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Low Carb Whaaaaa?!
Well well well, here we are again croqueticas. It’s still March and we’re still in quarantine. Not so long ago I was telling you how I started a low carb diet and I gave up my true love... CROQUETAS! But here we are still on the same diet, but I managed to get creative enough to make some low carb croquetas. I promise not to make this blog solely about my new diet changes, but some things I just can’t help it. Plus, with all this quarantine fiasco I have all the time in the world to get creative.
Weighing at a whooping 12g of carbs per 19 croquetas, here’s the recipe for low carb croquetas:
Ingredients:
2 Italian sausages
7 slices of thinly sliced deli ham
1 garlic clove, minced
2 tbsp butter
1/2 cup minced onion
1/2 cup & 2 tbsp almond flour
3 tbsp heavy cream
1 egg
2 tbsp water
1 tsp fresh cilantro
a pinch of oregano, cumin, and crushed red peppers
1 small bag of chicharrones
1/2 cup of oil
Directions:
1. I started off getting sausages and ham putting them into a food processor to chop them finely. It should make about 1/2 cup of finely chopped meats.
2. I used 1 tbsp of butter in a pan and fried the onion and garlic together. Then I added that mixture with my meats and blended them together.
3. Get the rest of your butter and your flour in a pan and add heavy cream. This is to make sure our meat stick together. Then add the meat the mixture in the pan and make sure everything is mixed well.
4. Now it’s time to shape our meat mixture. I used a pipping bag, but you can just shape them into whatever shape you want with your hands. I placed each ball of meat on a cooking sheet pan covered with wax paper and put them in the freezer for 15 mins.
5. I put oil in a pan and left t medium heat to warm it up. Then, I got a a mortar and pestle and grounded up the bag of chicharrones. Then i whisked the egg up with water. After the 15 mins were up I breaded the meat by dipping the meat in egg and then breading them the ground up chicharrones.
6. Once my oil was hot enough and I had at least a handful of breaded croquetas, I put them to fry until golden brown. I did this until I finished my batch and then I served it up.
I hope this recipe suits you all as some comfort food in these hard times. Enjoy and let me know how the recipe came out.
XOXO,
croquetasyputeria
Quarantine & Cook?
It’s March 2020 and life as we know it had changed. The past few weeks Miami has not been the regular hustle and bustle, but a more pandemic scare with food scraped shelves. I’ve left my house maybe a handful of times (mostly to get food) and I’ve tried social distancing (not that I needed to try hard because I am an introvert). My last semester in college has moved to remote learning and I’ve taken up some new hobbies. One of them is learning to cook a low carb diet. Since this epidemic started I decided a to live healthier a life, so I’ve said goodbye to my croqueticas (for now) and hello to some more verduras. I am not some who loves meat, but honestly if I’m going to be home for the next 3 months in quarantine I might as well do something productive. As an avid rice lover it’s been hard, but one thing I couldn’t stop craving were some tacos. Yes, on my outings to the grocery store I’d pass by Tacobell and shudder at the mere thought of having a taco. It wasn’t until I pass by my and saw my neighborhood taco shop .... You know the whole in the wall with either an abuelita/abuelito in the back preparing la comida and it’s the most delicious in the world... The one where there maybe 3 tables to sit down to eat, Presidentes are always on special, and although it looks like dump, the ambiance is great? You know what I’m talking about? No? Well anyways I couldn’t hold myself back from it anymore!!! So I went on Pinterest, like any millennial would, and found a recipe for low carb tacos. To my surprise I was able to find a recipe that ditched the flour and used cauliflower! I’ve previously made cauliflower pizza, so I knew this was the receipe for me! I made some adjustments, but overall they came out amazing and satisfied my craving.
