Recipes and menu ideas: tomato sandwiches, pasta salads, lamb pasta, Thai chicken, Thai corn, Thai red curry cauliflower, peach blueberry pie, peach sugar, shrimp and grits, pecan-crusted flounder, and oven-roasted black sea bass with ginger, scallion and lime. ~~~ Summer treats Back in my teenage days when I was a counselor at Wheaton Farm, I …
Recipes and menu ideas: fish with Thai coconut red curry sauce, blackened skipjack tuna, green beans with mushrooms and herbs, shrimp scampi, Southern tomato pie, and pork Milanese. ~~~ Ocean Isle Beach We spent a few days visiting cousins who were vacationing at our regular coastal haunt, Ocean Isle Beach—where I met my honey. Usually …
Recipes and menu ideas for a summer Indian dinner, yellowfin tuna, peach andouille basil flatbread and blackened amberjack (or other hearty fish). Fighting the heat with Indian food When the temps are in the 90s, I like meals with fresh, spicy, bold flavors like Vietnamese, Thai, Mexican or Indian. On a hot night recently I …
Rachael Ray would like this dish — a 30-minute meal with big bold flavor. I know a lot of food snobs don’t like dear Rachael, but I do. Sure, in her early days, some of her shtick got to me, but it doesn’t faze me now. I’m happy to watch a cooking show that’s about …
Asian dishes are always a hit in this household. They’re also more appealing when the weather is hot and humid like it has been here in NC. We loved this coconut red curry sauce from Cooking Light. I imagine it would also work well with chicken or shrimp. My stovetop was full since I had …
A few days before I hit the road to move to North Carolina, I invited my brother and some friends into my kitchen to raid my refrigerator and freezer. Everything had to go. Now that I’m here, I’m slowly stocking back up. Since I’ve been here I haven’t made any real Thai or Vietnamese dishes …
Grabbing the Gusto 