From The Ranch House Baking Mix Cook Book.
Entree Biscuits Recipe.
Mexican Ranch Style Biscuits Recipe.
Mini Sausage Biscuits Recipe.
From The Ranch House Baking Mix Cook Book.
Before 2005 or so, Hispanics were a slim people. In fact, there was a big guy in town and everybody knew him. The car was customized and it made him a very popular guy. It reminds me the days when I was growing up and we never heard of a crime. The day there was a crime, it was big news and everybody bought the newspaper that day! Well, no more… Now days we have gotten used to be also an overweight population. But, what has happened? What’s different now?
For starters, we ate natural. Our meals were fruits, vegetables, chicken and lots of fish. Back then, fish used to be the cheap meat, the one the poor ate. That’s not the case anymore. It was very common to see some source of fruit and vegetable trees in the back yard with some chickens around.
In the past, a regular diet used to be something like this:
Breakfast:
Children would have a cup of coffee (3/4 milk x 1/4 coffee)
Fresh squeezed orange juice
1 boiled egg
1 toast
1 slice of white cheese
Sausage (once a week or so)
Some left over meat from the day before
Snacks:
(A choice of)
Tutti-frutti
Green plantain with cheese (patacón) at the time this was also made at breakfast, instead of bread
Bocadillo (a sweet guava snack)
Empanada (could also be a breakfast or dinner on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday night)
Biscuit
Mango with salt
Ice-cream
Nuts in their shell (pealing them was the fun part)
Cookies, chocolate, sweet stuff.
Some source of fruits like “corozo” and “mamón” typical from the area.
Lunch:
Soup and rice… always both
“A respectable soup always has cilantro” we used to say.
All kind of soups, from vegetable to creams, but always natural creams.
Beans on top of the rice or the rice made with bean. All kind of beans.
A meat (chicken, fish of beef)
Yellow plantain
Fruit juice
Dinner:
Same as lunch but usually without soup.
The whole diet, for the ones who could afford it, has a combination of the recommended meals during the day. The ones that did not have the means for meats replaced it with beans, vegetables and fruits from their own back yard.
Best of all, we were a very active population. Always playing with friends, neighbors and siblings. We also took turns to grind corn and to ground the beef.
We never counted calories. At the grocery store food was natural. Never any extra vitamins added. The butter in many cases was even homemade as well as the yogurt. I remember those days. Parents had the time to make this extra effort. Many mothers were stay at home moms. Sure, chores at home were and still are lot easier in Hispanic countries. We don’t need to be rich to have a maid helping at home. 6 or 7 days a week! Believe me… that’s a tremendous advantage. But let’s see what we can learn from it.
Common sense
The same is true for the parsley water and the eggplant water. It’s another way to eat what you don’t like and replenish your body with minerals. Remember, the kidneys tend to fail as we age. We need to take care of them. They are the filter of the body.
In summary… If we use some common sense when it comes to eating, it would help us to have better weight and health.
I was looking at some simple cheese biscuits recipe but I got two. To me cheese is cheese. Bertha has a regular cheese biscuit recipe and the ranch version as well.
My husband says that the Ranch Biscuits are delicious. I’m not friend of the Worcestershire sauce but I guess I can try and see. I will update my post after I made them.
If you would like me to publish one of her recipes, please, write it in comments. I’ll do my best to upload it.
To see the two recipes, click in the link. Cheese Biscuits pages 10-11