Ingredients: (13-15 tortillas)
1 cauliflower head, 12 oz of cheddar cheese, 4 eggs, 1/2 a tsp onion powder, and 1/2 a tsp of garlic powder. You’ll also need at least 1 cheesecloth
Directions:
First preheat the oven to 400°F. Then, I got my cauliflower head split it in 2 and put 1/2 in my food processor and chopped it up finely (made it looked like cauliflower rice). I then put the finely chopped cauliflower in a bowl wrapped with a cheesecloth and microwaved it for 4 minutes to take out any excess water. I waited for the cauliflower to cool down before I strained the excess cauliflower water and placed it in the blender. Then I repeated the same process for the second half of the cauliflower head. Once the cauliflower was in the blender I added the rest of the ingredients in and blended it all up. I then used an ice cream scooper to get the contents out of the blender. Each scoop I grabbed I added to a nonstick pan and made them into flat circles. Once I finished put them in the oven for 14 mins or until brownish. I let them cool down and made the rest of my ingredients for the tacos. I’ll leave the rest of that up to your discretion.
I hope you all enjoy my cauliflower taco recipe and maybe even might consider doing it during this quarantine phenomenon. If you do I hope you share how your tacos came out. Enjoy and stay safe!
XOXO,
croquetasyputeria
Es marzo de 2020 y la vida tal como la conocemos, ha cambiado. Las últimas semanas Miami no ha sido el ajetreo habitual, sino un susto más pandémico con estanterías vacías de comida. He dejado mi casa tal vez un puñado de veces (principalmente para conseguir comida) y he intentado el distanciamiento social (no es que tuviera que esforzarme porque soy introvertido). Mi último semestre en la universidad se mudó al aprendizaje remoto y he tomado algunos pasatiempos nuevos. Uno de ellos está aprendiendo a cocinar una dieta baja en carbohidratos. Desde que comenzó esta epidemia, decidí vivir una vida más saludable, así que me despedí de mis croqueticas (por ahora) y hola a algunas verduras más. No soy de los que ama la carne, pero sinceramente, si voy a estar en casa durante los próximos 3 meses en cuarentena, bien podría hacer algo productivo. Como un ávido amante del arroz, ha sido difícil, pero una cosa que no podía dejar de desear eran algunos tacos. Sí, en mis salidas a la tienda de comestibles, pasaba por Tacobell y me estremecía ante la sola idea de tener un taco. No fue hasta que pasé por mi y vi la tienda de tacos local ... Ya sabes, un bajareque que hay una abuelita / abuelito en la parte de atrás preparando la comida y es la mas rica del mundo ... La que allí tal vez ¿haya 3 mesas para comer, los Presidentes siempre están en especial, y aunque parece un tugurio, el ambiente es genial? ¿Tú sabes de qué estoy hablando o sabes a qué me refiero?? ¿No? Bueno, de todos modo ya no podía contenerme más. Así que fui a Pinterest, como cualquier milenario, y encontré una receta para tacos bajos en carbohidratos. Para mi sorpresa, pude encontrar una receta que abandonó la harina y usó coliflor. Anteriormente hice pizza de coliflor, ¡así que sabía que esta era la receta para mí! Hice algunos ajustes, pero en general salieron increíbles y satisfizo mi deseo.
Ingredientes: (13-15 tortillas)
1 cabeza de coliflor, 12 oz de queso cheddar, 4 huevos, 1/2 cucharadita de cebolla en polvo y 1/2 cucharadita de ajo en polvo. También necesitarás al menos 1 gasa
Direcciones:
Primero precaliente el horno a 400 ° F. Luego, conseguí que la cabeza de coliflor la parti en 2, puse 1/2 en mi procesador de alimentos y la corté finamente (parecía arroz de coliflor). Luego puse la coliflor finamente picada en un recipiente envuelto con una Gaza especial (cheesecloth) y la puse en el microondas para 4 minutos para eliminar el exceso de agua. Esperé a que la coliflor se enfriara antes de colar el exceso de agua de coliflor y colocarla en la licuadora. Luego repetí el mismo proceso para la segunda mitad de la cabeza de coliflor. Una vez que la coliflor estuvo en la licuadora, agregué el resto de los ingredientes y lo mezclé todo. Usé una cuchara de helado para sacar el contenido de la licuadora. Cada cucharada que agarré la agregué a una sartén antiadherente y las convertí en círculos planos. Una vez que termine, lo puse en el horno para 14 minutos o hasta que se doren. Los dejé enfriar e hice el resto de mis ingredientes para los tacos. Dejaré el resto de eso a su discreción.
Espero que todos disfruten mi receta de taco de coliflor y tal vez incluso consideren hacerlo durante este fenómeno de cuarentena. Si lo haces, espero que compartas cómo salieron tus tacos. ¡Disfruta y mantente a salvo!
