If looks could kale- Kale avacado Caesar salad

  Very simple recipe: 

• One Avacado diced
• Croutons
• Black kale, de-stemmed and cut into ~1/8 inch strips
• Dressing 1:1:1 juice of one lemon:olive oil:commercial caesar  dressing
• Shredded parmesan

 
And of course an unrealated screencap from bob's burgers

Thanksgiving leftover turkey tamale recipe.

Modified from: http://www.sonofthesouth.net/tamales/Tamales_Recipe_.htm

Supplies:
Left over turkey, giblets and bones for making turkey broth.
Salt, paprika, cumin, hot sauce.
2lbs Masa
canola oil
Corn shucks (start soaking in warm water when you make to dough)
Big double boiler pot

Dough:
1) Boil the giblets and carcass in a big pot of water to make a large amount of turkey broth at least 2 quarts.
 2) Mix 2lbs of Masa (one half bag) with cumin, salt and paprika.
 3) Add 2 cups canola oil to the flour.
4) Slowly add ~2 qt. warm turkey broth to the dough mixing until it forms an nice thick paste. almost as thick as peanut butter.

Meat:
1) Shred leftover turkey, dark meat preferred
2) Add canola oil to leftover turkey until thinly coated.
3) cumin, salt, hot sauce, paprika to taste.

Assembly/Cooking:
1) soak the husks in warm water
2) apply the dough and turkey and roll as shown below
3) put in your double boiler and bring to a boil
4) reduce to medium and let cook for 2 hours
5) take out of boiler and let sit for 10min prior to enjoying
6) apply cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, gravy or whatever if available

DIY COFFEE: Homegrown homeroasted... Single bean style.

Working to prepare for the apocalypse... which ever is currently in vogue. I think meteors currently. To that effect here is how I grew, roasted and brewed my own coffee. All be it on a small scale. Do you like small scale brewing? Check out my growing and brewing my own beer.

Coffee flowers on my Arabica plant. These are the first ones and the plant is now 7 years old.

The first coffee bean.... so pretty. Once it was somewhat soft to the touch I put it in a mesh bag (the kind fruit comes in) and left it hang in the LA sun for a few hot days.

This is what it looks like dried.

 I then peel the bean with my fingers.

The coffee beans then go into the Air Popper until they are a nice light roast.

 Roasted!

 Grinding. Would be lost if I put it in the regular grinder.

Don't forget to pre-heat the morter and pessel. Yum!... sort of. Tasted a little bit like light coffee peanut butter.

Tonic Water Recipe for Sodastream

As a gift I received the ingredients and recipe for tonic water for my Sodastream. (or direct SodaStream)
-Cinchona Bark (3/4c )
-Citric Acid (1/4c)
-allspice (about 10 berries)
 -sprinkle of salt
-water (1qt)
-agave syrup (1c)
-dried lemon grass (one packet)
-limes (3)
-lemon
-orange

Zest and juice all of the fruit then mix all of the above ingredients (except agave) in a pot and boil then simmer for 30min.
  After boiling strain with a larger strainer then after a coffee filter.

After filtering add one cup of agave syrup and heat to dissolve. Once cool mix 1:3 with gin and add ice, lime wedge and sodawater. The tonic is not very sweet so additional agave syrup to taste

This recipe is modified from the internet, another in this book. Homemade Soda: 200 Recipes for Making & Using Fruit Sodas & Fizzy Juices, Sparkling Waters, Root Beers & Cola Brews, Herbal & Healing Waters, ... & Floats, & Other Carbonated Concoctions

DIY Orangina recipe for Sodastream or soda water

Orangina is simply made of a mix of concentrated citrus juicee, high fructose corn syrup(HFCS) and soda water. I have not been using HFCS in any of my homemade sodas, Though I may eventually. In any case this recipe uses white sugar.

 When I was a kid i would try to make this by simply adding orange juice to soda water but this does not get you enough orange/sugar per volume as all the water in the orange juice is not carbonated. The trick to this recipe is you are taking the water out of the orange juice and making a concentrated syrup to add to soda water... Lets go.

