Gourmet Food on a Budget - Recipes, Methods, and Meal Planning - Ever Forward, Ever Flavorful
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.
This quiche takes the beef, mushroom, spinach, and cheddar of a scramble burger and bakes them into a blind-baked crust with a savory custard. It serves eight, can be made the night before, and reheats well for breakfast, brunch, or dinner.
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.
Create a deliciously flavorful Chicken Rubens dish with pastrami, Swiss cheese, and Russian dressing over saffron-flavored rice.
This post used to have two recipes in it, but I thought both recipes needed their own post. If you were looking for the Myriad Deviled Eggs, you've found them. If you were looking for the Boston Baked Beans, they are over there --->.
This recipe for Boston Baked Beans used to be with the Myriad Deviled Eggs, but I thought these were good enough to have their own spot. I will show two methods, the crock pot method and the Instant Pot method.
White Chocolate Rum Raisin cookies are a delightful change to the usual chocolate chip cookie. No alcohol! Do you like rum raisin ice cream? You will love these cookies!
Rosy peaches with ice cream are grilled peaches with rose preserves and peach ice cream. Fresh peaches, ice cream, roses, and Marsala - what dessert could be more elegant?