This is a wonderful and easy dish to prepare. It can be served hot as a main dish or you can chill it and serve it as a salad. It is a wonderful and refreshing dish that is easy to make variations of depending on what you have on hand and is the perfect dish to make with leftover shrimp!

Enjoy!
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I love fried plantains. The first time I ever had them was in a Puerto Rican restaurant and they served these plantains, like French fries alongside of my meal. They were topped with sour cream and it was love at first bite! Ever since that day, whenever I eat Latin food, I am looking for those plantains – Deeply caramelized on the outside, soft on the inside.
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What is”Real Food”? Real food means something very different for every cook or chef, because we all come to food through our life experiences. Usually the cuisine you are the most comfortable with or enjoy the most influences the type of food you cook.
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Well the time has come once again to announce the winner of the Royal Foodie Joust!

Thank you everyone who participated! The recipes and ideas keep getting better each and every month! Please join us for the next Royal Foodie Joust!

Once the 3 ingredients are announced by our winner I will be taking entries until
September 1, 2007.

Now on to the big news!

This month’s winner is Marye of Apron Strings & Simmering Things
with her Batter Fried Chicken With Peach Honey Glaze

The Second Runner Up is Tortreform’s
Challah Bread French Toast with Honey Peach Topping

There is a tie for Third Place:

Honey Peach Pancakes with a Sweet Peach Glaze by Mehgan

And

Baked Maple Egg Custard by Katherine

Thank you to all the winners and participants for making this such a wonderful event!
Can’t wait to see what happens next time!

Last weekend Roberto and I celebrated our engagement with our family. Thinking back on it we implemented a lot of really easy, but effective entertaining tips that I thought I would share.

We really wanted to add something of ourselves to the evening. We both really love the ocean and we are planning to add elements of the ocean, the beach, sand, palm trees etc into our décor for the wedding and thought it would be fun to hint at that through our choice of foods as well as some of the decorations for the party.
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I know, I know for someone who claims to not like baking, I sure am featuring a lot of cakes this week. I promise you it is a coincidence, not a growing trend…or is it?….;)

This is my entry for this month’s Royal Foodie Joust. If you have not participated, think about participating in the next one! All the details can be found >here.

Also don’t forget to vote for your favorite entry! The polls are up and a new winner will be decided on August 6th. >Click here to vote!

I was asked by several of the participants to join my event this time and I have agreed, with one condition, I will not be competing in the voting process.

The ingredients which were chosen by last month’s winner, Jennifer from >…andtheeggs, are eggs (of course), honey and the season’s beautiful fruit – peaches! There are many wonderful entries already and I am happy to submit mine along with all the others!

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