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Have to try making these some time.

OK, this pasta salad looks SO yummy. I seriously am making this soon. Recipe link goes to TheWickedNoodle.com site

Orzo Pasta with Shrimp

Here’s a great looking recipe. Appears healthy and low-cal but yummy:
Lettuce “Gyros” With Spicy Halibut and Feta-Mint Tzatziki

I could definitely use this as inspiration and make something adapted, if not making the exact recipe.

One of the people I follow on Twitter, @donna_de, posted a muffin recipe that looks worth a try.

http://blog.myfitnessyear.com/2009/08/14/muffins-and-muffin-tops.aspx

So on Twitter I saw the other day an interesting tweet about a New Orleans style restaurant in the Los Angeles area.

New Orleans Cajun Cafe

Online reviews make this place seem outstanding. I soooo want to check it out. Unfortunately it is in Hermosa Beach which is quite a ways away from us. Well, we will keep it in mind and when we are out that way, maybe we can check it out.

New Orleans Cajun Cafe

140 Pier Ave.
Hermosa Beach, CA
(310) 372-8970

So here’s a yummy looking food blog I just heard of today (someone tweeted about it on Twitter):

Just Eat Food

Concept is on making simple food from whole foods, unprocessed, etc…

So I will add this to my blogroll over on the side menu and check it out from time to time. Yummy pictures and recipes. Mmmm.

So @girlwithnoname was tweeting several times today about how good kohlrabi was. That she had found it at the market. That she was eating one. That it reminded her of summer because her dad always used to grow it.

I’ve never tried kohlrabi. I thought I kind of knew what it looked like. I did a Google search and found several results. Among them, I find that one of my favorite recipe sites, Simply Recipes, has an article on this topic and a number of recipes for this vegetable.

Maybe I will try it soon.

Yes, I do love bacon. Well, not all the time. It’s an occasional treat. I always love a good BLT sandwich. Or bacon and eggs for breakfast. Or bacon on a salad. So here’s a selection of bacon recipes I just found out about. Saving it here for later review.

Top 10 Bacon Recipes | Back to Bakas

And just for fun, here’s Jim Gaffigan on the topic of bacon:

So I’ve made homebaked yeast breads a few times. With pretty good results, actually. But recently I heard about this recipe:

No Knead Bread Recipe: so easy a 4-yr old can make it!

The idea of easy bread that requires no kneading… I had to try it. So about a month ago I did make it. It LOOKED great:

So recently someone on Twitter mentioned they were making the same recipe. I asked her how   »  Read more  »

So someone I’m following on Twitter recently posted that she was making roasted garbanzo beans for a snack. I remember trying that a couple of years ago when I was more active on MyFoodDiary.com. She shared a link to the recipe she is following… here it is:

Recipes | Food and Sugar Addiction

Recipe says:

These are delicious little devils!!  I had askedMichelle for complex carb ideas that did not involve a grain or something that will spike my sugar.  She says “Try roasted garbanzo beans.”

So here they are.  My first attempt and wow!

Take one can garbanzo beans/chick peas, drain-rinse-dry.

Toss them into a bowl with

1/2 tsp sea salt, 1/2 tsp garlic powder, 1/2 tsp onion powder….mix it all up!

Put them on a cookie sheet lightly sprayed with Pam and roast for about 10min at 400 degrees.  Longer if you want them crispier.

Seems to me that I remember adding a drizzle of olive oil to mine and tossing with seasonings more like cumin or paprika or…? chili pepper?  Don’t recall exactly. Wasn’t “wowed” by them when I tried them before. Maybe I needed to roast them longer/hotter. Will try them again…