My Weekend Six

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dawnnys

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Friday I cooked shrimp scampi with fresh red and yellow tomatoes and chives from the garden. Delicious!

We also went to Syracuse's United Way's Kickoff (SU football game yesterday) Cookoff food fundraiser. Grrr, got there during first hour and even by then, 90% of the samples were gone. Some of them sounded very good. I'll try and get recipes and post the good ones. Deep-fried macaroni and cheese not so much - ugh!

Also made some buttermilk biscuits - of course it was a mix - the best I've ever made, just subbed milk for the water and added butter to the dough. Then I topped them with dried thyme and sage. It's Southeastern brand, if anyone is interested in making delicious, quick biscuits in a hurry.

Today we're having Buffalo chicken and blue cheese grits, from the Quaker Oats website.

Gotta look up that thread here on zucchini for some creative things to make for side dishes.

Since it's a little cooler today, 'making roasted butternut squash with fennel and turnips to FREEZE ;o) for later this week.

 
Soupy Six

Spent the whole weekend plotting about soup, obsessing over soup, pinning soup, creating soup recipes in my head, and making soup.

Friday, I finally decided to ditch the salmon soup I was playing with and committed to a Brie Soup for the first blog entry of the season. What a relief... that salmon idea was really making me cranky.

Saturday I spent sketching out a soup recipe for a Creamy Brie, Bacon and Kale Soup. I find my "process" works better if I write down a working recipe on paper, and then make adjustments to the recipe as I cook. Much easier than trying to blog later and remember what the heck I did and how much of it!

Saturday night I received my first offer for a product to be sponsored on the blog. Sure, it's sort of a family friend, but a product nonetheless! I was so excited I jumped on it and said YES before I thought it through. (There may have been wine influencing my decision as well.) The product? Tuna. Really truly fabulous albacore tuna... but tuna soup? Really?

Obsessed over tuna soup the rest of Saturday.

Today I made my Brie Soup. It turned out really really delicious. In fact, so delicious that I decided that much anguished-over pastry top was unnecessary and I photographed them in the cups I wanted in the first place. smileys/smile.gif

Finally, I came up with a working idea for the tuna. I think a roasted yellow pepper soup (with a can of fire-roasted tomatoes in there as well) with a little cumin and lime juice as the base. Going to use a can of their Jalepeno Tuna (or maybe the Habanero Tuna?) mounded in the center and then swirl a Cilantro Cream around the whole thing. We shall see.

 
Both of your soups sound nice - do you ever do croutons in them? That might be nice with the tuna

 
Buffalo Chicken Grits made a friend's retaurant & catering business I think!

They have been making them for probably 6 or 7 years - they actually do garlic cheese every day and then a flavor of the day but the buffalo chicken is by far their most popular. They actually sell a refillable grits bowl like most people sell a refillable coffee mug. They even made my husband a grits fan along with about everyone else that I have served them to. And yes I have played around and made my own very similar version. I'll have to look up Quaker's recipe and see how close it is.

 
Very good except next time I'd use some ranch dressing instead of

all sour cream, and use a LOT less hot sauce!

 
Speaking of blogger, does anyone else use it and having trouble? I'm so frustrated!

I keep getting a message that says I've been logged out on another location and do I want to log in again. It pops up on every screen, no matter what I do, and won't load any of my posts or stats or anything.

I googled it and it said to clear my cache and cookies and restart, but that didn't work either. I. Am. Grouchy!

 
They don't use sour cream at all in their grits....

They use some Franks Red Hot Sauce in the water with the grits and add shredded cooked chicken and sprinkle the top with cheese.

 
I love fishy. Anchovies, sardines, clams, but I am having a hard time

wrapping my mind around tuna soup. Please share when you get it finished. Good luck!

 
Would you mind sharing your recipe for the grits, Missy?

I have never made grits before and would like to try them. Thanks!

 
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