Gourmet Food on a Budget — Ever Forward, Ever Flavorful
I love living in Glendale and having all these small fresh vegetable grocery stores. Today, I happened to go to two different stores, and one had giant mushrooms, and the other, Edna’s had small, heart-shaped red peppers. Both were just the size for stuffing.
Yesterday, was girls night out. My friend was coming to visit me and I wanted to make something special for us. I had seen something on the Internet about the great fruit cocktail made with vodka and black pepper. I posted to Facebook that I had gin and that I would post back once I …
I love discovering recipes for foods that might not be trendy such as Hungarian Pork Chops.
Curried Chicken roll-ups are easy to make and a great use for leftover rotisserie chicken. We like to have them with a cucumber tomato salad.
Milkless French Toast is a great thing to have when you want a quick, tasty breakfast, but are dairy intolerant or out of milk.
I love salmon, and I love avocado, and I love tacos! What could be better for a hot summer day than Poached Salmon Tacos with Avocado Salsa? When I was at a discount store with my friend Amber, I found green cactus tacos. I also had some red cabbage in the refrigerator and I thought that would look nice with the red and green.
Arrange your ingredients carefully for a composed salad. The ingredients are not as important as the presentation. Each ingredient should be in its own little area and artfully arranged.
Scrambled Burger Quiche is my take on one of my favorite meals. Many years ago, we used to go to a restaurant that had something called Scrambled Burgers. I loved them, being a mixture of ground beef, spinach, onion, and cheese. I thought that combination would make a wonderful quiche.
I remember when the wonderful movie Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe came out in 1991, and I wanted to try fried green tomatoes. It was not until 1993 that I was able to get a hold of green tomatoes to make the dish, and again in 2009.
When I was at the corner store, there was a big box of beef steak sized beautiful green tomatoes. I bought two, and I’m going back for more. Those tomatoes were wonderful!
Spane wearing his train conductor hat. You have to watch this video to the end, it’s so cute!
So, last night, after we had our wonderful Fried Green Tomatoes with Basil Garlic Mayonnaise, it was time to get started on Spane’s hat for the annual chorus performance at his school.
Spane came home with a rather large piece of dark blue construction paper, out of which we were to make a hat that expressed his personality. Spane loves trains – a conductor hat was the obvious choice.
So, I looked for vintage conductor hats for my reference – all the other hats were from costumes for engineers – not conductors. The train conductor hat is similar to an airline pilot hat, but not quite. Once I found one, it looked pretty simple.