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Time for a Drink: Bloody Mary
I like mine as a Caesar, actually.
Swap out the tomato juice for delicious clamato juice (much more complex savoury flavour) and add a nice rim of celery salt. Keep the 'worster and the tabasco, garnish any way you please (I like olives) and you've got a lovely Sunday morning. In Canada.
Help: Cooking dinner for guest with multiple allergies
Oh, and @studyzone - I love your cucumber salad idea. I will definitely be doing that too, to cut some of the richness of the smoked salmon.
It might seem odd to have salmon for both starter and main, but once you move to the other side of the continent you really miss the best from home!
Help: Cooking dinner for guest with multiple allergies
Thanks everyone for the great suggestions.
We do roast chicken so regularly I don't think of it as 'special' anymore, although I would be happy to have it in someone else's home! Regardless, I think I will head down to Granville Island and try to find a nice looking whole salmon or a couple trout to roast with some lemon thyme.
Roasted veg is definitely in, and @janaatwg I will definitely add honey - great idea! I think I'll toss some fennel in there too.
Funny how simple is always best, isn't it? This is the way my mother always cooked, and I so often overlook it.
Thanks again!
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Simply Recipes. Love it.
Time for a Drink: Bloody Mary
I like mine as a Caesar, actually.
Swap out the tomato juice for delicious clamato juice (much more complex savoury flavour) and add a nice rim of celery salt. Keep the 'worster and the tabasco, garnish any way you please (I like olives) and you've got a lovely Sunday morning. In Canada.
Help: Cooking dinner for guest with multiple allergies
Oh, and @studyzone - I love your cucumber salad idea. I will definitely be doing that too, to cut some of the richness of the smoked salmon.
It might seem odd to have salmon for both starter and main, but once you move to the other side of the continent you really miss the best from home!
Help: Cooking dinner for guest with multiple allergies
Thanks everyone for the great suggestions.
We do roast chicken so regularly I don't think of it as 'special' anymore, although I would be happy to have it in someone else's home! Regardless, I think I will head down to Granville Island and try to find a nice looking whole salmon or a couple trout to roast with some lemon thyme.
Roasted veg is definitely in, and @janaatwg I will definitely add honey - great idea! I think I'll toss some fennel in there too.
Funny how simple is always best, isn't it? This is the way my mother always cooked, and I so often overlook it.
Thanks again!
Help: Cooking dinner for guest with multiple allergies
Potatoes are fine, but I'd have to do flourless gravy, and the topping couldn't have milk or butter.
Cook the Book: '660 Curries' by Raghavan Iyer
When I was in Grade 4 a new girl arrived in our classroom, from India. We became fast friends and the first time she invited me over for a sleepover we had chicken curry for dinner. My mother is a very good adventuresome cook, but I had never tasted anything like it before. It was amazing, and I was equally impressed by the father eating whole pickled chilies.
Cook the Book: 'Tacos'
My first taco in Mexico - I couldn't believe Old El Paso could call those stale clamshells TACOS!
What are your favorite websites for finding recipes?
I always try www.foodblogsearch.com first.
How do you make your fave brownies?
I just made the Blondies from the How to Cook Everything book, and they are very, very good. And easy!
I also make brownies with a recipe that is identical to Embackus's. They are perfect.
Cook the Book: 'Almost Meatless'
Madhur Jaffrey's Sour Chick Peas. The recipe is veggie, but I add two diced strips of bacon for added flavour.
What's So Weird About That?
In elementary school my mom would pack me a lunch of one hard boiled egg, one large pickle, and liverwurst on whole wheat bread. I thought it was awesome, the other kids thought I was a giant weirdo. I now fondly refer to it as my old man lunch.
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Brown sugar and Pecan cookie with Brie and Apricot filling
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Kettle Chips Tuscan Three Cheese
or
smoked salmon cream cheese dip
The Baracktail
This cocktail sounds delicious. The name's a little goofy, but what do I know? I'm not American.
I do plan to source some Hibiscus syrup just to try this though.
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The kids are in bed
Pinot and SE for me
Ahh - Saturday night!
I think the advertising and/or survey layers breaking the site..
Those ads have made me hate McCormicks. I find it very frustrating having to refresh my page every time I accidentally drift over the ad.
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Edible Chocolate Box from Charles Chocolates
Today I'm thinking a box of bridge mix would really do it. What? I LIKE old lady candy.
Know of any pets with food names?
I knew a dog named Taco, and my cousins have a bunny named Twix.
