Outdoor Wednesday

Today I decided to post a view of the Porto (Oporto), taken by train, in the brige, last summer.

For Outdoor Wednesday

Blonde potatoes

Today will will make blonde potatoes to eat with the meatloaf and we will make also a nice tomato and onion sauce.



While the meat is in the oven, I boil a bunch of little potatoes in their skins.



When they are boiled, I handle each of them with a fork and peel them.



Then I put some oil in a pan, not olive, sunflowers or something like that. I put in a big pan to avoid the hot spill going everywhere - it works as a wall.

When fried, I put on a kitchen paper to absorb the oil very well.

Ah, it's the most delicious thing, much better then french fries and such. I believe they are the best potatoes in all the world!

Now the sauce to put on the meatloaf.

Put some olive oil in a pan and add finely cut onion. When it is transparent, add tomato and parsley. You may add some seasoning you like, as oregano, for instance.

Add some water and let it boil.

You will see how good it is.

This was a recipe from my grandmother.

Meatloaf

Yesterday I made meat loaf. Now I must say it was a fat loaf. Usualy they are quite skinny but, because we are a lot of people and they always like when I make it, I decided to made a big one - sideways.


I put a nice load of minced meat in a a big pan - pans are always big here - with olive oil, onion, tomato, garlic, parsley, red pepper, salt and pepper. I fried the meat very well.


When it was ready, I added two eggs, beaten, and put some bread crumbs in it, mixed and put it in a thing to go to the oven. Sprinkled more bread crumbs on top and also a bit of cheese, greated.

Oven with it.




They where very pleased with it.
We ate it with blonde potatoes, as my grandmother used to call them.
More about it tomorow.

Pink Saturday

Kimberly at How Sweet The Sound hosts Pink Saturday.
After some problems with my computor, that are not completely solved, I'm joining again.

For me, pink things are usualy flowers.
So, the one in the top is that azalea that I posted before about it. It is still blooming in full force. I'm amazed how nice the plant still looks.



This one is from one of my african violets, the last I bought and the more pink one.



These plants I bought at the market some time ago and they are growing very nicely and nice they are with its pink leaves.

For now they are standing in my kitchen windowsill but I'm planing to put them outside. Let's see if they like it or not.




Until next saturday.

Lent

Lent begins. Today is Ash Wednesday. We don't eat meat today, neither desserts or anything of the like. And what we eat, we do it scarcely, depending on what each person usualy eats. We are fasting. Not big deal, we only must fast two days a year, today and on Holly Friday.

So today, we are going to make tuna rice.

Put some olive oil in a pam and add onions, cut, and when it's transparent add tomato - or not - and seasonig: salt, pepper, parsley and maybe red pepper.

Mix and add the tuna. Mix again.

Now add the rice and mix.

After that you will add water, the double of the rice: two cups of rice, four of water.



When it's ready we will eat some but not too much.
And you may be sure, it will taste as the best food in the whole world.

At fasting days, we do fell so thankfull to Our Lord who give us everyday food.

Panem nostrum cotidianum da nobis hodie;
Give us this day our daily bread.

Cakes

The computer man came yesterday night. I'm not sure if it's ok now, but let's see.
Yesterday I didn't go to work because it's carnival. I don't like it. I used to when I was a child because children always like carnival. My grandmother was very good to us and used to dress us for it. I was a fairy, a spanish, a ladybird... So many things. And it was she who made the clothes. I liked to paint my face as a grown up - strictly on this days of carnival.

Well, but now I an adult and I don't like it now. I have to dress one of my girls friday before carnival so they cane have it also at school. Done for this year.
Now it's only to feel good at home. Yesterday and today.
Tomorow is the go back to work with Fasting opening Lent.

Yesterday I decided it was baking day and made cakes. I forgot to take the pictures but because I couldn't post the ones I took for my little girl's birthday - at 31 January !!! - because the computer was not well, I will now.

I made two to put one on top of the other wit some chocolate spread between them.
The problem was I made one - very well - then I put the other in the oven and went to take my big girls who were in church having classes for taking the Sacrament of Confirmation.
When we came back the cake was a tiny bit overdone and my husband didn't realized it, otherwise he would have put the oven off.
So, in the pictures, you will see that one layer is darker then the other.

Then, on top of it, I put some cream and sugary decoration plus the candles.
It was not so nice looking as the ones I buy to their birthdays but this was made by me.

More corners of my home

My computor is in the same situation. The man didn't went to my home yet to fix it.
So, here I am again, looking in my Flickr pictures something to show you in this Show and Tell Friday.
I'm calling it "More corners of my home" but I should say " Waiting for Spring", because I will post past pictures om my "blooming house" past Springs.

Or should I call it "my window"?

Yellow Week IV

Remember Christmas?

For more on Yellow Week go to
Domesticalli and House on the hill road.

Yellow Week III

Cuscus, a yellow thing I like very much, even more if it's my husmand making it. He does it much better then me.
I could eat some now.

For more on Yellow Week go to
Domesticalli and House on the hill road.

Yellow Week II

Here we are again.
My husband gave me these flowers last year.

They look so nice by my kitchen window but then I had to put them near the computer because he said I should put it where I could see them often - yes, he was saying I go to the computer often.

For more on Yellow Week go to
Domesticalli and House on the hill road.