Facts:

1.) The world's rarest coffee, Kopi Luwak costs $300 a pound. It is grown in Indonesia.

2.) It takes almost 2,000 coffee cherries to provide enough beans for one pound of
roasted coffee.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who love chocolate, and communists.
-Leslie Moak Murray

Rice Facts:

1.) There are thousands, perhaps as many as 40,000, varieties of rice grown on every continent except Antarctica.

2.) In the USA, the average person consumes around twenty-five pounds of rice per year, with about four pounds of that attributed to the rice used for brewing beer.

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
-Fernando Pessoa

Candy Facts:

1.) The Baby Ruth candy bar was named after the daughter of U.S. President Grover Cleveland in 1921.

2.) The Dutch consume the most candy, 65 pounds per person a year; Americans eat about 21 pounds a year.

I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts.
-Graham Kerr

Have a great day and until tomorrow:

Go Ahead & Indulge!