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1st ANNIVERSARY, PINEAPPLE CHEESECAKE AND AN AWARD

Anniversary, Award, Dessert, Vegetarian 71 Responses »

Feb 082010

Simple Recipes 1st anniversary…I cannot believe that has been a whole year since I started this site. I want to thank you all for the support that I have been receiving daily…it has been a year full of new experiences and joys. It has been really fun to meet and get to “talk” to people all around the world and learn a little bit of you life, things that you like, things that you don’t like…

To celebrate my blog anniversary I want to share a special recipe for cheesecake. This pineapple cheesecake is light and you just cannot have enough of it…actually I made 3 of them!!! Moreover, with the drained pineapple juice from the crushed pineapple cans I made pina colada by adding Malibu to the juice and marinated chicken, which I’ll post next week…

Ingredients:
3 8oz cream cheese
4 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 20oz crushed pineapple (no sugar added), drained

Ground cinnamon to taste

2 16oz sour cream
10 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

3 ready made pie crusts

Preparation:
Whip the cream cheese until light and fluffy, add the eggs one at the time by continuous beating. Once the eggs are added to the cream cheese, add the sugar and the vanilla extract. Mix for 1 more minute and fold the crushed pineapple into the cream cheese mix.
Pour the cream cheese mixture into the ready made crust and bake for 25~30 minutes at 350F.
Remove the cheesecake from the oven and let them cool down. Sprinkle the cakes with cinnamon. In the meantime mix the sour cream with the sugar and vanilla extract.
Pour on top of the cheesecake and bake for 5 minutes at 375F. Let it cool and refrigerate for at least 4 hours before serving.

Now the award…I will be brief, I don’t want to get you bored…

This Happy 101 award was sent to me by Shaz at Test with Skewer and Kristy at My Little Space, I feel very flattered for receiving this award and really appreciate

I am passing this award to 10 bloggers friends, random order:

1. Anna at Chef Wanabe
2. Sook at My Fabulous Recipes
3. Joanne at Eats Well with Others
4. Mimi at Mimi’s Kitchen
5. Erica at Itzy’s Kitchen
6. Doggybloggy at Chez What?
6. Peachkins at The Peach Kitchen
7. Barbara at Moveable Feasts
8. Blond Duck at A Duck in Her Pond
9. Gloria at Canela Kitchen Recipes
10. Zita at Simplicious

Did you know that pineapple was first discovered by the Spaniels in Brazil? The original name of pineapple, ananas came from the Tupi language (used by the Brazilian indigenous). Now pineapple is spread throughout South America, Caribbean, Philippines, Hawaii, Zimbabwe (former Republic of Rhodesia, Africa) and Guam (South Pacific Island).

BREAKFAST WITH MEAT SAUCE AND AN AWARD

Award, Breakfast, Egg, Leftover 50 Responses »

Nov 232009

Everytime that I cook meat sauce for pasta I end up with lots and lots of sauce…and I just feel that having the same dish over and over is not that much fun.
After trying to invent different things with the meat sauce I remembered one time at Disney World in some restaurant we were served for breakfast poached egg over a kind of meaty red sauce…so here I am! By the way, you guess was right Grace!

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Ingredients:

Left over meat sauce
2 zucchinis
2 carrots
1 cup frozen bell pepper (red, yellow and green)
Salt and pepper to taste

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Preparation:

In a pan add the chopped zucchini, carrot to the meat sauce. Cook for approximately 5 minutes. Add the frozen peppers, salt and pepper to taste. Let is simmer for another 5 minutes. In the meantime make poached eggs. I add some vinegar to the boiling water so the egg “clots” and the egg white will not spread all over the boiling water.

