Grouper fillets in lemony buttery ice-wine sauce w/ bananas.

Ah! Butter! 

I love butter there is no secret about that. 

I love butter because it has a way of making everything so delicious and it basically goes with almost every type of food. What a wonderful thing, right? Butter. 

It even sounds nice. 

Butter. 

Butter.

Butter.

I am going butter crazy!

Anyway, YES, this fish fillet has butter, but it is not the secret ingredient that makes the sauce so delicious. What I've done to make this ultra delicious and unique is 

instead of using regular boring white wine... I've gone an extra mile and used: 

ICE WINE. 

(which I also love) 

and BAM 

I got this really-really good sauce. 

But I didn't want my fish fillet to be so boring, I mean, it was great, don't get me wrong, but it still missed something, like that little idkwhat that so often hunts when you are cooking something.

A little something extra...

Grouper fillet in lemony buttery ice-wine sauce

with Bananas.  

4 Grouper Fish Fillets. 

Olive Oil. 

Ice Wine.

Salt && Pepper.

Lemon juice. 

Bananas. 

Work my magic: 

1. Okay, as you know I am a huge fan of seasoning and this fish fillets aren't the exception, although this seasoning is a tiny bit different than the ones I have been doing lately. 

First of all I made the sauce first. So, put a little bit of olive oil in a small bowl along with the ice wine (or white wine) stir that a bit and place the fillets one by one inside.and let them stay there a while. 

2. Meanwhile heat a skillet and melt a small piece of butter and lemon juice. Let it simmer for a while and use this time to take the fillets out of the sauce and place small pieces of butter and few drops of lemon juice in one side. Fold it carefully before seasoning it with Salt and pepper on one side only. 

3. Remember we want the fish to be soft and juice. So it is vital you try to keep butter from dripping out of the folded fish. 

Once the skillet is hot enough place the fish on it a and cook it on one side around a minute and then turn it over and leave it there another minute or so. 

4. Now, the sauce in which me "marinated" the fillets is going into that hot skillet along with chopped bananas. 

Let them simmer and take in the juices from the fish and the sauce. 

Around 4 minutes, or until they are so tender they almost break when you touch them. 

5- Serve and pour into the different dishes whatever is left of the sauce n.n and if you wanna look real fancy cut some very thing slices of lemon and use them as garnish n.n 

Apple "Cobbler" n.n

The Apple Cobbler. 

Okay I'll be honest. This originally was supposed to be a Crumble Tart...but it didn't turn out that way, hence, the cobbler which I think is a name that is weird and different from the word Crumble and it also has a certain idk what that makes it sound nice. Right? Right? Right! 

As a Crumble Tart I'd been wanting to make one of those for a while now, but they seem like a Christmas sort of dessert. Plus, the other thing stopping me was my oven (which by now ya'll know it is useless) but I decided to go ahead and bake the crumble tart as I would an ordinary cake. 

I cannot say SUCCESS! Because I was expecting something with a more crumble-ish crust but it was still yummy. The apples were just amazingly delicious with just the softest hint of vanilla and lemon. 

The "Crumble" was okay, but I guess it needs more sugar and probably the egg yolks I decided to skip... 

Plus it made my house smell so nice n.n 

In other completely non related news. I have decided to remove Gordon Ramsay from my top #1 TV chef spot and place Jamie Oliver instead. I enjoyed his recipes and garden today while I waited for the icecream and the cobbler to be ready. And may I say, WOW great chef, great recipes, pro healthy and pro veggies! 

So expect some challenge soon (you want it now, you send me a copy of his latest recipe book). 

Okay! let's get to the recipe already!!

For the crumbles or cobbler: 

1 1/2 cup of flour. 

1/4 cup of sugar. 

A pinch of Salt. 

1 stick of butter, but into small pieces. 

2 egg yolks (which I didn't use) 

1/4 cup of Sour Cream. 

For the Apples: 

2 small apples ( I used three golden apples) 

1 tablespoon of butter. 

2 tablespoons of Sugar. 

1/3 cup of vanilla. 

1/4 teaspoon Lemon zest. 

Work the Magic like so: 

1. You are supposed to preheat the oven of course... but SCREW THAT!  My first step was to peel, core and slice the apples.

