Delfi at home

Long time, no blog

noreply@blogger.com (Delfi's Blog) — Mon, 27 May 2013 15:21:00 +0000

I haven't blogged here for almost 2 years, I am a busy mommy of four kids, I have a photography business and honestly havent had time to take care of this little blog here :)
But looking back makes my heart happy, I love all the entries!

I am going to be blogging a 10 day pledge I took, this is mostly for me, so I can go back and look at what I ate everyday.

I have been reading this wonderful blog called 100 Days of Real Food, it is filled with fantastic information, my goal has always been to try and eat as healthy as possible, we rarely eat out, we make all our meals from scratch and I always give my kids fresh fruits and veggies, for as long as I can remember, but there is always room for improvement!!! I do buy snacks, my husband does buy snacks as well and I feel like we can improve so much more!

So after reading their blog I decided to take the 10 DAY PLEDGE, just me, to experiment and I plan on getting my entire family involved :)

I will be checking in here to blog about what I eat everyday :) I hope this will help us improve our lives to even a healthier one :) of course we all want our kids to learn healthy eating habits!

My goal for the next 10 days is to avoid buying any sort of packed snack/food, everything we eat will be 100% organic, fresh and home made :)

I can't wait to see all our new food discoveries!

xoxo
Delfi

Delfina K Photography

noreply@blogger.com (Delfi's Blog) — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:33:00 +0000

With the Holiday season coming up I have been extremely busy doing photoshoots every week, this is a very exciting time for me because I get to do what I love over and over, it just gives me so much joy to be able to do what I am passionate about.

I have been having some problems with my Facebook Fan page, unfortunately it had to be deleted and re-created :( so I encourage you to join and like my page :) on there you will see updates on what it going on and what I am doing.

I am working on new recipes and I hope to get back to it as soon as the craziness is over :)

LOVE! to all :)

David Rocco'sTurkey con Funghi Misti: Turkey with Mushroom Medley

noreply@blogger.com (Delfi's Blog) — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 16:37:00 +0000

Although...I did not have any turkey so I decided to use chicken instead and it turned out absolutely fantastic.
Also I served this dish with a green salad, radish, carrots, cucumber and as a side it was egg noddles with a little bit of drizzled olive oil, salt, pepper and chopped parsley, I topped it off with parmessan cheese of course!

Delicious, fast and simple!

Here is the link to the recipe:

Turkey con Funghi Misti: Turkey with Mushroom Medley

Wow! I need to get cooking...

noreply@blogger.com (Delfi's Blog) — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 18:37:00 +0000

Honestly I have been cooking every single day! But I have been so busy trying to catch up with everything.
First of all I took my son out of preschool, he was not happy at all and neither was I, so we decided it was best to keep him home this year, I am very excited to start homeschooling him, I have ordered my first curriculum from SONLIGHT and cannot wait to open that box filled with learning materials, I will of course share with my friends what it's like to homeschool having 3 little ones, I am curious myself if I can make it all work.

Photography has been keeping me busy, with Holidays coming up I have a lot of work scheduled ahead of me, that makes me extremely happy though! to know that people want me to capture those special times with their families, I truly love what I do, I have so much to plan for next year, but everything is keeping me excited and all this excitement just gives me energy to go on.

I have some cooking projects in mind to share with all of you soon, hopefully in the next couple of weeks, sorry I have not been that active on my blog, it is not easy keeping up with all of it sometimes.

Well I must go on to yet another Halloween party, this just tells me that on Monday I must strictly diet to loose all the extra weight I am going to gain this weekend haha, it feels like I have been party hoping since Friday, its only Saturday afternoon, 1 more party today and 2 more tomorrow, the kids are happy and having a blast, so am I!

HUGS!

Green Linguini with turkey meatballs

noreply@blogger.com (Delfi's Blog) — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:49:00 +0000

I made this dish because I wanted my kids to eat broccoli and since they don't like it whole I made a sauce out of it, they LOVED IT and didn't even know it was broccoli, so they ate all their pasta with their veggies, I decided to include some protein by making turkey meatballs, it truly is an easy meal to prepare and your kids can help along the way.

