Frugal Recipes

Archive for April, 2011

Supposed To Be The Best Broccoli

Saturday, April 16th, 2011

I stumbled across a broccoli recipe on another blog and the recipe was touted as the best broccoli recipe EVER!

So I had to try it.

Toss some broccoli with olive oil, salt and pepper and some minced garlic. I used fresh broccoli in a gallon ziplock.

Put into a pan and ROAST in the oven for 20-25 minutes until the edges are crisp and browned.

Take it out of the oven and drizzle some fresh lemon zest and the juice of half a lemon, then add a little more olive oil and top with pine nuts and parmesan.

Almost best ever broccoli

Almost best ever broccoli

Kind of different don’t you think? Chili-man liked it ok enough. Me? I didn’t like the sour factor that the lemon juice gave it.

The dish was supposed to make even a broccoli hater go ‘ga ga’ over broccoli.

Um, well, maybe, but I won’t make it again.

No Gaga over this broccoli

No Gaga over this broccoli

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Recipe for Success

Friday, April 8th, 2011

Congratulations go out this morning to the crew at Ascender Cart for winning an Innovator of the Year award for their shopping cart software. The Journal Record’s Innovator of the Year awards for business innovations went to thirty Oklahoma companies with products ranging from ‘zany’ bracelets to emergency room service to software solutions.

innovator-of-the-year-ascender-commerce

innovator-of-the-year-ascender-commerce

I use AscenderCart in my e-commerce stores and as you can see from the link at the bottom of the page, Ascender is my web-development firm of choice.

AscenderCart IS my recipe for success!

Congratulations to AscenderCart and to all our innovative Oklahomans!

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