I had the opportunity to make another really flavorful meal for everyone tonight- baked salmon, with Ivan’s butter, pineapple marmalade, and mayo on top; fried white, and sweet potatoes with onion, garlic, and Parmesan cheese; and a bacon, corn, and cheese dish that had the first three things, as are in the title, with onion, jalapeño, onions, garlic, heavy cream, and two different cheeses. Yummy. Not a single plate needed to be scraped off. (Though I really do need to get over the fear I have of cooking for others. It is getting a bit ridiculous. No one has died from my cooking yet, except me- once, almost).
I am adding the above photo, but I want you to know that, even though it looks like someone threw up on the plate, each item was more delicious than the next. From top, clockwise, is the ba’corn with cheese dish, the baked salmon with the marmalade/mayo dressing, the fried sweet and white potatoes with onion, garlic, and Parmesan cheese, then the arroz verde, that Ivan taught Paty how to make.
The above photo is a bowl of some of the best chili I have ever made!!! It is from a previous post, last week, but it deserves another view. This is from Chef John at Foodwishes.com. Check it out. He has some amazing recipes that are, really, fairly easy to make. Let me know what you think.
Everyone seems to enjoy the new flavor combinations that Ivan and I come up with. As I say, frequently, if you can see to read, of are able to hear, you can watch, or listen, to videos that teach you how to make whatever dishes you want. I take my iPad into the kitchen with me and play the video, replay the video, then replay it as I am cooking. Just because your mother never cooked these dishes, or, she did not teach you to cook, so what? YouTube will teach you anything you want to learn, faster even, than learning from your parent. Trust me. I am a perfect example of what YouTube has to offer.