Healthy Lemon Dressing for your Salad

Today's recipe is for those who feel light and healthy. It is an awesome recipe for those who like to season their salad with lemon juice but don't know how to measure the amount of lemon and then the dressing or get too lemony strong (urgh!) or too light. With this recipe you will learn how to balance it and the best part is that you won't need to buy those dressing in the bottle, since this one is SO fast and with ingredients that you will always find in your kitchen. =]

Ingredients:
1 lemon juice and a little of zest
6 table spoon of olive oil
Salt
Black pepper
1/2 chili pepper with no seeds chopped really small (you can use powder if that's what you have, it's only to give a little spiciness)

Brazilian Chicken Pie

This is my mom's recipe, I don't know where she got this from at first, but I know all my friends and family love this recipe and always ask for more. I'm pretty sure this recipe will please the American taste as well. 


I am calling it Brazilian chicken pie, because every chicken pie that I saw here in America always comes with some sort of crust and something more similar to a chicken stew inside. In Brazil, most of our meat pies comes in a "cake" form, with no crust, but with a fluffy delicious dough.

The awesome thing about this recipe is that it may look complicated, but in fact is really simple and easy to make. What takes longer is to chop every ingredient, but once you have that ready, it may take around 20 min to put everything together.
In case you are vegetarian, this chicken pie recipe works really well with spinach instead of chicken. Or if you feel like having fish, change the chicken for tuna, it will taste amazing just the same.

Now everybody, get prepared because this recipe have so much flavor and colors that I couldn't hold myself and took a LOT of photos! Now take your knives and let's chop all this ingredients!

Ingredients:
FOR THE FILLING
1 chicken breast cooked in water and shredded
1 garlic glove
1 onion
2 tomatoes
Handful of parsley
Handful of olives
1 shredded carrot 
1 green bell pepper
1 chili pepper
Black pepper
Salt
Olive oil

FOR THE DOUGH
2 cups of milk
1 beef bouillon in cube
3 eggs
1 cup of oil
1 cup and 1/2 of whole wheat flour
2 table spoon of baking powder
Butter to grease the pan

We are on Facebook!

Finally we decided to take courage and create a Facebook page for this blog. The idea is to get more and more recipes here and some cooking tips too. So add us and make sure to never miss any of our recipes  again! =D

In our facebook page we are going to not only post recipes from our blog but some news on the cooking world like diets, what is good for your body, what kind of food has the vitamin you are looking for, and all that fun stuff.

Eton Mess or Strawberry and Blueberry Merengue

If you're feeling like giving a little break from the diet, then today is the day! We are going to make a ridiculously easy recipe that is one of the most delicious thing you can make ( and of course, super fast! <3).

The good thing about this recipe is that if someday you get some visit coming in last minute call you can make it as your desert. It will look like you were prepared, and will bring the expectations up about your hosting skills! 

Oh, by the way, did I mention that you don't need to bake anything for this? It literally takes 15min to make this delicious desert.

Ingredients:
1 lemon
16 fl oz (300g) heavy cream
4 to 5 big home made merengue
One package of blueberries
One package of strawberries
3 table spoon of sugar
1 tea spoon of vanilla essence
a little of balsamic vinegar (trust me on this! I didn't put this ingredient on mistake lol)

Grandma's Eggplant

Today's recipe is a wonderful recipe that my grandma Wilta taught me. The cool thing about this recipe is that you can cook it Sunday night - like I did - and then you can use it to though out all week using it on salads, pizzas, sandwiches, bruschetta, etc. This amount that I am cooking on this recipe was good for me for more then a week. And don't worry, the longer the eggplant stays in the fridge on a proper container, the better it taste because of the vinegar!

It is a vegan recipe but even the carnivorous will love to have some of these on their barbecue!

Let's cook!

Ingredients:
3 Medium eggplants
3 Bell pepper (what ever color you like, I used one red, one green and one yellow)
2 Medium onions
4 Garlic gloves
1 Chili pepper
A handful of parsley
6 black olives
Oregano
Olive oil
Vinegar
Black pepper
Salt

Healthy Chicken with Pesto

You know when you feel like having some chicken and want to do something healthy, tasty and easy but you can't stand that grilled chicken anymore. Well, when I get sick of the grilled chicken, this is what I do. It's fast, easy and is always delicious!

Next time you get visitors for dinner, you should definitely think about this option, since it is really beautiful on your plate and tasty.

Ingredients:
1 Chicken Breast Fillet
1 Table spoon of pesto
1 Lime juice
Black pepper
Salt
Olive Oil

Cheesy Souffle Omelette

Today I was feeling like having an omelette, but to make it more fun to post on the blog I decided to make the recipe a little bit more interesting and different then the regular omelette. I found this one in one of the books I have and decided to make it because it looked so good in the picture I had to try it out.

It may look difficult but trust me, it's easy and delicious!

Ingredients:
3 eggs
1 cup of parmesan cheese
1 table spoon of parsley
1 table spoon of salted butter
Salt and black pepper