Prepared a filling consisting of Italian sausage, chopped spinach, minced eggplants, minced onions, grated parmesan, and mascarpone cheese.
Made a tomato cream sauce. Stuffed the pasta shells with the filling and laid them down in a baking pan.
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My Texas friend also sent me a shaker bottle of his “Secret Spice Mix #2” dry rub for meat. We had a few boneless pork chops so I rubbed them with his rub after brining them first. Tossed them on the gas grill and cooked ’em up right.
Stir-fried some peas, red bell peppers, and onions.
Served the pork chops with the veggies and mashed potatoes on the side. I like my pork a with a little pink in the middle.
Aloha, Nate
I am not ashamed to say that I eat fried rice with Spam. Hawaiian-born and -raised, Spam fried rice is comfort food, to say the least.
That doesn’t mean, though, that I can’t jazz it up a bit with some habanero sauce!
This particular sauce, given to me by a friend from Texas, is not really that hot. It’s also got a nice sweetness from pineapple to balance out the heat. I’ve almost used up the whole bottle already.
Aloha, Nate
One Saturday evening, Annie wanted to eat a large hunk of lamb. She had heard of a restaurant, Athena Grill that was supposed to have good Greek food but unfortunately they were not open on weekends. So we settled on John’s XLNT Food in the Willow Glen neighborhood of San Jose.
When we got there, we had to wait a while until we could be seated. Annie ordered the braised lamb shank. Talk about a large hunk of lamb! It was good.
