Thanks for your votes! The competition was fierce and I’m excited to have made it to the second round of Project Food Blog. This challenge asks us to stretch outside our comfort zone and take on a classic dish from another culture.
I knew immediately I would source the recipe from the BloggerAid Cookbook. This book was published in 2009 by the collaborative and noble efforts of food bloggers from around the world, many of whom contributed family and ethnic recipes. Money raised from the sale of the book is channeled through the World Food Programme and used to help fund the School Meals Programme.
I’m going to start out by just saying…this is delicious! Like many of you, I’m always trying to find healthy alternatives to some traditional meals. I’ve done a lot of dishes replacing rice and pasta with the more nutritional spaghetti squash. It has less calories and less carbs and it works well because it takes on the flavors of the rest of the dish just as rice and pasta do. I treat it as a “starch”, substituting it as a base for the dish rather than as a side vegetable. Continue Reading
This is another good dish for summer because it’s relatively light and can be done on the grill…although I did mine indoors. Also summer is high season for tomato and corn-on-the cob so that was the inspiration for the relish side dish that accompanies the calamari. It’s also heavily laced with ‘gremolata’ which because of the fresh parsley and lemon screams ‘summer’ to me. Continue Reading
So…as I was saying yesterday, I went for a walk in a local nature preserve with a few friends. It was perfectly timed to end at ‘happy hour’ so that we could go immediately into cocktails, dinner and a little card playing. We got our lungs full of fresh air, saw (and heard) lots of birds, a couple of turtles swimming around and one ‘gator.
When we made the date, we decided to do pot-luck and, as I said, I knew what came in the door would be delicious and more than enough. In fact, they left with doggie bags almost as large as what they came in with. Come see what a pot-luck looks like around here… Continue Reading
The minute I saw this green rice, I knew I had to make it with something in the red-toned family, like salmon or shrimp. And that the fish had to be caramelized with sweet onion sugar!
I found both items in The Spice and Tea Exchange, an interesting little shop – especially for foodies. You can wander around trying various herb, salt, sugar and tea blends.
This dinner was so good, I’m compelled to break my rhythm of 1-2 posts per week and publish this immediately before I forget what I did. I must tell you from the onset that potatoes have not have been something you’re likely to find in the FOODalogue larder. I like them but somewhere along the line, I heard that they were loaded with sugar and that made them verbotten. I preferred to get my carbs from pasta. I may have been mistaken. There are nutrients and benefits to eating the occasional potato. And, I find it’s easier to control portion size with 1 potato than it is with pasta. The fact is I only ate half of this potato and am looking forward to cooking it up with an egg tomorrow morning. Continue Reading
Simple…and simply delicious.
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