Ratatouille

I had made this few times and still in love with that dish.

Yea, I DID watched the movie, Ratatouille more than 1 times and told myself I really need to make this dish. Not only from that movie but I was looking at the library book that I loaned years ago which it was about how to grow your own garden and cook with it. My eyes happens to get the glimpse of the recipe of Ratatouille.

There are many different ways to make for just only one dish. So I adjusted to make it more simpler and more flavorful to dine in. Even I added the carrots and cilantro on it. Be creative with it.

Here's the recipe:

1 small eggplant, peeled and diced or quartered
1 zucchini, peeled and diced or halved
1 small onion, diced
3 cloves of garlic, thinly sliced
3 or 4 tomatoes, diced or quartered

In the skillet, cook the onions and garlic along with the olive oil like 1/4 cup or less. Cook until the onions become opaque and transparent. Add the eggplants and zucchini and cook for extra 5 minutes or until the eggplants becomes little soft. Add the tomatoes and cook for extra 5 min until it becomes wilted.

I added carrots myself- you can do that if you want to. Sprinkle it on the top with chopped basil and parsley.

I usually squeezed one lemon on the eggplants/zucchini before I put it to cook to prevent any browns and more flavor on it. I sprinkle it with salt and pepper too.

You can add little bit of salt/pepper after it's done cooking for more taste if you want to.

Guava Cake

*Singing* Guava Cake, Guava Cake and Guava Cake!

When my mother in law was here in NM visiting and I made this for the dessert. It became her favorites especially the guavas!

It only needs like 3 ingredients to make this, REALLY!!! Very simple and delicious as well.

3 ingredients are: guava paste, puff pastry and confectioner sugar (powder sugar).

Is that super sweet simple for you? I betcha!

You can find the guava paste at any international market or in the hispanic aisle if your food shopping carry that product.. I always use the GOYA guava paste.

You can find the puff pastry in the frozen dessert aisle- thaw it into the room temperature first.

Break it into 3 strips. Cut into the squares of the puff pastry. Put just a right amount of guava paste into the square of puff pastry and fold it altogether (like the method of doing the dumplings). You may not want to put too much guava paste or it would burst all over *it wouldn't taste any guavas inside*

Follow the direction on the puff pastry box which it tells you what temperature to bake until the puff pastry turns golden brown and puffed. Cool it off before sprinkling with the powder sugar.