Happy Women's day!

Every March 8th my mom would buy each of us (3 girls) flowers. We always celebrated women's day in Brazil and I am so proud of being a woman that I loved the holiday. To honor my favorite cook and my favorite woman in the whole wide world I wanted to share a picture of my grandma, Aurea. I was trying to find pictures of just her but it's impossible since she refuses to ever be alone. I thought this was a sweet yet powerful picture that shows the influence that she had and continues to have. These are all of her granddaughters.

As a present for women’s day I am going to give you a super easy yummy recipe we made today. I should give you one of my grandma’s special recipe but I am not in the mood to translate, plus the time factor is weighing heavy these days.

suprise sauce

I am calling this surprise sauce because we kind of just threw it together and surprisingly it was very delicious. Don’t worry I wasn’t thinking in terms of surprise school lunch meats or anything nasty like that where you never really know all the ingredients. In fact the ingredients for this sauce is basic.

ingredients

• 4 strips of bacon
• 1 cup broccoli
• 1 cup eggplant
• ¼ cup pesto
• 3 tablespoons yogurt

Directions:

1. cook the bacon, broccoli and eggplant in a medium size skillet.
2. mix the pesto in with the bacon and veggies
   
3. take the skillet of the burner and add the yogurt and stir
4. serve over pasta

I like using yogurt in sauces it helps highlight certain flavors and if added in moderation it does not over power the sauce. Enjoy!