5 azorean Recipes

frozen shrimp (21-30 count works best ), onion, peeled and quartered, head garlic, peeled and cloves cut in half, table salt, portugese crushed red pepper sauce (pimenta) or 6 tbsp tabasco sauce (more if you want more heat), water

bread dough from the baker s shop, flour, sugar, banha , this is pork fat, butter, erva-doce , this is anise herbs, mashed and sifted, canela (cinnamon), cravinho da india, (cloves in powder form ), walnut, cut into halves, ground almonds, candied lemon peel , cut into cubes, pure honey, baking soda , dissolved in the wine, madeira wine, juice and zest of 4 oranges

grappa or 2 1/2 cups unflavored vodka, whole milk, sugar, bittersweet chocolate, grated (preferably 70%), lemon, seeded and chopped, with rind

need a crockpot that s at least 4 quart capacity ., beef stew meat (or a nice cut of meat that you ve, chunked into stew meat ), cinnamon sticks (mine were about 3-4 long), bay leaves (i used 1 big and 1 small), ground cumin, allspice (i added a couple more pinches later on), red pepper flakes (no......i swear stew won tsp be spicy serving time), kosher salt (i m not a salt eater so i started with 1 tbsp, then added more later), beef stock (can use broth, bouillon cubes & water, etc), baby carrots (or pared/chopped grown-up carrots, or grated carrots-you pick), sized potatoes (washed &) chunked into bite size pieces-peeled if you wish, sweet potatoes (washed &) chunked into bite size pieces-peeled if you wish, chopped green onions or 1 large onion chopped, baby tomatoes cut in 1/2 s , or 2 large chopped tomatoes, more peeled, smashed cloves of garlic (we re garlic fiends, so i used the whole bulb), add-ins i plan to try : quinoa, parsnips, mushrooms, zucchini, cabbage & maybe a little turnip)