Mr. Lake's New Orleans Forum

OK, I lied - I have 3 nights of dinners.

Satiddy - PC does ribs on the grill (with corn and green beans & potatoes). Delicious.

Last night, I did coconut shrimp. Lovely shrimp from FL from our seafood shop. Mmmm.

Tonight, I made a quick chorizo and chicken paella. This one was a keeper.

Everything looks wonderful. I was going to create something tonight with eggplant (from a friend's garden) and spinach noodles....but I put it off til tomorrow....that will give me another day to work on my creation.

So for dinner, another bowl of Hungarian Mushroom Soup. I love love love mushrooms and this soup is yummy!

Paula it looks lovely, all of it. I have not had ribs in ages.

Oooo girl, that paella looks so good!

Looks great, I had a piece of andouille charred on the grill and some red beans and rice. After all it is Monday.

It's wash day, put the beans on.

Timmy
Roux-B-Doo

Tonight it was "what can I cook without going to the grocery?" It was way too hot here to go out! I had a couple of chicken breasts, an avocado, some prosciutto, fresh figs, and tomatoes from the garden. So I wrapped some figs in prosciutto (kinda like melon in prosciutto -- delicious), fixed a tomato salad, coated the chicken with breadcrumbs and pan-fried it in a little butter and olive oil, and tried out something I've been wanting to try -- stuffed baked avocados. I had that at a restaurant in Starkville when I took my daughter to college orientation, and it was really good. I had never thought of cooking avocados! Couldn't remember exactly how it was served, but basically the same thing you'd put in a stuffed baked potato -- so I chopped a cooked 2 slices of bacon, cut the avocado in half, topped it with bacon, a little cheddar, and put it in the oven to get hot and melt the cheese. Then a dollop of sour cream on top. I liked it -- Randy thought it was messy. Maybe next time I would remove the avocado from the shell, cube it, mix with the bacon and cheese, and put back in the shells.

I never heard of cooked avocado and I'm intrigued. How was it "messy"? Did it "melt"? Did the flavor change?

We had left over turkey, not as pretty as your pictures. Did you grow the corn, by any chance? The fuzzy tailed rat got ours.

No, it didn't melt, and the flavor didn't change. I thought it was delicious. My hubby thought it was messy to eat, because he had to scoop the avocado out of the shell. I seem to remember that the restaurant served it with a soup spoon or tablespoon to scoop it out with. I think it would work, though, to dice the avocado, mix it up with the bacon and cheese, and put it back into the shell. If I had had any green onions, that would have been a good addition. However, I was trying to NOT go to the store.

When I go back to Starkville to move her into the dorm, I'm going to try to go back there and get it again. Research, you know.

I don't think there's such a thing as too many green onions.

Thanks for sharing the baked avocado idea. I think I would love it. And I'm right in step with your "trying NOT to go to the store". Some of my best efforts have been a result of using what's on-hand -- it's fun to think up what might be good.