 Here is what you need:

-white sugar
-a variety of citrus fruits, in this case two types of oranges, 1/2 grape fruit and a lemon
-a way to juice oranges...you know like a juicer please don't buy a fancy one. You don't even really need an electric one unless you are gonna do a lot of oranges.
-soda water or Sodastream, or direct SodaStream

1) Juice them fruits. Leave in some pulp.
 2) Pour the juice along with 3/4c white sugar into a nonstick pan and heat on low. Watch out it will foam up. you will need to keep an eye on it. Over time it will thicken up.

3) Heat till its thick. Once it is nice and thick. about the thickness of ____ . Take it off the stove and transfer to the freezer. It should not freeze! if it does you did not get enough water out and need to heat it again.

4) now add 2 TBSP to the bottom of a small glass and pour soda water on top.
5) drink up.

FAQ: 
When I mix soda water with my syrup it bubbles over WTF?
-Avoid this by making sure both the water and syrup are cold and always add the syrup first and soda second. 

Homemade ginger ale recipe. Syrup method for SodaStream.

Ingredients for ginger ale syrup:
1 quart water (can be made with SodaStream)
ginger root
1 lime
1 lemon
1c white sugar
1.5c brown sugar
0.5 cup honey

You will also need to buy soda water or make your own soda water.

Zest the lemon and lime. I did this with my new hand held citrus zester
Juice the lemon and lime.
Peel and then grate the ginger.
Mix the juice and zest with the rest of the ingredients in a sauce pain and simmer for 30 min.
Allow to cool.
Strain with a tea filter.

Finally mix the syrup 1:5 or to taste with soda water.

Take it one step further and make your own soda water. Or carbonate with fermentation. My previous recipe for self carbonated spicy ginger ale . More recipes for soda in this great book Homemade Soda: 200 Recipes for Making ....


Like this. Try my orangina recipe

Flour tortillas from scratch recipe

Mix:
1.5 cup flour
1tsp baking powder
1tsp salt
Add 3 tbsp canola oil and stir. Will have chunks of oil.
Add 1/2 cup warm water slowly while stirring.

Allow it to sit briefly until cool. Then roll it into a ball and cut into 8 pieces.
Coat each 8th with flour roll thin.
Fry on high heat quickly flip one time

simple skirt stake marinade for tacos.

This was so good i had to make a note to myself:
cumin (lots)
tapatio (some)
lime juice (lots)
salt.

American Flag Jello Recipe

This in the new standard for fourth of july jello.

The tricks to this sweet and patriotic (For Americans) dessert are layers, throwing out perfectly good food (USA!), Patience (BOO!), and top secret white jello (recipe below). The rest is obvious.

This way is the tricky way. But it is the only way to let everyone have their own flag (socialism). If this looks too tough (or too equitable) there is a more simple method that is also quite attractive here

If both of these methods look tough may I suggest making a Libyan flag (all green) or just eating the tasty jello right out of the packet. 

as a last resort American flag jello molds can be purchased on the web:


ON TO THE RECIPE

Needed is:
3oz packet red jello
3oz packet blue jello
plain gelatin
sweetend condensed milk

Advanced jello makers:
coconut or marshmallow

3oz pack of blue jello as directed in a 6cup rectangular Pyrex dish! Optional is to add some cut up marshmallows, coconut or other white thing for the stars.

Cut the blue jello in half and discard one side. Make a 3oz container of red jello and pour up to ~1/5 of the height of the blue. This will form much quicker then the full time listed on the packet because the container is already cool and the stripe is so thin.

How to make white jello: Mix one half cup of cool water with two packets of plain gelatin. wait 5 min. Add one half cup hot water and stir till uniform. Then add a small can of sweetened condensed milk and stir. This is how you make the white jello stripes. Add this to make another stripe and refrigerate.

Alternate between the red and white (duh). If you leave the red out at room temp it will stay liquid until needed (so nice of it). The white will congeal to a tasty but sticky mess. You gonna microwave and stir the white before you pour each time, but not too hot as you don't want to melt the existing stuff.

Keep going! When done it can be flipped on to a cutting board. Might need to run some warm water or run a knife around to get it out in one piece (desired outcome).

slice and serve.

NEXT.... American flag cake recipe.
Also can you believe that there is a webpage called my jello americans? amazing name.