Maison Rustique

Yes we are all hoping beyond hope for someone to take over the company and for the original company to provide their recipe because they are truly different than any other taco shells on the market.

A friend dropped off a bag of fresh herbs for me yesterday morning so supper was a salad of arugula, herbs, tomatoes, blue cheese and some crumbled crisps that I got on sale at Costco.

Glad you are waiting out the storm. It was wild last night but the worst is due to hit here later today in the KC area. Just stay put--so many tornadoes this last weekend and they are now predicting more tonight.

I like them small, but you can cut them in half/quarters if they are larger. Here is the recipe and I am pretty sure it came from an eGulleter way back when. Tomolives If tomatoes are larger, cut in half or quarters. If small, make a couple of holes or slits in them so the brine gets inside. Pack the tomatoes snugly into a jar. Add 4 cloves garlic and a tsp of pickling spice. Bring ¼ c. salt, a pint of Heinz white pickling vinegar, and a pint of water to a boil. Pour over tomatoes, let cool, and store in the fridge. The Temple Bar in Manhattan served an "old South martini," garnished with tomolives. They're also great in bloody marys. Best used within a couple of weeks.

As hot as it is here, I just ate some Progresso soup--Southwestern Bean. I got home late and didn't want to take time for anything else since basketball is starting.

I make my own tomolives when I can get green tomatoes. I had no idea you could buy them!! @rotuts when I get to my PC where my files are, I'll send you the recipe for them.

At least it sounds like decent food! If that had happened to me it would have turned out to be a KFC bucket of chicken, which I always swear is pigeon because they are small and odd-shaped pieces. Would have gone straight out to the raccoons. But what you got sounds great and it would have fed me for 2 weeks!!

@Smithy, you are so brave! When you are in transit, do the furkids travel in the truck with you or stay in the RV? I was concerned about them with the turntable accident and glass everywhere!!

Brings back memories of the time I was assigned to make gefilte fish for the cooking group we belonged to way back when. Bass-O-Matic!!

Salad of lettuce mix, bacon, tomatoes, onion, avocado, blue cheese and the Amish tomato bacon dressing I got recently. With toasted buttered Cristal bread.

Recently the NYT had a recipe for Lemony Turmeric Potato Soup. I thought it sounded interesting. I had a couple of potatoes and some cream that needed to be used immediately, so I played off that recipe and made it with cream. Topped with jalapeno kettle chips. Very rich, but delicious. I will definitely make it again with or without the cream.

Whenever I go to Trader Joe's, I get asked about my bags, as many are from 35 or so years ago when we lived in California. Since TJs has only been in this area for fewer than 10 years, they've never seen them. I'll have to dig them out one day and take pix.

Now I have a new place on my to-go list. Thanks for letting us know about Edisto Island, @Katie Meadow. A friend dropped off some fresh herbs from her garden yesterday morning. I planned to have some with tomatoes and cottage cheese for supper since I had my leftover half burger for lunch. Well, turned out my cottage cheese had gone bad. So, I pulled out a Snapdragon instant pho and made it with a spoonful of the leftover sitr-fry from a couple of nights ago. Was tasty but I still need to eat my herbs. Soon.

The Boston Celtics game was coming on at 6 pm, so it was fast food for me.

Make an Asian peanut salad dressing!!

@gulfporter, I saved that Moroccan Chicken Thigh recipe and just like that, my food gifting friend showed up with a huge package of chicken thighs for me. Now I just need to shop for the rest of the ingredients and wait until this rainy spell is over so I can grill them.

Like @MetsFan5, I do it with mustard frequently. Well, more frequently when I was going through mustard faster.

I've never had the stovetop burners degrade, but twice I've had the oven burners go bad--two different ovens. The second one literally fried--I saw a flash in the oven and shut it down quickly. The guy who came to repair it said I was lucky not to have had a serious fire. Who knew this kind of stuff could happen! And they say gas ranges are bad for you. Hunh!!!

@Smithy, I swear we must be related. My freezers are the same. I have been an over-buyer for decades. I remember my Mom asking once if she had somehow made me food-insecure because I was a food hoarder. I did go through some times in my adult life as a newly divorced single person when I lived on fried egg sandwiches because that was all I could afford. I think it might be more of a FOMO--I see something new or interesting and worry that I'll never find it again so need to buy it even if I have no plans to cook/eat it. I'm not sure how I got like this, but I'm really trying to change my ways.

I had the tortilla shapers, had not used them in over 5 years, so donated them recently.

I found what is supposed to be their recipe. Pretzel Shortbread

Me, too!!

I subbed blue cheese for the Parm and used my own pecans & freeze-dried blueberries.

Porotta topped with bacon, eggs, cheese and tomatoes.