Portuguese Tuna Puffs Recipe

Ingredients

1 can of tuna ( 200g )1 onion2 tablespoons margarine2 tablespoons flour120 ml milk1 tbsp. finely chopped parsley3 eggsBreadcrumbsSalt (to taste)Pepper (to taste)

Directions

1. Sauté the chopped onion in the margarine. Add the well drained tuna and stir well  Add the flour, mix well and add the milk.
2. Season to taste with salt and pepper and finally add the finely chopped parsley.
3. Make small balls with this dough, go through flour, then egg and finally the breadcrumbs and fry them.
4. You can fry or freeze them to fry at another time.

Recipe & Photo Credit: Guida, asminhasreceitas-guida.blogspot.pt

 

Let us all encourage our wives, friends and daughters to dress well and decent!

Two young women arrived a Meeting wearing clothes that were quite revealing their body parts. Here is what the Chairman told them: He took a good look at them and made them sit. Then he said something that, they might never forget in their life. He looked at them straight in the eyes and said; "ladies, everything that God made valuable in this world is well covered and hardly to see, find or get.

1. Where do you find diamonds? Deep down in the ground, covered and protected.

2. Where do you find pearls? Deep down at the bottom of the ocean, covered up and protected in a beautiful shell.

3. Where do you find gold? Way down in the mine, covered over with layers of rock and to get them, you have to work hard & dig deep down to get them.

He looked at them with serious eyes and said;
"Your body is sacred & unique" You are far more precious than gold, diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too ."So he added that, if you keep your treasured mineral just like gold, diamond and pearls, deeply covered up, a reputable mining organization with the requisite machinery will fly down and conduct years of extensive exploration.
First, they will contact your government (family), sign professional contracts (wedding) and mine you professionally( legal marriage).But if you leave your precious minerals uncovered on the surface of the earth, you always attract a lot of illegal miners to come and mine you illegally. Everybody will just pick up their crude instruments and just have a dig on you just freely like that. Keep your bodies deeply covered so that it invite professional miners to chase you.
Let us all encourage our wives, friends and daughters to dress well and decent!

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RE - USE YOUR OLD PATINA

 

DON'T FOLLOW THE CROWD, FOLLOW YOUR HEART.

IF IT EXCITES YOU AND SCARES YOU AT THE SAME TIME, IT PROBABLY MEANS YOU SHOULD DO IT.

THINK ONE POSITIVE THOUGHT EVERY MORNING AND YOU WILL TRICK YOUR BRAIN PSYCHOLOGICALLY INTO BEING A HAPPIER PERSON.

EMBRACE UNCERTAINTY, SOME OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CHAPTERS IN OUR LIVES WON'T HAVE A TITLE UNTIL MUCH LATER.

DON'T THINK TOO MUCH.

JUST DO WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY.

KEEP WALKING THROUGH THE STORM.

YOUR RAINBOW IS WAITING ON THE OTHER SIDE.

DON'T LET ANYONE BREAK YOU.

THERE MAY ALWAYS BE PEOPLE WHO SECRETLY WANT TO SEE YOU FAIL.

THAT'S OKAY.

JUST STAY STRONG AND STAND TALL.

 

BE AUTHENTIC.

DIFFERENT IS BEAUTIFUL.

DON'T GIVE UP

persevere

IF THERE IS A WILL THERE IS AWAY.

Portuguese Shrimp (Rissois) Patties Recipe

Ingredients

White sauce:6 tbsp of flour3/4 stick of butter or margarine2 cups of milk1/2 tsp of salt1/4 tsp of pepper1/2 Knorr chicken bouillon cube1 egg yolk for a thicker fillingShrimp:1/4 cup of finely minced onion2 tsp of finely minced parsley1/2 chicken bouillon cube2 to 3 tbsp of olive oil1 and 1/2 pounds of peeled finely chopped raw shrimp1/4 tsp of paprika1/4 tsp of salt (if desired)1 tsp of lemon juiceDough:6 cups of water6 cups of flour1 tbsp of salt1 stick of margarine1 piece of lemon peel                                                                                                       

Directions

White sauce:

1. In heavy sauce pan on medium heat melt butter. Add the flour and stir until it dissolves into the butter. Add milk, salt pepper & bouillion cube. Stir well and cook while constantly stirring on med heat until it thickens like a pudding.
2. Remove from heat and let cool slightly. Add 1 tbsp of white sauce to beaten yolk to temper, then add the egg mixture into sauce. *This is optional to create a thicker, yellowish sauce but not necessary fi your sauce is thick.
3. Taste the white sauce & add more salt or pepper if needed. Set aside to cool completely. (The filling should be very thick not runny)

Shrimp:

1. Cook the onions w/ olive oil on med heat until translucent. Add chick bouillon cube & shrimp.
2. Cook for about 2-3 minutes until shrimp is pink. Add lemon juice, paprika, and parsley and let let cool.
3. Chop shrimp into small pieces and stir into the white sauce. Season the filling with more salt & pepper to taste if needed.
4. Let the shrimp filling mixture cool completely, or overnight in refrigerator.

