Musings of a Messy Mind

 We have been having cold weather here in south Florida (today it's warm again....yay!) with lows in the low forties and highs in the high fifties/low sixties.  I was craving childhood comfort food.  It isn't always easy for me to share recipes as a lot of what I make isn't from a written recipe.  A recipe is just a framework.  If one tries to understand the basic structure, there is much room for the individual cook's creativity.  This was our Saturday evening dinner.  It's basically how my grandmother and my mother made theirs. Stuffed Cabbage/Golabki Ingredients: 1 medium head of cabbage 1/3 lb salt pork 1 large onion finely diced 1/2lb ground chuck 1/2lb ground pork 1 1/2 cups cooked long grain rice (after cooking;not 1 1/2 cups dried rice) 1 egg 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 tsp pepper 1/2 tsp nutmeg 1 can tomato soup or tomato sauce How to Make this Recipe: Cook rice until just tender, do not overcook; set aside to cool Core cabbage and put in large st

For most of my friends Summer officially begins today, Memorial Day.  So Happy Summer!  For me, a Floridian, almost every day is summer. I have not one complaint about that...ever. On Saturday, we were invited to a lovely backyard barbecue filled with friends and neighbors. My contribution was to be an  appetizer.  I wanted to make something pretty, something tasty, something different.  I decided on a fresh pineapple salsa.  it's delish. Here's the recipe. Ingredients Vegan, Gluten free, Paleo Produce 1/2 cup Cilantro 3 Limes 1/2 cup Onion 1 Pineapple, Whole 1 cup Pineapple 5 Roma tomatoes 1 Yellow 1 Red Pepper 1 Orange Pepper  1 Salt and pepper Hot sauce to taste or 1 Jalapeno Pepper Cut 1/3 from outside of pineapple, leaving top attached. cross score pineapple fruit and remove from shell with spoon.  I used the dicing blade on my food processor for everything, but the fresh Cilantro and tomatoes.  Those I did by hand.  If you are OCD and prefer