Buttered biscuits

Ingredients:

• 500g flour
• 200g caster sugar
• 250g butter
• 6 egg yolks
• 1 beaten egg
• Vanilla
• Salt

Directions:

1. Raising the flour and add the sugar, soft butter, vanilla and salt.
2. Mix well that mixture while add slowly the egg yolks until the dough is firm and hard.
3. Roll out dough to desired thickness.
4. Cut with shaped cutters or with a glass.
5. Paint with beaten egg and place them in a weat baking dish,
6. Bake with slow heat until golden brown.

And enjoy!

Chicken livers in Jerez

Ingredients:

• 12 chicken livers
• 1 onion
• 1 garlic clove
• 250ml chicken stock
• 350ml Jerez
• 4 tablespoons olive oil
• Parsley
• Salt
• Flour

Directions:

1. Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a large frying pan.
2. Lightly saucé the chopped onion and garlic until they are translucent. Reserve.
3. Clean the livers and dries. Fries in the same pan with the rest of the oil. 
4. Season well with salt and sprinkle in the flour. Cook 5 minutes. Stirring constantly. Reserve.
5. Return the onion and garlic to the pan and add the hot chicken stock and the jerez and reduce it.
6. Add the parsley and return the livers.

Serve with a crusty bread or mush potatoes.

And enjoy!

Baked apples

Ingredients:

• 6 apples
• 100g brown sugar
• 150g raisins
• 100g butter
• 100ml cognac

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 180ºC.
2. Clean and scoop out the core from top. 
3. Score the rind of the apple.
4. Stuff each apple with sugar and butter
5. Mix the raisins, sugar and cognac.
6. Place in a shallow baking dish and fill the core well with the mix.
7. Put a glass of water in the centre dish.
8. Bake 40 min and serve.

And enjoy!

Deviled Chicken

Ingredients:

• 4 chicken quarters.
• Bread crumbs

Sauce:

• 4 tablespoons olive oil.
• 1 teaspoon mustard.
• 2 teaspoons curry powder.
• Salt.
• 1 teaspoon paprika.

Directions:

1. Clean the chicken quartes.
2. Prepare the sauce.
3. Heat th oil in a pot and add mustard, curry, salt and paprika and mix.
4. Heat the grill-oven to medium temperature.
5. Dip in the sauce and put on the baking dish with the skin down.
6. Cook 5 minutes and turn them, and 5 minutes more.
7. Add the bread cumbs to the sauce and mix. 
8. Put the sauce on top the chicken and bake 30 minutes.
9. Serve hot or cold.

And enjoy!

Meatballs with tomato

Ingredients:

• 250g beef tenderloin
• 250g lean pork /turkey
• 50g fresh bacon
• 2 eggs
• 2 tablespoons breadcrumbs
• Garlic
• Parsley
• Pepper
• Salt
• Flour
• 2 medium onions
• 1 kg of ripe tomatoes
• 2 tablespoons olive oil 

Preparation:

1. Cut the onions and put in a frying pan with olive oil. Cook 5 minutes.
2. Form meatballs and add into the frying pan. Cook 5 minutes more.
3. Add the peeled and chopped tomatoes and cook, first on high heat until it begins to boil.
4. Then simmer for 10 minutes, stirring often to prevent sticking.

Serve hot with white rice.

And enjoy!

Forming meatballs

Ingredients:

• Beef and pork or turkey. I prefer beef and turkey, healthier.
• Dry bread crumbs. 
• Eggs
• Salt and pepper 
• Onion
• Garlic
• Flour
• Parsley
• Other herbs, like oregano or cilantro, as well.

Directions:

1. Cut the meat or buy ground it.
2. Combine the ground meat, bread crumbs, eggs, and seasonings in a large bowl. 
3. Use your hands or a wooden spoon to mix the ingredients thoroughly.
4. Form 1-inch (2.5-cm) balls.

Use your hands to roll portions of the meat mixture into balls. 

If you have a melon-baller or small ice cream scoop, you could use that to form your meatballs instead of your hands. 

You could also use a teaspoon to help you portion off the meat into workable amounts.

Homemade croquettes

Ingredients:

• 50 g butter
• 50 g flour
• 750 ml milk
• 2 eggs
• 100 g chopped jamón
• sunflower oil
• breadcrumbs
• salt

Preparation:

1. Make the bechamel.
2. When the mixture becomes silky smooth, stir in the jamón and one teaspoon of salt, and mix.
3. Pour the bechamel in a glass plate and let cold for 2h.
4. Lightly flour the palms of your hands and for each croquette shape 1½ tablespoons of the chilled mixture into a ball.
5. Dip them in  beaten egg and breadcrumbs.
6. Lower them into the hot oil and cook until crisp and lightly golden-brown. 
7. Set them aside on plenty of kitchen paper to drain the excess oil. 
8. Serve while they are still hot.

And enjoy!