Here’s a lentil soup that invites you to come back for a second helping. If you are not sure if you like lentils, then try this soup. It is smooth and flavorful — one of those recipes that I’ve held on to for years from an old Bon Appétit magazine. And it fits into a healthy Mediterranean Diet.
I grew a bumper crop of jalapeno peppers in my garden this summer; these hot peppers are extremely easy to grow. One of my favorite appetizers at a local restaurant uses these peppers in a dish called “Crab Stuffed Jalapenos.” All summer I’ve attempted to duplicate and copy their recipe using my large crop of jalapeno peppers. Here are several of my variations and results. The stuffed jalapenos are delicious; I do recommend having a large glass of water nearby.
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Let’s try to make a Chicken Shawarma-style lunch bowl. I’d like to find a chicken shawarma recipe which is close to the real thing. For lunch, we love to eat at the nearby Greek and Lebanese Serop’s Express Cafe with a cafeteria-style lunch line. The chicken shawarma plate or bowl with chicken, rice, salad and feta cheese is my favorite. I could eat at this restaurant every day for lunch. (For the quick service and tasty food!)
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While visiting in Germany last week, I discovered that folks there don’t drink iced tea. It’s not on restaurant menus, there was no instant ice tea mix or family sized ice tea-bags in grocery stores. Missing a glass of ice tea, my son and I bought tea bags and brewed our own. We randomly selected Darjeeling tea and it was actually the best iced tea I’d had in quite some time. After returning back home to Louisiana, I decided to attempt to make sun-brewed iced tea using Darjeeling tea bags.
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I think that ice cream always goes better with a cone, cookie or wafer; something crunchy. And so I treated myself a neat gadget, an ice cream waffle cone maker, to go along with the homemade ice creams that I like to make. I’m especially pleased that I found a recipe for waffle cones which uses only egg whites. Since I was taught never to throw good food away, I can use the egg yolks in the custard ice cream and the whites in the cones. I come out even with my use of eggs.
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