September 9th: Caesars, Japanese noodle salad & wings

TGIT! After a three-day week, I needed some down time tonight. No, really. Break out the Caesars! Okay, do you really need a recipe for Caesars? Well, I've never actually made them, so I found it handy. From September 2010's Chatelaine: Classic spicy caesar. Shouldn't Caesar be capitalized? I don't know.* I went light on the vodka, heavy on the spice, and threw in some of my spicy asparagus and dilled green beans from September 5th. Yummy. A definite make again. Here they are, plus Olivia drinking her virigin Caesar. She didn't love it, but she did eat the lemon and the pickled veggies.

*According to Wikipedia, yes.

Next up, Japanese noodle salad. Also from Chatelaine, though the recipe is not online. Cook rice noodles, rinse till cold. Combine with shredded carrot and cucumber and sliced green onion. Top with dressing, a combination of white miso paste, lime juice, garlic and honey.

Very good. A light accompaniment to the grand finale: wings!

From September 2010's Chatelaine: Blue cheese chicken wings. Greg and I love wings. Greg has one stipulation when we make wings: no blue cheese! He can't even stand the smell when I dip mine in blue cheese dressing. Not that that stops me. So he was not keen on this recipe, which calls for dipping the raw wings in blue cheese dressing prior to deep frying. I persevered. He was pleasantly surprised. Somehow, the wings didn't have much flavour. (?) I don't own a deep fryer (nor do I want one!) and we usually do wings in the oven, so this was an experiment. I'm a little terrified of deep frying on the stove top, ever since Devin's house burned down when we were 12, but no such accidents tonight. Deep frying provides a moister, plumper wing than baking. Also, the cooking time is MUCH shorter. Felt a little dirty though, deep frying. Yum. Not sure if we'll try this one again or not.

Comments! Feedback! I've been getting some! Yay! Thanks for the support. Apparently Grandma wasn't sure why anyone would care what I'm cooking for supper (a thought I've had myself) but a few of you out there are interested, so I'll continue on. Fun for me anyway. :)