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Recipe: Mexican Mashed Potatoes
Mexican mashed potatoes! It’s no surprise if you’ve been around 3ten.ca before that Mexican food is my favourite. Oh, and how much I love potatoes. So, what better way to kick up these rich and creamy potatoes than with a bit of spice. Let’s get cooking. Ingredients 4 pounds of Yukon potatoes 1 can of corn 4 jalapeños 2 teaspoons of jalapeño spice 1 stick of butter 1/4 cup of milk salt to taste If you don’t have jalapeño spice feel free to use red…
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Recipe: Cabbage Corn Salad
Cabbage corn salad has become a weekly staple in our house. It’s so easy, hearty, and hold dressing well. Plus, you can mix it up and serve it so many different ways. Ingredients bag of coleslaw can of corn dressing of your choice toppings – feta, cranberries, nuts, corn chips First, pick up a bag of coleslaw and a can of corn. Drain the can of corn and put it in a bowl with the coleslaw. The ease of this salad also makes it great…
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Recipe: Flat BBQ Chicken
Flat BBQ chicken – it screams summer. Not only is it delicious and full of flavour, but it also cooks faster and more evenly than a whole chicken. A while back I made a flat chicken in the oven and said I wanted to try it on the BBQ – mainly I wanted to try and get close to the best chicken in Mexico. I can proudly say, this chicken is good – so good, and I’ve made it 3 times now, it’s that good.…
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Recipe: Smashed BBQ Potatoes
Smashed BBQ potatoes – yes, it’s time to fire up the barbeque and get cooking. I’ve never really been a barbeque person – don’t get me wrong, I love to eat most items that come off the grill, yet I haven’t ventured out to cooking with it. Well, one of my goals this summer is to fire up the propane a little more often. Let’s get cooking! Ingredients 2-3 pounds of mini potatoes about 3 tablespoons of canola oil tablespoon of steak spice teaspoon of…
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Recipe: Flat Roasted Chicken
Flat roasted chicken – the first time we had anything like this was in Mexico. Have you seen the deliciously flat Mexican chicken post? If not, you should check it out. Here I break down the chicken, remove the spine and the ribs. It’s really easy. Put the whole chicken breast side down and cut the backbone out. I cut a bit to the right, then the left using kitchen sheers and it works well. Then, you can just slice on either side and pull…
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Travel: La Perla
La Perla is an authentic Mexican restaurant in Playa del Carmen. Wonderful friends of ours were staying in Cancun during our time in Akumal and we decided to meet halfway in Playa for dinner. This place is on the north end of 5th street – the older end. We took the Colectivo from Akumal and it took us about 50 minutes from door to door. Bugs at La Perla Yes – you read that correctly, bugs. Bryce tacos with crickets and larva – not for…
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Recipe: Basil Goat Cheese Penne
This basil goat cheese penne started out as just a regular dinner – mashing fridge food together in a way that tastes good. Well, as we were eating, Bryce was like – this is so good! – you need to make it again. So, here we go – I thought I’d share with you, too. Let’s get cooking. Ingredients package of GoGo Quinoa penne pasta bundle of asparagus 4 tablespoons of grapeseed oil salt to taste 1 pound of roasted chicken 2 tablespoons of basil…
