Tomatillo Salsa

This yummy salsa is vegan, green, refreshing, and delicious!!

Again I am using beautiful veggies from my brother and sis in-laws garden!

If you've never had this salsa, try it.  So yummy!!
It's great with chips, and later in the week I'm going to use it in some burritos.
While I was making this last night I was also enjoying one of these.  If you like cider, give them a try!!

Indgredients:

12 tomatillos husked and roughly chopped

2 serano peppers mostly seeded. If you want it really hot, don't seed or stem

1 lime juiced

1 small garden red onion

1/2 small garden white onion

2 cloves of garlic chopped

splash of apple cider vinegar

Salt and Pepper to taste

Method:

Put everything in the blender and blend until smooth

Add the liquid to a pan and heat just until boiling, then immediately turn to low for about 15-20 minutes.  Mixture will thicken.  Turn off the heat and let is cool.  Serve warm or cold. with chips!!

Yum!

Migas

This is kinda like a mexican style frittata.  I have some beautiful veggies from my brothers garden and leftover corn tortillas, so migas for dinner.  This meal is vegetarian though could easily be made vegan by substituting the cheese and eggs for tofu.

I'm so lucky to have family with awesome gardens.  I'm making a lot of mexican style meals this week and things with potatoes because that's what I have.  I try to do my best to spend as little as possible to keep us on budget and find ways to use up what we have.

So, all the veggies for this dish we from the garden and I added herbs from my herb pot. And the eggs are from my mother in-law.  Those are the only eggs we use.

This is a simple yummy meal for breakfast or dinner.  I served the migas with a side of fried potatoes with herbs, and some salsa, and sour cream.  Also, I dice stuff really small because I have a one year old, but you don't have to do so.

Serves 3  Adjust amounts for your family

Ingredients:
4 corn tortillas cut into strips
1 serano pepper seeded, stemmed and diced
1 tiny red onion diced
1 half of a small white onion diced
2 small tomatoes diced
4 beaten eggs
1/2 cup or less of cheddar cheese
a little olive oil for pan
salt and pepper to taste
juice of half lime (optional)
chopped cilantro (optional)

Cut torillas in half and then in strips. Fry until golden.
Add pepper and onions for about 3 minutes.
Add tomatoes for another 2 minutes.
Add in your beaten eggs and just when they're about set, top with how much cheese you want.
Cover until cheese is melted, sever hot

It's yummy and easy, try it!

Vanilla Ginger Cupcakes With Lime Glaze

So, I had some ginger and I didn't want it to go to waste so I came up with these yummy vegan treats!

All baking I do is vegan and most things I cook are as well. 

Anyway,  these are easy and yummy! Make sure you fill the cupcake tin evenly.  They rise a lot, but that's okay!

I would say I had about an inch or so piece of fresh ginger. You just have to peel and grate.  It's easiest to grate in a food processor.  Just remove any chunks after that didn't get chopped.

Ingredients:

1 cup self-rising flour
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1 cup sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 cup grated fresh ginger (if there's more that's ok, I wouldn't use less though.  Grate in food processor)
3 tsp vanilla
2 tbl spoons of vegetable oil
zest from 1 lime
1 tsp cider vinegar
1 cup vanilla almond milk

Method:
Preheat oven to 350
add flours, sugar, baking powder, and cinnamon to large mixing bowl. Stir together. Grate your ginger and add to bowl along with the rest of the ingredients.  Use a silicone spatula to mix gently, but completely.

Line cupcake tin with baking cups or spray with a non stick spray.
Fill all cupcake holders evenly about two thirds full or less, these rise a lot.
Bake for 15-20 minutes. Remove from oven and cool completely


Lime Glaze

Ingredients:
juice from 1 juicy lime
1 tsp vanilla
9 Tbl spoons of powder sugar

Method:
In a small bowl add lime and vanilla; stir together
Add sugar and few tbl spoons at a time and wisk together.
It will get thicken once you have added all the sugar


Using a butter knife cut a slit in to every cupcake about half way through.  Doing this will allow the glaze to fall into the center of the cupcake, which makes for a tasty surprise!  Spoon the glaze generously over each cupcake.
The longer they sit, the better it absorbs and the better they taste!!
Enjoy!!