XOXO,
croquetasyputeria
Noche Buena a lo AMERICANO
As you begin roasting your pig en la caja china and start pouring glasses of coquito here are some of my Noche Buena (& hispanic holiday) traditions with an American Twist:
1. Yes, I drink coquito and lots of it because I’m Puerto Rican, duhh!
2. No, I don’t eat lechon and I’ve probably only experienced someone cooking el lechon en la caja china like one time for New Years Eve. We eat Ham with pineapples and cherry (QUE AMERICA, I KNOW!) Sometimes we add the congri y yuca but that’s only when we feeling our hispanic side.
3. We only decorate the house for Christmas AFTER THANKSGIVING because we do take that veryyyy serious. (NOT THE MASSACRE OF INDIGEOUS PEOPLE, but thats a whole another thing)
4.No, my family and I do not wait until 12:00AM to open presents. We knockout at like 8 and wake up to open at 7:30AM to open presents on December 25. ( Thats when Santi Clo BIene). I’ve tried for years to be convince my parents to allow me to open one present at midnight, but it never works in the favor of my sister and I.
5. My Puerto Rican side allows me to only eat pasteles en el 24 sooooo I fill myself up with that mostly.
6. We do not celebrate 3 kings day on January 6 ... We tried one year after we went to Mexico for the holidays but it never caught on.
7. As a kid, when we use to have large family parties I did use to get dress up very nice to sit en la sala y hablar con la familia.
8. When my dad gets feeling good off of coquito the Güiro comes out and I be out here breaking it down.
9. I always leave out cookies for santa with milk and some carrots for the reindeers.
10.Siempre ponemos la natividad en la casa.
11. El Burito Sabenro and Feliz Navidad get played like 8 times during our party because you know we gotta mixing it up sometimes and not just play Mariah Carey and Michael Buble.
12. Lastly, I’ve never been able to do the 12 grapes count down and swallow it on time, but we do that too. (Maybe this year I’ll just take 12 sips of wine ... same thing right?)
However you may celebrate your holiday with your traditions, I hope you all enjoy it and be safe. As for my family and I we will still be carrying out our traditions this years, but who knows may be we will add some new ones this year. Stay TUNE.
How I flew to the side of the country and found a bit of my heart
*Cue in Party in the USA by Miley Cyrus* Hopped out the plane at lax with the urge to find my place lol. A little street in LA downtown by the name of Placita Olvera street is where I knew I’d find my place. For all native Miamians, Olvera Streets is the equivalent of Miami’s Calle Ocho, but just switch the Cuban heritage for Mexican. As someones whose family always visits Placita Olvera when we visit L.A. I was extremely excited to be back and L.A. and visit some place where my roots originated from, again. Once arriving to Olvera street I had to take it all the cultura around me that I usually don’t see in Miami. Street vendors all along the street selling Mexican goods ( leather, food, and toys), the echoes of the Mariachi’s instruments ringing all through the street, and the colors (OH MY THE COLORS!). Everything was just as I remembered and I couldn’t believe the joy I was feeling. As I walked through the street with a cup of horchata in one hand and a taquito in the other I just soaked in as much of my Mexican roots as I could and was blessed to be able to find a piece of my heart all the way on the other side of the country.
*Cue in Party in the USA by Miley Cyrus* Saltó del avión en LAX con la urgencia de encontrar mi lugar. Una pequeña calle en el centro de Los Ángeles con el nombre de calle Placita Olvera es donde sabía que encontraría mi lugar. Para todos los nativos de Miami, las calle de Olvera es el equivalente de la calle Ocho de Miami, pero solo cambian la herencia Cubana por la Mexicana. Como alguien cuya familia siempre visita a Placita Olvera cuando visitamos Los Ángeles, estaba extremadamente emocionado de estar de regreso en Los Ángeles y visitar un lugar donde mis raíces se originaron, nuevamente. Una vez que llegué a la calle Olvera, tuve que aprovechar toda la cultura a mi alrededor que generalmente no veo en Miami. VVendedores ambulantes a lo largo de la calle que venden productos mexicanos (cuero, comida y juguetes), los ecos de los instrumentos del mariachi resonando por toda la calle y los colores (¡OH, LOS COLORES!). Todo estaba tal como lo recordaba y no podía creer la alegría que sentía.Mientras caminaba por la calle con una taza de horchata en una mano y un taquito en la otra, abraza todas mis raíces mexicanas a mi alrededor como pude y tuve la bendición de poder encontrar un pedazo de mi corazón en todo momento. Al otro lado del país.
