Shrimp Gazpacho

While I was in Atlanta last weekend we ate downtown at Fire of Brazil.  I don’t remember much about the roasted meat which is supposed to be their specialty because I fell in love with the shrimp gazpacho (at least I assumed it was gazpacho!)  I fantasized about finding a recipe and making it at [...]

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Oh, yea!

“If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.” ~ Fernand Point mjjj”If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is [...]

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Fellowship Dinner

Tonight is our monthly fellowship dinner at our church.  There is nothing better getting together with folks you love and EATING.  Especially when there are others to help with the clean-up. I’m bringing: Nachos with Beef and Black Beans Pica de Gallo Refrigerator Pickles White Cake with Fruit Topping <courtesy of Princess the Baker> Escalloped [...]

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I think I’ve met my soul sister…

A Year of CrockPotting I’m making the Thai or Indian chicken curry this week.  Can’t decide which.  Probably depends on whether we have Thai or Indian food for dinner tonight.  Or if we have Japanese, in which case I’ll be back to having to choose.  I’ll have to keep that in mind when we decide [...]

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Franken-Food

Okay… this isn’t along the lines of genetically engineering seed to make it forever sterile, but it is about unnatural manipulation of the taste buds. In the midst of a smoked salmon craving, I was dismayed to find it absent from the shelves at my grocery store. Tossing caution to the wind, I settled on [...]

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Eat Local Challenge 2008 – Week 3

Today is our designated day to eat local. BREAKFAST: Fried eggs (from the backyard) homemade sourdough toast LUNCH Broccoli-Cheddar Soup – potatoes from the neighbor, onions & broccoli from our garden, milk from a local dairy – I did add some carrots I had in the fridge that were not bought at the farmers’ market [...]

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Eat Local Challenge 2008 ~ Week 2

WAIT! What happened to Week #2, you ask? Sick kids. I’m sure we still at the same amount (maybe more) of local foods last week, but with two sick kiddos I didn’t sit down and plan. Some things we ate last week (that I can remember): Pancakes with locally grown blueberries Indonesian Stir Fry with [...]

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Eat Local Challenge 2008 – Week 1

We ate breakfast out yesterday morning, but I’ve decided that it counts because we at a local restaurant and not a national chain.  I know their vegies are grown locally, but that would be the extent of my knowledge on where their ingredients originate.  No problem.  We love this place and we want to keep [...]

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Eat Local Challenge 2008 – Exceptions

The family blogging on the SKY Blog about their experience has listed some exceptions for their Eat Local Challenge 2008, so I thought I’d do that for our family, as well.  My goal is to keep this list for essentials only. Whole Grains & Flour Olive Oil Coconut Oil White & Brown Sugar (will use [...]

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Eat Local Challenge

It’s here! I mentioned a few weeks ago that my wonderful dc committed us to the July 2008 Eat Local Challenge through our farmers’ market.  Fortunately, they showed some restraint and only chose the ‘one meal per week’ option.  Yea, the ‘one meal this month’ would have been a cake walk…  heck, we could have [...]

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Local ‘Eat Local’ Challenge

My wonderful, thoughtful children signed our family up for our Eat Local challenge this July. While I am singing praises that they are ‘getting it’ and hearing what dh and I are talking about, my first thought was that they’d gone completely and absolutely INSANE and “how in the heck did they think we are [...]

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