Here’s
what I did; it’s too early to tell you if it worked. I was blessed to be
invited to pick lemons from a local bush and came home with something like 50
fruits to share. The grower said he thought I could figure out things to do
with them, so I got busy with drinks, face scrubs and cleaners. I was wishing I
could preserve them, and I recall that our Mediterranean friends to just that,
in beautiful jars that display the bounty. It was a simple thing to wash and
cut the lemons, rub them with kosher salt and stack them into a jar covered
with their own juice and with bay leaves, peppercorns, cinnamon and cloves. In
a few weeks they should mellow into a flavoring to be eaten, peel and all. I’ll
cook them with chicken or fish and couscous.
Star
Pizza
My
friend has been bragging about Star Pizza for years, and Houstonions seem to
have a cult following. I had my first taste and am now hooked. It seemed an
other-worldly experience. The whole wheat Starburst featured the basics of
ground beef, Italian sausage, etc. There’s no explanation for why it was so
good. Just quality ingredients, I suppose. The cheese in the shakers didn’t
seem like the normal powdered stuff. I tasted it alone and the super-white
substance was creamy. I asked the waitress and she confirmed it was Romano. The
two Star sites offer many options, reasonable prices and area craft beers
(which I did NOT sample on this venture).
Squid
and pineapple
Vietnam
restaurant in The Heights in Houston had pineapple and squid on the menu, and I
thought that was weird enough to work. It did, with sweet chunks of fruit, long
green onions and highly-textured squid over brown rice. The reason my aunt and
I wanted to find this place again is the fried eggplant. It’s impossibly sweet
and crunchy. The two of us ordered it as our third entrée and took some of all
our leftovers home for a second round.
ddoiron@panews.com
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