Spices

Mini-post!!!

So, I was hanging out in the spice row of my grocery store, and I came across the product of someone's absolute genius: Recipe Inspirations from McCormick!!  Now, this could be "new" as of last summer for all I know, since I buy my spices in bulk and never have a reason to be in the spice aisle.  Unfortunately, I was running out of my sweet caramel sprinkles for my cinnamon rolls, and I was desperately searching for an acceptable subsitute.

But back to the Recipe Inspirations, which are recipe cards with pre-measured amounts of the necessary spices included.  Umm, AWESOME?!?  I probably will never use them, but I can surely appreciate that someone out there should've thought of this DECADES ago!

There were some delicious-looking recipes, too.  I saw Asian Sesame Salmon, Chicken Cacciatore, Tuscan Chicken Stew, Chicken Tikki Masala, Chicken Marsala, Caribbean Grilled Steak, and a few others I don't remember.  And, at $1.99 per packet, my gosh, stock up on all of them!!!

Inspired.  Brilliant.  Wonderful.  Wish I thought of it first.  ;-)

~ Sarah

PS. Happy Monday!!

Dirty Gourmet

Mini-post!

It's already Tuesday!! wait, Wednesday!!!  {It always takes me a little time to get back to normal after a holiday.  But I'd be cool with having to re-adjust myself every week or two.}

It's officially summer (according to the LwYH Calendar), so the camping and kayaking trips are abounding.  Last year, we played our first annual weekend of "Iron Chef Camper" (ICC) with some wonderful friends of ours.  ICC isn't quite like the show - instead, one family cooked one day, and the other cooked the next, both trying to out-do the other.  But truly, no one really loses at ICC... you spend the weekend fine dining while covered in bugspray and campfire smoke.  Sound divine??  Trust me, it is!

Anyways, my wonderful and worthy opponent beat me last year before breakfast was even over, so I've been doing actual homework (recipe research!) this year.  I stumbled across a site made for gatherings of my people... Dirty Gourmet!  If you are a camper, you must check it out... some of these recipes sound phenomenal!!  Please share if you do.

Enjoy the dirt! :)

~ Sarah

A glimpse of last year's hors d'oeuvres.... Roasted Mozzarella (as
in, roasted like a marshmallow!) served over fresh basil and
Bruschetta and gently pressed between two Ritz crackers. 
Talk about fine dining in the dirt!