Friday Recipe?

*The Friday Recipe was done a little sooner because I dont have time to post tomorrow*
As promised here is the red bell pepper jam…





The texture is not all that nice, but the flavor is just something else, I tried this like 10 years ago at a friends house and for Gabby’s babyshower looked for recipes in the internet and came up with my own personal one (I will give you both in case you want to try them out)
Get 4 big red bell peppers, ½ glass of sugar, ½ glass of water and ½ glass of apple vinegar (I used ¾ water and ¼ vinegar because I wanted it to be sweet, not sweet and sour, so it is your choice).
Chop the peppers and take away the seeds and the white thing in the inside, boil with the rest of the ingredients until those peppers are tender and smoshie, kind of like this:

Drain the pepper but save some of the liquid, put the pepper in the blender and liquefy them, add some of the liquid little by little until you get a jam like consistency.
Take it to the refrigerator over night and the next day put it on top of cream cheese and serve with cracker.
You can also use the jam alone with crackers or bread or ANYTHING because this thing is delish even alone :D

Friday Recipe - Happy Halloween

Here is another amazing cake creation by my lovely sister (OHHH MY KIDS ARE GOING TO BE LUCKY WITH AN AUNT LIKE THAT) ;)

Here it is in her own description:

The cakes were super easy to do, they were butter cakes, they were really airy and 'light' because I figured that since the colors were already so 'loud' (for lack of a better word) I had to make it fluffy and tasty but not overpowering (I over think these things!), also butter cakes because of the color of the batter that takes the color from the food colorants very well and the end result is very bright colors.

"Snot, body parts and tapeworm/maggot" cake

I wanted the insides to look as chaotic as the outside did, so I took divided the batter into 3 small bowls and colored it green, red and black. There was no rhyme or reason to the way I emptied the batter into the pan, I just wanted swirls of the three different colors, nothing as 'structured' and 'organized' as the rainbow cake. I baked in the oven until it was ready (you know, same ole same ole, poke with a toothpick if it comes out clean then that means it's ready)
I made a very basic and simple powder sugar icing and colored it green, for 'snots', the fun part of the cake was the fondant pieces on top. All it took was some marshmallow fondant and food coloring, the 'eyes' are little circles, the 'fingers' are just sausage shaped pieces of fondant and the 'maggots' were achieved by simply rolling a pinch of the fondant between my hands (like we did when we were kids), the trick, I reckon, is the details. To make the 'flesh' color, I mixed a bit of red and yellow with the white fondant (just a couple of drops of each color, you have to be very light handed because you don't want it to turn orange) the key was then to make the little indentations on the fingers, I did that with a knife, the nail was then 'painted' with writing icing (regular icing in a little tube that makes it easier to write on cakes with) I used the same red to make the little veins on the eyes and the center of the eyes was made with blue icing and I then took a small brush (make sure it's a cooking brush) and put a bit of dark blue colorant on the center to make it seem a bit more real. For the 'maggots' I just put a drop of each of the colors I had 'til it became mucky and yuck. After putting all the pieces in, I added a bit of blood splatters with red icing and that was it.

"Graveyard" cake

The graveyard cake was red inside, I wanted it to look like 'blood', although after the making it I went 'wait, cemeteries don't have blood inside the graves, I should have made a chocolate cake with cookie crumbles!' but I think it still came out nicely despite the faux-pas. I covered in green icing, for 'grass' and then covered the 'grass' in chocolate cookie crumbs for the 'dirt', the graves are buttercream cookies (do you sense a theme here? I love butter, mmm butter!) covered in dyed fondant. With a small brush dipped in black food colorant, I wrote the little headstones. The ghost (isn't he adorable with his cheeky grin?) was made out of fondant and black food colorant (for mouth and eyes). I added green sprinkles for 'grass' (I felt it was too 'naked' without it) and little blobs of red icing for the 'flowers'.

I encourage anyone to try and play with fondant, it's really fun and since it's so pliable making shapes is rather easy.
I already have planned out the Christmas cake, it's going to blow these two out of the water! Who would have thought that I'd be able to cook? Remember I couldn't even fry an egg? I was inspired by my adorable sister (That's me ;)) to give cooking a try (SHE MAKES THE BEST PASTA EVER) and now I love it. (*sniff*)

I dont know about you but I think they are GREAT!!! and I cant wait to have those X-mas's cakes in the Friday Recipe Post :D

Friday Recipe

Like I said it is not always going to be Friday, for me it is because I haven’t gone to bed yet ;P

This is a simple yet delish and helpful recipe; because you can use it for so many things (I’ll give you some examples latter).

Pizza Sauce!!!
You most think this is not at all hard and almost everyone has their own recipe, I used to make a different one too until I tried this one :D

I’m not posting a list of ingredients first because I want you to truly follow the order.
First add a tablespoon of butter to your hot saucepan and put one big shopped onion and 3 pear like tomatoes (the one in the picture)

if you don’t have it use a regular big one (I’ve done it like that too), once the onion is “clear looking” add grounded oregano, depends how much you like the flavor and one chicken bouillon cube (if you don’t use this a little salt will do the trick), from now on keep stirring and add one can of condiment tomato sauce (if not any tomato sauce, Prego or Ragu will do) and one of water, keep stirring. Get a cooking spoon like this one
and scoop out the onions and tomatoes, blend them and mix with the rest, add a tablespoon of sugar and basil and you got yourself a Yummy Pizza/Pasta sauce.
I used this for so many things, homemade pizza, pasta, meatballs, eggplant or aubergine and little party pizzas or Pizzitas in Spanish, this are great for parties, I made those for Gabby’s Babyshower and people loved them!!!

Back home - Friday Recipe

I haven’t been on much, because we just got back from taking our Step2 Clinical Skills test in Atlanta.
I am also working on doing something different with the blog, besides telling our journey I will like to post either a weekly recipe or picture of some recipe; one of the things I love the most is cooking :D hope you enjoy it and feel free to leave a comment about it. I will be doing this every Friday or early Saturday (because I log on sometimes Friday midnight and it becomes Saturday without me noticing), some will be my creation, others just the ones I have in cooking books, find on the internet or shared by my sis and friends.
Here is a Cake my sis did a while ago, I find it absolutely beautiful and creative so it definitely deserves my first Friday Recipe post.This is the batter separated and dyed with the different food colors

Poured into the baking pan

Baked!!!Adding the Grey icing...Finished product (I bet no one will imagine that under all that greyness is a beautiful rainbow!!)What a surprise once you cut it for everyone!!!Yummy Rainbow!!!