Fab Foodie Mama

As you know, foodie followers, I have been partaking in the food box frenzy:  Hello Fresh, Plated, Blue Apron, Sun Basket, Home Chef, Green Chef, on and on.  The convenience and minimal waste, and also the quite reasonable prices, the boxes are a food option which really works for me.  When I cook a dish, I eat one serving now,  and the other,  I share with Mickayla or Ron or save for lunch the following day.  Not having to buy an entire bag of carrots or an entire bunch of fresh cilantro, and simply using the amount I need provided in the boxes, is so calming to me.  I hate wasting food. This dish came to me in a recent Plated box.  Expecting the same old same old chicken tacos, I was most pleasantly surprised with this dish.  Using tomatillos and a poblano chile was a combination I had not done in my cooking previously.  The title is Green Chile Chicken Tacos but it is really the other green items (cilantro, tomatillos and the poblan...

We went to the Miscowaubik Club for brunch today, which was fabulous as usual.  It is so hard to stick to the diet when there is all the delicious breakfast foods such as potatoes O'Brien, beef tenderloin, mocha cheesecake, pecan pie and pasta with sun dried tomatoes.  I had a substantial green salad first and then just a 'bite' of everything.  In any case, I was not hungry until later in the evening. I had bought tomatillos the other day with the intent of making some salsa verde, but since they were starting to get a bit soft, and I had not made salsa, I made fried green tomatillos for my late dinner. Fried Green Tomatillos Ingredients: 4 tomatillos, husks removed and cut into slices about 1/2 in thick. 1/4 C cornmeal OR flour 1 egg, beten 1/4 t garlic salt 1/4 t pepper 1/4 t Kosher salt 1 T Olive oil Directions: Heat the Olive oil over Med High Heat. Put the cornmeal (or flour) in a shallow bowl and add the garlic powder, salt and pepper....