Ingredients for Cooking.....so many choices, so many new tastes. Yummm!

Susan: "Ok, I admit it, I am spending way too much time in the kitchen cooking- and having a blast!" By choice, Susaan is cooking from scratch and thereby learning so many new recipes - making our own mayonaises, salad dressings, pestos, marinades, soup stocks &sauces; etc.  Susan loves the way our refrigerator looks after a shopping trip - full and colorful!






We even decided to start our own herb garden in planters to grow a few of our own ingredients! Basil grows particularly well here in the heat.  We have developed two favorite reciepes for pesto; -- Asian and Mediterranean.

In addition, having a "world" of ingredients at my disposal, I am making new international dishes - Turkish, Moroccan, Indian, and Thai food to name a few.

Admittedly, some ingredients are hard to come by, but that makes the shopping here somewhat of a treasure hunt! Our favorite grocery store is "LuLu Hypermarket" owned by East Indians we have never seen anything like their produce section - fruits and vegetables from all over the world!