National Spinach Day - Today is National Spinach Day! In the News - They walk among us! Enjoy - Relax and enjoy these images and videos!
National Spinach Day celebrates healthful, nutritious spinach. Popeye the Sailor touted the value of spinach. Nutritionists agree, that Popeye is 100% correct!
Gardeners know that spinach is easy to grow, and it is hardy. You can plant it as soon as the ground can be worked in the spring. That is today in many parts of the country.
Thursday, March 26, 2015
National Spinach Day, In the News, and Enjoy
Friday, January 03, 2014
Spinach Salad, In the News, and Enjoy
Spinach Salad - For dinner last evening, I prepared a delicious spinach salad. In the News - They walk among us! Enjoy - Relax and enjoy these images and videos!
I combined baby spinach with sliced tri-tip, cucumber, red onion, white mushroom, Roma tomato, Jalapeños, baby peppers, and avocado. It was a delight!
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Food, In the News, and Enjoy
Food - Tuesday evening, Laura made Spaghetti alla Carbonara. It was delicious. Leftovers followed her to work. She used a recipe from Tyler Florence. In the News - News items of interest. Enjoy - Relax and enjoy these images and videos!
The recipe can be found here:
Spaghetti alla Carbonara
Last evening, Laura produced an excellent Spinach Salad. It was a truly delightful meal. She used a recipe from Tyler Florence.
The recipe can be found here:
Spinach Salad
Laura has proven herself to be an excellent chef. Traditionally, I have done most of the cooking. I generally do not use recipes—other than my own. Laura has an excellent talent for finding recipes that appeal to her and producing great meals from them. She has an ability to make whatever alterations in the recipes she feels are warranted to better address our personal tastes.
Tonight, I shall produce my famous Spicy Panko-encrusted Chicken Livers with Calrose Rice.
The recipe is simple: Place one cup of Calrose rice and two cups of water in a casserole dish. Cover with a dampened paper towel and cook on high for five minutes in a microwave oven. Stir and continue to cook on high for another three minutes or until rice is fully cooked. Cover and set aside.
Wash chicken livers and set aside on paper towels. Add ground black pepper, red pepper flakes, Gebhardt's chili powder, and granulated garlic to one box of Panko and mix thoroughly. Place chicken livers in Panko mixture and coat well. Pour 1/4 cup of extra-virgin olive oil in a large sauté pan and pre-heat to medium. Add chicken livers and cook until browned—turning once. When livers are fully cooked, add green onions, stir lightly, pour over rice, and take the dish to the table.
Use Sriracha hot chili sauce as a condiment. This is an absolutely delicious meal.
Laura made Habanero Ginger Jelly. This is absolutely delicious on buttered toast, crackers with cream cheese, or just about anything!
She used this recipe:
Habanero Ginger Jelly
Tuesday, February 05, 2013
Prawns, Penne, and Cats
Prawns and Penne - Saturday, Laura and I enjoyed a wonderful feast: She grilled beautiful New York strip steaks and portabella mushrooms. Laura made a nice marinade for the steaks and mushrooms, and they were wonderful. While she grilled, I cooked a package of penne until al dente, drained, and set aside. I put butter, extra-virgin olive oil, minced garlic, red pepper flakes, ground black pepper, and ground basil in a large sauté pan. I sautéed this for a few minutes then added a package of baby spinach that I had julienned. I stirred this for a few minutes, added the penne, and stirred.
The meal was excellent, and there was a quantity of penne remaining. Sunday evening, Laura cleaned and marinated some enormous prawns. Last evening, she grilled the prawns quickly indoors on a special grilling pan. She reheated half of the leftover penne and added the prawns to the penne. Words fail me. This photograph will suffice:
Monday, November 05, 2012
The meteorologist for a local television station, Rob Blair, said this morning that this might well be the last day of 80-degree weather and to expect upper 50-degree weather by the weekend. This displeased me greatly, but it made Laura smile broadly!
I have noticed that I no longer enjoy the extremely hot weather we often have here--100+degree weather. Mid-to-high 80-degree weather, however, I enjoy greatly. I once frolicked mirthfully in the extreme weather and find that I now eschew anything much past 90 degrees.
Today will hopefully find us visited by hummingbirds. If this takes place, I shall perch myself in an appropriate spot and capture the delightful creatures photographically.
I am watching Deadtime Stories by George Romero. I shall report on it following my viewing.
Laura began making breakfast each morning a few months ago. Prior to that, we did not follow a breakfast routine and often skipped breakfast. Laura developed a breakfast that is such a delight that I awaken drooling copiously thinking of it and am barely able to contain myself while perched at the dining table awaiting it to appear before me! At times, we have dry cereal with strawberry or banana slices and Silk milk substitute. Generally, however, Laura produces this incredibly tasty and healthful item: 
I have journeyed far and wide, and never have I encountered a more delicious and healthful breakfast treat! Laura toasts an English muffin--atop one half of which she places a fried egg, topped with a ham slice, spinach, and cheddar cheese. At the table, we add fresh salsa. As you can see from the photograph, it is beautiful. And it tastes easily as good as it looks!