Recipes, Cooking tips, and Reviews
This year for Father’s Day I baked a simple cake to share with the family. It had two layers, was covered with cream cheese frosting and banana slices (the middle also had bananas). I personally love to use fruit to sweeten cakes – my favorite to use are strawberries (see an older post with an example of this).
I hope you and your family have a great Father’s Day!
Zulaika H.
Yesterday, my husband and I went to Smokey Bones for lunch. I haven’t had ribs for a while and I felt hungry so that’s what I decided to have – the Baby Back Ribs (just a 1/3 rack) with fries and cole slaw. I was surprised to actually like the slaw – it was very moist but still crunchy 🙂
Overall I’d rate our outing a 7 out of 10.
Location: https://plus.google.com/111789603078334239221/about?gl=us&hl=en
Zulaika
In our house, eggs and toast is the regular breakfast item. This is why I will not bore you with daily posts on what I eat in the morning. But just to have the example logged – so here it is.
I prefer my eggs over-easy (fried in butter), but occasionally we have them as an omelette or scrambled to mix it up. My daughter prefers her eggs scrambled so when she’s not having cereal or Farina I’ll make her eggs like this. I have no idea what my husband prefers for eggs because if I ever ask he’ll just say he’s happy with whatever I want that morning lol.
I had my breakfast with sweet tea (the Sweet Leaf tea I mentioned in an earlier post). By the time breakfast was done, I had already drank my first cup of coffee.
Thanks for reading,
Zulaika
A few days ago, I was thinking since moving into our new place we hadn’t had a taco night yet. Well it was more of a burrito – but does it really matter?
When marinating meat, we’ve found taking as much air out of the Zip Loc works best – the only way out for the sauce is actually INTO the steak 🙂 My mouth actually waters thinking of how good they smell when they’re in there for just a couple of hours.
Always remember, even if you just have an hour or even 30 minutes to marinate your meat – it’ll be well worth it in flavor when it’s time to eat.
One of my favorite things to put in my burritos are grilled peppers and onions. They’re so sweet and balance out the taste of the meat you put into your burrito. I sliced green, yellow and red peppers and yellow onions (1 of each). This would be enough for 4-6 burritos.
I put them in a pan with a small amount of extra virgin olive oil, which was already warm. After about 15 minutes at medium heat, this is what I got.
Maybe next time you can come over for some! Just kidding 😛
Thanks for reading,
Zulaika H.
I’m blessed to have a husband that enjoys grilling – and does a great job as well. Below are photos of the skirt steak (or churrasco in Spanish) Ruben prepared tonight. The meat was marinated for several hours and the end result was really tasty.
Here are a couple of garlic flavored Texas toast served alongside the roasted asparagus (below). A long time ago, we got my daughter to try these by telling her they just tasted like “green” French fries. She still really loves them.
Mmm… here’s what it all looked like right before we ate. It was very good.
Just a little background to explain the mixed title: I’m sure this has been mentioned before, but I am Puerto Rican. What you may not know is that my husband is Cuban.
Anywho – on Saturday we visited with my husband’s parents and brought home some left overs. Yesterday, I decided I would make some pork chops with the really good side dishes – white rice and Cuban white beans called “Judios”.
This blog has gone through a few transformations: First, counting calories was my goal (I was a mom with a toddler still trying to lose the baby weight). Then I moved to just blogging about all I ate without boring everyone with dieting notes. It’s been a little while but I have experienced several big changes in my life. I always tried to keep my personal life out of my blog and just focus on the food – but now that I am out of A-School and back home there’s too much going on not to share.
So welcome to the new…
Get In My Belly!
…and I’m really excited to share my stories in new fashion – of course while still including all the yummy food I consume 🙂
Thanks for reading!
Done!
Then after some light lollygagging I got the assignment to weed the garden by the quarterdeck (which I love to do anyhow). I can’t walk by it now without feeling a sense of pride – it looks good. That’s all I’m saying! Haha
Now when I get back from my lunch break I’ll work some more ’til about 3:30 p.m. Then we’re off for the day until we muster before bedtime. And this is what I’ll do for the rest of the week.
I plan to hit the gym or go for a run this afternoon.
P.S. The milk tastes like water so I’m not finishing that. But this white cheddar broccoli cheese soup is pretty good. Salad last…
Talk later,
Zoolsterr
