Soup season starting. Homemade chicken noodle soup.
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Soup season starting. Homemade chicken noodle soup.
Soup season never ends here. IMO soup is good any time of year.
We had spaghetti squash with turkey meatballs and marinara.
I agree, but I tend to make more soups in the winter. Maybe because I'm indoors a lot more.Quote:
Originally Posted by frugal-one
I agree that soup season is year long! LOL. Was visiting a cousin who made a very good egg drop soup that I'm hoping to duplicate soon.
I bought a non-dairy carrot layer cake from the Alpha Gal friendly bakery for DH’s birthday. It was $63 and delicious! we served it at our recent Iris club meeting and had much left over so those leftovers went into our freezer.
We are finishing the last of the razor clams that we dug in the spring. Made clam fritters with shredded zucchini from our garden. Clamming season in the PNW is underway, so we have to use it up. On
the side, we had coleslaw with faux KFC dressing. I have a book called Top Secret Recipes that has really good knock off recipes for popular foods.
Huevos rancheros with home made chile and pico de gallo. The pico de gallo was made from the last fresh tomatoes of the season and roasted green chili peppers and a jalapeno from an earlier harvest. I will miss fresh garden produce.
Scored some catfish nuggets on discount, so I used them to make fish tacos with spicy Mexican rice using habaneros from the garden.
Roast chicken with various add-ins - onion, garlic, carrots, potatos, sweet potatos. Salad with the last of the garden black cherry tomatos.
Even though I'm mostly vegetarian, your menus always sound appetizing and healthy.Quote:
Originally Posted by pinkytoe
I try for fish one night a week and this was fish night. Baked Haddock with sautéed mushrooms, steamed broccoli with a cheezey sauce, and cole slaw. I'm not a big fish fan and it takes a little extra to make them appetizing. I've been a basic failure for fish tacos, but am working on it.
Slow-cooked large butter (lima) beans flavored with smoked ham. At the very end of stewing the beans, a mis of garlic, butter and parsley is stirred in. Jalapeno cornbread and the ever present green salad with miso dressing.
Oh my, this sounds fantastic!Quote:
Originally Posted by pinkytoe
I love fish but do not always do well cooking it. I’ve found the seasoned wild-caught salmon from Costco to be the easiest to prepare (from frozen even). DH usually does not like fish but enjoys this too!
Frugal-one - I think you are in Texas where gulf shrimp is reasonable if you like shrimp. Oh how we miss HEB grocery. Groceries here are mostly corporate food so we end up shopping at several different ones to find better stuff.
Yes, wild caught huge shrimp at HEB when on sale for less than $6/pound. Plan on grilling some next week!
It took us a long time to get salmon right. We've finally discovered that coating it with either Trader Joe's Toasted Sesame dressing, or Stonewall Kitchen's Sesame Ginger dressing does the trick, at least for us.Quote:
Originally Posted by frugal-one
Yum. Now I'm starting to crave some seafood!
we have to eat more fish due to DH’s Alpha-Gal allergy.
I find all seafood bland, and I suppose that’s because we buy typical grocery store stuff in the Midwest. When you all talk about Japanese food, I probably haven’t had good Japanese food because I find it to be bland as well. It’s not that I don’t like it, it’s just that it’s not great.
I much prefer Thai and Vietnamese, I love those cuisines.
Lasagna with homegrown basil and portobello mushrooms.
But more excitingly just bought three cookbooks, hooray!
Just about all the inexpensive white fish I eat is bland and needs seasonings or sauces. It's ok and I eat it because it's a good protein source and has variety from my usual diet. However some ideas to add interest, fish cakes have been a success and are occasional rotation, baked or fried. Fish chowders are good with some corn or potatoes or clams. I do a cioppino, i.e. fish stew, once or twice a year with a couple of varieties of fish and shellfish. It freezes well. And there are winter days when tuna casserole sounds better than baked white fish. Or even tuna sandwiches. A big kettle of mussels is great fun with company. I've had fresh fish on the west coast and fresh is always much better, but those of us in the middle of the continent have to do the best we can.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
It's shellfish that I love most of all, although I do also enjoy fish that swim. DH has been making The Frugal Girl's fish cakes for years. He usually uses cod or haddock: https://www.thefrugalgirl.com/homemade-fish-cakes/
Will definitely try these, as I have tried to make crab cakes at home but not had a whole lot of success.
Since I developed a shrimp allergy, I can't have my favorite, fried shrimp. I figure if I am ever on death row, that is what I am ordering for my last meal. It's also what I want at my post funeral party.
That's fairly similar to something I've made. I think mine used a bit of onion, celery, and some fresh parsley. I might mention that for my own use it makes a lot and has a little more prep work than my usual meal, but it freezes well. I can pop one out of the freezer for a quick snack or a few for another meal.Quote:
Originally Posted by rosarugosa
Bookmarked the fish cake recipe! Thanks!
DH makes a self-concocted recipe for fish cakes using the canned salmon from Costco. Served with horseradish sauce - quite tasty.
My husband used to make a great salmon loaf. I need to ask him for the recipe. He also made a great lentil loaf that I need to get him back onto for winter.
For me, salmon fish cakes, and salmon loaf harkens back to my childhood where my mother made “salmon patties “for dinner and they were just not good.killed any appetite for that sort of thing.
What cookbooks did you get?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
Thanks for the recipe!Quote:
Originally Posted by rosarugosa
I bought two copies of Joy of Cooking, since I can't find mine and I wanted to get one for my daughter-in-law. Then I bought two I have never had, one is Southern Cooking by Mrs. Dull which is apparently a very famous one from 1928 by a lady who was from my part of Georgia, and I figured it is probably very close to how my grandmother cooked. The other is from the 70's from Stuckey's, with candy recipes. My mom was a Stuckey, so I wanted the divinity recipe from that one.Quote:
Originally Posted by frugal-one
I made a Mediterranean style dish with 1 lb of cod fish that I scored for ~$3 with some cherry tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini, mushroom baked and tossed with olive oil, fresh basil, and penne pasta :D
Wow, that's a pretty amazing score on the cod!Quote:
Originally Posted by NY2TNHKR
I love to eat a lot of fish, so I'm always scoping out discounted fish at the grocery store!Quote:
Originally Posted by rosarugosa
If you're interested, this is the recipe I used as the foundation for my meal. :)
https://www.feedyoursister.com/blog/eggplant-tomato-cod
HEB had tortellini and ravioli B1G1F. So made chicken tortellini soup that was very tasty and EASY!
That sounds like a good combo of ingredients!Quote:
Originally Posted by NY2TNHKR
Always looking for new fish recipes! Thank!
Tonight is the last homemade pizza from the freezer.
I was feeling lazy yesterday so I got a big container of fried rice from Panda Express. Half last night and the other half tonight.
I made a gigantic Asian chicken salad using up the last of a big head of cabbage, lettuce, red bell pepper, celery, green onion, carrot, almonds, sesame seeds. Still have chicken left from one roasted few nights ago.
That sounds delicious!Quote:
Originally Posted by KayLR