Roger's View of the World, Love and Seafood Gumbo!
Seize the Day! Put no trust in the morrow! — Horace
We have a Crab Quiche , Me hearties, that will appease the hungriest appetites!
Here’s our recipe that we have stolen from the far corners of the known world!
Enjoy!
Roger Freberg
PS. the secret is Capt’n Rog Secret Spices!
One of the things I have enjoyed is helping them find great travel deals. Deals that don’t involve sleeping in a luggage compartment or stowing away on a coffee boat. Why pay $4500 to travel to Beijing from Tennessee when you can pay $1000 on Cathay Pacific or for the same price go from Los Angeles to Australia on Qantas? Obviously, rates change and there is a big asterisk as to when you have to take these trips… but it is worth it!
British Airways has remarkable deals to England right now from almost anywhere in the United States — and once there — it is a great jumping off place to the rest of the world!
So the dollar may be soft… but the great airline fares more than make up for it! So, tell me… what’s holding you back?
Roger Freberg
So, we all have been talking about what she wants to cook while she’s out here and we brainstormed about various seafood dishes, fusions and combinations.
What we are exploring is a Seafood Lasagna. There are plenty of similar dishes out there and I am sure you have had the opportunity to try out a few yourself, but most seem to be missing something.
Many recipes for this type of dish have very little seafood and compensate by adding vegetables and an abundance of cheeses. My wife would say… “you can’t have too much cheese’… but unless you are a cheese-asaur, it’s a bit much for me… I want more meat!
This type of dish opens itself up to so many delightful variations… providing me with the opportunity to sautee the seafood in Armagnac and add white wine to the white sauce. The choice of spices won’t be inexpensive or skimpy… there is much we can do. Kristin has some wonderful ideas.
In the meantime, we’re still exploring ideas.
While exploring the wonderful world, I found this amusing “Mother-in-law tongue” with it’s serrated edges looks and feels like the real thing!
Roger Freberg
I was in Costco and I found two wonderfully humongous sized cans of diced clams by Sea Watch International (their RECIPES! ) for my weekly seafood Paella! I was wonderfully surprised to see some very nice recipes and a recipe folder attached between the shrink-wrapped cans. Although I might quibble a bit on some of the ingredients ( I would substitute cream where they call for half and half and use the source spices instead of mixes)… the recipes were simple, yet delightfull.
I tend to forget than many companies now-a-days cannot afford their own test kitchen ( my grandmother ran one) but the folks at Sea Watch have a creative idea ( which explains to me why their recipes make sense):
By the way, am I missing something or do ‘culinary schools’ seem to be sprouting up everywhere in high schools and the internet, for example? Although I applaud folks learning to cook as so many think pushing a button on the microwave is ‘cooking’… I wonder if it is economically viable in a world of portion controlled rubber chickens? In any event, I want to congratulate the Lucia Mar School District for considering adding a ‘Culinary Academy” to their high school ( Arroyo Grande, California)… sounds like fun!
Lastly, Laura and I have always tried to offer our family fresh fruits and vegetables… but it is expensive and if you look at the trends… it takes money can eat well. It is not hard to see why a small family will pass over a small carton of tomatoes for $3 when they can buy three hamburgers at a fast food place for the same money. Frankly, I think fastfooders are doing a great job providing quality nutritious food for America… it’s just unfortunate that there are not other inexpensive choices.
Roger Freberg
So, naturally, I was tremendously impressed with a little business that puts people together from companies and various organizations working together cooking something fun!
LET’S COOK! is a wonderful idea… and an excellent site. Check it out!
Roger Freberg