This recipe is mine inspired on my Italian grandmother Lygia S.Kerr. I grew up eating artichoke but just as an appetiser only cooked in chicken broth with melted mozzarella, than they would serve the main meal. In Canada I was surprised that most of my Canadian...
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CORN MEAL BREAD adaptation for Passover
If you have Sephardi roots like me you can eat corn, if you can eat corn you can bake this easy bread that the prep is under 15 minutes. No mixer needed. ( My ancestors -MENDONCA - where expelled from Porto, Portugal and forced to convert to Catholicism...
Mango Flan ( Kosher for Passover)
During Passover week that we can't eat hametz (what we understand as leavened bread and refers to food prepared from five species of grain–wheat, barley, oats, spelt, and rye–that has been allowed to...
Easy Blender Chicken Pie on Brazilian style
This is a recipe that anyone can do it. You need a blender , chicken that you previously cooked ( left overs ) and veggies of your choice. I don't like to waste food. For shabbat dinner I cooked matzah ball soup prepared with chicken bone broth. For the broth I...
Amaranth Ripped Banana Cake (gluten free and Dairy free) Kosher for Passover
Let's talk straight, if you re Jewish and you have kids, on Passover week you panicky a bit. If your kids go to Day care or School you have to send meal + snacks that are Kosher for Passover. "Food rules get a lot stricter on Passover because for a whole...
Banana Bread inspired on Road to Hana/Maui /Hawaii-( Dairy Free)
We have been dealing with a serious winter in Winnipeg, less snow, colder temperatures. I confess I have been looking my Hawaiian photos from 1 year 1/2 ago with more frequency...and last week I baked Banana muffins to my son Kevin and he asked me :" Mama, I...
Roasted Indian Eggplants with shallots and Garlic
This recipe I m writing by request of my Instagram friends, they saw it and contacted me for the recipe. But I decided to share it specifically because of my Asian friend named An Hoang who was once my hair stylist at Aveda Institute and she does all kind of...
Easy Pumpkin puree Cake blender with apples, pears and spices
On my previous post about the yogurt cake I got inspired by a recipe from Lili Fujiy /www.donadacasa.blog.br blog and I thought with myself after roasting my 2 pumpkins to make puree for the rest of the year... what would happen if I combine my...
Fast and Easy Homemade Yogurt cake with berries in a Blender
I was on Facebook and at the same time I was researching choices for a Shabbat cake when I saw a picture of a beautiful cake from my first cousin Milena Leite who is a professional baker and has a company in Brazil called #candiesconfeitariaclassica ( Candies...
Apple Muffins with apricot and Balkan style yogurt ( in honor of Vovo Julia Mendonca )
My husband bought a big container of Balkan vanilla yogurt and my European Kanzi apples were turning brown. So I had to do something because I hate to waste food. Today is Victoria Day and as we expected in the Praires of Manitoba is raining. So I don't want to go...
Nutritious Carrots, Apple,Banana and oats muffin (low dairy, low sugar)
My 3 years old son is in that phase that scares parents where they stop eating everything good and their diet get limited to few things. Getting veggies in their diet is closer to a miracle. So I wanted to get something he loves that is muffin, with a bigger turn on...
Dairy free and gluten free Jello Dessert ( VEGAN JELLO DESSERT RECIPE )
I have a sister, her name is Beatriz and she is 4 years younger than me and she did not develop the same passion for cooking as I did growing up. But she is recently trying to cook and sometimes she calls me on whatsupp from Sao Paulo to ask for ideas or how to do...