Coconut Flan

From Paula Deen at Food Network:
* 1/3 cup sugar
* 3 eggs
* 1 (14-ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
* 1 1/2 cups coconut milk
* 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
* 1/4 cup shredded coconut flakes
* Fresh whipped cream, for garnish
* 1/4 cup shredded coconut flakes, toasted, for garnish

Directions:

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.

In a small saucepan over medium-low heat, melt the sugar until it caramelizes. Pour it into a flan dish, pie plate or round souffle baking dish with shallow sides, swirling it around to coat the bottom.

In a large mixing bowl, beat the eggs until foamy with a wire whisk. Beat in the condensed milk, coconut milk, vanilla extract and 1/4 cup coconut. Pour the mixture into the prepared baking dish. It will need to bake in a water-bath in the oven. Set the dish into a large baking pan with sides and carefully pour water around the flan to come 2/3 the way up the sides. Carefully transfer to the preheated oven. Bake for about 1 hour, until the flan is set and the center only jiggles a little bit, like a cheesecake would. Remove from the oven and water-bath and allow to cool completely. Turn the flan out onto a flat serving platter. Cut into slices for serving. Garnish with whipped cream and toasted coconut.

Salsa

My hubby makes world's best salsa!
What you need:
4 roma tomatoes
4 tomatoes
1 or 2 jalapenos
4 cloves fresh garlic
cilantro
2 limes, juiced
salt and pepper, to taste
Boil the garlic, tomatoes and jalapenos until the skin falls off the tomatoes. Peel the tomatoes, de-stem the jalapenos, chop up a handful of the cilantro and throw it all in the blender.

I know there's a million and ten ways to make salsa, so how do you do salsa?

Dinner Rolls

These rolls can compete with Golden Corral's rolls! They are so scrumptious!

4 1/2 c flour
2 1/2 t yeast
1 c. milk
1/3 sugar
1/3 cup butter
1/2 t salt
2 eggs

Mix together half the flour and all the yeast. In a saucepan warm all other ingredients, except eggs, until butter almost melts. Add warm stuff and eggs to flour. Mix with beaters 3.5 min. Stir in rest of flour. Knead 6 min. Cover and let rise one hour. Punch down. Let rest ten min. Shape dough into 24 balls. Arrange in greased 9x13 in pan. Let rise 20 min. Bake at 375 for 14 min. Enjoy! (Brush with melted butter, if desired. Or soak up delicious white gravy, if desired. Or lather with stirup [honey butter, for any non-Dunkins.])

Chicken Enchiladas

I bought a can of enchilada sauce and followed their recipe. I thought everything was wonderful, except their sauce! It was gross! So I modified it for my lunch today and this is what I came up with:
2 chicken breasts, cooked and cubed
1c sour cream
2c mont jack cheese
1 small can green chiles
Mix together and put in 10 tortillas. Roll up, place in dish, smother in salsa (I get mine fresh from Costco and it's d-licious!), sprinkle 1 c cheddar cheese on top, cover with foil. Bake at 350 for 45 min.

What's your secret to enchiladas? I tried churros, but only had whole wheat flour and no piping stuff, so they were .... Although Isaac ate ALL of them. Do you have a good churro recipe? Or tortillas? My tortillas never turn out!

Smoothies and Salads

I have been having a smoothie for breakfast every morning and a salad for either lunch or dinner. I love smoothies! I love salad! And both are so good for you.
Usually for my smoothies I put in about a cup of yogurt, a glub of milk, a cup of fruit and several pieces of ice, unless the fruit is frozen. My favorite right now is probably strawberry banana, with pineapple coconut coming in a close second.
My salads are usually baby spinach leaves, tomato, cheese, hard boiled egg white, turkey or chicken breast and olive oil and lime juice for dressing.

So, what are your favorite smoothies and salads? Give me some new recipes!

Coffee Mug Chocolate Cake

1 coffee mug
4 T flour
4 T sugar
2 T cocoa
1 egg
3 T milk
3 T oil
3 T chocolate chips
Splash of vanilla

Mix dry ingredients. Add wet ingredients. Mix thoroughly. Cook in microwave for 3 minutes on high.
Easy. Delicious. Sinful!!!

Banana Pancakes

2 c flour
4 t baking powder
1/2 t salt
2 T sugar
1 3/4 c milk
2 eggs
2 T melted butter
1 c mashed butter

Mix together. Pour on hot skillet. Eat with syrup.

We enjoyed these for dinner the other night.