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1 2 cup ketchup a couple tablespoons mustard and about a tablespoon of worcestershire sauce honestly i don t usually measure these ingredients i just keep adding until the sauce looks about right to me you can also add tomato sauce either instead of or in addition to the ketchup the resulting sauce will be mostly brownish with a hint of red last add about 1 2 cup heavy cream and mix well season with salt and pepper as desired and once it is warm enough for your liking remove from heat this recipe is awesome served over white rice so sometimes i make it for lunch as is and then another time use the left overs to make the pizza for the pizza you can use whatever crust you prefer homemade store bought just cook it most of the way through before adding this topping or your crust will never fully cook also allow the stroganoff to cool before putting it on the crust then top with potato straws and bake for about 5 10 minutes voila enjoy your super delicious meaty pizza margarita pizza all it has is the pizza crust topped with mozzarella cheese and sliced fresh tomatoes then sprinkled with basil so simple but i love it corn pizza lissie s personal favorite again just a crust topped with mozzarella cheese and a can of corn sprinkle with oregano if you like pao de queijo this one i have also posted previously again here but it is so yummy it is worth repeating we found that the polvilho azedo actually is available to order through amazon com it was called sour starch and here is a link to it on their site but if you re gonna go through the trouble to buy something online you may just prefer to get the cheese bread mix here either way it is sooooo good now on to my personal favorites the sweet stuff beijinhos little kisses the dessert table if only i had thought to take pictures before everyone ate 1 can sweetened condensed milk 1 tablespoon butter 4 tablespoons grated coconut to mix in optional grated coconut to roll candies in in a small saucepan cook the sweetened condensed milk and butter at a medium low temperature mix continuously scraping sides and bottom well throughout continue cooking until the mixture thickens and starts to leave the sides of the pan when stirred i think it is about a soft ball candy temperature remove from heat and stir in 4 t coconut if desired allow to cool after it has cooled butter your hands slightly roll about a teaspoon at a time into balls then roll in coconut or coarse sugar to coat if the candy is super sticky and won t stay in a ball it was not cooked long enough you can instead just get some small plastic spoons and serve it by the spoonful if you like or just eat it all yourself with a spoon if it is too hard to scoop out and won t roll smooth it was cooked too long it will still taste yummy even though it looks deformed it may take a few tries to find just the right done point brigadeiros brigadiers 1 can sweetened condensed milk 1 tablespoon butter 2 3 tablespoons cocoa powder depending on how chocolatey you like them chocolate sprinkles to roll candies in follow the same instructions as above for beijinhos only add the cocoa in before cooking you could actually put coconut in these too and i think they would be really good but traditionally no coconut mousse de maracujá passionfruit mousse 1 can sweetened condensed milk 1 box 200 g heavy cream maguary passion fruit juice concentrate here put sweetened condensed milk and heavy cream in a blender use the same measurement as heavy cream to measure out the passion fruit juice here the cream comes in a small box so i just refill the same box with the juice blend for about 5 minutes or until everything is well mixed and starting to thicken pour into a serving dish and refrigerate for a couple hours before serving it should thicken up more when chilled sensaçao de morango strawberry sensation this is one of my favorite desserts ever i found the recipe i used here so i will just translate it in this post i take no credit for it 2 cans sweetened condensed milk 2 cups heavy cream 2 boxes strawberries washed and cut in halves though us strawberry boxes are bigger so you can probably just use 1 about 300 g semi sweet chocolate chopped chocolate chips would also work 1 tablespoon butter in a shallow serving dish place strawberry halves flat side down covering most of the bottom of the dish reserve some strawberries to decorate the top though cook the sweetened condensed milk and butter in a saucepan following the instructions above for beijinhos once it has thickened pour it over the strawberries melt the chocolate and mix with the heavy cream an easy way to do this is heat the cream until just before it boils and then pour it over the chocolate pieces stir with a wisk until all pieces are melted and the chocolate mixture is smooth spread chocolate over the other mixture decorate with strawberries on top however you like refrigerate until chilled several hours before serving i really enjoyed getting to share all these yummy brazilian treats with everyone who came even if you couldn t make it now you can try some of these on your own let me know how they turn out 0 comments tuesday february 19 2013 remembering grandpa 10 09 am posted by unknown may 2007 this morning lissie asked to watch some dvd s that had slideshows of old ish pictures the first one was of her 1 st birthday photo shoot and afterwards she pointed to another one and said now let s watch this one it was the life of a utah man a slideshow that the hoods had put together about the life of my grandfather william clay grandpa to me so we both sat together on the couch and watched and i pointed out to her that s grandma clay that s grandpa clay that s your grandma when she was little after about the first 15 minutes she was ready to play with toys again but she had gotten me thinking i m not entirely convinced that it was a coincidence that she wanted to watch that dvd today my grandpa passed away in 2007 and it turns out that his birthday is this week february 21 so i am especially grateful for my daughter s little request today and i felt impressed to just write or type as it were some of my memories of my awesome grandpa of course many of my earliest childhood memories are of visits to what we always lovingly called grandma s house sometimes for holiday celebrations sometimes just to visit and play outside on their acres and acres of land i can remember climbing up on grandpa s lap and feeling safe and loved while he held me i m sure he talked to me but i have no idea what was said i do know that both my grandma and grandpa clay always made me feel loved and special when i was with them and i have no doubt that they did so and continue to do so with each of their grandchildren today i remember playing games together sometimes when gathered at grandma s house and how when we played encore i felt so lucky to be on grandpa s team because it seemed like he knew every song ever written i remember his voice as he sang lines of various songs grandpa loved music actually that feels like a giant understatement music was and has always been a huge part of our family for as long as i can remember and i know that much of that love for music was passed on to us by grandma and grandpa clay it seems like we could and still can hardly gather as a family without one of them asking us to sing a song or play a musical instrument for them i am grateful for the love of music which they helped to instill in my life with my