Showing posts with label 2013. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2013. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Sneak Peek The Weekend Gourmet Is Taking Part in H E Bs 2013 Meal Maker Challenge!
I’m thrilled to share some really fun and exciting news with yall today: The Weekend Gourmet has been selected as one of 10 Texas food blogs to participate in this year’s 4th annual Meal Maker Challenge, sponsored by H-E-B grocery stores and ConAgra Foods. The challenge is to create fast and delicious meals to help combat the back-to-school rush. For the next five Sundays, I’m going to be sharing a big-flavor family-friendly dish that’s centered around a theme ingredient. Each recipe contains only 7 ingredients and can be ready to serve a family of four in 30 minutes or less. I’m delighted to share the recipes that I’ve come up with for this fun contest! Here’s a sneak peek of each of my recipes to whet your appetite.
The weekly featured products include:
· Week 1: H-E-B Salsas
· Week 2: Hunts Tomatoes
· Week 3: H-E-B Natural Chicken Breasts
· Week 4: Egg Beaters
· Week 5: Peter Pan Peanut Butter
Make sure to come back each week to get all these great recipes...starting this Sunday with my Salsarific Taco Skillet, featuring H-E-B Smoky Citrus Salsa. My Texas-based readers can visit their local H-E-B store weekly to receive a Combo Loco coupon to purchase that week’s theme ingredient and try my recipe out in their kitchens. Since this is a contest, I’ll also tell you how you can vote for and Pin my recipes each week. At the end of the contest, the two bloggers with the most votes will receive some pretty cool prizes! Honestly, just being selected to take part in this event is a huge honor…but winning would be pretty cool too!
Disclosure: I am being compensated for participating in this program. However, all opinions expressed are solely mine.
Friday, January 23, 2015
Passover 2013 Russian Gefilte Fish Gluten Free Matzo
The downside of writing about food is that you have to start thinking months in advance. In order to make publication deadlines, youre pitching springtime stories in the midst of blizzards, talking about Thanksgiving food while youre still on summer break. Which is all to say Ive been thinking about Passover foods for some months now. But I am not remotely sick of it. In fact, Im all the more excited for the celebration.
This year I looked into restaurant Seders around the country, for those not interested in hosting their own (and for those who are, there are some good ideas on those menus). I taste-tested gluten-free matzo, and found a traditional way of making gefilte fish (along with a beautiful story of growing up in the Soviet Union).
For my own meal, Im planning on making this delicate and lightly smoky gefilte fish, and the vegetarian dishes from this Sephardic-inspired Passover dinner. There will be appetizers, Manischewitz spritzers, and a little bit of metaphorical rebirth. Because even though its something Ive been thinking about for months, I could always use a bit more.
*photo from my gefilte fish post in Bon Appetit, taken by Kirk Jones
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