Chicken and Shrimp Louie Salad – image (C) Bob
I don’t often Cross-post here from our Food Website, but this was an exceptionally good Sunday treat for us. Shredded Chicken and Jumbo Shrimp in a green salad with Louie dressing. All home made and delicious.
This is a short post since I wanted to share the salad but have to get back to other matters. Click on the image to enlarge.
Happy and blessed Thanksgiving! We enjoyed our Turkey Dinner this afternoon consisting of good breast of turkey with Dressing, Veggies and Cranberries. We had gravy on the turkey and dressing, of course.
We posed for this holiday portrait earlier today:
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Deuteronomy 28:12 (NIV)
“The LORD will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none.”
Well, this was quite the treat today for our usual Saturday (remember the Sabbath) feast. Verna prepared everything and I got to help with the peeling of the raw shrimp. It was a wonderful salad and rated five stars. ★★★★★
The origin of the name “Shrimp Louie” is unclear, but various sources suggest that it may have been named after a popular chef named Louis Coutard in San Francisco. However, another theory attributes the dish to Louis Davenport, a hotel owner in Spokane, Washington. Additionally, some sources suggest that the name may have originated in San Francisco in the early 1900s, but the exact person or event behind the name is unknown.
Wherever it came from, it sure was good today.
First of all, Happy Birthday to my sweet wife, Verna! She got a new Iona Celtic Cross and chain for the occasion. It’s 14k white gold (the chain too).
As to the Arizona Christmas Eve Sunset, we’re quite lucky to get these quite often. Always a beautiful sight. Click on the image to enlarge.
We will be quietly spending Christmas Day here at our desert abode, just the two of us, since closest family is over 300 miles away and some even further out. We will be talking and/or texting to some of them, however, via the various electronic and social media. Our Christmas Feast will consist of Chicken and Dumplings, a wonderful southern favorite modified slightly for Keto diet purposes.
We wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Remember the reason for the season – Christ the Savior is born!
Today marks the first day of winter in the northern hemisphere. It is also the shortest day for us with only nine hours and fifty-six minutes of daylight.
In Wickenburg, we’re enjoying a nice sunny day and expecting a high temperature today in the mid-70s Fahrenheit. It is also The Sabbath, God’s Day of Rest. We will be preparing our feast of “Gumbolaya,” which is a combination of Gumbo and Jambalaya, two very favorite Southern (Cajun) stews. If we add okra to the Jambalaya, it becomes Gumbolaya.
Tomorrow, for Sunday Dinner, we will be having Crockpot Roast Top Round of Beef. Check the Food Blog for photos of the eats.
Image above: Waning Gibbous Moon over the big Saguaro Cactus in front of the Garage.
