[Gemme]

Originally Posted by Bèsame*

I felt like I was in an episode of Chopped. I went into the kitchen this morning thinking I was going to make chicken taco salad. Alas, my basket had boneless skinned chicken thighs, an eggplant and a can of pork and beans.

Eggplant? Pork and beans? Taco salad? Ummm noooo. So I went into the kitchen and grabbed the good stuff.

Baked the chicken with fresh herbs from the garden. They flourished thru the winter months here. After baking, topped with a splash of balsamic vinegar.

Pork and beans, got doctored with, red onion, jalapeño pepper (from the garden), some chopped celery, a little mustard and brown sugar.

Sautéed the eggplant with some Mediterranean spice mix.

And I also made frog eyed salad. Enough of that for days!

Blaze says...this isn't all the beans? That was his fav.

I had to look frog eyed salad up. I'm born and raised Southern but I've never had it like that before (and never heard it called that). I've had a version of it with the mandarins and all the good stuff but minus the couscous. My family used tapioca pudding sometimes in it, so I guess that's our 'frog eyes'. lol



I got home late, so my dinner was a big bowl of '7 superfood' salad: broccoli, brussel sprouts (couldn't taste them, thank goodness), cabbage, kale, chicory, dried cranberries, roasted pumpkin seeds and poppyseed dressing. It was really good.