Maison Rustique

I saw it at my Costco yesterday and was so tempted. But with it just me now, I fear I'd end up eating a tiny bit, freezing the rest ad tossing a freezer-burned mess in 1 year. I need to find a new system of cooking/eating/storing.

Not fancy, but quick, easy and tasty. Grilled brie and home-grown tomato.

My food-gifting friend is on a salad kick now. (Still thankful it isn't drumsticks.) He brought me a huge container of a spinach/lettuce mix a couple of days ago. I had just sat down to eat a large salad I made for supper when the doorbell rang. There he was with 2 salad kits and a bag of brussels sprouts. I feel my nose twitching, my ears growing and my tail getting fuzzy.

Completely agree on the triangles! I stopped myself but easily could have eaten it all by myself in one sitting. Embarrassingly too small.

My food-gifting friend brought me smoked Italian sausage and country-style beef ribs because I mentioned I was craving BBQ. So I had a bit of both last night with some potatoes, arugula, tomato, butter and German potato salt.

Somehow that cracks me up. Any candle is a fire hazard. Especially if you have cats. Only electric candles in this house now. On a Trader Joe's note, I picked up the green olive flatbread crackers last week and tried yesterday just as a nibble while I was heating some soup. I like them. I really think I'd like them with the cream cheese anchovy spread that was discussed elsewhere. I think it was @Tropicalsenior's recipe, or am I remembering wrong?

I have no idea about it, but how interesting! Thanks for posting all this info.

I haven't had a problem before, but I did this one in the toaster oven and the center of the crust never cooked properly but it was going to burn the rest of it if I left it in longer. Partly my cheap toaster oven, I'm sure. Just didn't want to fire up the regular oven on a hot day.

@Shel_B, just realized the brand isn't showing in the photo. It is Ritika's.

My former husband came from a large family of mostly boys. The first time I was invited there for dinner, he told me, "If you see food on a platter you want, you better grab it fast because it goes fast." They did not know what leftovers were. We used to have a calendar with Dave Barry "Sniglets" (funny made up words). The one that always stuck with us and I use it to this day was Pig Slice: the last piece of pizza that everyone secretly wants but no one wants to seem piggy by taking.

Made up a soup with some of the chicken from the skewers I roasted the other day. Used a packaged cilantro lime rice, some chopped tomato, chicken stock and a dollop of jalapeno something from Trader Joe's that's been lurking in the fridge for a long time. I have to admit that I am really getting hungry for "real" food, i.e., meat to eat with a knife/fork, veggies and a nice glass of wine. My dear friend who always brings me food texted me yesterday and asked me what I'd like to cheer me up and he'd make it for me. I politely declined. I was afraid it would be chicken drumsticks. LOL.

A friend dropped off some wonderful chili lime chicken skewers while I was visiting my husband. I popped them into the oven for a quick roast before it got too hot. Froze some for later and ate some tonight with arugula, sliced tomato, avocado lime dressing and buttered baguette. And as long as I had the oven on, put in the shriveling cherry tomatoes I had and a huge green pepper to roast for freezing to use in whatever.

I have a Samsung, but mine has the controls on a back panel, thankfully,, so isn't included in this. Those covers are really ugly. If That was the fix I was presented with, I would not be happy.

@KennethT, hope all is OK now and flooding is over. @Tempest63, that sausage/bean dish looks wonderful! Almost like a quick cassoulet variation. I'm saving that recipe for cooler weather.

Groan!!!

Yeah, not sure when they planted or what varieties. It may be just because of the extreme temperatures we had for a while. It was hard on all things growing. I had baby potatoes that needed to get used up and I had bought a large container of tzatziki a while back. I cooked the potatoes and added some of the tzatziki and onion and it was delicious!

My sis brought me some pasta salad Friday and what she said was their last home grown tomato of the season. So, last night I had some pasta salad, tomato and a bit of the potato salad I'd thrown together the other day.

Rather like Americans going to Mexico (any part) and being disappointed that the food isn't Tex Mex.

@Kerala, I see nothing terribly unhealthy about it! @weinoo I was hoping you'd ordered a veal chop because my eyes went right to the veal on the menu. I can't remember the last time I saw a menu with veal chops on it!

That would be truly revolutionary!

Now I'm craving a chili dog! I might finally be getting the hang of cooking for one. A loaf pan fits nicely in the toaster oven with supper for tonight and leftovers for another night. Penne with a little creamy white wine tomato cheese sauce topped with paradise locker (local purveyor) bacon, soffrito and more cheese.

@YvetteMT, I'd love to see photos of that wood stove!!

Try white vinegar. If that doesn't work, you may need to bleach it. I find that certain plastics are difficult to completely get mold spores out of. I go through this with my hummingbird feeders.