Before I knew that I wanted to interview Paloma (love4coffee) I found her recipe for Mexican Green Spaghetti. I knew right away that I’d want to make it as it contains two of my favorite ingredients-cilantro and garlic. Blended together with roasted poblano peppers and Mexican sour cream, it’s the perfect plateful of pasta.
I’d not heard of Mexican sour cream prior to this and I wasn’t sure I’d be able to locate it. I was very surprised to find it quite easily at one of my favorite local groceries. It really is different – thick, rich and not as sour as regular sour cream, it added the ideal foil to the heat of the poblanos and added just the right creaminess to the dish.
I served it with a taco casserole and it was eaten so quickly there was no time to even think of leftovers. Give this one a try, you’re sure to love it, and don’t worry about those peppers, poblanos are a milder pepper to start with and the sour cream cuts the heat making them simply spicy rather than hot.
I’ve had a lot of scones in my life. In fact, before I began blogging I was on a quest to own as many books about tea as I could. Now, I don’t mean just tea The Drink, I mean tea The Meal. If you hail from any of the civilized countries that serve daily tea, you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about.
With all of those tea cookbooks comes a lot of scone recipes. I tried many, many of them and consumed even more from tea shops, bakeries and bake sales, but there was not one that comes even close to as good as the scones posted by Blogcatalog here at Half Hour Meals.
It’s rather diffiult to sit here and write about them when I’d rather be back in the kitchen eating them; therefore I’m forced to make this short. Please do give these a try, you will not be disappointed and I’m very happy, after trying a plethora of recipes and ingesting probably thousands of scones, to have found just the right one – the recipe I’ll turn to each and every time from now on.
Enjoy!
Scones
Blogcatalog
Ingredients
1 tablespoon Sugar
2 cups flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
1 pinch salt
6 tablespoons butter, room temperature & cut into one inch cubes
1 beaten egg
1 cup sour cream
1 egg yolk
1 tablespoon water
Preparation
* Preheat oven to 400 degrees
* Lightly grease a cookie sheet
* Mix dry ingredients together
* Add cup of butter
* Add beaten egg and cream
* Blend all ingredients together very quickly
* Pat out on a lightly floured surface
* Cut into 2-inch circles with a cookie cutter or juice glass
* Place on a cookie sheet and brush tops with egg wash
* Bake for 10 to 15 minutes
For egg wash mix 1 egg yolk with tablespoon of water.