Magic!

These are magical cookies indeed!!! one because they disappear before your eyes before you can say: "who wants another one" and second because they bring any guy you give’em to, to their knees! PROVEN spell (recipe) just ask! LOL :)

Healthy Food

Healthy Food: Homemade Whole wheat Chocolate chip cookies (suagr-free)

Healthy Food: Homemade Banana-Nut whole wheat bread

PASTILLAGE

Pastillage @ El Centro College Dallas,TX

Amber cutting pastillage

Jones air brushing his gazebo

working on pastillage gazebo

Amber's Rooster

Alison's Gazebo circa 2000!

Air brushed pastillage rooster

Pastillage Rooster with royal icing

Swiss Clock made out of pastillage

Kellogg's rooster!!! in pastillage by Monica

Fred's detailed gazebo

pastillage centerpiece

pastillage purse

Esther's pastillage house

my gazebo

My pastillage gazebo back detail

My pastillage gazebo front

colorful pastillage gazebo

Pastillage Piano

Sunflower gazebo

VEGGY FEST!!! @ El Centro many thanks to the Basic Food Prep next door for feeding us!

PASTA DAY!!! @ El Centro many thanks to the Basic Food Prep next door for feeding us!

Mom's EMPANADAS

Painfully weighing the dough balls...perfection don't come easy you know!

making the empanada disks with the "tortillera"

CAJETA or Dulce de Leche / Magical filling of my childhood!!! As a child I used to sit in the table of the kitchen where these where been made and I would patiently wait until my mom or my nanny who would help make'em get distracted and I would gulp on a spoon full of cajeta� of course after that I was kicked out of the kitchen BUT NOT FOR LONG!!!! LOL

"repulgo" the Spanish word for the delicate curl to seal the empanada... a true art in it self as not everyone knows how to do it... I inherited my repulgo from my mom, would not let me make empanadas sealed with a fork!!! G. forbid! Repulgo can also be used to make pie crust edges.

lined up and waiting for their journey in the oven

Cinnamon & sugar bath

128 !!!! HANDMADE empanadas... FYI ( ( 70 ) ) of these disappeared in the first minutes of me announcing they where ready!!!! THE POWER OF FOOD! LOL

Saturday Lunch

Saturday Lunch @ home / Spicy pasta (rotini), Gratin Dauphinoise, Mixed vegetables and Baked Italian Chicken + Cream of Zucchini

Making a Gratin Dauphinoise @ home

PRACTICUM: YUMMY Pecan Turnovers...I did a few of this with the leftovers from the pecan tarts in my practicum job...

PRACTICUM

PRACTICUM: Pecan Tart

PRACTICUM: Pecan triangles

PRACTICUM: Chocolate Chip Muffins

ADRIANA IN THE KITCHEN!!!

My good friend Adriana has finally made me the honor to participate in my blog!!!!! YES!!!! Thank you Adri for your submissions! She has made for us some nice Summer Fruit Salad and a Potato salad which her husband swears is the best!!! Adri credits her inspiration came from watching Giada De Laurentiis show "Everday Italian" on the FoodNetwork. All the BEST Adri and keep'em coming!!!

Casa Vieja

This is an empanada platter from: Casa Vieja Restaurante (972) 416-8172
1927 E Belt Line Rd
Carrollton, TX 75006 In casa Vieja you'll find wonderful colombian food! This pic is back from april the pic was taken with my camera phone so it is not the best but never the less the food was SUPER the empanadas are meat and potato filled with a crispy skin...the salad was very fresh with a nice misterious dressing. The sauces you see above the plate where to die for!!!!! tangy comb. of vinegar, tomato + shallots plus other stuff ??? Either way it is worth a visit specialy on weekend nights the place is packed with a rythm filled crowd that came not only for the good food but to dance! It's a small, intimate restaurant and nightclub with blue and green-checkered tablecloths and cozy aqua-colored booths. Live music, dancing and TV viewing gives it a festive atmosphere.