Four Foods on Friday
Val has come up with some great questions this week to get our foodie brains thinking about Four Foods on Friday. It’s a great segway into the weekend, and by the time you’re finished reading everyone’s entries, you’ll have recipes for hte next week!
1. What’s your favorite food smell?
Sweets. Cupcakes, cookies, cakes, muffins. Even when I’m not baking, my house smells like sweets because I always buy pastry scented candles!
2. What’s your favorite kind of apple?
Fuji. They are crunchy and tart without being sour, and they have a great solid texture unlike other apples that turn to applesauce when you bite into them.
3. What veggies do you like in your salad?
A standard salad is lettuce, tomato, cucumbers, olives. I don’t stray too far from that on the veggie side, but I love to add other garbage like eggs, cheese, bacon, and chicken strips. I just described my favorite salad! The Chicken Critter salad from Texas Roadhouse!
4. Share a recipe that uses beef.
I’ve never made it myself, but I love it as an appetizer at a good restaurant, and last night’s episode of Top Chef has me craving Beef Carpaccio.
8 to 10 ounces beef tenderloin from the tip end of the roast
4 handfuls arugula or mixed greens
Your favorite vinaigrette
Kosher salt
Freshly ground black pepper
Shaved ParmesanWrap the tenderloin in plastic wrap and place in the freezer for 2 hours.
After 2 hours, unwrap the tenderloin and thinly slice the beef into approximately into 1/8 to 1/4-inch pieces. Lay out sheets of plastic wrap and place each slice onto the plastic. Top with another piece of plastic and gently pound the meat with a meat mallet until paper thin. Repeat until all of the meat is sliced and pounded. Divide the meat evenly among 4 chilled plates. Serve with greens tossed with vinaigrette, salt, pepper and/or Parmesan.
I cannot figure out why I love the salads at Texas Roadhouse so much more than other restaurants. Yuuummy!
I agree with you on the apples! there is nothing worse than biting into what should be crisp and refreshing and having it be instant applessauce!
Karen - the closest T-roadhouse is an hour away from me. It’s terrible.
Kelly - now I must add apples to my shopping list!
I love the show Top Chef!
I’m with you on the Fuji but I never knew there were pastry-scented candles. Maybe I won’t have to move into a bakery after all just to savor the smell of freshly baked breads or whatever…LOL
There’s cake scented candles that are yummy, also an apple pie one.
Thanks for playing Four Foods On Friday!
Stumbled.
I’ve never eaten at Texas Roadhouse…ponder the irony in that!
That salad does sound quite tasty, though.
I did pick a good candle for you, then, it sounds like!
[...] Corrin shared a recipe for Beef Carpaccio and likes Fuji apples. [...]
The salad with beef tenderloin does sound delicious!
And I like fuji apples, too.
Crispy apples!! Nyummmy
Happy FFoF!
I’ve never had this dish but it sounds great. I’ve never tried a Fuji apple but I think I would like it since it has a tartness to it.
I fear that if I smelled pastry/cakes all day I would gain weight by the smell alone! LOL But, man, wouldn’t that be a treat!