Roger's View of the World, Love and Seafood Gumbo!
Seize the Day! Put no trust in the morrow! — Horace
Without a family, one seldom thinks long term
Karla loves it when folks use her art — whether they realize it or not — and some of the readers of this blog may remember when a sports writer in Tennessee wanted to use it on his paper’s site.
Anyway, in doing a search of images in Tennessee up popped this cake!
Way to go, Karla!
One of the wonderful Southern Cal traditions is to visit the oldest Mexican Food Restaurant of Los Angeles! I am speaking of El Cholo’s on Western Avenue. It doesn’t matter when I visit, I will always have — as part of the meal — their very delicious Chili Relleno!
Okay, I didn’t actually steal their recipe, in fact, I bought it in one of their two very nice recipe books!
Now, they also offer versions with a little more zip, but as a main meal or a side dish this one is just fine! I made a few alterations to accommodate all of the chili’s I had purchased and used a little salsa… but I stayed fairly true to the source. yum!
Enjoy this relatively guilt free… okay, feel guilty… but it is worth it!
Roger
A while back I found recipes for Tiramisu cake that I frankly thought were not worth the effort. Sponge cake never equates to home made ladyfingers! So to celebrate my daughter Karen passing her oral defense of her dissertation, we enjoyed this wonderful cake!
Congratulations Karen!
By the way, when you make a solid disk of lady finger batter, it has the capacity to hold a lot of liquor! If you eat some, let someone else drive!
I can’t help but wonder why anyone listens to some of the advice on line on how to raise your children. Everyone seems to have a purpose that doesn’t have anything to do with making your children into better, smarter people or supporting the family. Here are some of the issues that I think everyone has to wrestle with on one level or another.
In a letter to Marie Bonaparte, close to his death, Sigmond Freud wrote:
“Die grosse Frage, die nie beantwortet worden ist und die ich trotz dreißig Jahre langem Forschen in der weiblichen Seele nie habe beantworten können, ist die: Was will das Weib?”
a very rough translation would be:
“The big question that has never been answered in spite of my nearly thirty years on the subject is what do women want?”
With a wife and three daughters, this is the question that haunts me at birthdays, anniversaries and, yes, at Valentine’s Day! When I first met Laura, we were both 17 and her favorite cuisine was pop tarts washed down with a slug of Tang. Well, she was 17. Since then we have discovered many interesting foods from around the world that she has favored, but to find one is a challenge… and on Valentine’s Day, it’s important to get it right.
The answer came by following the fusion example of South Africa and combining a few worthy items. Laura loves scallops and pasta. She has also become fond of a South African curry sauce I make with Peri Peri and about a dozen spices that make the curry. Fortunately this was relatively dietetic as well and delicious!
So, women may not be so simple in reading their desires as in reading the hopes and wishes of men, but when in doubt… ask them! 😉 … or fix them a South African gastronomic experience worthy of connoisseurs!
Roger Freberg