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Guacamole -- What's in yours??
Nothing beats the basics! lots of lime, garlic, cilantro and salt!! and I also take advantage of our little backyard garden by adding chopped tomato & peppers.
Favorite summer salads (beyond trad. pasta)
The kids love this straight out of the garden in the summer, stacked:
tomato slice
mozzarella slice
basil leaf
drizzle with worstershire
sprinkle with black pepper & oregano
All Clad
Obviously, all-clad is pricey, but for years I've been getting cookware for Christmas & birthdays so I've carefully and selectively built a fantastic kitchen on a very tight budget. There are four things I cannot live without:
Le Creuset frech ovens, I have the smallest and a really big one, can't remember size. Both oval that are so versatile and incredibly easy to cook in. I LOVE them and never dreamed anything could compare until...
I finally splurged on two all-clad pans, 3qt saute pan and 3qt sauce pan. They are so wonderful!!!! At first I worried about food sticking, but the beauty is I actually learned how to truly sear meat and take advantage of that glorious fond like I had never been able to do in anything else, including Le Creuset. I immediately became a better cook simply by learning how NOT to let food stick and guess what? It never does!
I still keep an 8# non-stick calphalon around for scrambled eggs, pancakes & grilled cheese, but all over non-stick pans have long since deteriorated and need to be thrown out after only 3 years of use. And, I was very careful with them always.
So...IMHO all-clad is worth it's weight in gold and I have never regretted the $$$ I shelled out for them. BTW, almost all of my best cookware including all-clad and le creuset was purchased at marshalls or TJ Maxx!
Good Eats Along I-65 Between Louisville and Nashville, TN?
I don't know about between, but North of Downtown Nashville on I-65, right off the trinity lane exit is a GREAT bbq place. It's a real treat, called Jack's! The one downtown is nowhere near as good. They pull the ribs right out of the smoker and cut them while you're ordering! The best meat and three in town if you like that sort of food. Any time family visit us that's where we have to go!
