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Mexican Pasta – Rainy Day Fusion Food
Fusion cuisine is cuisine that combines elements of different culinary traditions. This explains my actions when I ‘d planned to have grilled hamburgers for dinner and it rained all day. My P.S. looked at me like I was crazy when I asked if he’d grill while I held an umbrella. I seriously wanted a grilled hamburger. His suggestion was to pan fry them. Ugh. Not as interesting, for sure. Continue reading
Sweet Peas and Wild Rice Salad
I don’t remember what I was searching for when I ran across the Crystal Farms website recipes. I was charmed that everything had cheese, until I realized it was a cheese website! Duh. But I am a huge fan of wild rice and this salad was something I’d never seen. It was mostly vegetables and wild rice, and very few carbs. The recipe was from the Minnesota Wild Rice Council, and I always make sure my wild rice is from Minnesota. Continue reading
Anti-pasta Antipasto
We recently received an antipasto dish from our daughter, Emily, that was awesome. I don’t use that word often but this salad was truly that awesome. She called it Anti-pasta Antipasto because the noodles she used weren’t actually noodles. They were zucchini noodles, often called “zoodles”. I was almost fooled; their texture after being marinated was very similar to pasta noodles. I begged Emily for the recipe. Continue reading
