May 21, 2010
I'm going waaayyy back to 1980ish.
Yes I was around 20 years old.
I had these friends. The Strands. Through them, I met lots of other fun people. We ate great appetizers at the parties they always hosted and at the camping trips we went on together.
From that point in time, the recipes I recall are abundant. I'm not sure which to start with.
How about this one on the first page of my old recipe book.
The Cheese Roll. It wasn't the first recipe I remember eating with them all, but it was a good one and If my memory serves me, Rick made it in their kitchen. Or, maybe he was just the one to eat most of it...
Cheese Roll
1 lb. Velveeta Cheese softened. Between waxed paper,roll into a rectangle to about 1/4"-1/2" thick. Spread with 8 oz. soft cream cheese. Sprinkle lightly with garlic powder. Spread 7 oz. of green chilies on top. Roll it up like a jelly roll and chill.
It was fabulous and I don't recall what we used to dip in it though.
Then there is Ceviche.
Ceviche
This sat up in a bucket on somebodies hood at the dunes at Rosarito. I'm not sure if it was someone specifics recipe or we just all contributed to it randomly.
Sheeps Head rings a bell...I think we caught Sheeps Head in the ocean there.
1 lb. fresh fish (yeah I think it was raw)
1 lg. onion
1 lg. tomato
1 can Ortega's
1/3 cup lime juice
shake in oregano
4 T Kappers
4 T white wine
Salt and pepper to taste
Let it stew in the baking sun for 2 hours.
While we waited, we watched the Federalies with their machine guns roam the beach and we took pictures of them from the cliffs. Then they came up into our camp and made us empty our film from our cameras.
That sucked. I think somebody had a roach in their ashtray and bribed them with it so they'd leave us alone.
Was that the trip where one night, by the campfire, Hawk passed out in his beach chair and we folded him up in it? Hilarious!
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