herbiehancock

Have you tried nopalitos? I like them chopped up in scrambled eggs and also fried with potatoes. My gardener doesn't care for them, so when he went out of town a few weeks ago, I decided to make this cactus salad and eat to my heart's content. Putting this salad together is as easy as chopping up some vegetables and mixing them with a vinaigrette. I started with green onions, radishes, garlic, tomato, bell pepper and corn. I like avocado in this salad, but the avocado I had wasn't quite ripe. I topped some tamales with some of this salad and also spooned some over a fried egg for breakfast. The rest I ate with corn chips and found that it makes a perfectly good chunky salsa. Be sure to rinse the nopalitos well under cold, running water. They have a tendency to be slimy, somewhat like cooked okra. PRINT RECIPE Ensalada de Nopalitos (Cactus Salad) 6 green onions, sliced 3 radishes, sliced then quartered 1 clove garlic, minced 1 tomato, seeded and diced 1/4 cup cilantro, chopp...

We are lucky to be able to fish for trout 10 miles from our home and I like to serve it at least once a week. We've had it grilled, fried and baked and now, poached. Trout are bony and I've become quite skillful in removing them. All it takes is a gentle hand, a good eye, and a little patience. I challenge myself each time to remove all  the bones, but one or two tiny bones always seem to get by. S ome people don't eat fish with bones, period. I can understand that because if I'm eating an egg and crunch on a bit of shell, that's it. I don't care if it's my first bite, I cannot eat another. Although I don't mind a fish bone or two, I suppose it's the same thing. This is the first time I've poached a trout and it was only because it'd been in the fridge for two days and I was afraid to leave it any longer. So, poached it was; de-boned and back into the fridge for this salad. This recipe would be good with smoked trout, too. This was good, alth...

This is such a refreshing combination of flavors.  Ice cold cubed watermelon, slices of Vidalia onions, and fresh mint dressed in a vinaigrette and topped with feta cheese. Mmm! Paula Deen knew what she was doing when she cooked this up, y'all .  Take this dish to a potluck and surprise everyone who thought watermelon was just for dessert!

I found a bag of Klondike Gold potatoes at Sam's Club.  They are red-skinned potatoes with a golden flesh and are very yummy!  If I buy a 5# bag of red potatoes that means that my gardener and I are going to have to eat lots of potato dishes before they go bad.  I roasted some and then made a potato salad with them.  I couldn't blog about it. Why?  Because try as I may, I cannot get a good picture of potato salad... or chicken salad... or macaroni salad.  The pictures end up looking like a pile of white stuff with little pieces of who-knows-what suspended mid-mayo. So, for company the other night I wanted potato salad but not the typical mayo dressing.   You can find lots of recipes on the internets for Italian Potato Salad.  I read three or four thousand of them and came up with this. Slice and gently boil red-skinned potatoes until tender.  Drain and place on a sheet pan, then season with salt and pepper.  Put the sheet pan in th...