Today I want to talk about a fish recipe.  When you think of fish recipes I bet you any money that Fish Tacos do not come to your mind.  Or at least it isn’t one of the top 10.  I kept hearing about fish tacos and I am always up for a new fish recipe.  Now cooking fish has to be one of the fastest proteins to cook.  Not to mention one of the healthiest.

So I went to one of my favorite sites the Food Network to look for a good Fish Taco recipe.  Well I came across one by Rachael Ray from her 30-minute meals show.  Well I think I have mentioned before that I love Rachael Ray for her simplicity.  Plus she makes meals very fast. 

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Today I want to talk about a fish recipe.  When you think of fish recipes I bet you any money that Fish Tacos do not come to your mind.  Or at least it isn’t one of the top 10.  I kept hearing about fish tacos and I am always up for a new fish recipe.  Now cooking fish has to be one of the fastest proteins to cook.  Not to mention one of the healthiest.

So I went to one of my favorite sites the Food Network to look for a good Fish Taco recipe.  Well I came across one by Rachael Ray from her 30-minute meals show.  Well I think I have mentioned before that I love Rachael Ray for her simplicity.  Plus she makes meals very fast. 

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Ok, so today my mother kind of kicked me in the butt.  She asked why I had not done a blog in awhile.  I really didn’t have an excuse.  So I thought well I best get my butt in gear and make her happy.  Then I thought I better talk or write about something very good.  The first thing that came to my mind was cooking vegetarian.  You all know I am anything but a vegetarian.  But at that same time I love a lot of vegetarian recipes. 

So then what came to my mind was Quinoa.  This is one of my favorite grains.  I absolutely love it.  Now I will be honest.  The reason I was attracted to Quinoa was that it is very high in protein.  It is like 12% -18% protein.  Now I am not exactly a person that counts her carbs but I always like something higher in protein.  But after the first time I tried it I fell in love.  Now the other great thing about Quinoa is that it is an ancient grain. No that does not mean that it is old and stale.  It is just a grain that has been around for more that 6000 years and not been altered.  Unlike other grains such as wheat.  Now another great aspect about Quinoa is that it is gluten free.  I have mentioned before that we have our oldest son on a gluten free diets.  So for anyone that is Celiac or has to be on gluten free diet Quinoa is an excellent alternative.

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Lets talk soup. Ok I know it is March and spring is just around the corner.  But that doesn’t really matter to me.  I have told you before that it doesn’t matter what time of year it is.  I love soup.  Yesterday I made soup mainly because I knew my husband was not going to make it home until late and I wanted something that was easy to reheat when he got home.  Plus the soup that I was making is basically a meal in itself. 

You know there are those soups that are basically a broth base with very little else and then there are the chunky ones.  I love both but if I want something to fill up everyone it better be chunky.

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What a wonderful mistake.  Do I have you thinking?  Well I thought I would tell you about my cooking experience from last night.  I wanted to try out a new recipe I found the other day.  It was suppose to be a real easy, fast cooking recipe.  Ok for the most part it was.  But I have to say thank god I tasted this recipe at a certain point or other wise I would have been one very upset cook.  Now there was no fault in this recipe, it just wasn’t to my liking.  I’ll tell you something it tasted like dirt to me.  I was disappointed but relieved at the same time.  See this recipe was a chicken recipe had a sauce over it.  Now you cooked the chicken off first and then made the sauce.  Then you plated the chicken and poured the sauce on top.  Well the sauce was the part that tasted like dirt.  Now again it was me, more than the ingredients.  My mom made the recipe a few days before and she really liked it.

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Baby shower or bridal shower it is the season.  It seems that from now until the end of October it not only is a busy time for bridal showers it also happens to be a busy time for baby showers.  After all a lot of couples had to do something to keep warm through the winter months.  The one thing I love about either a baby shower or a bridal shower (no it is not the games) is the food.  They always have the tasty little finger foods.  I have to be honest I love all those little sandwiches, the little desserts the whole bit.  I am quite happy just stuffing my face and believe me that is what I am usually doing. 

In the past when someone was putting on a bridal shower or baby shower they were the ones cooking for the bridal shower or baby shower.  But things have changed a bit.  Now if you are putting on a shower it is quite ok to be asking that other people help with the cooking or food preparation.  Everyone has bridal shower recipe or a baby shower recipe.  Not that there is a difference in my world. A lot of times the recipes are more traditional with an added twist.  That twist is making these recipes faster and easier.

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Lets talk about cookies.  I know I have mentioned before I could be a cousin to the cookie monster.  I absolutely love cookies.  I should say soft and chewy cookies.  There is something about a soft and chewy cookie that just brings me back to my childhood.  We didn’t get a lot of store bought cookies when I was growing up.  My mom made most of them from scratch and then when I was old enough I started to make cookies from scratch as well.  I must say thank you to my mom for this because there is nothing better than homemade cookies.  Now don’t get me wrong I will eat store bought cookies, remember I just said I think I am a cousin to the cookie monster.  But it is nice to have homemade.

You know cookies for the most part can be whipped up quite fast.  In no time at all you have a couple of dozen cookies cooling on your counter and your house smells wonderful.  Make yourself a cup of tea or pour yourself a glass of milk and you are happy, happy.  Or at least I am

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Guess what I was doing today??  I was watching cooking shows.  I had some time while I had a bowl of soup and my youngest was down for a nap.  I was watching the cooking shows because I wanted ideas for supper.  Well I was lucky enough to catch The Barefoot Contessa with Ina Garten.  I just love this woman.  One reason I enjoy Ina Garten is that she doesn’

t really have any formal background in cooking; she just had a passion to cook. 

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Cooking fish.  If you want a quick and easy dish what better way to go than cooking fish.  Fish is one of the easiest things to cook.  So many people say that they just don’t know how to cook fish.  You can literally take a small rainbow trout dredge it in some seasoned flour.  Pan-fry it in some olive oil and voila you have a lovely main dish.  The thing about fish is that if you keep it simple you can’t lose.

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Cooking pasta is easy right?  For the most part it is easy, you just have to make sure you get the pasta properly cooked and you’re fine.  The harder part is cooking or making the sauce for the pasta.  Or you think it is hard.  You know it literally takes me 30 – 40 minutes to make a tomato sauce for pasta.  This sauce is so good that I can not tell you how many times I have had request for my recipe.  Now I will tell you it did take me a bit to perfect this sauce.  I just had to tweak it here and there.  But it was well worth it. The thing I love about an Italian tomato sauce for pasta is that there is room for mistakes.  It is not like a cream sauce where sometimes a slight error becomes the end of your dish.

Another thing I love about this tomato sauce is it can become not just a pasta sauce but you can use it for chicken or veal Parmesan.   You can use it as your tomato sauce for any of your Italian cooking. If you love cooking with wine than you will love this recipe.

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