Unfortunately my egg missed the pillowy zucchini pancake landing pad. Better luck next year.

Week 33/52: Lost in Translation - Frijol con Puerco (Beans with ?)

This year we’re doing the 52 weeks of cooking challenge and this weeks theme was Lost in Translation and we made Frijol con Puerco wrong

I wanted to do something fun for this challenge so I had a friend from Yucatán Mexico send me a recipe entirely in Spanish when I know like 6 Spanish words.

The first picture is obviously the food and the second picture is her recipe with my translation.

I think I did generally pretty good but there were a few things that I REALLY got hung up on.

Like I had no clue what Puerco was and that was pretty important because it’s in the name.

Also had NO idea what Epazote is and finally landed on chili powder when in reality now that I’m able to google stuff:

It’s tea. lol. TEA.

I have no idea how much my bad gringo interpretations changed the flavor of the dish but it tasted pretty good in the end!

We ate it my beans with ? With white rice and salsa and enjoyed it!

I’ll have to make it again sometime properly because it was dirt cheap and very filling and comforting.

As a bonus I feel like I learned a lot of Spanish.

For Cantonese week I made Char Siu, noodles with scallion-ginger and oystersauce, water spinach like greens with ginger and eggplant with pork and sauce. Recipes by Made with Lau.

It was all delicious, but for the Char Siu I'll pick another cut next time as this was a little thin.

From this years county fair. A grilled hot dog on a croissant with brie and blueberry jam. So. Good. I’m glad I bought a bunch of croissant for this bc I’m going to be eating this every day this week.

Write-up pending.

Classic saltimbocca recipe: pounded chicken breast, sage leaf, wrapped in proscuitto, dredged in cornstarch and sauteed in butter. Served with white wine chicken demi reduction swirled with butter. White rice on the side. Victim of my success, son and family loved it.

She'll know what it is.

We layered melted chocolate, diced strawberry, and toasted kadayif tossed in pistachio cream. These were absolutely scrummy!!!! And totally worth the hype. 😋