Dutch Pancakes (Pannenkoeken) from eGulletEnjoy the Holiday!
Tomorrow, I’ll be sharing an original summertime recipe for Cucumber, Apple, & Spinach Salad With Curried Pecans and Lemony Coriander Dressing.
Enjoy the Holiday!
Does your mom have a bumpersticker on her car that says, “I break for baguettes?” Then check out this cool shopping tote bag from the designers at Rootote which features a pornographically photorealistic image of baguettes guaranteed to cause gasps from fellow bread lovers.
Rootote also makes a nice shopping tote bag that celebrates the joy of eating carbs (er, crackers). Both are from YesStyle.Com.
And in case you want to fill that tote with a little something extra, here’s a good recipe for baguettes from Recipezaar.
Looking for a a very comforting and homey recipe you can make in 90 minutes or less? Try making this recipe for Salt Cod Cakes from the folks at the CIA Sizzle blog.
Ingredients:
1 pound Salt Cod filet
Water as needed
2 2/3 cups milk
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 1/2 cups onion, chopped
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 2/3 cups Russet potatoes (2-3 large), peeled
1 egg
1 tablespoon brown mustard
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
Tabasco sauce to taste
2 tablespoons fresh parsley, chopped
Salt and black pepper to taste
1 cup Panko Japanese bread crumbs
12 slices bacon
Vegetable oil to pan-fry as needed
12 toothpicks
How to Make Salt Cod Cakes
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With rising food and gas prices, sometimes it’s hard to justify the expense of gourmet food ingredients. However, according to Christiane Jory, the author of 99¢ Only Stores: The Cookbook, shopping at discount stores (at least occasionally) may be the answer.
According to the book’s description:
Tired of forking over hundreds of dollars for entertaining her friends and family, Christiane Jory challenged herself to create more than 100 gourmet recipes for appetizers, side dishes, main courses, and desserts-solely with items she found at 99¢ Only Stores. Her recipes include:
This 224 page book is filled with sample menus, as well as a glossary of cooking terms. Each recipe includes the estimated cost of the meal and helpful kitchen hints, such as uses for recycled milk cartons and how to freeze egg whites.
By the way, Christine has a blog in which she shares recent bargain store finds, photos, and recipes.
There are 262 99¢ Only Stores in California, Nevada, Arizona, and Texas. (Here’s a link to the store locator.)
Because we live in South Carolina, I have never been to a 99¢ Only Store. However, we do have Dollar Tree Stores which offer all items for $1.00 which are located all over the East Coast.
Among the things we’ve found there are gourmet snacks and crackers, organic soups and broths, large containers of spices, bread and baked good mixes, marinated artichoke hearts and musrooms, Hungarian Ajvar (and myriad other condiments), kitchen knives and cutlery (not exactly Henckel quality, but if you’re bringing over a cake to a friend you won’t weep if you lose your implements), microfiber kitchen towels, and more.
When we lived in Western New York State, there was a small, local supermarket chain that offered all groceries for $1 as well as a variety of independent dollar sores that sold everything from #10 cans of chocolate syrup, an assortment of gourmet ice creams and cheeses, large jars of various pestos, fancy honeys and mustards, imported olives, and tapenades, and other culinary items that make me weep at the memory of the incredible savings.
Here’s a funny video of Ellen DeGeneres clowning around in a 99 cent store.
From the British newspaper, The Independent:
“For decades it was merely a slightly exotic option for holidaymakers in Spain, Italy and Greece, but a growing number of cooks experimenting with recipes involving tentacles and black ink have turned squid into a fashionable dish in British kitchens.
Although still less popular than other seafood such as prawns, the amount of squid sold in the UK has risen by 49 per cent in the past 12 months, according to the industry body Seafish.
The cephalopod’s new-found popularity owes much to the growing appeal of fruits de mer and to the promotion of a Mediterranean diet popular in Italy, France and Spain, where it is cut into rings and fried.
Among the chefs who have encouraged the eating of squid is Rick Stein, whose gastronomic tour of the Mediterranean was televised by the BBC last year. He suggested serving sautéed squid and chorizo with garlic, rocket (arugula), tomatoes and chick peas.”
You can read more of the story here:
One of the most popular ways to eat squid in America is as fried calamari, long a favorite of Italian cuisine. Squid is also commonly used in the cuisines of Spain, Japan, and China.
Here’s a recipe for fried calamari from Giada De Laurentiis of the Food Network.
In Japan, shredded, dehydrated squid is a popular salty snack and sold in small bags (it’s far tastier than it sounds). You can also get squid flavored ice cream (as well as a variety of other unusual ice cream flavors) in Japan.
Here’s one more squid recipe: Andalucian Fried Squid With Alioli from Tapas Recipes Andalucia…enjoy!
Looking for a savory and sophisticated recipe you can whip up in 60 minutes or less? Try making this recipe for Simplified Fish Bouillabaisse from the folks at La Tartine Gourmande.
Ingredients:
8 large fresh scallops
8 large fresh shrimps
14 oz white fish (firm and softer such as monkfish and tilapia)
14 oz fresh salmon
Squids and fresh mussels (optional)
10 fingerling potatoes, (I particularly like those ones because they are very tasty and firm)
10 saffron threads
4 roma tomatoes
1 cup chunks of celery root
1 sweet yellow onion
3 garlic cloves
4 1/4 cups fish stock
2/3 cup dry white wine
Fresh coriander
Fresh flat parsley
Fresh tarragon
Fresh grated parmesan
For the rouille:
1 garlic clove
Olive oil
1 egg yolk
1 tsp harissa
1 ts tomato paste
Salt and pepper
1 tbsp fresh lemon juice (optional)2 cups baby spinach
1 tbsp shallot (1/2 shallot)
2 strips smoked bacon
6 tbsp sherry (preferably a cream sherry)
1/3 cup apple juice
12 whole scallops
3 tbsp clarified butter
1/4 tsp Kosher salt - can substitute with 1/8 tsp. table salt
1/4 tsp white pepper
2 tbsp non clarified butter
1 pinch fleur de sel (for garnish)
How to Make Simplified Fish Bouillabaisse
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Charleston, SC’s too big to have made this list of The Best Fishing Towns in America from Field and Stream. (The places on this particular list all have less than 100,000 residents. Charleston has almost 119,000.) However, scenic Beaufort, SC did make #17 on the list.
Charleston was named one of the best fishing spots in the South on another F&S list that was mentioned in a previous post).
Here’s the full list of notable fishing towns…
Glenwood Spring, CO
Check out these two YouTube parody videos from MadTV that hilariously skewer the cooking shows we all know and love.
3 Minute Meal: Tuna Melts
3 Minute Meal: Banana Splits
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