Monday, January 12, 2009

Texas Caviar



Oh, Our Merry Mousse has been a sad little site since Jen & I created it last May! For starters, right after we started this online recipe collection, Troy & I moved back to Dallas after 2 years in Philly, and spent the majority of the summer traveling and enjoying other people's recipes, not our own :) AND, we've been living with my sweet parents since then while we rehab our new home, so all of our culinary gadgets, pots, pans, dishes, my very-much-missed-knives, and cookbooks have been in storage in New Jersey. Jen and her wonderful husband Hans moved to San Francisco in May, traveled, and planned an amazing wedding, and so I am hopeful 2009 will get us both back in the kitchen cooking again!

In the meantime, here's a simple Texas Caviar dish I kinda made up as I went for a game night with friends on New Year's. One must eat their black eyed peas for good luck on New Year's, right? :)

Ingredients:
  • 2 cans rinsed & drained black eyed peas
  • red, orange, and yellow sweet peppers diced
  • 1/2 red onion diced
  • 1/2 jar chopped sun-dried tomatoes
  • 6 pieces of crispy bacon crumbled
  • 1/2 cup of crumbled feta cheese
  • 2 Ts chopped cilantro
  • 2 Ts chopped flat leaf parsley
  • 2 Ts balsamic vinegar
  • 1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil
  • Squeeze of lime
  • Salt, pepper, garlic salt and red pepper flakes to taste
Preparation:

Dice/Chop all veggies. Prepare bacon and crumble. Fold veggies, bacon, and feta together. Whisk balsamic, olive oil and salt/pepper/red pepper flakes & garlic salt (to taste), and a squeeze of lime together and dress the salad. Serve with tortilla chips.

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