Blog Party #13 is here and the theme was more than challenging. No oven, or stove top or any cooking of any kind. Sounds easy till you start really thinking about it. Want to make chicken salad, after all that is not hot, but wait...you have to cook the chicken. So I went to my mound of cookbooks and dragged out Martha Stewarts Hors D'Oeuvres Handbook, surely there was something there that didn't need to be cooked. There were tons of non-cook recipes, but thumbing through all the photographs I ran across a beautiful picture of little balls of goat cheese on a plate of olive oil. How lovely I thought. Though I feel it was more than ambitious for me to try(quite the pain to do and photograph) it was something I wanted to try. So there I stood rolling out little balls of cheese, rolling them in various herbs and trying somewhat successfully to roll them in a line of smoked paprika. My drink is a Green Tea Collins simply because I love green tea. I have it everyday. So when I found a … [Read more...]