Fast Pan Fried Okra

If you have some salsa left,you can use it this dish.

Get one pound of fresh okra
Quarter of a cup of salsa ( any salsa you like)
Little bit of oil for frying
Salt, Pepper


Cut the hard ens of okra, and slice it to size you like

Fry it in a pan with salt and pepper, adding the salsa half way before end

Enjoy!

Buffalo steak

Buffalo ( Bison ) steak, true American Delicacy 

There is a cooking technique called "Blackened", which is used on meat or fish. It's perfect for bison meat.  Bison or buffalo  it is really lean meat

Buy any type of Cajun, Creole or Blackening Spice mix. Put oil over the steak, cover with spice mixture and put on hot  grill.

As soon as the spices darken - the steak is ready. I prefer my buffalo medium rare. it is to lean to be cooked more, because it will become chewy.

Enjoy. I did !!!!

Moment from Murray market

I love markets, my favorite time of the year

Attack of Tasty Killer Tomatoes

It is growing good this year.

From our backyard

Ukrainian style pork roast

This is very popular and very simple way of cooking a pork roast in Ukraine and not just Ukraine, but Russia and Belarus as well.

The sweetness of natural pork here is being complimented by sweetness of a carrot and aroma of garlic.

So, that is  all you need for the roast

Pork  on a bone ( I prefer fat shoulder, but any fat part will do) 

Few cloves of garlic 

1 medium carrot 

Salt and black pepper

The pork itself should be on a fat side. The fat will melt down and give flavor to everything, plus I cook the roast to a higher temperature and longer, so the fat roast will be moist.

All you do is :

Cut the carrot and garlic in small pieces 

Make slits on the side of the pork and stuff every slit with piece of garlic and carrot. Plus, there will plenty of places on the roast you can put the garlic and the carrot. Any type of openings you can stuff : I put some under the fat , that will stay on  and melt.

Rub nicely with salt and black pepper and just a little bit of vegetable oil.

Cook until done, I cook it to 185 F.

About 45 minute before end I add some raw sliced potatoes in the pan.

Enjoy

Before I go to a Mexican restaurant, I always ask, if they serve this.....

Menudo !!!

This a spicy Mexican soup, made from beef tripe with or without hominy (corn), boiled for hours with herbs and spices

The soup is fat, very rich

The richness can be "cut" with lime juice, salsa. I usually add onion, cilantro, extra salsa , squeeze lots of lime and add just a pinch of Mexican oregano.  It goes ideal with beer, tequila ext.

For lots of people, this soup is not everyday food. So, if I see on the menu in a restaurant this soup, then I am  absolutely sure, that Mexican and  people from Latin America go there to eat.  

Year of the Horse

All Right!!

Bryce Canyon , horse ride!