INGREDIENTS:

For the pasta:
- 1 box of pasta, any kind I like linguini
- 2-3 bunches of fresh brocolli
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 2-3 tablespoons of butter
- salt and pepper to taste

For the meatballs:

- 1lb of ground turkey
- 2 shredded carrots
- 1 slice of bread
- 1/8 cup of milk
- 1 tablespoon of italian seasoning
- salt and pepper to taste

PASTA:

Bring water to a boil, cook your pasta until al dente, set aside.

Chop your broccoli as big or small as you want, you will make a puree out of it so it won't matter!

Preheat some olive oil about 2 tablespoons, in a pan, add the broccoli on medium heat. Cook for a few minutes.

My 4 year old peeled the garlic for me, you can chop it or add it whole after you smash it to release the juices ;) Add to the pan, season the whole thing with salt and pepper to taste.

Cook for a few minutes, when the broccoli is tender, remove and let it cool for a few minutes, now add the whole thing to a blender to make a puree, I used my magic bullet :) If you need more liquid you can add some water, chicken stock or even olive oil.

Once you have the puree ready add it to the linguini, return pasta to the heat and add the butter, cook pasta with puree for a few minutes to incorporate everything together, remove from heat and serve hot.

Let's make the meatballs now.

Preheat your oven to 425 degrees.
Shred your carrots.

Dip your bread in the milk, make sure the bread absorbs all the milk.

Good, now add all the ingredients in a bowl with the ground turkey and spices, mix gently.

Form the balls and place on a tray, you may drizzle olive oil or use wax paper and place them on it.

Cook in the oven for about 20-25 minutes or until cooked through.

Now serve the pasta with the meatballs, sprinkle some parmessan cheese and eat hot!

Enjoy!
Delfi

Soup: La Ribolita

noreply@blogger.com (Delfi's Blog) — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:01:00 +0000

Ohhh this is so good! The weather is finally starting to cool down a bit in FL so this ment, soup time in our house, I have never made this soup and I must say it was very comforting and filling! and the entire house smelled so good.

INGREDIENTS:

- 1 large carrot, chopped
- 1 large zucchini, chopped
- 1/4 of a head of cabbage, chopped very thin
- 2 bunches of green onions, chopped (or you may use 1 spanish onion instead)
-1 can of cannelini beans
- 2 cloves of garlic, chopped
- 1 cup of tomato sauce
- 3/4 cups of red wine
- 4 cups of chicken stock
- 2 tablespoons of fresh chilli or dried chilli (if you are using spicy chilli reduce to 1 teaspoon)
- a couple of slices of fresh country bread (optional I did not use it, this will make your soup more chunky)

Chop your onions.

Preheat some olive oil in a large pot, add the onions.

While the onions cook for a few minutes on medium-low heat chop the rest of your ingredients, my daughter decided to help me and since she can't cut with a real knife she decided to shred the carrots ;)

Chop carrots, garlic, zucchini, and cabbage

Now add the carrots to the pot and cook for a few minutes, until tender.

Now add the garlic

Now add your zucchini, cabbage, spices mix and cook for about 5 minutes

Now add your beans, I always wash my canned beans before cooking them.

Add your tomato sauce

Mix and add your wine and chicken stock

That's it! mix, cover, lower the heat and cook for about 40-45 minutes, serve hot with crunchy fresh bread and sprinkle some parmessan cheese :)))))

Note: if you want to add the bread now would be the time, right after the wine.

Enjoy!

Cake Decorating

noreply@blogger.com (Delfi's Blog) — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 00:43:00 +0000

I wanted to share with you some of the cakes I have decorated, ever since my son was born (4 now) I wanted to learn to decorate cakes, because I knew that we had many birthdays ahead of us and I like the traditional taste of the cakes we eat in Argentina, I wanted to combine everything together and be able to do whatever cake they want for their birthdays; when my daughter was born I decided I needed to go ahead and take the course, I took all Wilton decorating courses and I absolutely loved every single one of them, it taught me to use buttercream, fondant, sugar flowers, gumpaste, etc. Really wonderful tricks.