My sister's dog is named Bailey, and my ex had a pot-bellied pig named Francis Bacon (a stretch, I know).
Cook the Book: 'The Bon Appétit Fast Easy Fresh Cookbook'
Spaghettini with shrimp, garlic, chilis and a white wine/butter sauce.
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Giving my son his first taste of bacon. The look on his face was priceless!
What to do with stew meat... besides stew
Beef Rendang! Or a pot pie?
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Yep. Peppermint bark, and some cherry-almond bark I tried on a whim. It's pretty good. I'm also knitting scarves, but you can't eat those. Or you shouldn't, anyway.
Time for a Drink: Bloody Mary
The best Bloody Mary I ever had, bar none was in a restaurant in St. Helena, Ca. Can't remember the name but the secret ingredient was
cocktail sauce, not a lot, just a little, try it!
Time for a Drink: Bloody Mary
Here is mine:
2 oz Vodka or Gin
Worchestershire Sauce to taste
A Few Dashes Celery Seed
Fresh Ground Horseradish to taste
A Few Dashes Salt and Pepper
Three Dashes Tobasco
A Few Dashes Ground Mustard
1/2 oz Guinness or other Stout
Lemon and Lime Juices From Muddling
Three Dashes Angostura Bitters
Tomato Juice
In the bottom of a mixing glass, put two lemon and two lime wedges, salt and pepper. Muddle to extract all the juice from the Citrus.
Add the remaining ingredients and fill with ice.
"Roll" the mixture back and forth from mixing glass to shaker tin and back again a few times.
Fill a tall glass or Collins glass with fresh ice and strain mixture from mixing glass into serving vessel.
Garnish how you see fit. I like a pickled green bean and Lemon wedge.
Time for a Drink: Bloody Mary
My cousin's husband used to make mine with Clamato juice. I was surprised at good that was! Horseradish, pickled okra and/or pickled green beans and Frank's hot sauce if no horseradish make it tasty to me. Personally, cilantro is too bitter for my taste.
Time for a Drink: Bloody Mary
Many years ago, my husband asked his cousin for his personal recipe for a Bloody Mary because it was the best we had ever tasted. He sent us his recipe on the email and I've been making my version of it ever since.
His had key lime juice, Angostura Bloody Mary seasoning (a liquid like their bitters) and both V-8 juice and Clamato juice in it. I ran out of Clamata awhile back so I've been using V-8 and Sacramento Tomato Juice and they have been really good.
I switch off the hot sauces and try different ones each time. He uses a local one down in FL that we can't get up here without ordering through the internet so I use different favorite ones. I have a whole collection of hot sauces (over 80 bottles at this point) so I try a different one every time.
Time for a Drink: Bloody Mary
Aquavit - I agree! but not all the time.
Got off of tabasco - and using Frank's hot sauce now.
Definitely olives -- and please no celery, thank you very much
Time for a Drink: Bloody Mary
Absolut Peppar vodka and plain tomato juice. The vodka adds all the spice needed.
Time for a Drink: Bloody Mary
HORSERADISH---the strength depends on the age. If it's old , it's weak, fresh, it's strong. I feel you should taste it before using! Strong horseradish in a Bloody Mary is what really makes it! Dave
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Time for a Drink: Bloody Mary
Thanx to all for the Bloody recipes. I haven't had a good one since I quit cruising! RCCL used to have the best ones ever (but I'm sure they came from a "mix"). I'll have to try each one here and find the best. Thanx again!
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Divine Caroline is one of my favs
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Serious Eats and The Wicked Noodle. Looks like a lot of people like Smitten Kitchen, so I'm going to have to check that out!
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Serious Eats & Chocolate & Zucchini.
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Serious Eats and The Wicked Noodle. Looks like a lot of people like Smitten Kitchen, so I'm going to have to check that out!
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
Serious Eats and The Wicked Noodle. Looks like a lot of people like Smitten Kitchen, so I'm going to have to check that out!
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
I like Serious Eats of course. I also like Smitten Kitchen.
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
My favorite food blogs are this one and Culinate.
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
Serious Eats is my favorite. Simply Recipes is my second favorite.
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Baking Bites and Simply Recipes. I want to cook and eat pretty much everything from these sites!!
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
I love so many sites. I love Serious Eats (of course), PW's and any cake blog. I have a major sweet tooth.
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A year of slow cooking!
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Simply Recipes!
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Simply Recipes. Love it.