Next time you buy green onions stick them in a cup of water on your windowsill. They just keep growing. So any time in the next 6 months that you need green onions…snip, snip and there you are. I couldn’t believe how fast they grow, my hubby was a little annoyed at how long they got and I actually had to trim them…it usually spurred me on and we would end up with an Asian inspired dish that night.
I purchased an whole albacore tuna down at the docks. The average they had was about 13 pounds, which when cleaned leaves me with almost 6 pounds of fish. I was lucky enough that the fisher men filleted it for me so I only had to deal with portioning out 4 large boneless loins. I cut the loins down into 4 even portions about 1 pound each and froze them. The rest was irregular shaped end pieces that I decided to eat fresh.
Fish Tacos
Tuna Sushi Bowl
Fish Balls
Fish Sandwich
Sesame Crusted Soy Ginger Tuna
beef shank, slow cooked with carmalized onions and red wine. YUM! Serve with roasted potatoes or over polenta.
it’s just too good. It’s a good thing that I already portioned out my salmon and froze it otherwise I’d be having one for lunch and diner too.
Kevin had someone make these for him…they were almost great. there was just too much salt, but I loved the idea so I’d love to try my hand at it.
doesn’t it just sound fun? I really want to try it. Something sweet? spicy? I mean pork…hello. get in my belly!
So I’ve been contemplating how to use left over rice to make yummy foods. I attempted a rice pudding using left over steamed rice from chinese…I didn’t get the ratio right…way too much rice. I’ll be trying that one again. But the one that I loved was a tortilla soup. I used leftover spanish rice. I used chicken stock salsa and diced fire roasted (canned) chilis to make the rice which I then used to make chicken chimichangas. So with the leftover rice I had some fun. I used a chicken stock that I flavored with a little of a tortilla soup packet (I think what I did next would have been enough) then I added some fire roasted salsa and some fire roasted (canned) peppers and brought it to a boil for a few minutes. In a bowl I added 3/4 cups of rice, a handful of rotisserie chicken chunks, and some shredded (raw) napa cabbage and laddeled the broth on top. I let it sit for a few minutes giving the broth a chance to bring all the ingredients to the appropriate temperature and to cook the cabbage. I then topped it with a generous amount of fresh diced avocado, pico de gallo and crushed tortilla chips. YUM
So we all know that women (most alteast) love to shop. Well, I am no exception. However, I never have enough money to buy even a fraction of what I would like to. So, in order to keep track of stuff that I would like to purchase, and some fun random things I started a kaboodle account. It’s online wishlist/shoppinglist. And I have to say it is soo much fun. I have lists of everything from things I want for my kitchen to what I’d buy if I won the lotto. I keep track of places I want to go on vaction too and places I want to eat at. I put gift ideas on there….gift ideas for people to give to me and gift ideas for me to give to other people. You can have friends and see what they are adding to their lists and even create a poll so people can vote and tell you which shoes are cuter. So when I’m broke, I shop online…I just don’t buy anything, atleast right away. Check out my list here.