For those of you who are thinking about decorating I highly recommend you go and take those courses! you will be glad you did!

And for wonderful recipes and great great support visit http://www.cakecentral.com this has become one of my favorite communities and source of recipes for my cakes!

Enough talking now here are some of my cakes.

Cute.

noreply@blogger.com (Delfi's Blog) — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:53:00 +0000

I had to share this. My 2 y/o princess was really busy yesterday morning, she called me and said "Look mom, I made this for you because I love you and Papi" she arranged all of our shoes in a perfect line. I just love it, it even shows our personalities with each shoe!

Super yummy lemon yogurt cake

noreply@blogger.com (Delfi's Blog) — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:22:00 +0000

Can't get enough of it, so moist, so yum so so....you just have to eat it. I plan on making this cake again on Tuesday....for those of you coming to SB ;)

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup plain whole-milk yogurt
1 1/3 cups sugar, divided
3 extra-large eggs
2 teaspoons grated lemon zest (2 lemons)
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/3 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice

FOR THE GLAZE 1 cup of confectioners sugar and 2 tablespoons of fresh lemon juice.

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and grease a rectangular pan, with butter and flour or a spray whatever you want.

Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt into 1 bowl. In another bowl, whisk together the yogurt, 1 cup sugar,eggs, lemon zest, and vanilla. Slowly incorporate the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients. With a rubber spatula, fold the vegetable oil into the batter, making sure it's all incorporated. Pour the batter into the pan and bake for about 50 minutes.
Meanwhile, cook the 1/3 cup lemon juice and remaining 1/3 cup sugar in a small pan until the sugar dissolves and the mixture is clear. Set aside.
When the cake is done, allow it to cool in the pan for 10 minutes. Carefully place on a baking rack over a sheet pan. While the cake is still warm, pour the lemon-sugar mixture over the cake and allow it to soak in. Cool.
For the glaze, combine the confectioners' sugar and lemon juice and pour over the cake.

ENJOY!
Delfi

Chicken Marsala, OMG

noreply@blogger.com (Delfi's Blog) — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:20:00 +0000

I have tried many chicken marsala recipes and this is the one that I like. It is a combination of many recipes and some tricks of my own. I hope you like it, it's not difficult at all and well my entire family LOVES it, there is usually nothing left.

This time around I made it with garlic mashed potatoes, I have also made it with fettuccini alfredo and it is just as good!

INGREDIENTS

6 boneless, skinless chicken breasts (I used organic, I think it tastes better)
About 1 cup of all purpose flour
Salt and pepper
1/3 cup of olive oil
6-8 slices of fresh prosciutto or bacon (I used fresh bacon from the polish deli)
2 boxes or 12 oz of portabella mushrooms
3/4-1 cup of good red wine
3/4 cups of chicken stock
3 tablespoons of unsalted butter
1/4 cup of fresh chopped parsley

Here we go.
Pound your chicken, not too thin, Id say about 1 to 1 1/2 inches thick.

Put the flour in a plate and season with LOTS of salt and pepper, ok don't go overboard but make sure you add enough to flavor the chicken. Heat the olive oil in a pan at medium to high heat. Dredge the chicken breast in the flour, remove excess flour.

Great, when your oil is hot add the chicken cook about 4-5 minutes on each side.

Remove from pan and put chicken on a plate, don't stack them up.

Lower the heat to medium and add your bacon or prosciutto.

Cook for about a minute or so, scrape the pan and incorporate all those flavors together, now it's starting to smell good. Then add your mushrooms and cook for about 5 minutes, basically until most of the liquid has been evaporated, add some salt and pepper.

Now add your wine and let it cook for a minute or 2 to cook the alcohol. Then add the chicken stock.

