Chef-Boy-R-Gee!

Bam! This week I pulled off the following meal: 1)Sweet Cucumber & Apple Salad 2)Flounder Florentine Almondine 3)Chocobrownies. The cucumber salad was easy and was peppered with sweet/sour flavors. The fish (I’m sure it wasn’t flounder, but I'm sure it was a good, white, flakey fish) was also fun. I (of course) washed it, than seared it on the stove top in a little butter. The inside was a tasty mix of lemon, garlic, almond slivers, onion, butter, and spinach. I baked the fish and Florentine for a while than added a creamy chive sauce. Served it over rice. The Brownies weren’t my best – it’s tough without a measuring cup (everything is metric anyway) and my difficulty with the Russian language. They ended up on the crunchy side because I apparently used too much chocolate (who would’ve thought there was such a thing as too much chocolate!)… but all the brownies went!

I would love to have some submissions for more meal ideas! Send them my way on gmail if you can. A couple of culinary considerations – I have limited pots/pans, no microwave, it’s getting cold (think soups/chili), and groceries are expensive. Also some food is darn near impossible to find or expensive (cream cheese, liquid vanilla extract, choc chips, lunch meat, out of season fruits/vegetables), while others are readily available (chicken breast, ground beef, cabbage, apples, pasta). So dust off your cookbooks and let me know which dishes are delicious!