Jessica lives in New York City with her Husband and Dog. When she isn't writing for this here blog, she's a copywriter at an ad agency in Manhattan.
Marites lives in Los Angeles with her husband. When she's not dabbling as a self-proclaimed domestic wannabe, she's working in PR.
MIL is a chef and food stylist in Portland, OR. For many years she owned Flaming Carrot Catering, pdx's favorite eco-conscience catering company. She takes her passion for art, travel and cuisine back to the kitchen and studio and delicious things happen.
She's currently focusing her talents on food styling and on-site chef services for film scenes and group gatherings (hey tweens - she did the food styling on the twilight movie!). Oh, and writes MIL Missions for this little blog.
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Original MIL Mission #37: 4 Summer Salads: Croutons from the Mock Caesar
Every once in a while, Husband requests something for dinner. It’s usually something random and usually has something to do with a movie or TV show he just watched. Nothing gets him craving say, spaghetti, like an episode of The Sopranos.
I’m not sure what movie spawned this, but he asked me to make a chef salad. And although chef salad isn’t a mission, I’ve been wanting to try out MIL’s croutons as seen in her Mock Caesar recipe.
♥HOW I MADE IT.♥
Here are my ingredients. Just four.

I chopped some garlic and whisked it together with the olive oil and salt.

Then I took my cubed bread, tossed it in the bowl and finally put it all in the oven to brown up.
♥MIL MISSION #37: JUST THE CROUTONS ACCOMPLISHED.♥
These are some pretty little croutons, right?

They browned up really quick-like. Next time I might make them a bit bigger and brown the bread a little less (because I like it when croutons are soft on the inside).

Mini-mission accomplished!
(posted by jessica)