Cook for a couple of minutes. Now add the butter.

Return the chicken to the pan, cook for about 4 minutes, without turning, it depends on how thick your chicken is, if it's thin then cook for a couple of minutes without turning, if its thicker then add a couple of minutes, if your chicken does not fit in one pan I usually take another pan, add some of the sauce and mushrooms and cook all the chicken at the same time in 2 pans, works just as well.

Remove, serve HOT and sprinkle some of that parsley!!! that's all there is to it.

I hope you try this dish and enjoy it as much as we do :) My kids will not eat mushrooms so they just eat chicken with mashed potatoes.

HUGS!
Delfi

PW's Make ahead muffin melts

noreply@blogger.com (Delfi's Blog) — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 00:04:00 +0000

No words can describe how good these were, see them? on the left of that photo? yes...that's how good these are. I didn't come up with it, it's all thanks to this awesome woman I look up to, I follow her blog night and day! The Pioneer Woman.

For the recipe click below, I cannot wait for you to try these!
Make Ahead Muffin Melts

HUGS!
Delfi

Last minute BBQ

noreply@blogger.com (Delfi's Blog) — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:01:00 +0000

So my dear husband decided to BBQ last minute on Sunday, we are all excited but wait what should we throw on the grill, well I had some frozen ground beef so I proceeded to make burgers, for salad I had no greens but I had tomatoes and corn, and a lot of chicken breast so this is what we came up with.

For the salad, chop tomatoes about 3-4 and 1 can of whole kernel corn, add a little salt and pepper.

For the grill, I have no idea what my husband did to this chicken but it was so juicy and soooo GOOD, my husband never cooks but when he does he is the best! In other words I can only offer a photo of the chicken maybe one day he will give me his secret.

And well ok, I ate this burger. I grabbed whole grain bread, just 1 slice cut in half, topped it with mozzarella cheese and added some of that tomato salad :)

And dessert of course was the cheesecake I made yesterday.

We had fun and good and simple food that tasted delicious and was healthy too, well except for the cheesecake part....

Delfi's cheesecake, you will not regret this (easy way)

noreply@blogger.com (Delfi's Blog) — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:24:00 +0000

This super creamy delicious recipe has been in my house for a few years now, I have decided to share this recipe with all my friends because it truly would be a shame to miss out on this one!
I hope you enjoy it :)
Oh yes, this one is called (easy way) because I decided not to make the crust this time, one of these days I will post the recipe for the crust as well :)

Ingredients
for the filling
1 lb of cream cheese at room temperature
8 oz of sour cream
3 eggs
1 lemon, zested
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
1 cup of sugar
1 pie crust :)

for the sauce

1 pint of fresh strawberries, chopped into small pieces
the juice from 1 lemon
1 1/2 tablespoons of sugar

Preheat oven to 325
In a kitchen aid mixer or a similar mixer, beat the cream cheese at low speed until its smooth and free of lumps.

Add the eggs, one at a time and continue to beat until its all well combined.

Add the sugar little by little until creamy, beat 1-2 minutes at low speed.

Zest your lemon while the sugar is getting all beat up.

Now add your sour cream

Lemon zest

And vanilla extract

Continue mixing at low speed, then stop the mixer and scrape down the sides of the bowl to avoid lumps. Beat for another minute or so and you are ready for the next step.

I am using a crust from the store, this is the one I like when Im feeling lazy and I dont make the crust.

Pour the mix in the crust.

Place the cheesecake in a pan.

Boil some water to cover up at least half of the cheesecake, the part that is covered up by the aluminum foil of course. I suggest you place your cheesecake in the oven and then you pour the water so you don't burn yourself when you move the pan to the oven, that's what works for me.

You can't see the water but I did cover it up half way.
Cook cheesecake for 46 minutes. Remove from oven and let it rest there for 30 minutes. Place cheesecake in the refrigerator for at least 4 hours.

When you decide it's time to eat it you are going to proceed to make the sauce.

