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Chicken balls with pumpkin and zucchini (credit: PASCALE PEREZ-RUBIN)
Level of difficulty: Medium., Time: 1 hour., Status: Meat.
Makes 6-8 servings.
Ingredients
Chicken balls:
½ kg. ground chicken breast ½ cup almonds, finely chopped 5 cilantro stalks, chopped finely 5 parsley stalks, chopped finely 1 large onion, chopped 1 egg Salt and pepper, to taste ½ tsp. baking powder ½ tsp. cumin ½ tsp. spicy paprika ¼ tsp. turmeric 2 garlic cloves, crushed
Sauce:
3 Tbsp. olive oil 1 large onion, chopped 5 garlic cloves, crushed 2 Tbsp. tomato paste Salt and pepper, to taste ½ tsp. turmeric ½ tsp. spicy paprika 1 tsp. cumin 3 Tbsp. red or green lentils, rinsed well 3 cups water 250 gr. pumpkin, peeled and cut into cubes 2 light green zucchini, peeled and cut into large pieces
Topping:
¼ cup chopped parsley
Directions
To
prepare the chicken balls, place all of the chicken ball ingredients in
a bowl and mix well. Create balls with a diameter of 3-4 cm. and place
on a tray.
To
prepare the sauce, heat the oil in a large, flat pan and sauté the onion
until it turns golden brown. Add the garlic and tomato paste and mix.
Pour in ½ cup of water, then add the spices and mix again. Add the rest
of the water, cover and bring to a boil.
Add
the chicken balls and rinsed lentils and cook over a low flame for 30
minutes. Add the pumpkin and zucchini pieces and continue cooking for
another 30-40 minutes. Taste and adjust seasoning.
Enjoy!
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Onto the festivities of the season. This year's holiday brings on the cheer and love of our family and loved ones, gathering close again for the best movies, games, gifts and cheer. Get close and cozy with the ones you love.
Shopping is definitely different this year. Online or in the store to mingle or weave through the crowds or that one person stealing your parking space. I'm going to need extra patience during these times. Send out a card to someone you haven't for awhile to show them you care or maybe they need extra kindness from a broken heart of loss. We all know that feeling.
December 17th is coming...we close on our new house around that date. Santa is still coming, he has a GPS and the elf is here. Keep us in your prayers for a safe move for health and wellness.
Enjoy the splendors of Mother Nature's
winter brush. Falling snow just has a calming effect.
Sleighbells ringing and jingling on a one horse open sleigh. See how Farmer Gray decks out his farm with lights and inflatables to spend with another, see splendor and light.
Little natural ornaments to greet you on your way to work or walk to themailbox to see who sent a card during your remote work at home.
Have a strategic plan to deal with the neighborhood kids and their attempts to win a snowball fight.
Specialty coffees are available and have your name on them.
Gingerbread, peppermint mocha, kahlua and cream etc.
Holiday crushes and spending with our loved ones, or watchng a good holiday romancemovie on the Hallmark channel
Does the forecast call for more cold, more snow, and
frozen precipitation? It's that kind of day in jammies
Handmade crafts for gifts will last for years and make it a conversation piece!
An instructional video, it is really easy to make. String some battery powered lightsor choose white pine etc. for a neat effect. Creative possibilities are endless.
Check out the specialty online store
for fantastic gift ideas. A few of our family members and moderators buy from here.
Betty demonstrates how to make Chicken Enchiladas. These enchiladas are made of flour tortillas stuffed with chicken and cheese and topped with a spicy sour cream-jalapeno sauce.
Ingredients
10 small flour tortillas
2 cups cooked, shredded chicken
2 cups shredded Monterey Jack cheese
3 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons cornstarch
2 cups chicken broth
1 clove garlic, minced
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon black pepper
1 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon onion powder
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and finely chopped
1 teaspoon lime juice
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees (F).
Grease a 9 x 13 pan.
In a medium-sized bowl, mix chicken, 1 cup of cheese, and garlic.
Place 1/10 of mixture onto a tortilla and roll.
Place rolled tortilla in pan, seam side down.
In a medium-sized saucepan, melt butter.
Stir in cornstarch and cook for one minute.
Add chicken broth and whisk until smooth.
Cook over medium heat until mixture is bubbly and thickened.
Stir in sour cream, jalapenos, lime, cumin, onion powder, garlic powder, salt, and pepper.
Heat through, but do not boil.
Pour mixture over enchiladas and top with the remaining cup of cheese.
Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, until bubbly and cheese is beginning to brown.
Serve while hot.
Enjoy! --Betty :) ♥♥♥♥
For more Directions watch the video:
Enjoy!
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Our week is upon us. Ingredients are being shopped for and the final guest list polished. You might get a surprise visit by a family relative who you had not seen for a long time. Someone that does a lot which is the least they could do in their antics. Some glad to be seen, and some glad when they go, but our hearts go with them and maybe a prayer.
Since we live in the South, we have the southern version of Thanksgiving. But my family is from the North, so we are used to stuffing not dressing from the turkey and green bean casserole, sweet potato soufflé with marshmallows on top. There is nothing like them.
Of course we mix with the southern flare here. Creamed corn, fried okra, or broccoli salad. Both sides of our families like the jellied canned cranberries, while some like the whole berries sweetened with some sugar.
Add the pies to cookies for desert. Cheese cake, pumpkin pie, blueberry or cherry pie? Cookies, bring on the baking for the little ones that like to help out.
Catch up on seasonal videos going on in the background.
Come on, you want to sing it. Over the river and through the woods...
A great harvest for all to feast and give thanks.
A quick easy way to make wreaths to have people complimenting that you bought them, but generates more conversation and awe that you made this, and not hard at all. Just follow the video and make your own variations, string up battery powered mini lights if you want for an ambience whereever you put the wreath. The supplies for this wreath is $10, but you can make it like it is worth $25 or more. Most of all, have fun!!
Adam Sandler's Song is timeless classic
And don't forget our furry children enjoy it hoping
for a bit of morsel yumminess.
And there's still time to catch up on the current project, whether it's pages to put words on, to a canvas and a loaded palette of colors with a brush. What will it be? Abstract? Realistic? Modern flare?
