I don’t know what it is but I really can’t get enough Chili Relleno! The taste and texture is so inviting and … yes… I actually lost weight while eating this a few times this past week! Outside of the cheese and egg, it is a surprisingly good vegetarian dish.
The top left picture above is the 5 cheese stuffed chili; in the top right, I am folding the egg yolk into the whipped egg whites and the bottom picture is the time consuming — but yummy – sauce!
There are 2 stuffed chilis in this Chili Relleno!
Thanks again to El Cholo’s Restaurant for their wonderful recipe… that although I adapted… is wonderful! Hmmmm… wonder what I will have for lunch tomorrow? Ah, leftover Chili Relleno!
This is a great recipe from the el Cholo cookbook! CLICK to visit!
One of the wonderful Southern Cal traditions is to visit the oldest Mexican Food Restaurant of Los Angeles! I am speaking of El Cholo’s on Western Avenue. It doesn’t matter when I visit, I will always have — as part of the meal — their very delicious Chili Relleno!
Okay, I didn’t actually steal their recipe, in fact, I bought it in one of their two very nice recipe books!
a page from the El Cholo cookbook. The inserted pictures are from my preparation today: top, stuffing the chilis with cheese, and bottom, making the wonderful sauce to cover the meal!
Now, they also offer versions with a little more zip, but as a main meal or a side dish this one is just fine! I made a few alterations to accommodate all of the chili’s I had purchased and used a little salsa… but I stayed fairly true to the source. yum!
Enjoy this relatively guilt free… okay, feel guilty… but it is worth it!
the Tiramisu Cake was prepared to celebrate by daughter Karen's DISSERTation!
A while back I found recipes for Tiramisu cake that I frankly thought were not worth the effort. Sponge cake never equates to home made ladyfingers! So to celebrate my daughter Karen passing her oral defense of her dissertation, we enjoyed this wonderful cake!
the simple three ingredient bachelor(ette) meal! 😉
I am constantly surprised by the young people I meet who don’t know how to cook? How do they live?? There is an exciting world out there of culinary discovery that can not be found in a restaurant with arches or without, because it is what you create yourself!
So, unlike IRONMAN, most budding cooks must walk before they can run and this means starting at the basics. Here are a few suggestions:
1) give them a very very simple cookbook… Better Homes and Garden has a great one for less than $20 at Amazon.com. B.H.& G. is an old line cookbook — now in it’s 15th edition — that is a wonderful gift to anyone starting out. The recipes are simple, economical and with few ingredients and step-by-step guidance.
2) Translate your fun meals into even simpler ones for the new cook. The meal above contains three ‘ingredients’ (actually, three packages ingredients): one whole chicken ( they can be purchased without it’s natural ‘stuffing’), an Uncle Ben’s precooked rice package ( many contain a nice mixture that will appeal) and a little seasoning over the top of the chicken ( many pre-blended shakers available: salt, pepper and garlic powder is popular).
Bake 375 degrees F. for 2 hours and 20 minutes
Doesn’t get much easier than this!
3) Encourage the new cook to seek out a teacher… someone who can get them to the next level. After mastery of the simple cookbook, you can gift them with specialty cook books in which they may have an interest: cookies and desserts, fondue, and celebrity chef’s books ( they only look hard, in reality, their recipes have only a few steps and simple commonplace ingredients… This is key to selling a cook book ).
4) Practice — there is no substitute for experience.