Assembley:

In a bowl, spoon the meat sauce with the veggies and add the poached egg on top. Serve warm…it is delicious, I on purpose like to break the egg yolk into the meat sauce, is so yummie…

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Now the award…
I got this award from Palidor at Crazy Asian Gal. Thank you Palidor, very sweet of you

From my understanding I should list 7 things about myself:

1. Love to spend time with my family.
2. Love traveling, came back from Atlanta from a Halloween party, Las Vegas a couple of days ago and will go to Dominican Republic in December.
3. Love music, specially classical.
4. Love reading, just finished “Belong to Me” by Marisa de Los Santos.
5. Enjoy a glass of red wine every night.
6. Love living near the beach, moved to the beach area in May.
7. Do not like reptiles, sorry snake and lizards lovers…

And pass to 7 bloggers:

1. Wiffy at Noob Cook
2. Wendy at Pink Stripes
3. Barbara at Moveable Feast
4. Faith at Thought 4 Food
5. Gaga at Gaga in the Kitchen
6. Erica at Itzy’s Kitchen
7. Fresh Local and Best

CHOCOLATE CHIFFON MINI CUPCAKES AND...I GOT AN AWARD!

Award, Cake, Dessert, Vegetarian 59 Responses »

Aug 172009

Let’s go for the cupcakes first and then the award.

I made these cupcakes especially for my little nephew Nicholas, since I had prepared some vanilla cupcakes with pineapple frosting and knew that Nick loves chocolate…I could not let him down. Instead of regular cupcake recipe I thought that it would be a good idea to use a lighter batter and frost with marshmallow, which is sweeter… so here is the recipe.

Ingredients:
4 tablespoon all purpose flour
2 tablespoon chocolate powder
6 tablespoon sugar, divided into half
¼ teaspoon baking powder
2 tablespoon vegetable oil
2 eggs
2 tablespoon water
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
¼ teaspoon cream of tartar

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Preparation:
Preheat oven to 325F, Sift flour, chocolate powder, baking powder and salt into a small bowl. Separate the eggs carefully. Add the cream of tart to the egg whites and mix using a clean and dry beater until stiff, add the other half sugar and continue to beat until flip upside down it does not fall.
Add the oil to the egg yolk and beat until the color is a pale yellow, add the other half sugar and continue to beat. Add the water and the vanilla extract, beat until well mixed. Add the dry ingredients and beat for more approximately 2 minutes.
Gently fold the egg whites to the batter using a spatula, make sure that you mix very gently. Pour the batter to the cupcake forms and bake for 8 to 10 minutes.
Frost the mini cupcakes with ready made marshmallow and garnish with cherry.
Makes 24 mini cupcakes.

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Did you know that cocoa in chocolate have potential health benefits? One of the suggested beneficial effects of cocoa or dark chocolate includes the circulatory system. It seems that epicatechin, a substance found in cocoa possess an antioxidant effect.

Now the award…

Since I am fairly new in the blogging affair, when I saw that I got an award from Lisa at Parsley, Sage, Desserts and Line Drives….by the way, thank you Lisa, you are an inspiration! I was happy and at the same time scared…and my brain went a million miles per hour: What should I do? How should I copy the logo? To whom should I pass it to? Let me tell you, I went through a very terrifying moments…even afraid to open my blog and had to deal with the award issue…well, I after a good night sleep I decided that I could manage and here I am passing the award.

Before passing the award I have to confess to Sophie at Sophie Foodiefiles that when she gave me a Humane award back in July 2009, I was a little lost and did not know what to do with it…should I pass or just keep it quiet…I am sorry if the award should be passed and got stuck with me.

One more thing…I do not want to be sentimental, but I’d like to thank you all for the support of this past 6 months, it has been incredible what I’ve learned, so only how to mix and match food but facts and stories of your life, sometimes funny sometimes sad, either through words or pictures, it all made me understand and appreciate the personality behind the blogs. It is all so fascinating!

There are so many people that I’d like to pass the award, but I am allowed to only 13 people so I had to struggle again…please go visit their sites and enjoy! And you that got the award, please pass it to 13 other people.

Natasha at 5 Star Foodies
Grace at A Southern Grace
Hannah at Bitter Sweet
Sophia at Burp and Slurp
DoggyBloggy at ChezWhat?
Talita at Chocorango
Lisa at Dandy Sugar
Cassie at Foodie with Little Thyme!
Erica at Itzy’s Kitchen
Teanna at Spork of Foon
Crystal and Amir at The Duo Dishes
Catherine at The Unconfidential Cook
Kim at The Ungormet