Hope everyone had a great 4th of July holiday. Did anyone do any grilling? When I was at Vallarta Supermarket in Escondido looking for cheek meat for tacos, I saw some nice looking shrimp with heads on. I immediately thought of a recipe in the most recent Bon Appetit magazine for a Malaysian style grilled [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Appetizers category.
Korean Cucumber Salad
There are all sorts of variations of this salad. I like mine on the sweeter side with a big kick of spicy. The one thing I don’t use is toasted sesame seeds. Call me weird but I just don’t like picking all those little seeds from between my teeth (ew). Anyway, this is a pretty [...]
Basic Pate a Choux and Gougeres (Cheese Puffs)
I hope everyone had a delicious Thanksgiving! We sure did. Ate all day long! I didn’t roast a turkey for Thanksgiving this year but 2 smaller standing rib roast. I actually roasted a turkey earlier in the week just for eating, which turned out great because we snacked on leftover turkey and I didn’t have [...]
Turnip Soup
Keeping with the soup theme from the last post, here’s another one of our favorites. Now I’m not a turnip fan in general especially if they are old and bitter. Sounds like a couple of people I know but that’s besides the point. This soup really brings out the sweetness of turnips. Also a very good [...]
Asparagus Soup
We’ve been eating a lot of soup lately. Certainly apropos with the rain and cold temps we’ve been having. Here’s a favorite that’s quick to make and very delicious. We like having this for lunch with a nice grilled cheese sandwich. I like to add a bit of cream to the soup to give it [...]
