Serrano Wrapped Chicken

Ingredients:

• 7-8 pieces of serrano ham
• 3 large chicken breasts 
• 8 oz cream cheese
• 2 tbsp butter 
• tbsp paprika or merken
• red bell pepper, chopped
• small red onion, minced
• half a zucchini cut into small pieces 
• Salt and pepper to taste

Instructions: 

1. Sautee the veggies and onions in the butter. 

2. In a seperate bowl work the paprika into the softened cream cheese. 

3. Butterfly the chicken and place it on the ham.

4. Spread the cream cheese mixture over the chicken and then spread some of the veggie mixture on top. Sprinkle with a litte salt and pepper.

5. Roll the ham over the chicken and secure with toothpicks. 

6. Place the rolled chickens on a buttered baking dish.

7. Bake in 325 F degree oven for 15-20 minutes. 

The most amazing food in Chile

This past summer I went down to Punta Arena and tasted some of the best food that I´ve had in Chile. It was so pretty too! The place was called La Marmita. Its the first place in Chile where I´ve asked for tap water and they brought me a jug of ice water with lemon wedges floating in it. I was in heaven! I loved it so much, I went twice. Unfortunately when I went for dinner there wasn´t enough lighting so my pictures didn´t really come out. My pictures for lunch turned out better.

Orange and beer marinated pork chops. There were potatoes hidden underneath the pork chop.



The chocolate pyramid had a harder outer shell with chocolate berry mouse inside.



Rainy Day Food

Normally Sundays are lazy days for all of us. This past Sunday it was also the first rain of the season (oh how I dislike winter). We decided to watch Saved (to educate Lizzie about the religious atmosphere found in the middle of the states). I was too lazy to leave the house to get ingredients so I used all the veggies I could find and some stuff in my pantry to make chili!! It also worked out that Katie brought over homemade pesto bread.

It was an amazing, unplanned, and delicious coincidence.

Pi Day (3.14)

Pi Day this year was a success! So many delicious pies (both savory and sweet).

Jorge was late to the festivities so we saved him portions of each dish, except for Katie´s deep dish pizza because that dissapeared quickly.

So I gave up baking for Lent (so much harder than I anticipated). I had to figure out what to contribute since I couldn´t bake any quiches or pies. I settled for a no bake peanut butter pie. For the crust I crushed some vanilla and chocolate cookies sprinkled in some brown sugar and used about 4 tbsps of melted butter so everything could stick together. I pressed the muxture onto the pan and I created  chocolate ganach with some heavy cream and cocoa powder and spread it over the crust. I put it it in the fidge while I made the filling. For the filling I took 1/2 cup of peanut butter, 1/4 cup of milk, 3 tbsp sugar, and a bar of cream cheese and whipped everything together. After everything was whipped up I incorporated some whipped cream until there was enough for the pie filling (about a cup). After pouring the filling into the pan I let it chill in the fridge for at least half an hour.