Empanadas to celebrate Chile's Independence day!

As soon as Oscar found out his mom was making empanadas he wanted her to make it with lard instead of vegetable shortening. So making lard was his contribution to this recipe :)

First we bought pork fat and asked the butcher to grind it

Then put it in the crock pot

Strain through cheesecloth 

Store overnight

End product, it is so white, whiter than the picture

"Pino"

"Masa"

So pretty!

In process :)

Finally!

Time to eat! It is soooooo gooooood :) 

Bike route

Today we rode 10 miles, the day was beautiful and we biked for a longer distance.

First from Briarwood to Flushing Meadow Park (to the world sphere)

Then from Flushing Meadow park to Kissena Park

And finally from Kissena Park back to Briarwood.

We rode for about 1 hr and 15 minutes. It was a lovely day in the high 60's. :)

Lunch at Fu Run restaurant at Downtown Flushing

I was in the mood for some lamb, so Oscar was searching around and 

we found a place kinda nearby and has great reviews on their lamb.

So my mouth watered and off we went :) when we arrived we saw it had a 

B rating of  the plate I wanted which is the Muslim Lamb, and I was kinda 

discourage of being there. However I tried to keep a positive attitude and 

ordered it regardless, Oscar changed his mind and ordered something else.

This is what we ordered 

Muslim lamb, it was so good, I was really happy I took the courage to try something 

completely different even though It didn't look appealing to me at first. I would try it again :)

Oscar's plate was pork with mushroom, it was very good as well. The waitress asked 

if we wanted to try their nativeChinese mushroom or just regular one, so Oscar decided 

from their native one, and it was very good. It looks different and it tastes very woody, 

the combination was great and along some rice (which we don't eat) would have been 

even better.

Kind of confuse of my decision before trying it, as you can tell, but it was very good.

It is  very fatty, so it has a buttery taste which I love, and LOTS of condiments, 

I couldn't eat all of the seasoning on top, because my stomach is 

sensitive but the meat had great flavor even without it.

Oscar is wishing for some rice lol He loves Chinese food :)

We accompanied our dishes with string beans, and they were very tasty as well,

it had been roasted with garlic but I believe it had a little bit of soy sauce and it was yummy :)

Birthday celebration

We celebrated with the family too :)

With his mom and dad

With grandma

With Aunt Alicia 

Unfortunatly, the Dominican cake wasn't good :( But we got back up cake thanks to Tia Alicia :)

Sister Dean

Today we said good bye to sister Dean :( She has been a wonderful sister missionary at Flushing I for six months! She is so positive, happy and multi-talented. We wish her all the best in her new area and other areas to come and a successful mission overall. We will miss you very much!

This is the sweet note she wrote to me :)

 

Flaxseed pancakes

Saturday morning breakfast:

1 cup of golden flaxseed

3 tsp Truvia baking blend 

1 tbsp coconut flour

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

Pinch salt

4 eggs

1/4 cup coconut oil

1/2 almond milk

Whisk together all dry ingredients and then add each wet ingredient and mix well. Use a 1/4 cup of batter for each pancake. It makes 8 pancakes. 

We topped it off with Sugar Free Apricot Jelly, and whip cream :) 

Fish day

We went to fishing at the Captreee Princess Boat. It was a cloudy and a little rainy day but once we went out on the ocean the sky cleared up and it turned out to be a beautiful day :)

I caught my very first blue fish. (Those sneakers are my fish sneakers lol)

Oscar got a couple of crabs by accident and we decided to keep them.

I finally can't a keeper, the biggest fish on the boat and I won the boat poll :)

Therefore we decided to eat fish for dinner :)

We bought a couple more of crabs once we got back to Queens, and we made the crab stock from scratch.

We made yummy Crab Bisque!

 

This was last week :) 

 This was yesterday :)