Haul: Panasonic Rice Cooker

Happy Cinco de Mayo

Churros with Chocolate Sauce

Black Bean, Corn, and Tomato Salad

Black Bean and Garlic Tortilla Chips with Salsa

Spanish Rice

Tacos

Enchiladas

Margaritas

My Plate

Churros

I made Churros for Cinco de Mayo. Here's the recipe:

- 1 cup all-purpose flour

- 1/4 tsp baking powder

- 1 cup water

- 1 Tbsp vegetable oil

- 1/8 tsp salt

- 1 tsp granulated sugar

- oil for frying

- cinnamon sugar for sprinkling

1. In a medium sauce pan bring to a boil water, oil, salt, and sugar.

2. In a mixing bowl stir flour and baking powder together.

3. Once water boils slowly pour boiling water into flour. Stirring constantly with a fork until it is a

smooth dough without any lumps.

4. Immediately place dough in a pastry bag with a 1M tip.

5. Carefully pipe dough in hot oil (350-375 degrees) and fry until golden brown.

6. Drain on paper towels and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.

Easter Dinner

Easter Dinner

Ham

Green Beans

Yellow Rice

Mashed Sweet Potatoes

Cornbread Stuffing

Cornbread Muffins

My plate.

Easter Cupcakes.

I made cupcakes using a boxed cake mix.

In addition, I stiffen some store brought icing using some powdered sugar and placed the icing in pastry bags. I also used candy eggs to decorate the eggs.

Here are the cupcakes after I iced them:

And here they are after I added the candy eggs:

Pickled Eggs

For the pickled eggs I used:

Hard-boiled eggs

2 cups of vinegar

1 cup of water

1 teaspoon of salt

1 tablespoon of sugar

red food coloring

I dissolved the salt and sugar in the water and vinegar over medium heat. I added red food coloring until the mixture turned my desired shade of red. I allowed the mixture to cool and poured it over the hard-boiled eggs in the jar.

I placed the jar in the refrigerator to allow the eggs to turn red.

Here's a picture of the finished product:

Painted Blown Easter Eggs and Finished Easter Basket.

For the Easter basket I decided to use watercolors to paint blown eggs.

Once again I used Martha Stewart's Living magazine for inspiration.

Here's the finished Easter basket: