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Vegetables and Salads

Caesar Salad (Ensalada Cesar)

The classic Caesar salad as we know it: romaine lettuce tossed with oil, eggs, Parmesan cheese, garlic, and other seasonings. Anchovies are optional.

Ingredients for Caesar Salad

  • 2 T olive oil
  • 1 clove chopped garlic
  • 8 leaves romaine lettuce
  • 1/4 cup croutons
  • 3 T Parmesan cheese
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 2 T red wine vinegar
  • 1 T Worcestershire sauce
  • dash Tabasco sauce
  • 2 T capers (optional)
  • 1 T lemon juice
  • black pepper
  • anchovy fillets to taste (optional)

Crush garlic and oil together. Add anchovies and capers and mash together well. Add egg yolks, then Worcestershire, lemon, Tabasco, vinegar. Mix well and allow to stand for 5 minutes. Toss with lettuce. Top with croutons and Parmesan. Serves 2

The Caesar Salad is said to have been created by Caesar Cardini (or his staff) in his Tijuana restaurant in 1924.

According to Rosa Cardini, the original Caesar salad […] did not contain pieces of anchovy; the slight anchovy flavor comes from the Worcestershire sauce. Cardini was opposed to using anchovies in his salad

Wikipedia contributors. “Caesar salad.” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 15 Apr. 2016. Web. 15 Apr. 2016.

Desserts and Sweets

Loretta’s Carrot Cake

With cream cheese icing

  • 1-1/2 cups flour
  • 3/4 cups sugar
  • 3/4 cups brown sugar
  • 1-1/2 t baking powder
  • 3/4 t salt
  • 1-1/2 t baking soda
  • 1-1/2 t cinnamon
  • 1/2 t nutmeg
  • 3 eggs
  • 1-1/4 cups oil
  • 3/4 cups nuts, chopped
  • 2-1/2 cups grated carrots

Sift together the flour, sugars, baking powder, salt, baking soda and spices. Add eggs and oil, nuts, and grated carrots. Stir well.

Pour into 9″ cake pan and bake at 350F for about 40 minutes. Cool and top with Cream Cheese Icing (see below)

FOR THE ICING

  • 8 oz. cream cheese, softened
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 2 t vanilla
  • 1 lb. icing sugar

Cream Cheese Icing:  Beat cream cheese and butter together. Add vanilla and icing sugar.

Noodles and Dumplings

Plum Dumplings

Ovocné Knedlíky

  • 1-1/4 T butter
  • 4 oz. cottage cheese
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/4 cup milk
  • 1-3/4 cups flour
  • 12 fresh plums, halved and pitted
  • Boiling salted water
  • 3 T melted butter
  • 6 T sugar

Cream butter, cottage cheese, egg yolk and salt; add milk. Stir in flour. Stir until dough leaves side of bowl and is not sticky. Cover and set aside for 30 minutes. Roll dough on floured board into a rectangle about 9 x 12″ and 1/4″ thick. Place a plum half in center and wrap dough around it into a round ball. Drop into boiling salted water. Cover and cook for 8 mins.; remove and drain. Sprinkle with melted butter and sugar.

Plum dumplings
A cat by Kati, satisfied, perhaps, at having just eaten a plum dumpling.
Desserts and Sweets

Butter Tarts

Pastry:

  • Mariposa, Carol 1990
    Mariposa, Carol 1990

    2 cups flour

  • 1 t salt
  • 3/4 cup shortening
  • 5 T ice water

To make pastry: sift flour and salt; rub shortening into the flour to form balls the size of small peas. Add water and mix with a fork. Knead slightly for form a smooth ball. Roll and cut to fit tart pans.

Filling:

  • 2 eggs, slightly beaten
  • 2 cups brown sugar
  • 2 T vinegar
  • 1 T vanilla
  • 1/2 cup melted butter
  • 1-1/2 cups raisins

To make filling: combine eggs, sugar, vinegar, and vanilla. Stir in melted butter and raisins.

Topping:

  • 1/2 cup whipped cream

Fill tart shells two-thirds full. Bake for 10 minutes at 450º F; reduce heat to 325º F and continue baking for 20 to 25 minutes. Serve topped with whipped cream.

Desserts and Sweets

Lenny-Lenny-Lenny cheesecake

  • 3 packs Philadelphia cream cheese
  • 16 oz. sour cream
  • 1-1/4 cup sugar
  • 5 eggs (7 small)
  • 2 t vanilla
  • Crescent roll dough

Ingredients should be at room temperature. Mix cream cheese, sour cream, sugar and vanilla. Add eggs, one at a time. Spread crescent roll dough in 13 x 9″ pan and fill. Bake for 50 minutes at 350F. Chill well and serve.

