Excited to help

Wow, it has been quite the first week of school. Marina has a great table mate and that makes for interesting dinner stories. As some of you know, she's quite the chatter box. She explained over dinner that while eating their lunch they are allowed to talk, but her table partner did not realize they could chat and so he said to her; "now Marina, I don't want to hear a single word from you, not a single word." "but friend (she used his name)..." she said. To what he responded "that's a single word Marina, that's a single word!"

Here are the rest of the recipes for the week. I hope you enjoy!

Tuesday

Chicken marinated in lime and garlic

• 1 breast of chicken cut into tin long slices per person
• 4 minced cloves of garlic per person
• 1 lime juice per person
• 2 tablespoons of good olive oil per person
• salt
• pepper

Place all the ingredients into a bowl making sure that the marinade covers all the chicken.
Allow to rest in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour (the longer in marinates the better)
Cook in a medium high heat bar-b-cue.

Heirloom Tomatoes Salad

• 1 medium size heirloom tomato sliced 1/4" thick per person
• 1/4 cup of feta cheese per person
• 1 tbsp of good olive oil per person
• 1 1/2 tbsp of walnut pieces per person
• sat
• pepper

Place the tomato slices on a platter, sprinkle the feta cheese evenly over the tomatoes. Drizzle the olive oil over the feta and tomatoes. Sprinkle with salt and paper to taste. Adding a few pitted olives and dry mint works well too!

Wednesday

Libritos (pork loin stuffed with cheese and turkey slices)

Now, in Barcelona, these little, beautiful morsels are served in the "menus" throughout the City. Menus are lunch meals that include a first plate, second plate, desert, coffee and soft drink for about $10. During the work week, people will typically eat out for lunch (which is their heavy meal-like our dinner). Menus are geared for the work force.

• 1 lean pork loin(you can also use thinly sliced de-boned pork chops)
• sliced cheese (any that melts well)
• sliced turkey lunch meet (low salt)
• 2-3 eggs
• fine bread crumbs
• salt and pepper
• oil (for frying-I use olive)

If you use a whole pork loin I suggest that you freeze it 2 days before, and put it in the fridge to defrost for about 8 hours. The meet should be somewhat still frozen. Cut a very thin slice-1/4"slice almost to the bottom but not quite (leaving it still attached), then cut the next slice all the way through -now you should have quite a number of little butterflied boneless pork loins. Place a small piece of the turkey and a small piece of the cheese inside the butterflied pieces and close. In a wide shallow bowl beat the eggs with salt and pepper and dip a few of the little meet "sandwiches." Then pass them to the bread crumbs and press them in order to cover them well. Fry them until golden brown on each side.

I'm so tired now, that I'm going to continue tomorrow. Have a great night.