Butter....milk????

When I got to this country I enjoy the most delicious scones I had  ever try in my life, so of course I asked for the recipe, everything looked normal to me until I got to the ingredient call Buttermilk??? Is this some kind of concoction out of milk and butter???? So I decide to investigate a little more, and found this is something in Venezuela we call Suero nothing else but soured milk... Well now I know what it was but I didn't have no even a drop of the dear liquid, since I had never use before for this kind of recipes but to eat with arepa, but that is another story.

So I decide to go and buy some, but there was the snow, and it was so cold outside that I decide to leave for a different day, but my sweet daughter decided she wants to eat the scones that day so she would ask our neighbor (since she was the one with the original scones and recipe) if she may have some buttermilk she may spare and so she went to the neighbor house and ask her to our surprise she came with a new recipe and apologize for not having buttermilk but explain to us how she never bought it because it was so easy to make your own.

So I gathered some different methods here remembering how my own gram mother used to make it...

The cultured buttermilk; I remember when my grams was running low on Suero she kept always the last cup of it and mix it with a liter of fresh milk, she use to left it at room temperature, now I understand it wasn't the TAPARA in which she used to storage but the Streptococcus Lactic a bacteria that comes in the buttermilk commercial that not only is good for you to obtain the buttermilk but also is good for your stomach like yogurt or at least that's what my gramma used to say

No doubt you may do it in a clean glass jar, as I had done it several times...but this are the Taparas that my gramma use back in Venezuela.

 


The acid plus milk;

Basically buttermilk is sour milk so mix a cup of milk with one tablespoon of lemon or vinegar, let it sit for 5-10 min is going to curdle....mix it again and you have buttermilk.

With cream of tartar plus milk;

By now you  have figure out that the base for buttermilk is milk so we will use one cup of milk and 1 3/4 of cream of tartar, mix it well and let it sit for 5-10 min, when it curdle mix it back and you have homemade buttermilk.

Use as needed and enjoy you delicious Buttermilk.....(insert your dish name here, e.i. pancakes, biscuits, scones etc)........

Guacamole

While everybody connects guacamole with a dip and then mash the avocado I prefer the texture that the more wholesome pieces offer allowing to be mash or chee inside your mouth its like a dance for my palate.

I remember growing up a girl who came to live wi us taking the avocados from a tree we use to have in our backyard and using it in slices on top of our salads, I think that and the idea of not havinh mashed foods on my plate which drove me to try this..... I hope you like it.

You will need;

1 small ripe avocado

7 cherry tomatoes

1 tbs red onion small diced

1/4 cup cilantro chopped

1 tbs lime juice

1/2 tbs olive oil

Sal

Cut the avocado in half and take the pit out, with a serrate knife draw lines along and then across the halved avocado and with a spoon take the avocado out of the peel and into a medium bowl, cut the tomatoes in half and mix all the ingredients with the avocado, be carefull to mix not mash, let it rest for at least 5 minutes so the flavor can marinate.

Serve in the peels for a funny look or in top of a piece a grill meat or as a side dish.

Enjoy it.

                                    

Mientras todo el mundo conecta guacamole con un pure y  trituran el aguacate prefiero la textura que las piezas más enteras ofrecen permitiendo hacer puré o masticarlo dentro  de su boca es como un baile para mi paladar.

Recuerdo que creciendo a una chica que vino a vivir con nosotros bajando los aguacates de un árbol que teniamos en nuestro patio trasero y como lo colocaba en rodajas sobre  nuestras ensaladas, creo que eso y la idea de no ver puré en mi plato lo que me llevó a probar esto ..... Espero que les guste.

Usted necesitará;

1 aguacate pequeño maduro

7 tomates cherry

1 cucharada de cebolla roja pequeña cortada en cubitos

1/4 taza de cilantro picado

1 cucharada jugo de limón

1/2 cucharada de aceite de oliva

Sal

Cortar el aguacate por la mitad y sacar la semilla, con cuchillo serrado trazar unas líneas a lo largo y después a lo ancho de cada mitad y con una cuchara de tomar el aguacate de la cáscara en un tazón mediano, cortar los tomates por la mitad y mezclar todo el ingredientes con el aguacate, ten cuidado de mezclar no aplastar, dejar reposar durante al menos 5 minutos para que el sabor pueda mezclarse.

Servir en las cáscaras para una aspecto divertido o en sobre de una pieza de una carne o como guarnición.

Que lo disfruten.