Orgasmic Food

I actually coined the phrase, culinary orgasm (as I'm sure many have) a few years ago after I bit into a ripe juicy peach.  How can one, who has experienced a physical orgasm, not compare good food that has, as author Shari Darling of the book, Orgasmic Appetizers has so perfectly described, "moan factor."  I feel so sad for the person who does not have neither the ability, nor the appreciation to get lost in a warm, buttery, Parmasany plate of pasta, or a big glass of white wine and a plateful of homemade crab cakes.  Alas - I experience culinary orgasms frequently as I hope you do too.  Buy Shari Darling's "darling" orgasmic appetizers and matching wine book.  She's a girl who has read my heart.  Do you have any favorite Orgasmic food combinations you'd like to share with us?  I will write down a few of mine and hope you won't leave me to stand all alone on this one - even though, one can most certainly experience a culinary orgasm by themselves, I really do prefer pour deux!

Cheesecake, Prime Rib with Yorkshire Pudding, Bouillabaisse, Porkchops the old fashioned way with mushroom soup, crab cakes, ice cream cones from Disneyland 's ice cream parlour, a homemade hamburger, my recipe for French burgers (in a pan with wine), fresh raw oysters (of course!), my famous tomato tart, my cauliflower soup, my pumpkin soup, my mardi grais salad....oh there are so many things.  Please share!!!!!!!!!!

Necessity is the Mother of Invention

Today is one of those must go grocery shopping days. I need milk, eggs, fruit, vegetables, and meat. But I'm not into going out and I do still have lots of food in the house. How often do we buy more food when we don't really need it? What would I do if I didn't have this abundance at my fingertips in my refrigerator? I have gotten to a point in my life where I've become very conscience of what gets wasted in the house and of buying too much. So today, rather than just running out of the house to pick up milk for pancakes, I improvised with what I had in my kitchen and substituted plain yogurt for milk and it worked! My kids loved their pancakes.

Invention Pancakes

1 cup of flour, 1 cup of plain yogurt, 1 egg, 2 tsp. of baking powder, 1 tsp. of rum extract, 2 tbsp. of sugar. Mix up and pour 1/2 cup of batter into a greased hot griddle or pan. Turn the pan down to medium. When the pancake batter bubbles a little on the top, flip over and cook until the batter turns nice and fluffy/cooked. Serve and top with a little butter and syrup.

Growing up, when we were out of syrup for pancakes, my mom gave us strawberry jam.

Left over Kraft Dinner makes nice deep fried macaroni balls.

Left over vegetables make a nice soup you can make in advance for the week.

Lots of Potatoes? Make a huge batch of French Fries for dinner.

What do you have in the fridge you can make use of?

Saturday Night....

I need to remember what I'm going to prepare on Saturday for a quaint Valentine's Dinner:

Beef Tenderloin Wellington Julia Child style, topped with wine mushrooms/pate
White asparagus, pinenut, feta cheese salad with organic greens and vinegrette
Orange and red onion romaine salad
Pastry Piped Gruyere Cheese Baked Mashed Potato
Tomato Onion Casserole
Artichoke and Asiago Bisque

Appetizers:

Olive oiled and pink salted radishes with olives
Baked Mussels
Passion Fruit flavored crab crostini (maybe add mozzerella/cream cheese-brush crostini with olive oil/garlic)