Prepare ingredients, be sure your strawberries are all chopped up.

Cook strawberries in a pot for 5 minutes on medium high heat.

Add lemon juice and sugar, mix and let it cook for another 5 minutes.

Remove and let sauce cool

Serve while the sauce its still warm!!!
Mmm enjoy....

Delfi

Refrigerator clean up frittata

noreply@blogger.com (Delfi's Blog) — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:45:00 +0000

mmmmmmmm this is soooo good and easy.
All you do is take whatever is in your fridge, that half an onion, or the fresh deli ham you bought a week ago, perhaps the red pepper you were supposed to cook 2 days ago or the 3 potatoes that were left from last week, those are basically my ingredients, add 4-5 eggs to it and that's all it takes!

Ingredients:

Whatever you needs to be cooked ;) in my case
3 potatoes peeled and chopped
1 red pepper chopped
1/2 spanish onion chopped
1/2lb of deli ham chopped
5 eggs
salt and pepper to taste
1/2-1 cup of vegetable oil

First chop all your ingredients

Now heat the oil in a pan, when its HOT add the potatoes, you might have to cook this in 2 batches

Cook until golden on high heat and drain in a dish with a paper towel to remove excess oil

When you are done with the potatoes remove oil, leave about 1 tablespoon of it and add rest of ingredients.

Cook until soft, remove and drain in paper towel

in a bowl beat 5 eggs

add potatoes, and rest of ingredients, season to taste, mix well

return to the pan on medium high heat

cook for about 10 minutes or until eggs are not so runny
cover pan with a lid or a flat plate

turn it over without burning yourself

slide fritatta back to pan to cook the other side

And you are done! try this with a fresh salad, it is super delicious!
I hope you enjoy it as much as we all did :)
Delfi

La Ribolitta: by David Rocco

noreply@blogger.com (Delfi's Blog) — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:38:00 +0000

I have been testing some of his recipes and I have to say they are pretty good and super simple to make.
Check out this recipe at David Rocco

Click on his name to see the ingredients, I am changing a few things around such as using tomato paste and tomato sauce, also I made my own broth by boiling 2 vegetable bouillon cubes and I used all white cabbage because I could not get the other one at the store :) you can change it or keep it exactly the same!

Here is what I did.

Gather all ingredients

Chop all your vegetables

Preheat 1 cup of olive oil in a large pot, notice my 2 year old dumped some fresh garlic into my oil, no big deal it will give it a better taste!

saute the onion, garlic, celery and carrot, until they are soft, add the potato, savoy cabbage, black cabbage, tomato puree and beans

Add the vegetable broth and bring it to a boil. Add the slices of the country-style bread and stir well

Mix well season with salt and pepper to taste and cook for about 45-55 minutes until cabbage is soft, then eat! I topped mine with parmessan cheese! yum!

Coming up tomorrow, refrigerator leftover frittatas! super good.
HUGS
Delfi

Menu for this week

noreply@blogger.com (Delfi's Blog) — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:53:00 +0000

Here is what im cooking this week. I hope to make tutorials out of it but I can't promise because I have been super busy!

Today it was home made ground beef burgers with fresh sliced tomatoes.
Tuesday: "La Ribolitta" by David Rocco
Wednesday: clean up refrigerator frittata (basically all I have in the fridge into 1 pan) with soy patties
Thursday: beef milanesas with baked potatoes
Friday: slow cooked chicken served with brown rice
Saturday: Lasagna
Sunday: we are eating leftovers yum!

All dishes served with fresh salad or veggies. Dessert for the kids is usually fresh fruits, or organic yogurt, sometimes we stick a spoon in the yogurt, freeze it over night and the next day they get super excited about eating "ice cream"

Now Im off to buy all the ingredients for my menus!

