Just had a night "off" from my children, the first since early February which was for my Birthday, planned to excess and doomed for disappointment. Last night was strangely quiet, and quite nice all the same. We went out to a local Mexican Cantina and shared our favorite appetizer, a smorgasbord of fried Mexican treats, flautas, mini tacos, quesadillas, and is too much for us to both finish ever. The Margarita was sinfully sweet strawberry syrup, with a healthy shot of Tequila of course. Such is the form of my indulgence, I would forgo a fine dining experience any day for the simplicity and consistency of a rich, belly hugging meal such as last night. We returned home, proceeded to watch a movie, whereby I promptly fell asleep at 10pm on the couch, an exciting night out for certain!
Tonight I am back in the kitchen (although I did throw together a late night pizza for us to nibble on last night which was delicious). I am going to try a recipe I saw on Jamie Oliver's show on the Cooking Channel called "At Home with Jamie" which was featured on his "Summer Salads" episode. He used a wood fired oven (awesome!) to bake a chicken leg quarters, thighs, etc over a bed of country bread which absorbs the juice of the chicken while roasting. The chicken will be coated in a herb melee of thyme (personal favorite), oregano, rosemary, olive oil, a little crushed red pepper and squeezed lemon. I found chicken leg quarters for $.087/lb! This will be roasted for a couple of hours to meet its fate over a Cesar salad, with the country bread as croutons! Delish! I have yet to make my own Cesar dressing, next time if this works out well!
In the dish Jamie Oliver prepared it was garnished with edible flowers, which he grows in his magnificent garden.
Our family has eaten edible flowers for the first time in Oregon on last years' Road Trip at a little cafe that practiced from their garden to your table type of menu and it was memorably delicious and simple. I have had so much trouble finding edible flowers, short of growing them in my apartment complex I was thinking I should work with local farmers of these flowers and put them in the Farmers Market in my area. I contacted two farms, we shall see...
Seeing the forest for the trees and the flowers for the flavor!
I also want to figure out how to post pictures of the meals I make, since I am new to blogging, besides posting everyday, it is my next challenge.
Until next time-Cheerio!
Tonight I am back in the kitchen (although I did throw together a late night pizza for us to nibble on last night which was delicious). I am going to try a recipe I saw on Jamie Oliver's show on the Cooking Channel called "At Home with Jamie" which was featured on his "Summer Salads" episode. He used a wood fired oven (awesome!) to bake a chicken leg quarters, thighs, etc over a bed of country bread which absorbs the juice of the chicken while roasting. The chicken will be coated in a herb melee of thyme (personal favorite), oregano, rosemary, olive oil, a little crushed red pepper and squeezed lemon. I found chicken leg quarters for $.087/lb! This will be roasted for a couple of hours to meet its fate over a Cesar salad, with the country bread as croutons! Delish! I have yet to make my own Cesar dressing, next time if this works out well!
In the dish Jamie Oliver prepared it was garnished with edible flowers, which he grows in his magnificent garden.
Our family has eaten edible flowers for the first time in Oregon on last years' Road Trip at a little cafe that practiced from their garden to your table type of menu and it was memorably delicious and simple. I have had so much trouble finding edible flowers, short of growing them in my apartment complex I was thinking I should work with local farmers of these flowers and put them in the Farmers Market in my area. I contacted two farms, we shall see...
Seeing the forest for the trees and the flowers for the flavor!
I also want to figure out how to post pictures of the meals I make, since I am new to blogging, besides posting everyday, it is my next challenge.
Until next time-Cheerio!
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