Tropicalsenior

That happens a lot here in Costa Rica. About 20 years back there was a pizza restaurant that opened in a little kiosk across the street. All the ever seem to have was ground beef, sauce and cheese despite showing about 20 items on their menu. Their basic pizza wasn't really all that bad and we would request it with anchovies and they were always out. As we got to know them better we found out that they didn't even know what anchovies were. They had just taken somebody else's menu and copied it verbatim.

I was glad to see that this topic has come up because Carlos and I were discussing it the other day and I had no idea that Frito pie had been around so long. The reason for our discussion was that the cevicharia down the street has added new item to their takeout menu. It is a bag of picaritos (triangular corn chips) topped with ceviche. It sounds pretty gross to me, but then I'm not a fan of either item.

Thank you. It sounds delicious. Does it also tenderize the meat or does it just add flavor? Maybe with something like this, there's hope for the crappy beef that we get here, which by the way is all grass-fed. Not a feedlot in the country.

Sounds intriguing. I have a mango just going ripe, shrimp in the freezer and some wasabi, uh, green horseradish that somebody gave me. Sounds like just thing for dinner tomorrow night. I just need to know what kind of mayonnaise. Is it Chinese, Japanese, or maybe durian flavored?

Do you happen to have a recipe or a link to this? It sounds delicious and making it in the instant pot is even better.

I had some candied fruit left from making panettone and I decided to toss that in at the end. I wish now that I hadn't but they are still good.

I made a batch of Traditional English Fruit Teacakes. They are quite simple to make but they are definitely something special and well worth making. If you plan to make them, give yourself a couple hours extra because both times that I have made them I have found them to be very slow rising. You definitely have to be patient with these. They are delicious with just butter or cream cheese.

I sold mine to a guy from Canada who claimed to be a chef. He promptly sliced three fingers and wound up in the emergency room.

It looks quite similar to the one that I bought in the grocery store the other day for $3. I used to have one like the first one that you showed but every time I finally got it set up, I realized I was too scared to use it. For the amount of cooking that I do, the cheap little Supermarket version suits me just fine.

Only if the recipe is from Neiman Marcus!

I was also sent this recipe as an example of a dump meal. Seven Can Chicken Taco Soup. That's right. Seven cans that you open and dump into a slow cooker. And they even include a video to show you how to open the cans. When they say dump meal they aren't kidding.

I just received an email that had four recipes and three of them have names that just set my teeth on edge. The first one was Neiman Marcus bars, yeah sure they are. The second was million dollar chicken. That's right up there with the million dollar oatmeal recipe that they sent last time. And the last one was dump cake. For someone who is old enough to remember taking things to the dump and remembering how it smells, that cake really appeals to me.

Today's bake. Two baguettes and two hamburger buns. Nothing fancy but it keeps me in bread.

I'm still on a boycott of Costa Rican bread so I made another batch of Birotes Salados. Although it is intended to be used as small sandwich rolls, I have found out that it makes a great baguette. I plan to use the rolls for barbecue chicken sandwiches for dinner.

Yes definitely. Do try them you will be amazed at the difference in the taste and the texture. The little ones in the photo above just get sweeter as they get darker but they are still nice and firm. Down here in this heat, the Cavendish bananas will be soft and mushy in about 3 days and these will last and be good for at least five to seven days.