Seattle from the Space Needle
Ramiro Berrelleza
Ramiro is a fan of coffee, food, books, travel and everything tech-related (in no particular order). He currently lives in Redmond.
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Ingredients (makes for 12 - 16 quesadillas)
Very tasty chocolate cupcake from Pinkalicious Cupcakes (redmond town center, second floor).
There was a coconut one as well, but it misteriously dissapeared on my way to work ;) Nom nom!
Found this amazing 15-month old english cheddar cheese on Costco last week. Fantastic flavor, a bit on the strong side, went great with a french baguette and a glass (or two) of malbec.
Bought a pound for about $6 on Costco in Kirkland. If you're there this week, go to the cheese section and grab a piece. Your life will be better afterwards :P
Ramiro Berrelleza
Eggs benedict is one of my favorite breakfasts. Almost every time I go out, I'll order them if they're available. However, since reading Kitchen Confidential, I've been a bit resilient in order them, specially in sunday brunch (people who've read the book will now why) .
That takes us to last night. At about 10pm I was home alone, and very hungry. I went to my fridge, almost empty if not for a few eggs, a couple of sticks of butter, half a pack of english muffins and bacon. OMG, what a serendipitous moment! The only edible things in my fridge (other than beer), were the ingredients for a couple of portions of eggs benedict.
Never having prepared this before, I binged for eggs benedict and ended up with this recipe from the food network. After reading it two or three times, decided it was simple enough for me to handle it. And voila, an hour later I was enjoying a couple of nicely done eggs benedict, with some left for the next day 
I must say that the recipe was a lot easier to prepare than I though. The hollandaise sauce, which I always thought of as something only chefs could pull off, was actually fairly simple. One lesson I learned this time is that bacon was not the best choice, its bold flavor tends to overpower the delicate flavor of the hollandaise. Ham, or Canadian bacon, would've been a better choice (one excuse to make them again in a couple of weeks).
While my benedicts weren't the best I've ever had (that honor goes to the Pomegranate Bistro in Redmond), they were (in my totally unbiased opinion 
) pretty tasty. Add to that the fact that I made them from scratch, and you have a very happy late night diner.
Cooking is always fun. Done in the middle of the night, trying to make one of your favorite dishes from scratch, for the first time, is even better!
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For reasons I'll never understand, the US decided years ago to use May 5th (a minor holiday in Mexico) as a day to celebrate "Americans of Mexican Ancestry". This has led a lot of people to believe that date to be the day of Mexico's independence (probably by relating to the American 4th of July).
Nothing could be further from the true. Mexico's independence day is actually celebrated on September 16th. On that date we commemorate the start of the war for independence, started on the wee hours of September 16th, 1810, when Miguel Hidalgo, then a priest of the small town of Dolores, Guanajuato, rang the bells of his church to gather the townsfolk and start the insurrection. If you want to know more about this historical event, take a look at the following video, it was produced by the Mexican government as part of the celebrations for the upcoming bicentennial celebration. Ramiro Berrelleza