Ensalada Rusa

noreply@blogger.com (Delfi's Blog) — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:22:00 +0000

This is a great potato salad to go along with meat during a bbq or anything else you are eating!
This recipe is by my mom and dad! thank you for letting me share this :)

Ingredients:

3 big potatoes
2-3 hard boiled eggs
1 can of organic whole kernel corn
Salt and pepper to taste
1-2 tablespoons of mayo
Fresh parsley

Peel and chop your poatoes into small cubes.
Cook in boiling water until tender, not soft, you want this to be cooked but still a bit hard so that it keeps its shape.
Boil eggs, and chop
Mix potatoes, corn and egg, season to taste, add mayo or olive oil to dress your salad.
Sprinkle fresh parsley and eat warm or cold!

Enjoy!

Beef braised in Chianti, courtesy of David Rocco

noreply@blogger.com (Delfi's Blog) — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:56:00 +0000

Awesome simple and fast recipes, this guy is great! Today I made this dish for my husband with a few twists and my husband said "this is the best meat you have ever made" my kids ate it too!!!

Check him out at David Rocco

Ingredients

1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
2 pounds stewing beef, cut into 1-inch cubes
2 red onions, roughly chopped

3 garlic cloves, crushed
3 cups Chianti wine
Salt
2 teaspoons whole peppercorns
1 box of portabella mushrooms (I added this into my pot, check out his recipe for original ingredients this is the only thing I changed)

Ok so I have added mushrooms into my pot and since I didnt have 3 cups of wine, only 2 I added beef broth to it.

Chop onion and garlic

Pre heat oil in a pot and add all ingredients, except the liquid and mushrooms

Clean your mushrooms, I use a damp paper towel to wipe them, then chop chop and add to the pot

Now add the wine and in my case beef broth

Salt and pepper corns.

Cook for 2 hours on low heat. Serve with rice, pasta or potatoes!
Enjoy :)
Delfi

Tortilla de Papa

noreply@blogger.com (Delfi's Blog) — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:23:00 +0000

Sometimes I get tired of mashing potatoes or baking them so I make this Tortilla a lot, it is something my mom always made for us as kids, and its so yummy and simple to make, try it out! Serve with a salad, or meat, or whatever you want!

Ingredients

6 Potatoes, any kind
4-5 eggs
2 tablespoons of milk
1 spanish onion or any onion of choice
6 slices of bacon
salt and pepper to taste

First gather your potatoes, peel and wash.

Chop them, I like them small some people chop them bigger.

Set aside your chopped potatoes, preheat some olive oil in a deep pan. Now chop your onions and cook for a couple of minutes, on medium heat.

Now add your chopped potatoes to the onions.

Mix and cook until tender, not soft, tender without them breaking apart, you may have to mix this several times to prevent sticking and to make sure they all cook evenly. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
In the meantime chop your bacon.

Cook your bacon in a separate pan until its a bit brown.

Remove and drain with a paper towel.

Add bacon to potatoes and mix.

mix eggs and milk

In a large bowl add egg mix, then potatoe mix and incorporate gently.

Return mix to the pan and cook for about 5-8 minutes on medium high heat.

Now here is the tricky part. Using a big plate or a lid cover your potatoes, you will have to turn around the whole thing and return it to pan so that both sides are cooked evenly.

Next without burning yourself turn it around. And slide it back gently to the pan!

Cook for another few minutes and you are done! Serve and enjoy with family.
Hugs to all!

Delfi

Backed up!

noreply@blogger.com (Delfi's Blog) — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:03:00 +0000

I have been super busy with life in general, taking care of kids, husband and busy with photography, lots of tiny babies coming my way to be photographed! processing photos individually takes time so my cooking blog will have to wait until I catch up with my clients! I am still cooking of course! and photographing step by step recipes, just haven't had the time to actually upload everything.

Check back in a week or so I should have some new stuff coming up!

Hugs to all!
Delfi

Pasta at home

noreply@blogger.com (Delfi's Blog) — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:48:00 +0000

I have not been able to find a pasta that I truly like, of course it is easy to buy the boxed pasta and cook when you are in a rush and you have 3 hungry kids, but let me tell you this was super easy and it only takes a couple of extra steps.

