Homemade Meals

  Pork Chili Verde Prepared in an Instant Pot Ingredients: 3 lb. boneless sirloin roast 4 Carrots 1 onion 4 minced garlic cloves 28 Oz (1 can) enchilada sauce ¼ cup water 2 jalapeno pepper 1 cup minced fresh cilantro   I haven’t cooked this type of dish before; I’ve always made beef tacos whenever I am craving some Mexican food. I saw this recipe in a book, and I decided to try something different; plus it seemed easy to make. It turned out delicious, however it wasn’t as spicy as I expected. So I had to put some Tapatio sauce on my tacos. I hope you guys enjoy it 😊 1.      Select Sauté on the Instant Pot (high heat). Heat 3 tbs of oil and  sauté,  in batches, the pork,  onion, carrots and garlic until browned. 2.        Add enchilada sauce, water, jalapenos, and cilantro          3.  Lock the lid and pressure cook on Manual setting for 30 min. When finish cookin...

  Chocolate Chip cookies They are simply delicious! I love dark chocolate, so for this recipe I use dark chocolate (63% cacao) baking chips. Ingredients: 2 cups dark or semi-sweet chocolate baking chips (340g) 3/4 cup sugar,  1/2 tsp. salt 6 tbsp. butter at room temperature 2 eggs at room temperature 1 tsp. vanilla extract 1 1/4 cup all purpose flour mixed with 1/2 tsp. baking soda 1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional) Preparation: 1)      Preheat oven to 375F Degrees. 2)     If you like more chocolate chips in your cookies, you can melt 1 cups of chips instead of 1 ½ cup.  Set aside. 3)   Cream the following ingredients in a large bowl until light       4) Add the following to the mix                                5)    Add the melted Chocolate, 1 ¼ cup all-purpose fl...

Italian wedding soup Prepared with love from “Chef” Desi on March 8 th , 2021 Since beginning of Covid-19, I end up spending more time at home. Due to the restaurant closure, I started preparing more home meals. I never liked to cook, and I didn’t know which recipes to prepare, so I subscribed to several cooking magazines and I bought cookbooks. This week I received the latest issue of All recipes- this soup recipe looked easy, so I decided to try it. It turned out very delicious, so that’s why I am sharing it with you. If you end up preparing it, let me know how you like it! Mahalo! 1)    Mix the following ingredients together, add salt and black pepper to taste    2 )    Form meat balls by hand 3)    Bring 6 cups of chicken broth to boil and carefully add the meat balls to the broth one by one 4)    Add 4 cups chopped spinach, ½ cup orzo pasta and 1 1/2 tsp lemon zest (salt and pepper to taste, optional) 5)    ...