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How to Make Air Fryer Chicken Tenders and Italian Sausage

November 27, 2019 by Sandra 2 Comments

Thanks to NewAir for the Magic Chef Air Fryer featured in this video.

Hi, guys! In today’s video, I show you how to make italian sausage and homemade chicken tenders in the NewAir Magic Chef Digital Air Fryer! I make lunch for my kids and bring you along to cook with me. You’ll see me make delicious air fryer italian sausages and chicken tenders, and then for a side, I make tasty green beans on the stove.

I hope you enjoy the video, and, as always, thanks for watching! 🙂

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How to Make Mexican Rice, Cinnamon Steel Cut Oats, and Pork Loin Roast in the Pressure Cooker

November 22, 2019 by Sandra 2 Comments

Thanks to Cosori for sending me this product to try out and share in a video. I love it!

Hi, guys! Today, I’m sharing a video on how to make breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the Cosori Pressure Cooker! I share a steel cuts oats recipe, Mexican rice recipe, and a pork loin roast recipe.

In the video, you can see how I make cinnamon steel cuts oats and add some delicious granola and honey to it. Then I move onto lunch and make Mexican rice bowls with Mexican rice made in the pressure cooker, and I top my bowl with ground beef, lettuce, tomato, cilantro, cheese, and lime. YUMMMMM!!!!!

Finally, dinner is tacos made with a pork loin roast that I cook in the pressure cooker. It turns out juicy and delicious, and I top the tacos with lettuce, tomato, cilantro, cheese, and lime. The tacos are SO GOOD!! My family really loves these recipes, and I hope you do, too! 🙂

As always, thanks for watching!

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Do you have a pressure cooker? What are some of your favorite pressure cooker recipes?

Recipe: Stuffed Portobello Mushroom Burger

November 21, 2019 by Sandra 7 Comments

A special thanks to Good Cook for the Stuffed Burger Kit and Cast Iron Grill that I received
to create a recipe and share it.

Since we’ve cut down on the amount of meat we eat as a family, I’ve been searching for new ways to enjoy the foods we love but in healthier, meat-free versions.

One way to still enjoy a juicy burger that’s satisfying and meat-free is to replace the beef with a portobello mushroom. Trust me. You won’t miss the beef at all when you’re eating portobellos. They’re “meaty,” juicy, and delicious.

Stuffed Portobello Mushroom Burgers
You can even go a step further and STUFF the portobello mushroom with more veggies and other ingredients that pair well with mushrooms. In my latest encounter with portobellos, I decided to create a stuffed portobello mushroom burger that was simple yet satisfying. For some reason, I’m starting to develop a habit of creating recipes in hotel rooms…since that’s what happened again with this stuffed mushroom burger.

I put this simple recipe together during a family vacation in Florida, and it was so, so good!

Stuffed Burger Kit
The Good Cook stuffed burger kit I used in the creation of this recipe certainly came in handy. My favorite parts of the kit are the knife, flexible cutting board, spatula, and the stuffed burger press (also known as the burger stuffer). The stuffed burger press makes it simple and easy to create a mouthwatering stuffed burger.

Speaking of mouthwatering burgers, here’s the recipe for the Stuffed Portobello Mushroom Burger

Stuffed Portobello Mushroom Burgers

Ingredients

3 rolls or buns, sliced
3 small tomatoes, diced
1 cup spinach, roughly chopped
1.5 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon of olive oil
3 portobello mushrooms
6 slices provolone cheese
salt
pepper

Instructions

In a bowl, combine tomatoes and spinach then season with salt and pepper. Set aside.
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. You'll toast the buns in the oven.
In a skillet, heat one teaspoon of olive oil over medium heat.
Slather portobello mushrooms with the remaining 1.5 tablespoons of olive oil, season with salt and pepper, and then place them in the hot pan.
Cook mushrooms for 3 minutes per side, and then (gill side up), stuff them with the tomato spinach mixture.
Cover the pan and cook stuffed mushrooms for about 4 minutes.
Top each mushroom with 2 slices of provolone cheese, turn off heat, and remove the pan from the burner. The cheese will continue to melt.
Spread a little olive oil on the inside of the buns and place them in the oven to toast for 5 minutes.
Remove buns from oven and transfer to plates. Carefully place stuffed mushrooms on toasted buns and enjoy!

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What’s your favorite way to stuff a burger? Have you ever used portobello mushrooms in place of beef?

This blog post was originally published in 2013.

Deliciously Easy Carnitas Recipe and Green Salsa made with Kikkoman Soy Sauce

November 18, 2019 by Sandra 3 Comments

This is a compensated campaign in collaboration with Kikkoman and Latina Bloggers Connect.

My favorite food in the world is tacos.

I remember the summers I spent in Mexico as a kid, and the many times my family and I took a very familiar one minute stroll to our neighborhood taco stand to eat seriously scrumptious soft tacos. Oh, they were good!

Those are fond childhood memories that I’ll never forget. It is perhaps because of all those trips to the taco stand near my aunt’s house in Mexico that I love tacos so much today. 🙂

So Many Varieties of Tacos to Choose From

I have tried so many different types of tacos over the years, but if I had to choose just one that would win over the rest, it would be tacos filled with carnitas.

Yes, I have a deep fondness for carnita tacos. Can you blame me? 😉

Easy Carnitas Recipe

I know what you may be thinking, especially if you’ve never made carnitas at home before. You might be thinking that carnita tacos sound absolutely delicious, but they’re probably difficult and incredibly time-consuming to prepare. At least that’s what I thought before I started making this dish for my family.

