How This Started and My Hope For This Experiment

My Husband and I are both big fans of Jamie Oliver. For Christmas I bought him Jamie's cookbook "Jamie's 30 Minute Meals: A Revolutionary Approach to Cooking Good Food Fast". As I read the preface of his cookbook I was inspired by his ideas. He felt that he was spending too much time cooking during the busy week and doing too much clean up. So he decided that for the week night meals there needed to be something quick and still healthy and yummy. He and his team did a lot of work and made the "30 Minute Meals". He has explicit directions for step by step getting the meal done in 30 min. He tells you what to do first, second, and third so that you have all dishes going at the same time, instead of making it dish by dish. Since we aren't doing once a month cooking right now I was captured by this idea and dying to start trying. I have been spending way too much time in the kitchen during the week and can't wait to be able to prepare good meals fast. My husband was all for it since he loves to eat great food and has a very particular palette. He will be making some of the meals on weekends when he isn't working because, this is after all, his cookbook :)

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Horchata-Not a Jamie thing!

I made horchata for the first time. I made a non-traditional one that used rice with flaked coconut and almonds. I took one cup of each and put them into the food processor. Then I put it a bowl and poured 3 Cups of boiling water on top, covered and let sit for 7 hours. Then I strained it and saved the rice and other pieces for breakfast pudding the next day, and I used the liquid as the concentrate for my horchata. I added one can of coconut milk, one can of sweetened condensed milk, five cups of ice cold water and 5 cups of ice. It is best when it is really really chilled.

each of the kids really enjoyed it and had two glasses each.


The big G and I poured ours and put it in the freezer until ice crystals formed and then we stirred it up and drank it. Very good! But not as good as yours Pablo.


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