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Mom Violy and Carmina’s dining experience at Dean & DeLuca

  Mom Violy told me she wanted to order the Paella Negra from Dean & Deluca. Carmina suggested we dine in since we’d never really tried their main courses, always just getting takeout with the cream puffs . Mom Violy agreed, and we arrived about thirty minutes before the lunch rush began. The service was very slow, even though we had ordered ahead of time. They mistakenly brought out the Paella Valenciana , despite Mom Violy repeating the order three times to the person who took it. It turned out the cook on duty made the error, even though it was written down clearly. We know Paella Negra takes a long time to prepare, which is why Mom Violy had requested it to be cooked beforehand. She wanted it as her main meal, but because of the mix-up and feeling hungry, she took a piece of Carmina’s Turkey Club Sandwich and asked for the bacon on the side. I didn’t expect the turkey to be just one piece, and the bread was toasted so hard that it removed one layer of the sandwich. Since ...

Left Over Food from December

After the New Year’s Eve has ended my body feels so drain from cooking a storm for the past month. I can’t imagine myself cooking every day and have to cater to a lot of people. I feel drained from the month of December when I had cooked for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and Christmas Party for the Employee and New Year’s Eve.

Wow! I look at all back the food I have cooked from the old repeated dishes and new dishes I have made last year.

Now, we have added leftovers from all the occasion and we don’t to eat it. But it becomes a waste if we don't. We really have no choice to eat what was served.

I have found ways to eat our leftover and make a dish to something new and no one who doesn't know how to cook will know anything about it.

We have a lot of left over buttered garlic shrimp, ground beef, salsa, Mexican rice, refined beans, pork barbecue, nacho chips and tortilla. 

This is my favorite part is creating a new meal out of our leftover food. Why not make it into a burrito or make nachos by adding everything all together.

All we need to do is reheat the food and remove the skin and head from the shrimp. Remove the pork barbecue from the stick and cut into small pieces.

Add melted cheese on the nacho and now we have something new to eat.

I live in a household and so may not know how to cook. They like it so much when I have a new meal to cook for them. They may have eaten somewhere else, but they always look forward in what new dishes I have to cook.

The best part in learning how to cook a new dish is sharing it in my blog. The best effort is when people who eat it compliment on how it really taste. When you cook your own food you get immune and you have no more taste as you repeat what you have cooked for so many times.


The more you cook a new dish you tend to change the way to cook it and make that dish improve its taste for the better.


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