Give it a try, and you will see what pasta at home truly should taste like! and on top of that you are able to use all organic ingredients :)

Ingredients for the dough:
500g of white flour
3 eggs
1 egg yolk
1 teaspoon of olive oil
salt to taste
Water, just a little to incorporate ingredients

Ingredients for the bolognese sauce:

1/2 spanish onion chopped
2 garlic cloves, chopped
2 fresh carrots, shredded
1 tablespoon of fresh oregano
1/2 tablespoon of dried oregano
3-4 fresh basil leaves
1 tablespoon of sweet crushed peppers, remember I use the sweet kind not the spicy
1 lb of lean ground beef
1 jar of tomatoe sauce
1 fresh chopped tomato
1/2 cup of red wine

FOR THE DOUGH (you may do this by hand or in your mixer, I chose my mixer)

In the bowl of a mixer add flour, eggs, olive oil and salt.

Mix and add a little bit of water to form the dough, until a ball is formed, then place the ball on your working surface that has been dusted with flour to prevent too much sticking.

Work your dough for about 2-3 minutes.

Let your dough rest for 30 minutes at room temperature. Once it's ready roll it out into a rectangle, at this point you can roll it out to about 1/3 inch thick and cut the strings for the spaghetti or use a pasta maker like I will be doing.

Run the dough through the pasta maker and get it as thin as you can, if the length of your pasta is too long cut it in half.

Once you achieve the thickness you want run it through the fettuchini cutter.

Now you can laugh at this next step but this works great! I dry my pasta in hangers :) this way it does not stick together, you can cook the pasta for about 10 minutes now or you can dry it if you are not ready to cook it.

Once its ready cook your pasta for 10 minutes or until al dente in a pot of boiling water.

Now for the sauce.
Drizzle some olive oil in a pot and preheat, get the rest of your ingredients all chopped up and ready.

Add the onions first, cook for a few minutes, then add the remaining of the ingredients.

Cook for about 5 minutes on medium heat. Then add the wine and cook for 5 minutes.

Now add your ground beef, cook for about 5 minutes, add some salt and pepper and the rest of the dry herbs.

Add the tomatoe sauce, mine is home made, I just crushed a whole bunch of tomatoes with some water and added them into my blender with some seasonings, it looks like regular tomato sauce but it tastes much better!

Cook your sauce for 30-45 minutes on medium heat, serve with pasta HOT!!
Enjoy guys!

HUGS
Delfi

Milanesas de carne

noreply@blogger.com (Delfi's Blog) — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:59:00 +0000

I made chicken Milanesas a while back, this is the meat version of it. I like these better, goes great with fresh veggies, mashed potatoes or tasty rice!

Ingredients:

Any meat you have...really anything works, try using a lean cut.
Bread crumbs
2-3 eggs
Mozzarella cheese (optional)
Salt and pepper to taste

This is what im using, forgot what the cut is called. Perhaps you can recognize it once you see it.

I slice my meat into about 1 inch circles

Then I place them on my chopping board, cover them up with some plastic wrap and I pound them till they are half as thin or more, I like them thin, so I pound them a lot.

This is what mine look like, they have doubled in size.

I beat my eggs in a bowl.

I place one piece of meat at a time in my egg mixture

Then place your meat into the bread crumbs, make sure you coat both sides really well.

Preheat oven at 400 degrees. Drizzle a plan with some olive oil, not much, place your Milanesas and drizzle a little more oil on top.

Bake for about 10-12 minutes on each side, if you want cheese then bake for 12 minutes turn your milanesas over, top off with cheese and sprinkle some oregano on top, bake until cheese is melted.
Today I chose to serve this with raw veggies, I usually serve with mashed potatoes and a salad but we wanted something fresh.

Hope you enjoy this dish!!!!

