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Archive for August, 2006

Recipe – Spicy Curry Dip

Saturday, August 19th, 2006

Here is the spicier brother of the other dip I prepared for this afternoon’s event. It can be made as spicy or mild as you want and it makes a nice contrast with the other dip.
Ingredients
2 cups plain unsweetened yogurt1 cup sour cream2 tbs curry powder1 tbs sweet and sour paprika1 tbs marinated sushi ginger [...]


Recipe – Garlic and Herbs Dip

Saturday, August 19th, 2006

We are invited to a meal at Normita’s boss’ place later this afternoon and Normita was asked to bring some veggies and dips. I just finished cleaning and preparing the veggies, and I prepared two different dips to go with them. We are bringing some baby carrots, celery, cucumber sticks, and some jicama. I made [...]


We’re Back

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

We suffered from major power trouble here at the office since late last week, and we were mostly offline as we could not plug the server in as the voltage was way too high blowing al the UPS in the office. After 3 trips from the electrician to fix the worse of the problems including [...]


Recipe – Robalo with a Peanut and Pumpkin Seed Crust

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

Here is another new recipe from last Saturday when Johnny Boy dropped by. When we left for the market I asked Normita what she felt like eating, and she wanted some fish. Our fish merchant had some nice thick robalo filets, a common fish here from the snook family, fresh from Golf Coast. We selected a [...]


Recipe – Mango Pudding

Sunday, August 6th, 2006

erday we had had a friend of Normita’s from work drop by for supper. For desert I made a version of a simple fruit pudding based on my mother’s recipe. She used to bake those all the time during the berry season, mostly with strawberries or raspberries.

I had some manila mangos leftover from the previous [...]


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