Okay, this week has been another week of new recipes. The other night I made our all time favorite sloppy joes which we normally have chips and baked beans with, but I had to come up with new sides because our pantry is a little scarce right now. I need to do some shopping and stop up on our basic pantry items.
Anyway, I didn’t even have any frozen fries to fix either, so I decided to try and make homemade onion rings. Now, I have made onion rings before and they just never taste the same as they do out. Well, I came across a recipe in one of my favorite cookbooks and followed it – only made one minor adjustment, but I used a technique I learned watching a cooking show on the Food Network.
We loved them!! Now we know we can have onion rings without paying the price at a restaurant. YUM!!
Well, we like tilapia fish very much. Typically Jay will grill it or I will fry it up for a club style sandwich. Yesterday, I decided I wanted something different. So I searched one of my favorite recipe sites and came across this and that. The kids aren’t big coconut fans so I fixed the “this” for them and the “that” for us. Of course Jay and I had to try a little of the kids’.
This was my plate with the fresh green beans and a full serving of the Coconut Tilapia and a taste of the Broiled Tilapia Parmesan. They both were very yummy and the kids loved theirs! Two more keepers!!!
Now, I did make a couple of modifications to the coconut – the flour I used half all-purpose and half self-rising and the apricot sauce called for apricot jam which I didn’t have so I used orange marmalade and it was still a great compliment to the fish.
Oh yeah, Jay came up with a very tasty grown-up drink that went very well with our tilapia. It is a mixture of vodka, cherry rum, and pineapple juice. A nice little escape to the islands during these chilly days in the mid 50’s.
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