Names are everything, aren’t they? Doesn’t the name Forbidden Rice Salad just make you want to eat it?
O.k., well it does me so I guess that is just a testament to my rebellious nature.
Category Archives: Rice and Grains
Forbidden Rice Salad Recipe
Filed under Rice and Grains, Side Dish
Simple Japanese Rice Balls with Smoked Chicken
First of all, Erin took the amazing pictures are Shiloh’s birthday party. I was too devastated by the epic-cake-fail to think about pictures of the stuff that did work…. at least until it was too late. The picture Erin got of the rice balls was fabulous as all her photography is… You can barely see the ones without the nori in the back…
Shiloh loves Japan and everything about it so the menu for her birthday was sweet and sour chicken and rice balls filled with smoked chicken breast and pickled mango. I wrapped some nori around some of them but I didn’t like the look so I made the rest of them with a scoop, and made them about the size of a snowball. Continue reading
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Risotto with Roasted Butternut Squash and Sage
I love risotto.
There are so many reasons that I love it I don’t even know where to start. It is simple, delicious and with some shrimp or chicken added it makes a great main dish. The creaminess is almost dessert-like and yet the savory cheesy flavor always brings me to comfort food nirvana…like grown up mac and cheese.
Valentine’s Day Marc grilled these huge steaks that were obviously sliced from some sort of dinosaur. Continue reading
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