Easter 2013 feast
.On the Saturday before Easter, Leslie Anne fixed grilled salmon and some noodles. I steamed some cauliflower and poured a chile con queso sauce over it. I had made the chile con queso on Friday night from a two pound block of Velveeta cut into one inch cubes and melted in a glass double boiler with a can of Ro-Tel Tomatoes and Hatch Green Chiles. Chile con queso is good for eating with tortilla chips and as a sauce for broccoli and cauliflower.
We used the same technique of grilling the salmon as before. The cedar plank from the previous week's pyrotechnics display got one more use out of it but no fireworks, and we used cherrywood chips to provide smoke flavor.
The wine is Mouton Cadet from France. It is on sale but not for the "3 bottles for $5.00" price I paid back in 1975 when the Common Market was having a wine glut, and America was just starting to appreciate and consume a lot of wine. My own experience with wine back then was mainly German whites from my Army tour of duty. With cheap prices, I decided to try more French wines beyond the ones I had in Paris. These days my budget limits me to decent but inexpensive wines from Texas, California, Slovenia, and sometimes Germany, Spain, and Australia. Leslie Anne likes bargains but can afford better ones from California, France, Chile, Australia, and whatever catches her attention at the store. She also samples a lot of wine on her travels.
Easter 2013 feast
.On the Saturday before Easter, Leslie Anne fixed grilled salmon and some noodles. I steamed some cauliflower and poured a chile con queso sauce over it. I had made the chile con queso on Friday night from a two pound block of Velveeta cut into one inch cubes and melted in a glass double boiler with a can of Ro-Tel Tomatoes and Hatch Green Chiles. Chile con queso is good for eating with tortilla chips and as a sauce for broccoli and cauliflower.
We used the same technique of grilling the salmon as before. The cedar plank from the previous week's pyrotechnics display got one more use out of it but no fireworks, and we used cherrywood chips to provide smoke flavor.
The wine is Mouton Cadet from France. It is on sale but not for the "3 bottles for $5.00" price I paid back in 1975 when the Common Market was having a wine glut, and America was just starting to appreciate and consume a lot of wine. My own experience with wine back then was mainly German whites from my Army tour of duty. With cheap prices, I decided to try more French wines beyond the ones I had in Paris. These days my budget limits me to decent but inexpensive wines from Texas, California, Slovenia, and sometimes Germany, Spain, and Australia. Leslie Anne likes bargains but can afford better ones from California, France, Chile, Australia, and whatever catches her attention at the store. She also samples a lot of wine on her travels.