cousin michael august 1996 some of my other childhood memories are kinda foggy and i may be remembering wrong if i am someone can help me out and please correct me i am pretty sure i remember celebrating my grandpa s birthday one year and as the candles were being put on the cake one of my aunts or uncles asked how old we thought grandpa was i am pretty sure i said 26 and that everyone who was old enough to know better had a good laugh afterwards it seems like somehow grandpa was always turning 26 on his birthdays another time i remember going to the beach for what i m pretty sure was a clay family reunion and we had rented a beach house well at least one our trip coincided with father s day that year so i remember everyone sitting in the largest room of the house and someone probably my grandma clay suggesting that we go around the room and everyone share one reason they loved grandpa i thought of what to me was a really good one and asked to go first so that no one else would steal it i am pretty sure i said i love grandpa because he is the president of the united states then everyone laughed and i couldn t understand why i was completely serious i don t know how long it was before i realized that he was not the president of the country but actually the stake president of the kingsport tn stake i think my grandpa would have been a great us president just for the record salt lake city august 1996 i ll skip ahead a few years now to when i was getting ready to start my senior year of high school and my grandparents invited my cousin amy and i to go on a road trip with them to utah grandpa drove the entire way and with few stops as i recall and i believe that throughout the majority of those 40ish hours we were introduced to many songs by one of my grandpa s favorite groups the ink spots not my first choice in music as a teenager but of course now it is hard to hear any of their songs and not think of grandpa and that trip it was my first utah trip that i was actually old enough to remember and everywhere we went we visited with family first stop kansas city with the hawkins next utah with family gatherings nearly every day at someone s home rachel robin the angles the wilsons the swallows the tom phyllis clays and my grandparents perpetually smiling as they introduced us to each of our previously unknown or at least not well acquainted relatives they took us on our first tour of brigham young university campus on that trip while i had always thought of going there after high school visiting with my grandparents and seeing the beauty of the campus first hand was what really sealed the deal i didn t even want to apply to other colleges of course they also took us on our first visit to temple square in salt lake city i was in awe of the intricate details on the temple itself as well as the other buildings there i was amazed as i sat on a bench toward the back and heard the pin drop at the front of the old tabernacle we toured many other sights and learned so much about our heritage both that of the clay family and of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints and i won t forget our quick stop at boot hill dodge city kansas grandpa loved his westerns we walked into an old style saloon sat at the bar and grandpa informed us that in these kinds of places we had to ask in our best old west accent for a sa a a a rsaparilla that is the first time i can remember tasting a sarsaparilla i honestly couldn t have told you what one was previous to that experience i learned that it is a soft drink a lot like root beer quite tasty grandpa was right of course as i started college and was travelling back and forth between home in virginia and school in utah i spent less and less time at grandma s house every time i did visit grandpa always made it a point to sit down and talk with me about how everything was going he asked about my classes and about my plans for the future he gave me advice which was generally spot on and he would say now jennifer lynn i know that one of these days and of course there s no hurry you ll probably find a nice guy that will want to marry you and when you do you make sure he knows that he has to call your grandfather to ask permission he can ask your dad too if he really wants but you tell him that grandfather s permission is what really matters and when i did get engaged my future husband did not follow this protocol the next time i saw my grandpa he said something like this jennifer lynn i don t know about this engagement of yours you know he never called me to ask my permission and you know that it s grandfather s opinion that really counts right yes grandpa now are you sure he s a good guy he s from brazil right well just as long as he doesn t steal you away and run off to south america with you you tell him that you need to live close to your grandparents and your family so none of that moving to brazil nonsense i tried grandpa really i did i knew that he was partly teasing and probably a bigger part serious but again i always left our little conversations feeling safe and loved just as i had as a young child to know my grandpa clay was to know that you were loved there were always plenty of hugs and kisses to go around and i have very few memories in which i didn t see him with one or more grandchildren sleeping happily peacefully on his lap in fact in addition to my 50 some cousins and i somehow we always ended up with extra cousins motters hebberts whom he always welcomed and made feel like family i think i was convinced that they were family and still think of them as such sometimes i think how much i wish he was still here to hug on my own children so that they too can feel that peace and love that i felt as a child but knowing grandpa i m sure they already do and that they have been held in his arms long before they come to mine i love my grandpa clay and i know that while he is missed tremendously he will never be forgotten 0 comments monday january 14 2013 exactly the same only different 8 00 am posted by unknown wow this poor blog has been so neglected lately time to remedy that the past year has been busy and often exciting but i have also had trouble getting myself to sit at the computer and type about it i ll blame the pregnancy bad pregnancy stop shrinking my brain so much and making me a professional couch potato seriously though the past several months have been rough but i think i ve gotten through the worst of it which means i can sit at the computer and type out a nice long blog entry again and guess what i want to tell y all about this time i know you ll be surprised being pregnant in brazil j i want to reassure everyone out there that the doctors here are not actually monkeys and do not operate with blowdarts and with about 4 months still to go i think it s safe to say that this will be a part 1 after we returned from our trip to the us last fall i had my first doctor appointment here in brazil my very kind friend boss helped to set it up with someone she recommended as i knew i wanted to get in asap morning sickness ha such a misnomer tends to hit me hard and hang around a long time so i already planned on asking for medicine to help manage it when we went to the appointment it was at the office of one particular doctor with my first i chose a specific primary doctor who worked in a clinic with several others i often had appointments with the other doctors and personnel of the clinic rather than my preferred doctor there were 2 people work...