Picturing Food & Drink!

It has been a long, long time since I posted here! I have a lot of photos to show off :p


Banana Cream Pie Tart! These have a Nilla wafer crust. I'd never had banana cream pie but it is now my absolute favorite dessert!


Key Lime Pie Tarts. I know I should drop the "pie" since these are tarts, but I can't get myself into saying "Key Lime Tarts" and "Banana Cream Tarts"

( Lots more food )

Most of these recipes are available on the first page of my food and travel blog - In the Wabe :)

Spinach&Ricotta stuffed pasta shells

Starter course smoked salmon paté all plated up and ready to go.

Went to Johnny Rockets for the first time the other day. It was good - the only thing that woulda made it better was WiFi.

So I made up for that with more mayo. More mayo solves many of life's problems.

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Easy comfort food! For more pics and the recipe, please visit my blog

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:) You can find this recipe and other stuff at Foodival!

Just a few bits and pieces from my birthday tea party over the weekend...

Cheesecake Tartlets



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Trish @ Sugarlace.

There are about as many different variations of Potato Salad as there are, well, trees. No two are ever really alike, and no one person generally ever agrees on exactly what goes into it.

Hot German Potato Salad is, in many ways, no different.



I first tried it at Busch Gardens, Williamsburg, Va a number of years ago, and was hooked. Mark mentioned that his paternal grandmother used to make it when he was young, but he had no idea if she ever wrote her recipe down. His mom I don't think made it, as she didn't have a recipe either. Nor did my mom.

So I went scouring the Internet. There I found quite the variety of different recipes, all claiming to be 'authentic' Hot German Potato Salad. It was staggering to say the least, as many were near carbon copies of each other.

More Photos and full recipe here.

Crossposted to food_porn, cooking and sf_domestics

What do these two items make? Creamy mango pudding topped with sweet and juicy mango!

See more photos here.

I had this week from this past Saturday at the Queen of Sheba in Louisville, KY.  Main Course (Tips and Vegetable Combinations: Doro tips, Atakilt, Fossolia and Alicha sega wot):

I know on July 4th you are suppose to grill out ribs or chicken or some other type of meat. Well I did a meal Thursday of Roast, Mashed Potatoes and crowder peas with okra, homemade corn bread and a desert of apple cinnamon bread.

( Roast )

( Roast )

So Friday we decided to eat on the meal I cooked Thursday...I hate wasting food and since it is just me and my husband we eat very little. So Saturday I decided a quick and easy meal that would be satisfying and filling. Why not burritos!?! So I cut up 4 potatoes, 1 onion and the left over roast. I cooked the onions and potatoes together until they were almost done, then added the rest of the roast chopped up.



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That was our lunch, which 4 burritos were for us and 5 went into wrappers and into the freezer for quick snack later on.

Dinner was an interesting event :) I've never made stuffed peppers before so I made my own. So I stuffed them with lean hamburger meat with 1 Italian sweet sausage, peppers, onion, rice (which was cooked the night before), garlic and tomato sauce *with Italian seasonings*.Forgot jalapeño peppers.... This was my stuffing-to get the peppers at the consistency I wanted without the filling being overdone. So I quick boiled the peppers until they were soft, then I ice chilled them. Then i stuffed them. Well in the end i had enough filling to do 2 more peppers *no peppers* So I grabbed 2 of my largest tomatoes and stuffed them. Well then all of them were wrapped in tin foil and placed on the grill.
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Acquired some berries at the Noe St Farmers Market. These eventually landed in a cobbler

Tuesday I found out I had high cholesterol sooo..I now have revamped my kitchen and I am learning to change my eating habits. So I took a trip down to the local farmers market and bought some veggies.

( Goodies from farmers market )


So what did I do with some of that yummy produce?

I made homemade salsa! I added a little jalapeño peppers and one of my dad's home grown pepper to it. IF interested in the recipe for the salsa I will so share it :) I just need to get my notebook of recipes down :)

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Trips to the local supermarkets usually fill me with dismay - I have trained my eyes not to 'see' the rows and rows of boxed cake and pancake mixes as paying any attention to them fills me with fits of incomprehensible rage.

However, I'm still training myself to ignore all those hermetically sealed doggy bags of soup, a mere glance at them is enough for my eyes to develop a bit of a twitch. If only people realized just how easy it is to make soup! This pumpkin soup recipe, for example, requires a little time but is utterly idiot-proof, and freezes well for those who are only cooking for one or two!

A fusion (fancy food word) of blueberry burgers and Russian kotleti.



( graphic meat photos ahead! )

And the first three weeks of my CSA!



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This recipe can be found at Foodival!

Hope everyone had a great 4th!

So I made chocolate covered chocolate mint chocolate cookies over the weekend. Crisp chocolate cookies covered in a thin chocolate mint glaze, these were perfect with a cup of tea on a cold rainy day.

Click here for more photos and the recipe.

I modified this from a fairly simple almond cake recipe to include a little orange zest and a middle layer of a vanilla egg custard, and the result was quite, quite delicious! The outside ended up having a lovely crispness while the inside was soft and moist and sweet. The custard balanced the sweetness of the cake, making for a very mellow and delicious taste experience! I meant to take a picture before the vultures fell upon it, but this was the best I could do!







If you're interested in the recipe, just say the word! :)

I always see some version of this on women's magazines around 4th of July, so it's time to make one myself. The cake is just from store bought cake mix and the frosting is from here. Tomorrow morning: blueberry and strawberry pancakes! Yay!

A very blurry cell phone picture of our favorite Chinese place, Great China (aka Cheap Chinese). These are the $4.50 lunch specials.

Seafood Pasta

People taking pictures of food.  I LOVE YOU PEOPLE!

had this last night at Zorba's Greek and Middle Eastern Restaurant

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Recipe can be found on Foodival!

My awesome husband made us lunch today. He used boars head roast beef, delicious white cheddar, and fresh asiago rolls from the farmer's market which we raided for all sorts of awesomeness. It was a great lunch.

This Flower’s Kiss Candy really has to be seen in person to be appreciated. Because the flower designs on the candy are pretty, lovely, charming, and a bunch of other girly adjectives you can name.

Several more photos here.

While the recipe isn't there, you can see a couple more pictures and the general method of making this at Foodival!

Monday Night's Dinner (June 8, 2009)

Orange garlic chicken on a bed of acini di pepe
Asparagus with tomato and raspberry vinaigrette