Friday night at 3 Doors Down Cafe

The salad special: fresh cucumber, red onion, French radish, red wine vinaigrette, sweet onion, herbs. What can I say? If you read those words and think summertime, crunch and crispy, tender and savory, and refreshing, then you know how this tasted and felt in my mouth.


Entree: summer squash, basil, parmesan risotto. Perfect combination of textures and flavors.


Cocktail: Italian Lemon Drop--I completely forgot to get a list of the ingredients. Sorry! It tasted great, lemony tart which combined very well with the sugar around the rim.

Our Sunday supper on June 7, 2009

OK, we've got pre-browned ground beef mixed with sauteed Vidalia sweet onion, a spaghetti spice packet from Fred Meyer and two cans of petite diced no-salt S&W tomatoes, plus angel hair pasta--Barilla. Just what is pre-browned ground beef? A couple of weeks ago I bought two packages of ground beef, about a pound and a quarter each. I decided to brown one and make burritos which we thoroughly enjoyed. I also decided to brown the other one, drain it well, and freeze it. Sunday I thawed it to mix with those other ingredients, smart gal that I am!

On top of the spaghetti I have a vegetable combination, all cooked in my usual rough-cut, sauteed in olive/canola oil method. The combination is Vidalia sweet onion, orange bell pepper, yellow bell pepper, baby bok choy, rainbow chard, Italian kale and curly kale.

Mama and I ate it, happily impressed with the tastes and textures. Thank goodness--we've got left-overs!