Love love LOVE Mexican food. It’s a recent thing for me too. I mean, I’ve always liked it, but I didn’t really start making it at home or requesting to go out for until about a year ago. Enchiladas are my absolute fave and this is my absolute favorite recipe I’ve found so far. I [...]
Entries from June 2008
June 30, 2008
Reason #52,006 why I love FOOD! :)
I am right-brained person by nature. I like feelings and emotions, colors and shapes, words and music and pretty pictures. I go with my gut, think with my heart, cry at the movies…or an especially touching Hallmark card commercial. Math, logic, reasoning and all that complicated stuff and I just don’t get along. Never have, [...]
June 25, 2008
Slow Southern Style…
Well, it just so happens there was a big argument (ahem, discussion) on the cooking board I frequent about what qualifies as “BBQ” today. Some concluded that BBQ implies cooking outside on the grill…hamburgers, hot dogs and the like. Other thought BBQ referred specifically to certain meats slow cooked with rubs and sauces. I fall into [...]
June 21, 2008
Peachy Keen, Jelly Bean!
Peaches. I have a love/hate relationship with peaches. I would never just pick up a peach out of a fruit bowl and eat it. If someone offered me a choice of fruit pies, I would never choose peach. And anything peach-flavored, like candy or jelly. Blech! Not a fan at all!
But there is a way [...]
June 20, 2008
A True Classic
Well, I have good news and bad news. Let’s do the bad news first, get that out of the way. Bad news: I don’t have a job. I was let go. It makes me sick. It makes me want to scream. It was the worst feeling I have ever felt in my life. Whew. Okay, [...]
June 19, 2008
Light and Flavorful
I have found in all my adventures in cooking (and eating) that I am drawn to dishes that are relatively light and made flavorful with ingredients other than salt. Things like fresh herbs, garlic, crushed red pepper…and, of course, wine. It is very rare that I will make a rich/heavy main dish at home, [...]
June 17, 2008
I don’t just scream…I jump for joy…
For ICE CREAM that is! Last week sometime, I mentioned in passing to Eric that I would really like to get an ice cream attachment for my KitchenAid mixer. I was not expecting to purchase one anytime soon. It was just an “I wish” kind of thing.
Ha ha…Eric. I am so on to you, my [...]
June 16, 2008
Just Like Grandpa Used to…Order In.
Every other Saturday night when I was a kid, my mom and dad would pile my brother and me into the car and drive down to Cicero for supper at my grandpa’s house. Supper at Grandpa’s consisted of whatever he felt like ordering in on that particular evening…one of three things: pizza, White Castle (ew, [...]
