Carlota Lemon Pie

This week's recipe is a no bake pie known as Carlota Pie. It's really easy to make and pretty tasty! Normally the last layer is cream but I wanted to make it a little different and leave some cookies on top, making it easy to know where exactly to cut the pieces. Enjoy!!

Note: Please don't push down on the cookies, trust me. The first time I made it, it was not pretty...  just let them be, once you've placed them. I pressed down as I laid each cookie and all the cream that should be sandwiched between the cookies was pushed out. I ended up with a tightly packed block of cookies surrounded by cream. So remember to just place the cookies, don't press down!

Ingredients:

1 cream cheese
1 can of evaporated milk
1 can of condensed milk
1/2 cup of lemon juice



Procedure:

1. Add the evaporated milk
2. Add the cream cheese
3. Add the condensed milk
4. Add the lemon juice
5. Blend it all in the mixer
6. Start building the layers

Add the evaporated milk

Add the cream cheese

Add the condensed milk

Add the lemon juice.

Blend it all in the mixer

Start building the layers. First cream, then cookies.

Keep going until you're reached the desired height.

Enjoy!

Awesome Guacamole!

When I was a little kid (I think I was in second grade) I discovered the awesome flavor of avocado! So I decided to eat nothing but rice mixed with avocado all week long. And why wouldn't I? I'd just discovered that awesome buttery flavor. I had to, I needed to eat it every day! After making my mom buy lots of avocadoes and devouring it for lunch and dinner for seven straight days, (despite my mom's best efforts to get me to eat something else) I finally got an overdose of avocado! After that week I didn't even want to smell one!

So after nearly twenty years of not eating them I decided to bring them back into my menu. Oh avocado, I'm sorry for ever letting you go. What the hell was I thinking!! May I say, I've missed you!! We are a match made in heaven. Not that long ago I posted a refreshing salad. That recipe had avocadoes in it too. It just make me love them even more! So, avocadoes are in season rith now, and what better way of paying them a tribute than by making a sinfull, luscious and awesome guacamole!! After expressing my definite love for avocadoes... here is my recipe!

Ingredients:

white onion (half of a big one or a whole small one)
cilantro
tomato (large)
avocado
lemon juice
salt
pepper

Procedure:

First gather all your ingredients. 

Now start chopping your cilantro, white onion, and tomatoes.

Separate de avocado from the skin. The best way to do it is to scoop it with a spoon:

Cut the Avocado in half, take out the seed with a knife and put the spoon between the skin and the meat of the avocado. Carefully passit all the way and the skin comes right off!

Put the avocado in the bowl where you are gonna make the guacamole. With the same spoon roughly chop the avocado.

Then add the other ingredients to the bowl and start mixing. Add lime juice to taste. The juice is important because it keeps the avocado from going brown with oxidation. Finally add salt and pepper to taste.

Finally,time to eat! You can eat it on tortilla chips, in tacos, burritos, with meat (like in the picture) or just enjoy it by itself!

Whiskey Sour

Well, this is definitely not a dessert and my hubby apparently loved it! For my taste it’s a little strong. I guess I’m not a huge fan of whiskey or maybe the whiskey I chose is not the best. I think that may be the reason; let’s face it I don’t have a lot of knowledge about alcohol but I’m trying. If any of you guys knows more about this please let me know how can I get better. Hope you guys have an amazing week! Enjoy!

Ingredients:

1 measure lemon juice

2 measures blended whiskey

1 teaspoon confectioner’s sugar

Cracked ice cubes

Slice of lemon and cocktail cherry, to decorate ( I didn't used it. )

Procedure:

Add the lemon juice.

Add the whiskey.

 Add the confectioner's sugar.

Shake well over the cracked ice.

Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

 Enjoy!

Lemon Tea Cakes

I know I said last post I wasn’t gonna make more desserts for at least a week. But can we really consider this a dessert? At least I don’t consider it a dessert, it’s more like a snack and it goes really good with tea or coffee. Even though it has sugar you don’t really taste it. It’s like a cross between a scone and a cupcake.  This recipe yields a lot of them so I really recommend making a half batch. Hope you guys like it. My hubby devoured them!  Enjoy!

Ingredients:

1-½ cups of butter, softened

1 package of cream cheese, softened (8 oz)

2-¼ cups sugar

6 eggs

3 Tablespoons of lemon juice

2 teaspoons of lemon extract

1 ½ teaspoons grated lemon zest

3 cups of all-purpose flour

Glaze:

5 ¼ cups of confectioner’s sugar

½ cup plus 3 tablespoons 2% milk

3 ½ teaspoons lemon extract

Procedure:

Preheat oven at 325 degrees.

In the bowl of a stand mixer add butter.

Add the cream cheese.

 

Add the sugar.

Cream until fluffy.

Add eggs, one at a time

Beat in the lemon juice, the lemon extract and the lemon zest.

Add the flour and mix until combined.

Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.

 While baking make the glaze. Combine all ingredients well.

When the lemon cakes come out of the oven let them cool for 3 to 5 minutes and then dip the top’s in the glaze. Let them set on a piece of parchment paper.

Enjoy!!

Blue Lagoon Cocktail

 

My favorite drink at the moment is blue curacao sour. I don’t like the color blue that much, but with this blue I’m in love! So I decided to start looking for cocktails where the main ingredient is blue Curacao and after some trial and error, and after trying some not so good cocktails… I found my new love: blue lagoon! 

Ingredients:

1 measure blue Curacao

1 measure vodka

1 Tablespoon dash of lemon juice

Lemon flavored soda (7 up)

Procedure:

Pour the Curacao into a chilled highball or cocktail glass.

 

Add the vodka.

Add the lemon juice.

 Finally top off with the lemon-flavored soda.

Enjoy!

My Cosmo...

Hi Again! This is my version of a cosmopolitan because the one I made on the last post was to strong for me. So I decided to play with the ingredients until I got a nice cocktail for my taste. Hope you guys enjoy them too!

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Ingredients:

1 measure vodka (1 ounce)

1/2 measure Triple Sec

1/2 measure lemon juice

2 measure cranberry  juice

cracked ice cubes

Procedure:

Mix all ingredients.

Shake all the liquid ingredients over cracked ice untol well frosted.

Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Enjoy!

Macerated Blueberries

This is definitely my new obsession! Another recipe of macerated fruits! One fruit isn’t enough! I must do them all! :)  Enjoy!

Ingredients:

1 pound of frozen Blueberries

3 Tablespoons of white sugar

1/2 Tablespoon of lemon juice

Procedure:

  Measure the pound of Blueberries on a scale.

   Put the Blueberries in a bowl and add the sugar.

Now add the lemon juice.

  Mix it well cover the bowl with cellophane paper.

  Wait until the Blueberries defrost and you see the syrup.

 Enjoy!!

Tips:

You can use this Blueberries syrup on ice cream or custards or cheesecakes!