Super Sexy Truffles

Hi Folks,

 One of the goals I had when I started this blog was that I wanted to try making things I had never made before, we always seem to be eating the same meals day in and day out.

While this isn't a meal, it was something I had never made before.

My wife loves Truffles, so I decided to make some for her. I was surprised how stupidly simple they are to make.

I only used three ingredients for the base of my Truffles.

Chocolate

Cream

And vanilla, I used the powdered sugar and the cocoa to roll the Truffles in.

What I did was measure 10 ounces of chocolate, into a bowl. I used the bittersweet 60 % cacao first, at least 60 % cacao is what is recommended when making Truffles.

The semi sweet was not 60 %, more about that later.


 I poured 1/2 cup of cream, and 1 teaspoon of vanilla, into a measuring cup and  heated to boiling in the microwave, then I poured it over the chocolate and waited 3 minutes for the chocolate to melt.

Then I mixed till the chocolate was dissolved and the mixture was smooth. I had to place the bowl in the microwave for another fifteen seconds, to accomplish this.




I decided to try two different
versions of the bittersweet, in
one I added coconut.

















In the other I used
 1/4 teaspoon of ground red
 pepper.
















I used the cinnamon sugar to roll the Truffles in.

I poured the melted chocolate into bowls,  and placed 

them in the refrigerator uncovered, for one hour.

I mixed the semi sweet chocolate in the same way but omitted the coconut and pepper.

After an hour I assembled the bowls I would roll the Truffles in with cocoa, powdered sugar and cinnamon sugar.

Also a cup of warm water and a spoon to scoop the chocolate with. I used the towel to remove excess water from the spoon.

I scooped out the chocolate for my first Truffle, and rolled it in my hand to get a more round shape.

This part is messy, your hands will get chocolate on them.

Rolled the Truffle in the cocoa.

And placed it on a plate. I did all the ground pepper ones on a red
plate so that I could be sure to keep them separate.

My wife doesn't do spicy very much, so if these proved to be too spicy for her, I didn't want her to find one by surprise later on.

Which turned out to be a good thing because after they had chilled, and  she tried them, she commented " oh these aren't too spicy, they taste really good."

Then she swallowed.

Thirty seconds later the heat hit the back of  her throat and she said

" Oh my God, these are too spicy for me."

So I was the one who ate the rest of the pepper ones.

Anyway I continued scooping and rolling till I had all the bittersweet Truffles rolled out.

Then I started on the semi - sweet, and found out why you need to use 60 % cocoa.

The truffles melt really fast, if you don't use the 60%. This probably would not have been a problem, if I had used a small melon baller, so that I would not have had to touch them very much, and they wouldn't have melted the way they did.

But you know what they say about hind sight, so I wound up with some misshapen Truffles. They still tasted good just weren't so pretty.

Keep Truffles refrigerated.


I hope you try this recipe and make your own Truffles.


Thanks for reading,
                               Roy.

Soft Pork Tacos

                                       Pork Roast part 4


Hi Folks,


This is the fourth and final part of pork roast part one, which was my second post, where I wrote about purchasing two six pound pork roasts on sale  for about $24.00.

One of the goals I have for this blog is helping people to save money on their grocery bill and still eat really good food.

Now with this particular roast I cooked, my family and I could have had a nice roast dinner, and had some leftovers for later, and still came out cheap, at $12.00 for the roast.

But my intentions were to get at least 4 meals out of it at a cost of $3.00 a meal for the entree. So after cooking the roast I divided it into four portions, and planned what to do with them.

So if the store where you regularly shop has a really good sale on roasts, buy one and instead of thinking of it as one nice meal, think about how many meals you could make out of it, or if you can afford it buy two, and still have that nice roast dinner.

Even if you only had five meals out of the two roasts, that's still less than $5.00 per meal for the main part of your meal, and for four people it breaks down to $1.25 per person.

That's about the cost for something of the $1.00 menu at a fast food place.

Anyway this is what I did for my fourth meal.

I thawed the pork, warmed
it on the stove, and added tomatillo salsa to it. You can find the recipe for the salsa here on my blog, or just add your own favorite salsa.

I warmed the pork and salsa till
heated through.









Added Spanish rice for a side, you can find that recipe here also, warmed some flour tortillas, and here is the end result.

The pork made eight soft tacos, I just add some cilantro and a squirt of lime, and they where delicious.

I hope you try this recipe, or at least buy that roast and make your own four meals out of it.

Thinks for reading, Roy.

Here's a link to my youtube channel.Roys Kitchen