Tag: cooking
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Penny’s First Foods
Penny crossed the 5-month threshold on Feb 26! It feels like a long time and no time at all – I’m in the twilight zone where my brain feels like it’s going 100mph in neutral. We hit the four-month sleep regression a little late; just when I thought we were safe and lucked out with…
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Home-made Pizza!
A few weeks ago I was craving pizza. We normally buy the materials to make our own pizza, including the dough, from Trader Joes. Unfortunately the night I decided to make the pizza, the dough expiration date was about a week past and even though I thought about eating it anyways, I preferred to play…
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Choripan – the food not the pup
I mentioned on the pan amasado post that we used the bread to make Choripan – so here is that story. Choripan, besides being the name of our youngest pup, is a popular dish back home in Chile. It is similar to a hotdog but instead of a regular hot dog you use chorizo. This was…
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Pan amasado
Every once in a while I get a craving for bread – specifically Chilean bread. I won’t go to the store and stuff my face with a regular loaf. I’m talking about warm hand made Chilean bread. Since there isn’t a Chilean bakery in Nashville, I have to make the bread myself. De vez en…
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Decorating Christmas Cookies
Every year at Christmas my parents would drive me and Ian down to Birmingham after we opened our presents in Louisville to spend the rest of the Christmas holiday at my grandparents’ beautiful farm. While we were en route my grandmother would bake and cook up a storm for us – and she always included…
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Thanksgiving Javi Style Mashed Potatoes
For a couple of years now I have been assigned to mashed potato duty at Thanksgiving. I am not sure why I was asked to make them in the first place since honestly I don’t have a recipe to make them. I guess I’m an expert now since the family keeps asking me to make…
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Corn bread adventure
Cornbread was something completely unknown to me before moving to the States. It never sounded very tasty or appetizing (much like meatloaf). Bread made with corn?…it just did not click for me until I tried it. With thanksgiving coming up I decided to go for a new adventure and try to make some cornbread. I…
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Rodriguez Fajitas!
There’s nothing all that special about these that make them “Rodriguez fajitas” except that the peppers come from our lovely (now potted) bell pepper plants! Javi and I needed a new way to fix up our chicken – the whole baked chicken thing was great for the first 3 months after we discovered our favorite…
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Garden Update: Sweet Potato Treasure …. Arrrr!!!
The summer gardening season is almost over at Los Rodriguez farm (we wish we had a farm…but oh well!). We had fun working in the garden, seeing things pop up, eating fresh veggies, chopping herbs, fighting mildew and uninvited “guests”. We refused to use pesticides or anything that could add toxins to our plants, so…
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Making Sun Dried Tomatoes
Our cherry tomato plant is by far the most prolific in our garden. Every day we harvest at least a cup of cherry tomatoes and with only one tomato eater at home we needed to figure something out so those little guys wouldn’t go to waste. We thought about canning but we wouldn’t eat them…Leslie…
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“Home Made” Pizza
We love going grocery shopping at Trader Joes. We dont live close to it (we wish there was more than 1 in Nashville) but we still take our weekly trip to the store. One of the reasons we like shopping there is that from time to time they surprise us with an idea for a…
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Quick chicken recipe! / Facil pollo al horno!
Since we showed some pictures of some of our meals, we wanted to also share our ways of cooking some foods. We don’t have time (and most of the time the energy) to make elaborate meals so in our kitchen the motto is: The simpler the better! Ya que les mostramos algunas fotos de algunas…
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A few healthy meal ideas! / Recetas saludables!
Our diet has changed drastically since February 13 when we decided to follow the P90X nutrition plan in addition to doing the workouts. It’s hard to believe that we were posting about eating nachos and pigs in a blanket only a few weeks prior to making changes. For me, the hardest part of the program…
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Super bowls of nachos, ceviche, ice cream…
Javi and I just wrapped up our first successful Super Bowl gathering at the Los Rodriguez mansion! We didn’t have a ton of people over, but we definitely had enough food for 50 and we had a fabulous time with the friends who came! We basically had a Latino food buffet going on: I made…
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HaviAir’s Chicken Consommé
Now that the cold weather has officially arrived in Middle Tennessee (not welcome by the way…it sucks) I felt the need for a good soup. To me a good cold weather soup needs a tasty broth, some veggies and some kind of meat. That is my favorite kind of soup, and Cazuela is the best…
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Quick kitchen tip!
After doing some grocery shopping yesterday, I noticed that we had way too many eggs. Some of them have been in our fridge for awhile, and of course I didn’t want to get up in the morning and crack an egg to make an omelett and wake up with the nice smell of rotten poultry…(terrible…
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