What’s your favorite quick, easy, and healthy recipe?
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When I want quick and easy, I make either ceviche or sundried tomato angel hair pasta. Both are awesome as leftovers and impressive at potlucks.
Ceviche, makes 6 to 8 servings:
15-20 limes, soft supple limes = more juice
2 lbs firm and white fleshed fish fillet (tilapia, red snapper)
1 lb ripe tomatoes, finely diced
1 small onion, finely diced
1 bunch cilantro, chopped
dried oregano, salt, and pepper to taste
mayonnaise (optional)
hot sauce
tostada shell
Directions:
1. bring a large pot of salted water to boil. Put in fish and cook until center of fillet is opaque, depending on thickness this can be as little as 3 minutes or as much as 10 minutes.
2. Strain fish and let cool.
3. Meanwhile, squeeze limes into a medium sized bowl.
4. Flake cooled fish into lime juice. Marinate in refrigerator for 30 minutes.
5. While fish is marinating, finely dice tomatoes, onion, and cilantro.
6. Strain marinated fish, add diced vegetables.
7. Add oregano, salt, and pepper to taste.
8. Pile on top of tostada shell, garnish with condiments, eat. It's even good without the tostada shell.
Sundried tomato pasta, 2 generous servings:
angel hair pasta, half a box (break the pasta in half or thirds if making for potluck)
julienned sundried tomatoes in oil from Trader Joe's, half a jar
olive oil
fresh basil, about 4 oz
grated parmesan cheese
Directions:
1. Heat a medium pot of salted water to boil,
2. While waiting for water to boil, heat 1 tablespoon olive oil on low in a sautee pan with half a jar of sundried tomatoes.
3. Add pasta to boiling water, cook until al dente, about 5 minutes.
4. Strain pasta, toss with sundried tomatoes in sautee pan. Turn the heat off.
5. Cut basil leaves into ribbons or tear into 1 inch pieces. Add basil and grated parmesan to pasta and toss.
6. Eat, delicious hot or cold.
If you could have personally witnessed one event in history, which one would you want to have seen?
Jesus's resurrection and his first request: brains.
What is your favorite memory from your school days?
Submitted by The Cookie Jar.
Recess. Playground equipment is for the little kids, plus there wasn't enough for everybody. Every year we found new games to play. Jump roping was really popular some years. Other years, it could be knitting or crocheting, you'd see all the kids, boys and girls, sitting around knitting or crocheting. We also played pog. We invented games too, like pickup sticks with pencils or space invaders on paper. Every once in a while, we'd play those hand held video games like Donkey Kong.
Other more exotic things we did:
Shuttlecock (you play it like hackey sack, but shuttlecock looks more like a coin with feathers or tassel on it). We didn't kick it around like a soccer match, nor did we have cheerleaders.
Chinese yo-yo
Raise silkworms or hermit crabs. The silkworms would eat a lot of mulberry leaves, spin a cocoon and turn into moths. The hermit crabs would invariably die. We were good about not getting too attached to our temporary pets.
