A card and a Greek delish!

Hello my friends, hope your day is much better than mine, I don't want to bore you with my things, so we go direct with the card i have for you today.
I made this card few weeks ago and never posted it. It is a Birthday card with not the colors I like to use often, but I think it turned out pretty good! Actually, I really like it.
For this card I used the Flourish images from Flourishes Set by Inkadinkado, I stamped the image in Broken China Distress Ink and immediately added some Clear embossing powder, heated and you get a really shiny and pretty image. The sentiment is from Verve.
The colors I used are: White, Gray, Turquoise and Black, nice color combo, what do you think? Do you like it?

Card recipe:
Card Stock: White, Turquoise, Black, Gray.
Stamps: Flourishes (inkadinkado). Verve.
Ink: Broken China (Tim Holtz), Stazon Black.
Embellishments: Light blue ribbon (Offray), Turquoise Rhinestones (Kaiser Crafts)
Accessories: Border Punch (Fiskars), Clear embossing powder, embossing gun, mini glue dots.

Now, I want to share with you a recipe I tried last night, it is delicious!! It is Gyro Meat with Tzatziki Sauce. My husband was in the mood for Greek food, got this recipe from Food Network and even though it is a little of work with all the mixing stuff, it is worthy!! The taste is yummy!! Here a picture of the Gyro Meat and my plate ;)
Just a note, I used chicken instead of lamb, I grounded the chicken on my Bullet express. (I hesitated at first about this machine, but it really works)

This is my plate:

Gyro Meat (Chicken):

Have a great day!!

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A card and a Greek delish!

Alfajores Recipe

Hello everyone. I had a couple of requests about the Alfajores Recipe, so here it is. If you try it, I would love to see them.

I made 5 cards between yesterday and today and when I was ready to take pictures of them, the battery was dead, so now is recharging, come back later to see my creations!!!

Anyway, here is the recipe:

Ingredients:

3/4 cup of margarine or butter.

1 cup of sugar

4 egg yolks

1 egg white.

2 cups of corn starch

3/4 cup of all purpose flour

1 tsp Baking Powder.

1 tsp vanilla extract

lemon or orange zest. (about 1/2 lemon)

Crema De leche

Shred coconut. (optional)

1.- Mix together margarine and sugar.

2.- Add yolks and egg white, mix until very creamy.

3.- Sift together flour, corn starch and baking powder. Add to the mix. Then add lemon zest and vanilla.

4.- At this point your dough is very VERy soft, so add a bit of flour onto a cloth towel, cover and let it rest in the refrigerator for 15 minutes. I let my dough rest for 30 minutes.

5.- After this time, extend your dough on a flour surface and cut little or big circles, (this is up to you) mine usually are 2". Put them in a greased baking sheet.

6.- Bake 350 F for about 20 minutes or lightly golden.

7.- Once they are cold add Crema de Leche and coconut around (this is optional)

You can buy Crema de Leche already done in any store in the Latin Aisle, if you want to make your own, boil a can of condensed milk for about 2 hours, let it cool completely before you open it up.

A little secret, after my dough has been in the refrigeraton for about half hour, I get just a quarter or third of it and work with it, this dough is very delicate and gets warm and very softvery fast, working with little amounts work the best.

Enjoy it!!!!

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Alfajores Recipe