Dough:

1. In heavy non stick pan, place water, lemon peel, salt & butter on med heat until butter melts and the water starts to boil. Add the flour & continually stir with a sturdy spoon until a ball of dough forms. (This takes muscle power)
2. You’ll notice the bottom of the pan starts to form a crust. Keep stirring until all of flour is absorbed into the ball of dough.
3. (The batter should feel and look like bread dough). Let it cool.
4. Once both the dough and filling have completely cooled or overnight in the refrigerator, you are ready to roll out dough on floured surface.

Preparing the Turnovers:

1. This dough is called “massa tenra” because it is a very tender dough which must be handed gently.
2. Gently roll the dough to 1/8 inch thick with floured rolling pin.
3. Cut the dough into round 4-5 inch circles using a cookie cutter or a floured glass.
4. Spoon 1 teaspoon of the filing into center of dough rounds. Fold the dough over forming a moon shape.
5. Carefully pinch edges together and don’t let filling escape out of the sides.
6. Place them apart from each other on a large parchment lined cookie sheet.

Prepare for frying:

1. Beat 3 eggs with a couple tablespoons of water in large bowl. Spread a large amount (2-3 cups) of fine plain bread crumbs on a cookie sheet.
2. Use one hand dry, one hand wet method by dipping each shrimp cake into egg wash and then into the bread crumbs. Shake off excess crumbs.
3. Place them back onto parchment lined cookie sheets for storing in refrigerator until ready to fry.

Frying Turnovers:

1. Fry 6 rissois at a time in good deep fryer at med – high heat about 375 degrees until they turn very golden brown. I recommend using a stainless steel fryer rather than a plastic one since it retains heat better.
2. You’ll need to keep turning them over and saturate them with the hot oil to cook evenly.
3. Cut one open to make sure the filling and the dough is cooked through.
4. Place them on paper towels to drain any grease.

Recipe & Photo Credit: Tia Maria's Blog, portuguesediner.com/tiamaria/

Observations on Growing Older

 

 
  ~ Your kids are becoming you... and you don't like them... but your grandchildren are perfect! 

~ Going out is good... Coming home is better! 

~ When people say you look "Great"... they add "for your age!" 

~ When you needed the discount, you paid full price. Now you get discounts on everything... movies, hotels, flights, but you're too tired to use them. 

~ You forget names …. but it's OK because other people forgot they even knew you!!! 

~ The 5 kilos you wanted to lose  is now 10 and you have a better chance of losing your keys than the 10 kilos 

~ You realize you're never going to be really good at anything .... especially golf. 

~ Your spouse is counting on you to remember things you don't remember. 

~ The things you used to care to do, you no longer care to do, but you really do care that you don't care to do them anymore. 

~ Your husband sleeps better on a lounge chair  with the TV blaring than he does in bed.  It's called his "pre-sleep". 

~ Remember when your mother said... 
"Wear clean underwear in case you GET in an accident"? 
Now you bring clean underwear in case you HAVE an accident! 

~ You used to say, 
"I hope my kids GET married... 
Now, "I hope they STAY married!" 

~ You miss the days when everything worked  with just an "ON" and "OFF" switch. 

~ When GOOGLE, iPod, email, modem - were unheard of, and a mouse was something  that made you climb on a table. 

~ You used to use more 4 letter words … 
"what?"..."when?"... ??? 

~ Now that you can afford  expensive jewelry, it's not safe to wear it anywhere. 

~ Your husband has a night out with the guys, but he's home by 9:00 p.m. Next week it will be 8:30 p.m. 

~ You read 100 pages into a book before you realize you've read it. 

~ Notice everything they sell in stores is "sleeveless"?!!! 

~ What used to be freckles are now age spots. 

~ Everybody whispers.

~ Now that your husband has retired … you'd give anything if he'd find a job!

~ You have 3 sizes of clothes in your wardrobe … 2 of which you will never wear. 

~ But old is good in some things: 
old songs, 
old movies, 
And best of all, OLD FRIENDS!!