LOVE
Delfi

Cuernitos Materos

noreply@blogger.com (Delfi's Blog) — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:53:00 +0000

What's mate? you may ask, here is a short explanation, for more just google it and you will find more :)

"Mate is as tea-like beverage consumed mainly in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and southern Brazil. It is brewed from the dried leaves and stemlets of the perennial tree Ilex paraguarensis ("Yerba Mate"). The name "Mate" derives from the quichua word "matí" that names the gourd (Lagenaria vulgaris) that is traditionally used to drink the infusion."

We drink mate in the morning and afternoon mostly and any time throughout the day to spend time with friends and have a good laugh. Mate goes great with this cuernitos, crunchy on the outside soft in the inside and of course with our traditional "facturas" which is sort of pastries, I will be talking more about those later!

Now let's get to the recipe

500 g of flour
15g of salt
1 stick of butter at room temperature, not too soft
15g of yeast, I buy it in a block, you need 15g of whatever yeast you have
200ml of lukewarm water

On your working surface or a bowl mix flour and salt.

Form a crown and add rest of the ingredients

Incorporate ingredients together until a dough is formed, these are my two helpers, a 4 year old and a 2 year old.

Work your dough until a soft ball is formed.

Dust your working surface with flour, roll your though to a rectangle

Sprinkle some flour on top of it

Fold your dough in half

Wrap it in plastic wrap and let it sit for 10 minutes.

Now after you let it sit for 10 minutes you must repeat this step 8-10 times. Roll dough, sprinkle flour, fold in half and let it rest for 10 minutes, the more you do it the better it is!

Once you are done, roll your dough, cut rectangles, I cut them too big but you may cut them smaller to get more cuernitos out of this.

Take a rectangle, it should feel thin, if its not roll it out a bit, take both edges and stretch your though, dont pull it so hard that it will break though.

I fold each edge like this

then i roll one side half way

then the other side till they meet in the middle.

Now twist them and overlap them with each other, and place them in a pan that has been previously brushed with soft butter.

Brush your cuernitos with water and let them sit for 25 minutes, this will make them raise even more. When you are ready bake at 325 for 30 minutes or until lightly brown.

When they are out, call your friends, have some mate, eat them warm or wait till they cool down, they are SUPER yummy either way!

Love you guys!
Delfi

Delfina K Photography

noreply@blogger.com (Delfi's Blog) — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:24:00 +0000

Hey everyone! I have been busy updating my photography website, please click on the name below if you would like to check it out :)

Delfina K Photography

And of course I have been doing a lot of cooking and documenting everything to share with all of you, I just have not had the chance to post it on the blog but HOPEFULLY (fingers crossed) I can update my cooking blog as well in the next few days, in the mean time have fun checking out my Photography site if you are into photography at all!

Hugs to all!
Delfi

Bugs!

noreply@blogger.com (Delfi's Blog) — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:15:00 +0000

I bought the kids the bug kits, to do research ;) I am not a huge fan of bugs at all but I thought they would have a blast catching them (with my help) and studying them.

So we got 3 spiders, a crab spider which is hiding on the top so you can't see her, but I did get a photo of it while she was free, don't worry we plan on letting them go in the next couple of days.

Smiley Crabby the kids named it. This is it when she was free.

and poor smiley crabby probably no longer smiley now she is in here, at the very top right.

along with 2 black widows who have become very good friends.

We need to feed them right? well I guess those little black beetles we caught last night weren't tasty enough for them, so today my brother helped the kids catch a fly, very fat and disgusting in my opinion if you think about where it's been....

Who knows it might be good dinner tonight. And he helped get 4 HUGE ants...red and fat and well not very pretty, but perhaps tasty. My kids sat for a long time waiting for the spiders to attack but I believe they eat at night? not sure...we have done research online to find out about all the insects in our little bug house, good stuff there!

Oh yes and in the kitchen we have a glass jar filled with caterpillars, hoping they will get fat and chunky and turn into butterflies and not something else...like a moth of some sort ;) more on that later....

Get out catch a bug and teach your kids all about it!

L.O.V.E
Delfi