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One of our favorite places in the morning is the cupcake café in Cabo San Lucas Mexico. Waking up on a warm sunny day and walking up to the cupcake Café getting a cuppa coffee however you like it and a nice selection of different pastries and then sitting down with a view of the marina in Cabo San Lucas is a real treat. The cupcake café is located in the Sandos Finisterra on the Pacific side of Cabo San Lucas. Each morning we get up and walk through the marina and back which is about a 3 mile walk and it’s a lot of fun to go see everybody getting set up for the morning, the vendors in the different shops opening up, and we’re generally down in Cabo for two weeks during Christmas and New years; so after the first week or so we kind of know everybody and everybody’s friendly and everybody says good morning and everybody waves it’s a nice relaxing way to have a vacation.
so is everyone should know by now my wife is 100% Armenian. we know so many older Armenian women who have had the idea on how to pickle or can brought passed down over years, and a number of them have given us and taught us how to make canned gutta or Armenian pickles. I love pickled cauliflower I’m going to give you the recipe on how I’ve been taught how to make canned or pickled vegetables. The can or pickle vegetables, you start with 3 cups of water, one cup of white vinegar, 3 tablespoons of pickling salt, 1 tablespoon of sugar and then when you’re putting in the vegetables in the jar, you in each jar, add a few cloves of garlic, and I also like to put in a few peppers, which are the hot little Mexican peppers or cayenne pepper if you choose . Two pots on the stove, one pot of boiling water these are actually good size pots in one pot of the liquid that you’re going to be putting in the jars once vegetables, as you can. so you take the jars ball jars or other canning jars that you can get at the hardware store anywhere and you take a long wooden spoon or some other implement that you have and you dunk a jar in the boiling water turn it around and get it good and sterilized. Take it out stop it full of vegetables, garlic, and peppers as much as you can stuff in there and then you put the lid in the boiling water, put that on the jar and then the ring lid and screw that down tight. And that’s really all there is to it it’s kind of old-school old-fashioned, but it really works well and I’m gonna put a picture on here of the pickled cauliflower that I made the other day
Yes - you can get more than a good Steak at Cattleman's - great baked potatoes, bottomless salads and they have a few really yummy, gooey deserts if you are in the Selma, Fowler or Kingsburg area Cattleman's Is THE place to go for a really good steak dinner.
Our Men's Forum from the Saint Gregory Armenian Church in Fowler Ca held the Annual Christmas Gift Exchange and Christmas Party at Cattleman's In Selma Ca this year - it was a good meal and lots of fun all around - Cattleman's was a great place for this event -
Chili it’s one of those meals that you generally start thinking about making in the winter. It’s not really soup and it’s not a stew - it’s Chili, kind of a unique fun to make dish that’s good for lunch or dinner - it can be served with all kinds of toppings like green onions, sour cream, cheese or you can Serve it over rice - really it’s up to you. I generally use one pot and add everything I need in order. We really don’t have a winter as much as we have cool weather – I grew up in Minnesota – That’s winter – but when our weather turns cool – generally in the 30’s-40’s – its time for all kinds of soups and stews – Chili is an easy to make and versatile dish. Chili the way I like to make it is a one pot dish. I use a large Deep pot and heat it on the stove (I like to cook on a gas stove) and add enough oil to cover the bottom of the pot. While the pot and oil is heating to about medium I am chopping my white onion – a good sized onion into fairly small diced pieces and then I add to the heated oil (you should hear the sizzle). You want to cook the onions until they are limp and soft, add a pinch or two of salt and pepper. I also add a pinch of cayenne pepper and smoked paprika but Nancy doesn’t like it hot so really just a pinch.Now I add the ground beef – I like to use 80/20 in my chili – but use what you have or want – some people like to use chunks of meat but I prefer ground beef – it makes the chili taste better to me (I feel like everything blends better together) while the beef and onions and spices are cooking together I open cans of diced tomatoes and other tomato cans, I also add tomato sauce. I just add a couple of cans of sauce Until I like the look of it ( I’ve made chili so many times I don’t think you can mess it up (you can just simmer it down if you add to much and can always add more sauce if it’s to thick). If you like beans in your chili nows the time to add them, black beans and red kidney beans work best for me – I use cans mostly – I’ve soaked and used dried but I find it’s just easier to use canned. I now add sugar – white sugar cuts the acidic nature of the tomatoes ( I add about a teaspoon or so) and add chili powder to taste – I usually sprinkle enough to cover the top of the chili – about 1/2 cup. And then I simmer the chili for at least an hour – longer is better
