Meals for Thursday May, 07/2009

Your Low-Carb choice

Eggplant Rollatini

Grilled eggplants stuffed with your choice of ground chicken or ground beef, vegetables and mozzarella cheese topped with a light tomato sauce and a side of mashed potatoes.

4 servings $28

Recipe of the week ... Happy 5 de Mayo!!!!

GUACAMOLE!

Ingredients:

4 ripes avocados

3 limes juiced

1/2 red onion chopped

1 garlic clove minced

2 serrano chiles, sliced thinly

1 big handful fresh cilantro, finely chopped

Extra virgin olive oil

salt and freshley ground black pepper

Directions:

Halve and pit the avocados, scoop out the flesh with a tablespoon into a mixing bowl. mash the avocados with a fork leaving them some what chunky, add the remaining ingredients and fold everything together to gently mix. Lay a piece of plastic wrap right on the surface of the guacamole so it doesnot brown; refrigerate 1 hour before serving.

Meals for Thursday 04/30/2009

Your choice of:

Mai's Chicken Marsala


Tender chicken breast cooked in a white wine sauce and sauteed mushrooms with a side of parsley roasted potatoes; 4 servings $28

Asado Negro

Venezuelan pot roast cooked in a red wine-tomato sauce served with a side of vegetable rice.

4 servings for $28

NEWS!

Hi girls!!!! I would like to announce Susana's new business... as you all know her, she is a very talented and creative young woman (you can tell I love her) well, finally she has put together some creations to share with us... for your next event showers, birthday party and sporting event, get these beautiful, delicious trays; she can also decorate a main table. For more info call Susana (Sue) Borges at 713 922 7603 or email her at susanaborges@hotmail.com

Recipe of the week Thursday,30/2009

Banana Pudding

Ed's favorite; Many thanks to Diana Acres for this fabulous recipe!


Ingredients

1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk

1 1/2 cup cold water

1 (4 serving) package instant vanilla pudding mix

2 cups (1 pint) whipping cream, whipped

36 vanilla wafers

3 medium bananas, sliced and dipped in lemon juice


Instructions

In a large bowl, combine condensed milk and water. Add pudding mix; beat until well blended. Chill 5 minutes.

Fold in whipped cream. Spoon 1 cup pudding mixture into 2 1/2 quart glass serving bowl

Top with one-third each of the vanilla wafers, bananas and remaining pudding. repeat layering twice, ending with pudding mixture. Chill thoroughly. Garnish as desired. Store leftovers covered in refrigerator.

Great Mother's Day gift ideas from Mai's Kitchen!

As you know Mother's Day is almost here, YAY! It's the day of the year that we get extra pampered by our loved ones :-) so... I have a suggestion for presents; if you're like me, you probably give your friends a special mother's day gift just to say you care. My very talented friend Erika Fernandez is making beautiful and useful flower arrangements and I wanted to share them with all of my friends! These arrangements dress up any desk or counter top and they are useful to boot because the stems of the flowers are actual PENS! If you have kids you know that its impossible to keep a pen handy :-) Well, take a look at these beautiful creations, they'll look great on your kitchen counter, next to your phone and you can even use them as a center piece! But wait there's more :-) with the purchase of any flower-pen arrangement you'll receive $5 off your next meal from Mai's Kitchen...... Please e-mail or call me with your order and I will include the arrangement along with your next meal; but hurry, Erika only made a limited number of these and when their gone, their gone!