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2. Next Melt the tablespoon of butter in Medium heat. Once it has melted add the apples, the vanilla and the lemon zest and stir every few minutes. Leave them there until the apples are soft. 

(I put a lid over them so the smell and everything would stick better, plus it quickened the process) 

Once your apples are ready they'll end up looking like this: 

So now you'll need to set them aside and let them cool off a bit, so we can work the cobbler next. 

3. In a big bowl mix together the Flour, Salt and Sugar and stir. 

So you can then add the butter. 

Lovely picture right? 

4.Next you need to mix the butter and the flour mixture, not entirely but until it comes of as a sandy consistency. 

5. This is the step where you are supposed to mix the yolks with the sour cream before adding them to our crumble mixture. I just added the sour cream and mix it up again. Now remember it can't come together entirely! you want the mix to be crumbly. 

Once you are convinced with the results toss them from side to side with your hands before adding 2/3 of it to the "tart pan" otherwise known as the paniusetomakecakes. 

Now this is probably where I screwed up so be careful. You are supposed to pour in the mixture BUT DO NOT COMPRESS IT! Just make sure there aren't any holes. 

Then you add the apples and then you add whatever is left on the mixture on top of them. 

And you bake. 

40-45 minutes. 

Now you have to wait it cools off entirely before you removing it from the tart pan or thepaniusetobake. 

Then just serve and top with with nice fresh homemade natural yogurt w/ vanilla icecream n.n

Don't you wish you'd been invited for dinner at my place?

Gorditas revisited.

Saaay what?! Did I just said Gorditas? Did I, Andrea, made Gorditas from scratch? Indeed I did! 

Now, I didn't cook your usual straight from the market or the nearest street stall, no sire! 

This are snob-preppy-veggie Gorditas. 

Now sadly though, there are no pictures for the entire process but you wouldn't believe how extraordinary easy it actually is! 

And the reason why you can't see pictures of the process is because my lovely boyfriend. 

< ---- this guy right here

took my mobile yesterday, which, you all know is the sad camara I use to take the pictures. So blame him. 

Gorditas. Personally I had never tried them EVER but the ones I did turned up to be quite nice and yummy. 

They had a salty-sweetness flavor that was very enjoyable. Plus they aren't as greasy as the ones they sell on the street. So they taste delicious and they are healthy and they are 100% veggie. 

And soooo much fun to make!

So hail this Gorditas because they rock my Monday! 

Okay so for making the Gorditas you'll need: 

500g of fine cornmeal. 

1/2 teaspoon sea salt. 

1 teaspoon of baking powder. 

700 ml of hot water. 

Chipotle Sauce. 

Flour for dusting. 

For the Salsa: 

1 apple, halved and cored. 

1 large ripe tomato.

1/8 of an onion, chopped.

1 dry chilly. 

2 lemons or limes. 

2 teaspoons of sugar.

Olive Oil.

Salt && pepper. 

Okay Gorditas go like this: 

1. Put the cornmeal and salt in a large bowl and make a well in the center.

2. Mix the baking powder into the hot water (it might bubble a bit) and add it to the well in the middle of the cornmeal and salt. Using a fork mix the cornmeal into the liquid and when it starts to come together. Use your hands to knead it. 

3. Divide dough in equal squash-balls and dust with flour. 

4. Roll each piece around in your hands then pat and flatten them into small round balls. Set Aside. 

To make the salsa: 

1. Chop the apple, tomato and the onion and the dry chilly. Pour them into a bowl. 

2. Pour the lime or lemon juice into the mix and mix it together. Add two teaspoons of sugar and oil. And mix.

3. Take some of the same mix and pour into a different bowl and chop it into even smaller pieces (use the blender if you have to) 

4. I added a bit of hot salsa in the end. 

Back to the Gorditas: 

1. In an already hot pan place the gorditas and cook them 2-3 minutes on each side before putting them into a different skillet with the olive oil so you fry them. Again 2 to 3 minutes on each side or until they are 

Golden brown. 

And there you go, a mexican traditional dish with a slight healthier approach and it is still yummy. 

(ask my boyfriend n.n he is a bad-ass carnivore and he liked my veggie-healthy gorditas)