OMG, she cooked!!!! :-D
OK, yes, it’s just non-spaghetti pasta and my standard spaghetti sauce with mozzarella on top and then popped under the broiler for a couple minutes to get melty and brown. But Pizza Hut made it when I was a kid (and I assume invented the name) and I’ve always loved it.
But it’s tasty and hits the spot on a cold day. Only downside was I couldn’t find any wagon wheel pasta. Bummer.
The pot roast is in the oven, but not without some minor worries.
The searing went OK, next time I need to use the larger skillet I have.
Rubbed it in S&P and some minced garlic before searing. Into the dutch oven, added the potatoes, carrots & onions.
Added about 1/2 bottle of beer (Guinness) and then equal parts chicken & beef stock, until the meat was about 1/2 covered. Could be too much liquid, we’ll know for sure later!
Into the oven at 250 degrees (yes, you’re reading that right.) Decided to go with low & slow. (I have a friend that does his at 200 degrees for most of the day with the veggies in from the start. However, given my relatively late start, I figured 250 would speed it up somewhat, but not make it too fast.) Mainly, I wanted to put all the veggies in now rather than trying to guess at when a good time would be to put them in.
The biggest problem is that I couldn’t get the meat thermometer to sit properly in the pot with the lid on… So, I’ll check the temp in an hour and then every 30 minutes. Given that it’s only a 2# roast, hopefully we’ll be eating before 8PM.
More than anything, I just want it to taste good and be as good as Mom made.
Camera is still MIA, but when I took the rockfish out of the pan, it broke in half anyway…Â Been getting some good deals on seafood recently and have taken advantage of them.
Simple, easy, tasty.
Rub rockfish filet in some grapeseed oil and salt & pepper.
Toss in hot pan.
About halfway through, add a couple tablespoons of honey mustard sauce*.
Eat & enjoy.
2:1 Jack Daniels Mustard to Honey, and a good dose of cracked pepper.
Assuming 6 oz filet and 3 T of honey-mustard sauce – nutrition:
Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 370 Calories; 18g Fat (42.6% calories from fat); 33g Protein; 20g Carbohydrate; 1g Dietary Fiber; 60mg Cholesterol; 479mg Sodium. Exchanges: 0 Grain(Starch); 4 1/2 Lean Meat; 3 Fat; 1 1/2 Other Carbohydrates.
Still no damn camera. Just as well for the time being since I also really should get a book on food photography. :-D
Another from the cooking school weekend at the Sanderling Inn last spring. It’s a great little appetizer, easy as all get out to make.
– 8 oz cream cheese
– 2 T chives
– 1 T lemon juice
Salt & Pepper
– 1# smoked salmon
– Sliced cukes or crackers
Mix the cream cheese, chives, lemon juice and salt & pepper. (It occured to me you could probably also use the chive cream cheese that is available.) Spread the cream cheese mix on the salmon and roll up. Wrap tightly in cling film and put in the freezer for 1-4 hours to get firmed up. When ready to serve, slice and serve on the cucumbers or crackers. The freezing makes them very easy to slice up, and once sliced, they will be thawed in just a few minutes.
Couple mistakes I made: Accidentally bought pre-sliced smoked salmon rather than just a single filet. Had to frankenstein things together a bit and it made it a little more challenging getting the cream cheese spread out. Second, I sliced off too many… More than we could eat in one night. There is still another half in the freezer, I’ll just be slicing off only 3 or 4. They do freeze pretty well.
Assuming 16 pinwheels, 1 pinwheel = 1 serving
Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 86 Calories; 6g Fat (65.0% calories from fat); 6g Protein; 1g Carbohydrate; trace Dietary Fiber; 22mg Cholesterol; 265mg Sodium. Exchanges: 1 Lean Meat; 0 Vegetable; 0 Fruit; 1 Fat.
A wonderfully decadent snack. (Jumbo lump crab meat was on sale this week.) Recipe from Christine Zambito, Exec Chef at the Sanderling Inn in OBX. Takes about 10 minutes to prep.
8 oz lump crab meat, picked through for shells.
8 oz cream cheese
1/2 small red pepper, small diced
1/2 small yellow peper, small diced
2 scallions, chopped
Salt
Fresh Ground Black Pepper
1 tsp lemon juice
Mix cream cheese until smooth – beater or by hand.
Add everything except crab meat, mix until well blended.
Fold in crabmeat gently
Place in ovenproof container and bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes until browned on top and heated throughout.
I ended up cooking it for about 25 minutes (the baking dish I had was somewhat deep) and put a bit of cheddar and monterey jack cheese on top. You can also make it a day or two ahead and store before baking.
16 1oz servings, with cheese:
Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 78 Calories; 6g Fat (71.2% calories from fat); 5g Protein; 1g Carbohydrate; trace Dietary Fiber; 30mg Cholesterol; 104mg Sodium. Exchanges: 1/2 Lean Meat; 0 Vegetable; 0 Fruit; 1 Fat.
Still no camera (I’m cleaning house – it should show up soon!), but I made maple salmon this evening and it was spectacular. Couldn’t have been easier.
Still can’t find my damn camera. It is in the house SOMEWHERE, and definitely near the kitchen I am sure. But exactly where is beyond me.
Last week I picked up some salmon on sale, whacked it into several pieces and froze it. (I really don’t like freezing things that much at all, but I wasn’t going to either be able to use it immediately or even all at once for that matter.)
Well, the piece I pulled out this morning took a lot longer to defrost than I thought it would, so I skipped my original intention of the maple/soy glaze and just went with pan searing.  Made a quick butter/wine sauce with a couple shots of Worchestireshire shots to drizzle over it.
Couldn’t have been simpler, or more tasty.
OK, I am easily the worst food blogger on the planet. I made a lovely (and tasty!) Reuben today for lunch and could not for the life of me find my camera to get a shot of it. It really was a thing casino black jackblack jack bettingroulette russecasino bonus whorejeux casino gratiutwww casino jeu frjeu de casino gratuitsle meilleur casinocasino sur le netjeux flash casino gratuitescode bonus casino 770casino en lignescasino depot gratuitesjeux de casino frjouer video pokercasino en francaisjeu craps gratuitesjeux slots en ligneplay slotscasino games pro 2007jeu casino gratuisonline black jack gamejeu casino parisrègles jeux casinobonus casino770www casino en lignecasino gratuits sans telechargementcoupons gratuites casinojeux de cartes casinocasino slots,all slots casino,super slots casinowww casino de pariswww jeux casinojeux casino gratuitescasino gratuites sur internetastuce pour gagner au casinokeno en lignele jeu de casinojeu casino machinecasino jeucoupons bonus casino770thomas black jackcasinos gratuits en ligneforum jeux casinocasino en ligne francaisblackjack jobjeu poker omaha gratuitesregles poker mainspoker en ligne francaispoker en ligne à télécharger gratuitementtexas holdem no limit of beauty!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day and don’t drink the green beer. :)
The perfect afternoon snack.
