Innie or Outie

Here’s a simple energizing refresher to help cool the hot summertime palate, Mixed-Fruit & Peanut Pureé:

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This liquid snack consisted of peach, bananas, kiwi, green grapes, roasted skinless peanuts, nutmeg, cinnamon, and star of anise seed garnished with a fresh mint sprig.

Here’s another of hubby home cooked creations, Papa’s Chicken & Bean Soup Dinner:

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This original meal by hubby consisted of chicken chunks sautéed in olive oil, white onion, chicken broth, frozen bean mix, sliced Spanish olives, minced garlic paste, ketchup, white pepper, nutmeg, and cinnamon topped with grated parmesan cheese and accompanied by garlic toast slices.

When I went to upload to the photo section of the blog yesterday, I found an intriguing e-mail. An offer from Hellmann’s to submit some of the food pics for consideration to be featured on their “Real Food” campaign for the Yahoo Food site. Since I am a complete novice at this, I was quite surprised and honored. Yet, the whole idea was perplexing as well. Even though I am full of gratitude for the invitation, I really don’t think that the arrangement would work. Hellmann’s is a brand name, and if you notice, I usually don’t include named products on my recipes. The reason for that is I am on an island out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The acquisition of food supplies tends to be a get-it-when-you-can (and sometimes a person can only find items once) proposition here. One of the things that Hubby and I wanted to accomplish in our culinary journey was to create new edibles from everyday items found in most local supermarkets – in other words, not specialty items. For the most part, we have been able to achieve that goal. I do have to add, we have a slight advantage in creating new fused edibles in that I have had to learn to substitute for what would be considered everyday items in many other locations since 1974. Even though now-a-days the culinary item selection has increased in many ways, it is still limited in others. So now I’m sure you can understand the dilemma. However, if any of you are interested in two novice cooks’ island food fusion ideas, than please feel free to look around and substitute your favorite brand for the generic item listed in the recipe.

As you can tell, there’s been several changes made along with this new WordPress 2.2.2 upgrade. The theme has been changed and the pages have been placed in categories. But all the information is still pretty much under the same classifications…i.e. foodie sites and window shopping. There may still be a few kinks to work out within the next few days, but most of this update will be as it is now. Thank you for your patience and please feel free to contact me if you have any problems or questions…. 😀