Does good food have to be difficult to make and expensive?

In my opinion, absolutely not!!

Tonight I decided to do something simple, inexpensive and delicious.

I remember that I used to love, when my mom made fried meatball burgers.

So, that was what I made today.

There’s no recipe; just get ground beef in a bowl, an egg, and all the spices you like. I used parsley, chopped onions, chopped garlic, black pepper and salt.

Give the meatballs the shape your heart desires.

Get some oil in the frying pan, just enough to cover half of the meatball. Don’t overheat it, or it will burn the outside and remain raw on the inside.

Get a baguette or French bread roll, and put whatever your heart desires in it, with the meatballs, and have fun!!

See yall tomorrow.

Why do we cook?

I think there’s no right or wrong reason. Some guys or girls just do it to impress their possible mates. I confess, I've done it. Some just do it to feed their family; definitely and probably the best kind of cooking. If your mom and/or dad did thatfor this reason, there’s probably one dish they prepared, you will always remember, and it'll make your mouth water and memories wander, when you sniff it anywhere.

Today I just do it because I love food and it’s one of the best ways to show love and caring to the ones that you care for.

I love to eat what I cook, and definitely my roughest critic, but even when my crazy combos don’t work out so well, and believe me it happens more frequently than I’d like, I don’t beat myself up, just laugh it off and go straight to my next experience.

I decided not to do a recipe blog just share a cooking tips ingredients and experiences.

That being said, tonight it worked out.

The wine was Santa Alvara 2005 from Rapel Valley in Chile, inexpensive and it went really great with the dish that has the main character the filet mignon.

My fried Rodrigo gave a tip on a special sauce for pasta, stubborn as I am; I decided that it would go very well with meat.

I decided to make garlic rice with garlic and cashew nuts and raisins to go with the steaks.

You just slice the garlic very thin, golden fry them on olive oil, just be careful not to go overboard, too much and it will make it bitter.

Add the rice mix it, fry it a little and add the water and let it get ready, I’m not going to teach anyone to make rice, lol.

Spice the steaks with salt and ground black pepper put a descent amount of butter in the very hot frying pan, throw in the steaks don’t fiddle around wit then, when you see the 1/3^rd of the side of the steak get brown flip it and let it brown on the other side. Careful nobody likes a dry steak.

While you are doing all of this prepare the sauce, this is a bit tricky, I’m not going to give you exact measures, but you are going to have to mix gorgonzola and red wine and let it melt. Keep stirring get it to the thickness you feel is going to make the right consistence.

Once everything is ready make it look good on the plate.

Rice on one side steaks on the other, gently pour the sauce over the steaks and …

Dig in.

I hope it works as well for you as it did for us.

Have fun, now I’ll have to think something for tomorrow.

Honey, what's for dinner?

Usually you may hear this from the guys, but specially during this time of year, the kitchen is all mine!! As some of you may know, my wife is a chef chocolatier and has a small chocolate factory, plus two stores: a real life Willie Wonka and her Umpa Lumpas. So you can imagine how much she works during Easter time. Production starts in January, full blast, and goes 'til the beginning of April. This year she reduced the production considerably, but she is still producing 5 tons of all kinds of chocolate eggs and bunnies. She comes home exhausted, and one of the ways to make her smile, is to feed her.

Some people started to worry just because I started call the new kitchen “My prrrrecious!”

Well, tonight I got my first e-mail with a tip.

I’ll try it out and let you know how it went.

It involves filet mignon, red wine and gorgonzola cheese.

Got to hit the pans, but I’ll be back.

Spaghetti Carbonara, Simple and goooood

Well, just finished dinner, very simple spaghetti Carbonara, at least my version of it, quick and good.

Take about a handful of bacon bits, let it golden fry, reserve.

Beat two eggs spiced with ground black pepper, parmesan cheese, chopped parsley, and salt, using the oil that came out of the bacon, scramble the eggs, reserve.

Throw in some good virgin olive oil and fry a tablespoon of chopped garlic, reserve with the bacon.

When the spaghetti is al, dente get it into the frying pan, which by now has a little bit of this and of that, get all the reserved goodies on top of the pasta, toss it, spray it with olive oil to taste.

Serve it, put some basil leaves on top for extra aroma.

Now, what are you waiting for, open that bottle of red wine and dig in!

Let's get cooking

This journey started a long time ago, so did the adventures with pans, spices, meat, fish, pastas ovens and stoves.
Probably when I was a kid observing my mom cooking simple meals on our camping trips.
In no way I'm a great cheff and will probably never be one, but the truth is, I just love making food creating new dishes for my friends and family and they seem to enjoy eating as much as I enjoy making it, so it's a perfect partnership.
I don't know exactly where I'm going with this, and I expect that you who are reading this may help me out.
Inicially I'll start posting some pictures of the food from the past, since I never had the habit of following a recipe or writing down how I did what I did. this blog could be an act of self inflicted dicipline.
I just want to share good food and good wine, so participate anyway you can!!