GCC: Tomatoes Stuffed with Rice

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This was my second recipe from our Gutsy Cook line up this past week.

As the recipe in Saveur mentions, Italian has the stuff vegetables thing down pack.  Pretty much any antipasto table will have a vegetable that has been stuffed with meat, other veggies and in this case rice.

What appeal to me about this recipe is that fact that the most time consuming task here is prepping the tomatoes.  You have to trim them, and then scoop out the inner pulp without puncturing the walls.

This little prepping step may be a zilch for some cooks.  No biggie – cut top, scoop out pulp, and cut bottom.  Done.

For my perfect convulsive ODC twin this took a while, since I wanted them perfectly hollow out, and wanted them to stand up tall and pretty and the tops needed to be at the right angle and the bottoms…

Never mind. (I know, I got a problem – I’m trying to deal.  Lets move on.)

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GCC: Calas [Sweet Fried Rice Fritters]

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Since it rain non-stopped this past Sunday, we were stuck at home and I had plenty of time on my hands. The only way I was going to curve the “cabin fever” was to keep busy and so I decided to make three recipes in this week Gutsy Cooks recipe line up.

This one is the first.  I will post the other two tomorrow and Tuesday.

When I took a look at our choices, I originally wanted to make the savory Italian Arancini, which holds a special place in my heart since they remind me of my time living in Sicily while working as an Au pair. But, then I thought, why not try something completely new, something that I really never tasted before?

And that is when I turned to the other choice in our list – Calas, which are sweet Fried Rice Fritters from the French Quarter in New Orleans.

I just could not go wrong with this.

Fried batter - is there anything better in life? (besides Nutella, or course).

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Snap Thursday - Dreamy

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Do you know what it is?

Perspective, tricky thing right?

This was taken on a walk thru the park.  Now that the weather has cooled off (as much as I can in sunny Florida) Tom and I had made it a mission to totally enjoy it, so we after we come home from work, we jump in the car and drive to the nearest park to simply take a stroll, be one with nature, enjoy the cool temperatures and make sure the bugs don’t get us.

Since I’m trying new things with the camera, I become quite inventive.

For this shot, I stood under a tree full of hanging moss and pointed up, without even looking at the viewfinder and simply snapped pictures.  The camera was in “P” mode and when we saw it, we were quite amazed how different things so ordinary can look so kick in the butt great when you see them in a different perspective.

This picture takes me to a dreamy place.

If you want to see more snap Thursday, remember to visit Jenn spot at Knitty Baker.