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Welcome to Croquetas y Puteria
Hello, my name’s Jazmine. I’m not much of a writer, soooo please excuse my grammatical errors and such. I’m a 3rd generation hispanic. My grandparents came from Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Cuba. All I know about these countries is the little that my grandparents talked to me about when I was a kid. My parents raised me in the most American way, whatever that means. I have never really had a strong connection to any of these counties. I visited Cuba once when I was like 4 and just last year I visited Puerto Rico for the first time. My grandparents went through the struggle of coming to this country and struggling with language barriers and trying to provide a better life for their children, but I never actually saw this struggle. My parents were born in America, so raising me was completely different than how they were raised. I know very little things about these countries like food, language, and the little history that I’ve learned on my own. I know caffecitos are for morning y el coquito es pa la Navidad. My mom taught me how to be independent and not need a man, but my grandma taught me how to always dress up and never leave the house without makeup to impress a man. La salsa y el merengue were always played at parties, but lechon y yuca weren’t always on the menu. I never learned how to make tortillas, but ohhh boyyy did I know about the American Revolution. SOOO you see I never felt like I fit in with my peers in school because they were either migrates from countries or their were 2nd generation hispanics. I’ve ALWAYS felt as if “I’m to hispanic to be American , but I’m to American to be hispanic” which is a bit rough living in Miami. After watching ODAAT (One Day At A Time) on Netflix, I started to realize that maybe I’m not the only one that feels this way. So that's when I decided I’d start a blog and wanted people to see me on the this journey of trying to figure out more about my roots and maybe even relate to some of the content. I hope you enjoy this blog every step of the way as I figure out more about my roots all the while have the most fun!
Welcome to Croquetas y Puteria.
Traducción:
Hola, mi nombre es Jazmine.No soy tan buena escritora, así que disculpen mis errores gramaticales. Soy tercera generación hispana. Mis abuelos vinieron de México, Puerto Rico y Cuba. Todo lo que sé de estos países es lo poco que me hablaron mis abuelos cuando yo era una niña. Mis padres me criaron de la manera más americana, lo que sea que eso signifique. Nunca he tenido una conexión fuerte con ninguno de estos países. Visité Cuba una vez cuando tenía 4 años y el año pasado visité Puerto Rico por primera vez. Mis abuelos pasaron por la lucha de venir a este país, lucharon contra las barreras del idioma y trataron de brindarles una mejor vida a sus hijos, pero en realidad nunca vi esta lucha. Mis padres nacieron en Estados Unidos, por lo que criarme fue completamente diferente a cómo fueron criados. Sé pequeñas cosas sobre estos países, como la comida, el idioma y la poca historia que he aprendido por mi cuenta. Sé que los caffecitos son para las mañanas y el coquito es pa la navidad. Mi mamá me enseñó a ser independiente y no necesitaba un hombre, pero mi abuela me enseñó a vestirme siempre y nunca salir de casa sin maquillaje impresionar a un hombre. La salsa y el merengue siempre se jugaban en las fiestas, pero el lechon y yuca no siempre estaba en el menú. Nunca aprendí a hacer tortillas, pero coñooo como supe de la Revolución Americana. Así que ya ves, nunca sentí que encajara con mis compañeros en la escuela porque eran migrantes de países o eran hispanos de segunda generación. SIEMPRE me he sentido como si "soy hispano para ser estadounidense, pero soy estadounidense para ser hispano", lo cual es un poco difícil vivir en Miami. Después de ver ODAAT (One Day At A Time) en Netflix, comencé a darme cuenta de que tal vez no soy la única que se siente así. Entonces fue cuando decidí comenzar un blog y quería que la gente me viera en este viaje de intentar averiguar más sobre mis raíces. ¡Espero que disfruten este blog a cada paso del camino mientras descubro más sobre mis raíces mientras me divierto más!
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