Showing posts with label recipe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recipe. Show all posts

Sunday, July 25, 2010

25, El Borracho


(25, The Drunkard)
It's been really hot outside! Enjoy my recipes.

The Block Party
1/2 package frozen Parcha/Maracuya/Passion Fruit
1/2 package frozen Mango
1 cup orange juice
few tablespoons sugar
ice
gold rum

blend. enjoy. vegetate.

Trans-Europe Express
1 package frozen Mora/Blackberries
1 cup cranberry juice
lingonberry syrup
handful fresh berries if available
equal parts Kentucky Bourbon, Benedictine, Aguardiente
ice

blend. enjoy. laugh.

The Perfect Salsa
2 very ripe Mexican mangoes (the big green and red ones)
2 to 5 fresh serrano chiles, depending on size
5 small limes

Peel the mangoes; cut the flesh away from the pits into small bits, toss in a bowl. Dice the chiles. Juice the limes. Add a little seasalt if desired. Let sit in the fridge an hour for the flavors to blend.

Sweet, picante, refreshing; it looks like shiny fresh egg yolks. Delicious on chips or meat or tacos while you're enjoying your cocktails.

The best way to juice limes without a juicer: cut a thin slice off the top and bottom end. Make three vertical cuts down the length of the lime, leaving a thin triangular core of flesh with no skin in the center. All 6 pieces, squeezed by hand, will yield more juice this way.

Monday, January 25, 2010

How to peel a squirrel



From Irma Rombauer's original "Joy of Cooking" cookbook. "Gray squirrels are the preferred ones; red squirrels are small and quite gamey in flavor. There are, proverbially, many ways to skin a squirrel, but some hunters claim the following one is the quickest and cleanest. It needs a sharp knife...Season the gravy with walnut catsup and serve with polenta."