October 1, 2008

Who can tell me what the following three pictures have in common?  First person to give a correct answer gets a…bag of beans!  Hee hee.  Kidding.

Baby Back Ribs from Countyline

Glutinouse Rice Balls with Red Bean Paste Filling

TexMex feast from Papapasito’s

Give up?  All photos have “beans”.  Hee hee.  Hubby is so not fond of beans, whatever the shape, size or color - red or green?.  I guess green bean casserole is out of this week’s menu. Hee hee.

July 31, 2008

No, I didn’t make a mistake and accidently posted an entry meant for my food blog, Cafe Munchkin.  Hee hee.  ;)  Just let me be. 

My family loves seafood, as in each and everyone of us.  Crabs, shrimps, mussels, fish, just drive us nuts!  We prefer to have them steamed or grilled without any over powering ingredients.  A dash of salt and some lemon usually is enough for us. 

That said, when we went to Truluck’s some time in February, we ordered seafood exactly the way we wanted them.   My mom had Fresh Steamed Pacific Northwest Dungeness Crab served with Truluck’s rice and steamed broccoli.

And for my daughter’s enjoyment, we ordered Shrimp Cocktail.

Wanting our seafood steamed or grilled doesn’t mean we’re not adventurous.  We actually are!  Every now and then, we go out of our comfort zone and sample seafood with megadoses of other ingredients.  Hee hee.  If I could, I would head down to Louisiana for the Great American Seafood Cook off on Aug 2-3 at the New Orleans Morial Convention Center within the Louisiana Foodservice EXPO and the Gulf Coast Seafood Pavilion.  Now that, would be exciting!  I hear it’s going to be a display of the “positiveness of domestic seafood sustainability.” :D I could only dream of being part of such an event, and I mean as a cook.

Do you have a particularly interesting way of cooking seafood?  I’d love to hear it!