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What are you eating this weekend?

Posted by SweetViolet • 5/30/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: chips and dip, cooking, dip, food, guacamole, recipes, salsa, salsa fresca

The start of the summer alfresco dining season is upon us...at least those of us in the Northern Hemisphere. Time for outdoor entertaining, picnics, tailgate parties and snacking by the pool.

I have posted a pair of fabulous dips for your summer entertaining: a sensational fresh salsa and a deliciously creamy guacamole. I lived in a heavily-Hispanic part of town in California for 30 years, and these are what the salsa and guacamole in the local taquerias (where the menus were in Spanish!) tasted like!

Quick to fix and so tasty you'd better make a double batch if you expect to have any left at the end of the day!

Find them here: svcooks.blogspot.com/2009/05/guacamole-and-salsa-fresca.html

User Comments

5/30/09

greencurmudgeon

I'm likely to make a roast chicken this weekend. My way of doing it is to take a whole lemon, cut the skin of the fruit with a sharp knife sufficiently so the juice will burst out - then stuff it up the bird. I then coat the surface of the bird with tarragon. Sometimes I'll take strips of bacon and drape it over the chicken in order to add an additional flavour.

After, I'll strip the carcass of meat and make stock; the leftover meat and stock turn into a very good base for risotto.

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1. 5/30/09
  
  SweetViolet
  
  Sounds terrific except for the tarragon...I don't like the flavour. Do you think it would work well with marjoram? That's an herb I really like with chicken.
  
  I use the leftover meat and stock to make a base for chicken soup...although lately it has been used as a treat for my Yorkie pup!
5/30/09

trailofpen

I think I'm going to make Pizza, I haven't made it in a while. I'll probably just make a combo, or use some left over meat from dinner.

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1. 5/30/09
  
  SweetViolet
  
  mmmmmmmmmmm!I love homemade pizza! I found some scarmozza cheese yesterday at a food and wine show, the first time I have seen it in more than 30 years, and a homemade pizza may be in my near future as well!
5/30/09

dayflyer

Haven't really decided yet - we did the home made pizza last night.

Maybe a nice salad with our own lettuce and cucumber straight from the garden, sadly nothing else is ready yet, though there are 2 strawberries for breakfast tomorrow.

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5/30/09

JaydenVasara

i'm leaning towards making Parmesan-stuffed chicken breasts with saffron rice and balsamic vinegar/lemon juice drizzled broccoli tonight....maybe some tortilla soup tomorrow!

btw - i LOVE marjoram too!! fantastic herb

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5/30/09

roentarre

Mousaka this weekend

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5/30/09

ChampDog

I'm going to eat flog this weekend.

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1. 5/31/09
  
  SweetViolet
  
  Flog? That's a new one for me. Could you explain a bit?
5/30/09

ThriftShopRomantic

You've gotten me hungry for salsa now... I have to think about what I'll be having. I don't do a lot of cooking as it's just me here.

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1. 5/30/09
  
  SweetViolet
  
  This salsa is really easy to make.
  
  I just posted a recipe for homemade flour tortillas...why not make some quesadillas with the tortillas and some of this salsa? Just put some grated cheese on a tortilla, a couple of spoonfuls of the salsa, fold the tortilla in half and heat until the cheese melts. YUMMY! Serve with some guacamole. Perfect for one or two people!
  
  Hmmm...mebbe I should write up all the quesadilla variations for tomorrow's recipe post...what do you think?
5/31/09

radioflyer1980

We traveled to Chicago, so we ate out. We stopped at this place called i cream, that makes your ice cream to order. Literally. They poured the ingredients in an industrial mixer and flash froze it with liquid nitrogen. Looked like Han Solo in Carbonite and the ice cream it made was very light and almost crystaline, like lightly compacted snow... except with crushed Oreos

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5/31/09

Selvia

I think I will just make some pasta and salad.

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5/31/09

jafabrit

We had lamb korma and basmati rice with naan bread.

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1. 5/31/09
  
  Selvia
  
  Basmathi rice and naan, yummy
5/31/09

DGuestlist

besides enjoying popsicles, I've been enjoying grilled blue fish

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5/31/09

chicky401

I ate at Cracker Barrel Friday night as I worked late and 2 other drivers and I went out to eat on dinner break. Saturday I went to a party and had Ziti, sausage and peppers, chicken and of course chocolate cake yummy Tonight was simple hot dogs, rice and vegies.
Gotta try the salsa tho!

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6/01/09

drjay1966

I've been in a state of exhaustion after moving this weekend, so I've mostly crammed whatever I could find...most of it not particularly healthy...into my mouth all weekend.

Starting tomorrow, I'll try to do better....

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1. 6/01/09
  
  SweetViolet
  
  Poor thing! I hate moving...last time I moved I was reduced to eating McDonalds because they are the closest fast food place to my house. EWWW...but it was better than an empty stomach.
  
  Hope you get settled in soon!