Cooking with Santos

Things I'm bad at: Blogging.
Things I'm sort of good at: taking pictures and making videos.

Almost one year ago I posted pictures from my trip to Guatemala, and promised to share a video from the cooking class we did. I'm sitting here in anticipation to go back to Guatemala in about 14 hours, and see that not only did I never share it, I haven't put anything on the blog since then. Oh well. Here it is now! (Click link below picture)

Cooking with Santos

turkey prom.

Be mine.

I invented a soup for Valentines day! 

...And of course I documented each step...

All ready to go!

Step One:

Chop Chop Chop!

I prepared 2 pounds of sweet potato, 5 carrots, and 1.5 apples to juice.

Step 2...and 3:

Juicing!

Meanwhile...1 tablespoon of butter melting away.

Tada! 2.5 cups of juice.

Step 4:

I added a bunch of powdered ginger and 2-3 cloves of garlic to the butter. I would have used fresh ginger, but I didn't have any...next time I will add fresh ginger to the juice!

I poured in a little broth to keep the butter from burning...The juice wasn't quite finished.

Step 5:

Then I alternated pouring in these three liquids into the pot, stirring constantly and slowly.

In the end I used about half a can of coconut milk, half a box of chicken broth, and all the juice.

Step 6:

 A little heat to balance out the sweet and rich ingredients! 

Step 7:

Serve! 

Add a beautiful bouquet, tasty red wine, soft bread, and Gruyere cheese, 

and you have a lovely savory Valentine's meal.

Happy Love Day!

Pot Roast

- "Can I have some?"