Dinner tonight - or last night.

Hi, Mismi.
Well, I am forever making either adobo sauces or tomato sauces of some sort, and sometimes I end up mixing a can of tomatoes that I puree with some leftover pork adobo sauce, which is usually peppy - or sometimes I mix a tomato puree with lots of garlic and basil and chile pepper flakes or jalapeno for a pretty fresh sauce, and once in a while I make a mellow long simmered sauce with sauteed onion, garlic, and some carrot, usually foregoing celery since I fail to buy it. So, I have these glass jars of mystery sauce in the freezer, some labeled and some that need a taste test.

Last evening's sauce was amix of a half cup of a tomato and leftover adobo (not all that hot together this time) plus two tbs butter and two or three tbs olive oil to coat about a half pound of farfalle - just a coat, not a mass of sauce.


(yes on money stuff sucks)

We’re meeting Anthony and Jeff at Taps & Tequilla for an appitizer, cocktail and just to chit chat at 5PM, then coming home and make a few other snacks and watch a good movie on this Friday night. It’s cold tonight!

Taps & Tequila

I know, they have the silliest website ever!

We had some humus and a couple other appetizers with the boys, now home and the Puerto Rican is making his chicken salad.

The Puerto Rican’s chicken Caesar salad. Quite yummy and healthy.

The Puerto Rican’s chicken Caesar salad. Quite yummy and healthy.

That is not a Caesar salad, and Marco knows that.

He said its a Caesar salad with grilled sliced chicken

Pah!

Not.

And Marco knows that.



In the meantime, if you run into marinated fresh anchovies, try them.

ooooh grilled chicken Caesar
yum
my favourite - it pisses me off that not many places serve it anymore
I always ordered it if it was on a menu

it's one of the things I really like my panini grill for - prepping lots and lots of grilled chicken breasts in advance for Caesar salad weather

Chicken with anchovies?

even I quail at that.

I have had grilled chicken caesar salad before and it is very good.

What is wrong with chicken and anchovies together?

I say that out of instinct.
Did that caesar salad actually have tinned or real anchovies?
Woman dons tacky robe and announces, don't do that.

That made me smile.

I would not know the difference between tinned or real anchovies Osso. I just know what I like.

but I edited, are you still smiling?

To be straight, Mis, you are probably the poster who most gets me, via your own ways.

I don't expect you to agree, or me with myself, but you play.

Well...I like you - even if your opinion is different than mine. I like a straight shooter....as long as they can be kind with their straight shooting. You are.

I am learning. People are extremely enjoyable when you shut up and listen to them.

(and yes - I am still smiling)

real anchovies look like fish, which naturally they are. I've only tasted fresh anchovies, marinated, less than an half dozen times, but they were terrific.

The stuff in tins or salted in bottles and the stuff in worcestershire sauce, or asian fish sauces, are products.

That's the only kind I have ever seen (the tinned kind - or in sauces and such)

I have not had the opportunity to try the fresh. I have tried sardines and I can't quite like them. Maybe if I keep trying I would learn to - but something about my palate just does not think they are delightful at all.

I like anchovies with just about anything. Apparently it was one of my 'things' when I was still in a high chair. Eggs with anchovies.

I think it's the salt.

Think about it - chicken with black olives - so many delicious dishes have that combo.

Salt.

chicken and anchovies make me happy

wooster - another can't go wrong ingredient for me