Lenny’s a friend of ours who used to spend plenty of time here in Mexico. Whenever there was a special occasion that needed food contributions, Lenny would make his famous cheesecake. It was always enjoyed and is a really easy recipe to put together.

Desserts and Sweets

Brazileiras

Brazilian Coconut Cookies

  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cups water
  • 4 egg yolks, beaten
  • 1/4 cup flour
  • 2 cups flake coconut
  • 1/2 t vanilla

In a ,combine sugar and water until dissolved. Cook without stirring to 230F (hard thread).

Mix yolks and flour and add 2 T of the hot syrup. Pour into syrup, stirring. Add coconut and simmer, low, until thick and stiff. Do not boil. Remove from heat and add vanilla. Cool.

Set oven to 375 F. Shape mix into balls. Arrange 1″ apart on a buttered cookie sheet and bake for 15 minutes or until delicately browned.

This type of Coconut cookie is also very common and popular in parts of Mexico. When we travel up into the Patzcuaro area I always pick up a golden coconut cookie, looking like a volcanic cone of toasted coconut, from the street vendors around the square and market there.

Desserts and Sweets

Loretta’s Chocolate Cake

Who doesn’t like chocolate cake? Loretta’s rich, dark, moist version has always been very much in demand in our family.

Ingredients for Loretta’s Chocolate Cake

  • 2 cups flour
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 cup butter
  • 4 squares shaved chocolate, unsweetened
  • 1 cup water
  • 1 t vanilla
  • 1/2 cup buttermilk
  • 1 t baking soda
  • 1 t cinnamon
  • 1 t vanilla
  • 2 beaten eggs

Preparing Loretta’s Chocolate Cake

For cake: Combine flour and sugar. Boil together the butter, shaved chocolate, and water. Pour over flour. Mix buttermilk, baking soda, cinnamon, vanilla, and eggs. Add to flour mixture and combine well. Bake at 350F for about 40 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.

For icing:

  • 3 squares chocolate, unsweetened
  • 3-6 T milk
  • 1 stick margarine
  • 1 box powdered sugar
  • 1 t vanilla

Boil together the chocolate, milk, margarine, and icing sugar. Spread over cooled cake.

 

Soups and Stews

Madrid Garlic Soup

One of the main differences between Spanish garlic soup and garlic soups of some other Eastern European countries is the addition of eggs. Many other garlic soups call for cubed potatoes, or cheese and cream, which also serve the thicken the soup.

Garlic

Ingredients for Madrid Garlic Soup

  • 1/2 cup olive oil
  • 8 crushed cloves garlic
  • 1 t paprika
  • 8 slices stale bread
  • 4 bouillon cubes
  • 1/2 t salt
  • 1/4 t pepper
  • 2 quarts water
  • 5 eggs

Heat oil in large skillet. Add and lightly brown garlic cloves. Do not overcook.

Stir in paprika. Brown slices of bread in oil mixture.

Transfer to a large kettle. In a large pot, combine bouillon cubes, salt, pepper and water. Heat until cubes are dissolved. Pour over bread. Bring to a full boil. Reduce heat and simmer 15 minutes.

Break eggs, one at a time, into kettle. Cover. Simmer until the whites are set. Servings: 6

Meatless Main Dishes

Papatzul

A typical dish from the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, made with a wonderful creamy sauce of ground pumpkin seeds. Paptzules are similar to enchiladas in that they are filled and rolled tortillas smothered in a sauce that has chiles in it but is not necessarily very spicy.

Ingredients for Papatzul

  • 3 cups hulled pumpkin seeds (pepitas)
  • 6 serrano chiles
  • 1 sprig epazote (or 2 tsp dry)
  • 3 cups hot water
  • 24 corn tortillas
  • 12 hard cooked eggs

Pulverize the pepitas in a blender. Add seeded chiles and epazote and blend again. Place in a pan and add hot water gradually, stirring. Do not boil. Bring to a bare simmer and cook until sauce is like cream. Dip tortillas in sauce, fill with sliced or chopped eggs, roll, place in a baking dish and cover with remaining sauce. Place in oven until just heated through.

pumpkin seeds - Pepitas

Desserts and Sweets

Mango Cake

  • 1/2 cup margarine
  • 1-1/2 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2-1/4 cups flour
  • 1/2 t baking powder
  • 3/4 t baking soda
  • 1/2 t salt.
  • 1 cup mashed mangoes

Cream margarine and sugar; add eggs. Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Add to egg mix alternately with mangoes.

Pour into greased and floured 9×13″ pan. Bake 30 minutes at 350F.