You might be surprised to find out that it is not at all difficult to cook carnitas in your very own kitchen. It’s quite easy, and you can get that same authentic flavor infused into your homemade carnitas by using a versatile ingredient like Kikkoman soy sauce.

How to Cook Carnitas with Kikkoman Soy Sauce

I use Kikkoman soy sauce to enhance the flavor of the carnitas both before and during the cooking process. Beforehand, I marinate the meat in Kikkoman for thirty minutes before putting it into the oven. Then as the meat cooks, I add a little more soy sauce to bump up the flavor even further.

By doing things this way, the carnitas end up flavorful and mouthwatering.

Green Salsa or “Salsa Verde”

When it comes to Kikkman soy sauce and carnitas, I don’t stop at the meat. Part of the fun of eating tacos is about what you choose to put inside of your taco besides the meat, right?

For carnita tacos, green salsa is a fantastic accompaniment. And like carnitas, green salsa (also known as “salsa verde”) is easy to make at home.

Green salsa isn’t just spicy. It’s savory and adds a burst of freshness to your taco.

Carnitas and green salsa go very well together. To be honest, my eyes and my stomach both wanted tacos with green salsa as I sat and edited pictures for this blog post. 😉

Other Ideas for What You Might Include in Your Taco:

lettuce

tomato

avocado

lemon/lime

cilantro

pico de gallo

I’m hoping at this point you’re hungry and would like the recipes now. 🙂

Here is the Easy Carnitas Recipe:

Easy Carnitas

Ingredients

1 5-lb. bone-in pork shoulder butt roast, cut in half (feel free to trim a little of the excess fat)
5 teaspoons Kikkoman soy sauce
3/4 cup water
fine sea salt

Instructions

Place pork roast pieces in a large baking pan. Sprinkle sea salt all over the meat and rub both the tops and bottoms of the meat with one teaspoon each of Kikkoman soy sauce. Then cover the pan tightly with aluminum foil and place in the refrigerator to marinate for 30 minutes.
Adjust the oven rack to the middle position, and preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Once 30 minutes have passed, remove the meat from the refrigerator, uncover, and add water to the bottom of the pan. Then, once again, cover tightly with aluminum foil, and place the baking pan in the oven. Cook for 1 hour and 30 minutes.
Carefully remove the meat from the oven, remove the aluminum foil, then brush the top of the meat with one teaspoon of Kikkoman soy sauce and sprinkle with sea salt. Turn the temperature of the oven up to 425 degrees, place the now uncovered meat in the oven, and cook for 50 minutes more. *Very important: Flip the meat every 10 minutes during this time.
Once the meat is done cooking, remove it from the oven, flip it one more time, and then let it sit in the pan for at least 20 minutes to cool before shredding.
Once the meat is safe enough to handle, transfer it to a plate, and shred it.
Serve carnitas with warm corn tortillas and your favorite accompaniments.

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A few additional notes about preparing carnitas:

Bumping the temperature of the oven up to 425 degrees after the meat cooks for 90 minutes allows the carnitas to develop a nice outer crust.

My favorite way to prepare carnitas is in a glass baking pan. I’ve made them in a ceramic baking pan a couple of times, and while they still turned out great, I found that the carnitas cooked much faster in that type of pan, which meant that I had to keep a close eye on the oven.

Cooking times may vary depending upon the weight of the piece of meat you’re preparing.

Here is the Green Salsa Recipe:

Green Salsa (Salsa Verde)

Ingredients

3 to 5 tomatillos (Only 3 are needed, if they're medium in size. Use 4 to 5, if they're small in size.), husked and rinsed
3 cloves garlic, whole with skins left on
1 jalapeño chile, whole
5 to 7 green onions (also known as scallions), trimmed
1/2 teaspoon Kikkoman soy sauce
salt
pepper
water (optional)

Instructions

Place tomatillos, garlic, jalapeño chile, and green onions on a baking sheet. Then place the baking sheet in the oven, and broil ingredients on high for 5 minutes.
After 5 minutes are up, remove the baking sheet from the oven, and turn everything over. Repeat this step until ingredients are soft. *Very Important: Ingredients will not soften all at the same time. Once you notice an ingredient is soft, remove it, and place it on a plate to cool. Repeat this will the remaining ingredients until everything is cooling on the plate.
Once ingredients have cooled, peel the skins off the garlic, and remove the seeds from the jalapeño chile. Peel away any overly charred pieces of skin on the vegetables.
Place everything in a blender, add Kikkoman soy sauce, and a pinch of salt and pepper. Blend until smooth. *Optional: Add a little water until you get the consistency you desire.
Store in a sealed container in the refrigerator until you're ready to enjoy the green salsa with food.

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Carnitas and Family Time Together

If you’re a regular reader, you know that my family and I make a big deal about spending intentional time together every week. Well, I’m really looking forward to our next family day, which happens to be on Sunday.

The green salsa is already in the fridge, and my husband brought home the meat to make carnitas on that day!

I can’t wait. 🙂

What’s your favorite way to eat tacos?

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So Many Varieties of Tacos to Choose From

Easy Carnitas Recipe

How to Cook Carnitas with Kikkoman Soy Sauce

Green Salsa or “Salsa Verde”

Other Ideas for What You Might Include in Your Taco:

Here is the Easy Carnitas Recipe:

Here is the Green Salsa Recipe:

Carnitas and Family Time Together

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