Happy Easter with a mug cake

Hello people!!!  I've been quite busy, sewing classes everyday after work. But this Holy week I got to stay home a few days. So I decided to experiment with food.

Made a vegetable aspic, just dissolved a 33 gr flavorless gelatin with 2 cups of boiling vegetable stock, added carrots, beets and at the top (which will be the bottom when is out of the mold)  sautée watercress with garlic, onions, cilantro and red bell peppers.

Then a simple rice, with cilantro, red bell peppers and turmeric. And ground chicken patties, made with garlic, onion, cilantro, salt, black pepper, ginger, curry and olives filled with red peppers. 

Afterwards I was craving for something sweet, found mug cakes on a food site and experimented with one of the recipes. That's how this  baked chocolate mug cake was done. I made it with my own ingredients and what I had on my pantry: 

5 tablespoons rice flour + 2 tablespoons cornstarch.

5 tablespoons sugar.

3 tablespoons Chocolisto  (a chocolate beverage mix).

3 tablespoons corn oil.

1/2 tablespoon vanilla extract + 2 1/2 tablespoons  berries tea (liquid, iced, no sugar).

1 egg (it was frozen, my fridge was too cold lol).

Mixed it all with the Braun because the egg was frozen. Used a small springform mold to bake it, sprayed with easy bake nonstick spray  and sprinkled it with a bit of flour. Baked it about 15 minutes at 180º F on the oven. Didn't use the microwave because I wanted the crust to be golden. Was afraid of the result, thought the inside could end up being gooey but it was nice. And the chocolate with the berries tea   was a wonderful combination...

To everyone:

Christmas present ahead

Hello!!! Christmas is around the corner, so for those of you who want to give thoughtful presents without spending a whole lot of money, I'm giving you a pdf with three recipes you can use to make them (or for sale and earn a few extra bucks), my personal present for you all. It features: molded sugar, easy cookies and bonbons!!!

Download it here. Enjoy!!!

Chocolates again

Long title for this post. A friend, Jessica, came with her daughter Reina and her boyfriend Jorge to learn how to make chocolate lollipops and filled bonbons. 

We made two types of filling: strawberry and arequipe (milk caramel).

Jessica brought two silicon lollipop molds. One for her, one for me. They are easier to used than I expected, being used as I am to my beloved polycarbonate molds.

The chocolate wasn't the highest quality, something happened and it got muddy, we just mixed the milk caramel filling with it and grounded peanut, then made balls and rolled them on chopped peanut. Didn't look so good but they do taste fine.

With the left over chocolate made strawberries topped with chocolate (yummy!!!)

Here's the whole batch.

And then we had a little sweet snack, tea made with the dried strawberries mixed with black tea. We needed a lot, my guess is that it'll be better alone or mixed with green tea instead.

Guess who sat first at the table??? Yep, kids lol

I'll have to post the bonbons tutorial... Until then, bon appetit!

Trying to eat pretty again

Long time, no posts. I'm back. These past few days I've been compelled to make "pretty food" again. The good news is that I'm renting a nice new place just for me :)  Here's lunch.

The rice has capers, olives, carrot, cilantro, garlic and a bit of curry. shaped with a Tupperware rice mold, but I think a cup has the same effect.

Made a very simple tomato-cucumber salad to go with it.

The flowers are made of ground chicken, seasoned with garlic, a bit of ginger, pepper, salt, cilantro and red bell pepper. The center is an olive.









 I shaped them with a rice ball maker from my new bento gear from J-list.

The dessert is home made chocolate ice cream, just made a thick chocolate beverage and froze it.










Bon appetit!