That being said, and since I have had multiple requests, well…more than multiple…lots of requests for recipes and cooking tips etc., I am biting the bullet and starting a food blog.
I have titled it “The Food Snob” because that is what I am: a food snob.
My goal is for this to be more than a recipe blog. It will always center on food in some way or another.
One day you will get a great recipe to try out…another day a restaurant critic…and still yet another may hold my favorite shopping sites or why I hate grocery shopping at Wal-Mart. Regardless of the post, you are sure to be entertained.
This blog will develop. I will add all sorts of gadgets, links, blogs I follow etc. I am starting off simple and we will see where we end up.
Leave me a message. Ask questions. If I don’t know the answer, I’ll find it.
Now, a little about myself as a cook.
Those who know me will tell you I love to cook. I love to entertain. I love feeding people and seeing them fulfilled and satisfied. I am a Christian and I consider hospitality a fairly high gifting of mine. I also hold a very high standard and like things “just so.” (Which is why I am a food snob!) Maybe that is why we never get invited to eat at other people’s houses? Things that make you go…hmmmm!
I am married. I have two children, one married and one still at home, and a dog.
We eat at the table almost every night. My cooking is generally from scratch, although I have found some shortcuts that I used in certain areas that save me time and taste almost as good, if not as good, as homemade.
I enjoy baking and cooking equally. I find common sense and little practice gets you amazing results. I would like to see the lost practice of eating homemade meals as a family around the table every evening restored in Amercia.
Food is one of the things we all have in common. We must eat to live.
To start us off, here is my amazing recipe for Guacamole. Which is what I am having for lunch, so, I must share!
Choose an avocado that yields to pressure when pressed with your thumb but is not squishy.
There is something about cutting open a perfect avocado that gives me extreme pleasure!
I like texture in my guacamole, so I add chopped onions and tomato.
Guacamole:
1 avocado, halved, pitted and mashed (you can mash this till fine or leave some chunks. It’s all about your preference)
½ roma tomato, seeded and chopped
1 slice of red onion, chopped
Two splashes of Tabasco sauce
½ lime, juiced (lemon juice can be substituted if you don’t have a lime)
½ tsp garlic powder
½ tsp sea salt
Mix and enjoy. This will serve two people who enjoy guacamole or one person who adores it!
To refrigerate leftovers, keep the pit and add it to the guac. This will aid in keeping it from turning brown. As will putting a piece of plastic wrap directly onto the guacamole. Happy eating!
Come to mama! ;)
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