Found a great recipe for Tilapia on my friend, Asha‘s, blog. She got the recipe from her cousin. It is incredibly easy to make and she swears that it will melt in your mouth! Just click on the link and get the easy directions from her blog:
All the restaurants have been adding tilapia to their menus and I’ve tried a few. It’s a nice, firm white fleshed fish. The O’Charley’s menu item was lightly seasoned and grilled on a cedar plank. That was nice. I am going to look for a few recipes and try my hand with it at home one of these next few days.
That’s a provocative statement if you have a dirty mind. But what I’m talking about is the great restaurant and bar called Dicks Last Resort that just opened up in Baltimore. They already have a half dozen or so locations in other major cities. So having one open in Baltimore says good things about the economic outlook and tourism levels in Baltimore. I can’t wait to go the new Dicks Last Resort, buy a crazy funny tee shirt, and have a lot of fun.
While shopping for groceries I sometimes find a neighbor in the aisle and we stop to chat for a few minutes. But today I stopped at a grocery across town and I was completely surprised to find Alexa Wallace in the store. I went to the Trader Joe’s to pick up a few things and while shopping the produce section, Alexa tapped me on the shoulder and said, “Boo!” What a laugh!
Friends, I like potato chips. I especially like real chips as opposed to Pringles. I like dip. I make my own dips and I like Dean’s dips.I don’t buy or eat chips very often, but sometimes potato chips and dip are a great snack or side item for a hot dog or sandwich.
Some people like the convenience of flavored chips, such as barbeque or green onion. But I had no idea that flavored chips were such a big business for Frito-Lay. And evidently, the popular flavors vary according to what part of the world they are furnishing their salted snack items. Here is a very popular flavored chip in the Asian markets:
For those of you who don’t speak or read that Asian language, look closely at the illustration on the bag. Yes, it really is turkey and gravy flavored potato chips. Turkey. Oh – and let’s not forget to garnish that turkey platter with some green beans and sushi rolls. And yes, they do have clam flavored chips, and other seafood based flavors, too. I had no idea. I’m not mocking them, I am just surprised at the variety flavors not on the market here in my local grocery!
I happened across an interesting recipe for an Italian dish and thought I would give it a try tonight. There were a lot of ingredients that I don’t normally keep on hand, so I made a shopping list and went to the grocery store on my lunch break. The main thing I needed was fresh Basil and Panko bread crumbs. The recipe called for fresh parsley, but the store did not have any and I have some dried parsley in my spice rack, so I used that.
The recipe called for chicken breasts and a fresh tomato basil sauce. It was a little bit more effort than I like for a week night dinner, but it turned out great! I was surprised at the intensity of some of the flavors from using fresh herbs and vegetables as opposed to canned or dried ingredients. It would be worth making again, with some nice side dishes and a glass of red wine.
When someone in your household is allergic to chocolate, you tend to take a fresh look at candies and sweets. So many Christmas candies and treats are chocolate-based. We decided to fight that by building a gingerbread house this year for a family Christmas project.
We were inspired by a kit at Kroger, but I don’t think we need a kit to make one of these. I found a picture of what we want to do and we can use that for a guide.
There is no such thing as too much turkey in my house. We love turkey – hot with all the trimmings as well as cold in a sandwich.
My favorite way to fix a turkey sandwich is to place a few thin slices of a vidalia onion on my favorite bread and place two slices of alpine lace swiss cheese on top. Put in microwave for 15 seconds. Pile thinly sliced turkey on top, squirt a little Dukes Mayo on it and top with a second slice of bread. Put back in the microwave for 10 seconds and serve with a big pickle spear and fresh chips.
If you are celebrating an abundance of food and comforts, please consider the hundreds of thousands of people who are much less fortunate than you. This is a great time of year to not only be grateful for what you have, but to find a way to help someone else as well. Even if you only give $10 to the local homeless shelter, hospice or charity of your choice. Bless you for that.
I’m looking for cookie recipes. We want to bake a batch of Halloween cookies to contribute to the gathering at Sandy’s house next weekend.
We always have a lot of fun at her ranch on the weekend before Halloween. It gives the kids a chance to put on their costumes and run around playing with a couple dozen other kids that they only see a few times each year.
I was think that some cookies that look like eyeballs or fingers or something creepy would be a lot of fun. If you have any ideas, I’d love to read them in the comments.