So.
I haven't been a very good blogger recently. I have, however, managed to keep up with my Secret Recipe Club posts if nothing else. I love being given a reason to explore someone else's blog and make a recipe. Sometimes, it's a challenge to make something that I've always wanted to try. Sometimes, I make something that just sounds way too good.
Always, I procrastinate.
This month, with 5 Mondays, our fearless leader Sarah put out the call for a special reveal day of fall dishes. I was thrilled to be assigned April's blog over at Home Sweet Homestead. April is a wife and monther who is a Flexitarian after the onset of adult allergies and food intolerances. I loved going through her recipes and saw many things that interested me including these Chocolate Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies and this Peanut Butter Cheesecake Dip. Apparently, peanut butter makes me think fall.
Unfortunately, I haven't made either yet. With time running short, I whipped up a breakfast treat with lots of cinnamon. It's not pumpkin, but it is delicious. And monkey bread is always fun. Who doesn't love monkey bread?
I do, obviously. I present to you now Home Sweet Homestead's Monkey Bread Muffins:
I love to cook...when I have the time. Here's what I've tried recently in my kitchen.
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Monday, October 3, 2016
Secret Recipe Club: Sopa de Arroz
So.
We are in the midst of a kitchen renovation. The obvious question is to ask why I would do something so asinine as to say that I would participate in Secret Recipe Club when I don't have a kitchen. The good news is I made this just before the renovation started. Now, I'm looking forward to it being over so I can start cooking again.
This month, I was thrilled to be assigned and excuse to spend some time in La Cocina de Leslie! My very first month with SRC, Leslie made my Peanut Butter Crunch Cake. I was so excited to have a chance to peruse Leslie's blog and make some good, authentic Mexican food.
Leslie lives in Mexico with her husband and 4 children. She's even written a cookbook called Taqueria Tacos that is being released on my birthday. J and I are both huge fans of Mexican food. We had our first date at Mi Hacienda, a Mexican restaurant in Toledo, and that's where he proposed as well! I wanted to make Leslie's Shredded Chicken Tacos de Mole because it reminded me greatly of my favourite Chicken Enchiladas Poblanas from Mi Hacienda, but I couldn't find the mole paste, and a mole sauce was more work that I was up for. (But if you are up for the work, Leslie has options for homemade mole sauce!)
Enter this recipe. I was making a shredded pork in the crockpot to mix with black beans and Mexican rice to make burritos so that I would have things in the freezer for eating during the reno. I needed a good recipe for Mexican rice. Leslie's recipe from her mother in law doesn't disappoint.
I present to you now from La Cocina de Leslie, Sopa de Arroz (Mexican Rice):
We are in the midst of a kitchen renovation. The obvious question is to ask why I would do something so asinine as to say that I would participate in Secret Recipe Club when I don't have a kitchen. The good news is I made this just before the renovation started. Now, I'm looking forward to it being over so I can start cooking again.
This month, I was thrilled to be assigned and excuse to spend some time in La Cocina de Leslie! My very first month with SRC, Leslie made my Peanut Butter Crunch Cake. I was so excited to have a chance to peruse Leslie's blog and make some good, authentic Mexican food.
Leslie lives in Mexico with her husband and 4 children. She's even written a cookbook called Taqueria Tacos that is being released on my birthday. J and I are both huge fans of Mexican food. We had our first date at Mi Hacienda, a Mexican restaurant in Toledo, and that's where he proposed as well! I wanted to make Leslie's Shredded Chicken Tacos de Mole because it reminded me greatly of my favourite Chicken Enchiladas Poblanas from Mi Hacienda, but I couldn't find the mole paste, and a mole sauce was more work that I was up for. (But if you are up for the work, Leslie has options for homemade mole sauce!)
Enter this recipe. I was making a shredded pork in the crockpot to mix with black beans and Mexican rice to make burritos so that I would have things in the freezer for eating during the reno. I needed a good recipe for Mexican rice. Leslie's recipe from her mother in law doesn't disappoint.
I present to you now from La Cocina de Leslie, Sopa de Arroz (Mexican Rice):