Friday Five 9.8.17
Happy Friday!!
I'm Linking up with the Friday five 2.0 ladies at Fairytales and Fitness and Running on Happy. The theme today is Post Race meal / snacks... and I already talked about that. Instead, I will share with you 5 food items that I keep at home at all times.
We have a rule in our house, if you go to the grocery store, don't question it and just buy tomatoes. Almost everything that we cook requires fresh plum tomatoes. We still run out of tomatoes every week though.
Food items that I use tomatoes for : Salsa, rice (Mexican style), steak in tomato salsa, noodles, pasta salad, pico de gallo.
We use fresh garlic for as many dishes, but we can't buy large quantities of garlic, because it dries out. Roger uses garlic salt and garlic powder, but I exclusively use fresh garlic.
Food Items that I use garlic for: Mexican rice, chicken broth, noodle soup, Steak and pasta, chicken teriyaki.
I love onions! or at least I thought I did, until Roger came into my life, he really LOVES onions! Our favorite onions are the yellow onions, and we buy this at least once per week. However, My uncle Manuel.... he makes us both look like new infants trying out onions for the first time, my uncle LIVES for onions. I have seen him take a bite of an onion, like it was an apple.
Food items I use onions for: tacos, Mexican rice, chicken broth, sandwiches, anything with steak, guacamole, pico de gallo, burgers.
When we were learning English in Mexico, my English teacher mistakenly taught us that Cilantro in English was Celery. It took us a good 4 months to figure out that celery was NOT the right word! My mom grows cilantro, because it saves her a ton of money... I have killed 4 cilantro plants, so now I just buy mine.
Food items I use Cilantro for : tacos, chicken broth, pasta salads, salads, guacamole, pico de gallo.
Two very important things: 1. In Mexico we call limes Lemons. We don't have the yellow lemons, to us a yellow lemon is a bad lemon. And I went for about 14 years calling Limes, lemons. 2. You cannot have tacos without lime! it's just not possible! One can skip the onions, the cilantro, and even the salsa, but a taco without lime doesn't taste right.
Food items I use cilantro for : Tacos, pasta salad, pico de gallo, guacamole, on top of chicken broth with soup, on top of pozole,
Honorable mentions : Cucumbers, potatoes, rice and pasta.
What is one must have food item in your house?
Do you like Onions more than my uncle?
Do you have a green thumb for herbs?
Do you like cilantro?
I'm Linking up with the Friday five 2.0 ladies at Fairytales and Fitness and Running on Happy. The theme today is Post Race meal / snacks... and I already talked about that. Instead, I will share with you 5 food items that I keep at home at all times.
Tomatoes
We have a rule in our house, if you go to the grocery store, don't question it and just buy tomatoes. Almost everything that we cook requires fresh plum tomatoes. We still run out of tomatoes every week though.
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| Tomatoes ready to become salsa |
Food items that I use tomatoes for : Salsa, rice (Mexican style), steak in tomato salsa, noodles, pasta salad, pico de gallo.
Garlic
We use fresh garlic for as many dishes, but we can't buy large quantities of garlic, because it dries out. Roger uses garlic salt and garlic powder, but I exclusively use fresh garlic.
Food Items that I use garlic for: Mexican rice, chicken broth, noodle soup, Steak and pasta, chicken teriyaki.
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| The ingredients to Mexican rice |
Onions
I love onions! or at least I thought I did, until Roger came into my life, he really LOVES onions! Our favorite onions are the yellow onions, and we buy this at least once per week. However, My uncle Manuel.... he makes us both look like new infants trying out onions for the first time, my uncle LIVES for onions. I have seen him take a bite of an onion, like it was an apple.
Food items I use onions for: tacos, Mexican rice, chicken broth, sandwiches, anything with steak, guacamole, pico de gallo, burgers.
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| Gazpacho pasta salad |
Cilantro
When we were learning English in Mexico, my English teacher mistakenly taught us that Cilantro in English was Celery. It took us a good 4 months to figure out that celery was NOT the right word! My mom grows cilantro, because it saves her a ton of money... I have killed 4 cilantro plants, so now I just buy mine.
Food items I use Cilantro for : tacos, chicken broth, pasta salads, salads, guacamole, pico de gallo.
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| Taco toppings |
Limes
Food items I use cilantro for : Tacos, pasta salad, pico de gallo, guacamole, on top of chicken broth with soup, on top of pozole,
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| Guacamole ingredients |
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| Favorite snack cucumbers with lime and ground red pepper/ tajin |
What is one must have food item in your house?
Do you like Onions more than my uncle?
Do you have a green thumb for herbs?
Do you like cilantro?
I love tomatoes!!!! Definitely a staple in my house.
ReplyDeleteAnd whole grain bread.
MMM Bread!! I love bread too!
DeleteI never thought of out to g red pepper and lime on cucumbers. That sounds tasty. I love ciksngro but only buy it when I make guacamole.
ReplyDeleteIt is super tasty and refreshing!
DeleteI read this while walking to lunch. It made me even hungrier than I was. I freaking love cilantro but Paul hates it, so when I make guac and salsa, I have to make a little dish for him without cilantro. I am really craving Mexican now but we don't have any of the good stuff... lime, cilantro, etc...
ReplyDeleteDoes cilantro taste like soap to him? I read that is a defense mechanism from his ancestors... it's in his DnA!
DeleteI make a bean salad without cilantro for a co-worker.
I always have garlic, onions, and beans on hand. I love tomatoes but they have to be in season or else they're just not good around here.
ReplyDeleteI'm a brat and have to have tomatoes all year round, or don't know how to survive. So I buy them no matter the cost. I know it's awful, but I need tomatoes!!
DeleteI don't typically buy many limes, but I do like adding the juice now and then into some stuff. I just harvested a huge supply of green peppers and cow horn peppers (first time growing these...I think they're gonna be hot!). I like making salsa, and all of the above five favorites are gonna be utilized ;-)
ReplyDeleteWe buy limes to have with everything!! It's really insane the amount of money we spend on limes.
DeleteI knew that about lemons! My Mexican friends have told me that. I love both lemons and limes. I have a few smoothie recipes that call for limes. We love pico de gallo at our house but our fresh tomatoes haven't been very plentiful this summer.
ReplyDeletea recipe for smoothie with real limes!! what!! that sounds delicious! you had me a limes!
DeleteI also love cucumbers. They are just so refreshing!
ReplyDeleteCucumbers are the coolest veggies!
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