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Family Friendly Fridays: A Review of Small Batch Baking For Chocolate Lovers

May 6, 2011 By Julie 55 Comments

Debby Maugans is my new best friend.  No I’ve never met her, but let me just say this.  Any woman that can put together a cookbook like the one she did, most certainly should qualify for best friend status.

I recently received her newest cookbook for review entailing a treasure of recipes for small batch baking.  But we’re not talking just any old recipes.  We’re talking all chocolate, all the time recipes.  With everything from strawberry chocolate tarts to chocolate chip cookie souffles to white chocolate lemon creme brulee to this beauty pictured above, the diva milk chocolate layer cake, she fills my chocolate sweet tooth like no other cookbook ever has.  And get this, it’s all done in manageable proportions.  The recipe for that cake you see above makes two of those little chocolate gifts; one for me and one for my husband.  One indulgence and that’s it.  No extra cake waiting around to taunt your waistline day after day.  Just one glorious craving fulfilled in a personal sized portion.

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Filed Under: Cake, cookbook review, Dessert, Family Friendly Fridays, Food, Other Tagged With: baking soda, butter, chocolate, cocoa powder, confectioners' sugar, egg yolk, flour, food, half and half, recipe, salt, Sour Cream, Sugar, vanilla, water

Southwestern Stuffed Mushrooms

May 3, 2011 By Julie 36 Comments

Kids say the darndest things.  Last night we were sitting down to dinner, enjoying some quality time, when Alex made a sudden declaration that he didn’t like meat.  “All meat?”  I inquired.  “No meat.” he replied.  So I asked him the next logical question that came to my mind.  “Do you think you might want be a vegetarian when you grow up?”  An overly exaggerated look of utter frustration washed over his face as he rolled his eyes at me and sighed.  “I thought we already discussed this.  I want to be an ice cream truck driver when I grow up!”  Silly, silly mommy for asking such a ridiculous question.  But hey, as long as he drives his truck through my neighborhood it’s all good to me.

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Filed Under: Chicken, Food, Main Course, One Dish Meals Tagged With: butter, cheese, chicken, chile powder, cilantro, coriander, Corn, cumin, food, garlic powder, Green Onions, green pepper, lime, Olive Oil, oregano, portobello mushrooms, recipe, salt, Sour Cream, spinach, tomato

Asian Salmon Burgers with Tangy Ginger Lime Sauce

April 26, 2011 By Julie 36 Comments

We’re back!  Disney was scorching hot, utterly enchanting, completely over-crowded, and positively thrilling all rolled up into one fabulously magical package. Next time we’ll pick a much slightly less popular week to experience the house of the mouse; even if it means pulling the kids out of school for a couple days (shhh… don’t tell Nick’s teacher I said that).  That being said, watching the younger set experience the wonder of it all was well worth the trouble.  Especially the little ones.  When my one year old niece, Taylor, met Snow White for the first time, you would have thought she’d died and gone to heaven.  She ran full on into her arms and just sank into pure joy.  It was enough to make the entire over-heated, impatient line of Disney goers let out a collective “awwww.”  I guarantee you’ve never witnessed sheer bliss like this.

All in all it was a fun week.  I have to say, though, that I am happy to be back home and back to the blog.  I really missed you guys!  To kick off the week I’m popping up a killer Asian Salmon burger that’s easy on the palate and doesn’t take much effort in the kitchen.   The dipping sauce is the real gem in this one.  Pour a little over the top of the burger and then serve a little more on the side for extra dipping.  It’s as close to “one year old meets childhood idol” bliss as you can get.

To cook up a batch of burgers, you’ll first grab a pound of salmon and cut it into manageable chunks.  Throw it into your food processor and pulse until you are left with no big pieces.

Next up you’ll add some Asian inspiration and mix it in by hand (or spoon if you don’t like to get your hands dirty).

Form it into four large patties and get ready to cook these beauties up.  Heat a little sesame oil over an open flame and when it’s good and hot, cook up your patties until they’re a beautiful golden brown on both sides.  Yum yum.

While your patties are cooking, grab up a few sauce ingredients; some mayo, sour cream, lime juice, soy sauce, ginger, and green onions.  Mix it all together.

You ready for this?  Toast up a bun, pop one of those beautiful salmon burgers on top, spoon a little sauce over the seafood ensemble and bite into pure bliss.  Snow White would be oh so proud.

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Asian Salmon Burgers with Tangy Ginger Lime Sauce

Total Time: 30 min

Ingredients:

For the Salmon Burgers:

1 Pound Salmon
2 Tbsp Soy Sauce
1 Clove Garlic
1 tsp Powdered Ginger
1 tsp Oyster Sauce
1 Green Onion, Chopped
1 Tbsp Fresh Basil, Chopped (about 5 leaves worth)
11/2 Tbsp Sesame Oil

For the Ginger Lime Sauce:

1/4 Cup Mayonnaise
2 Tbsp Sour Cream
1/2 tsp Powdered Ginger
1 Tbsp Soy Sauce
1 Green Onion, Chopped
1/4 Lime, Juiced

Directions:

Cut the salmon into large hunks and pulse it in a food processor until no large pieces remain.

Add to the salmon the soy sauce, garlic, ginger, oyster sauce, green onion, and basil.

Combine ingredients well and form 4 large patties from mixture.

Heat up the sesame oil in a large frying pan on medium high heat and add in the patties. Cook for about 10 minutes flipping once half way through.

To make the sauce, add together all the above listed ingredients and stir to combine.

Pour a spoonful of sauce over the top of the finished salmon burger and serve inside a toasted bun.

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Filed Under: Food, Main Course, Seafood Tagged With: basil, food, garlic, Ginger, green onion, lime, mayonnaise, oyster sauce, recipes, Salmon, sesame oil, Sour Cream, soy sauce

Shrimp Appetizer Delight

March 9, 2011 By Julie 29 Comments

Here in Charlotte, Scott and I belong to a neighborhood supper club.  Once a month we get together with three other couples and share a meal.  The person hosting is responsible for the main course and the other couples supply the appetizer, salad, and dessert.  I look forward to the night all month long.  I get to try out new recipes, we both get a night out away from the kids, and the food is most always amazing.

This past weekend was our first get together of the new year and I found myself in charge of the appetizer.  Ideas fluttered through my mind; everything from a white bean dip with hummus chips to homemade crackers with an assortment of cheeses.  But when all was said and done, a more hearty combination of cheese, shrimp and bacon won me over.  Just try and tell me you can resist that combination of flavors.  I didn’t think so.

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Filed Under: Appetizers, Food Tagged With: Bacon, Cooked shrimp, Cream Cheese, Crushed Red Pepper, Fontina Cheese, food, garlic, Green Onions, Hot Pepper Sauce, Onion Powder, Parmesan cheese, Parsley, Puff Pastry, recipe, Sour Cream, Worcestershire sauce

Indian Butter Chicken

February 16, 2011 By Julie 35 Comments

I was first introduced to Indian butter chicken about six years ago after finishing up a marathon road journey to my dear friend Camilla’s, who was living in Kansas City at the time.

Call me crazy, but I love to drive long distances and am known to throw caution to the wind and just hop in the car at any given moment and go.  On this occasion I had been chatting with Camilla over the phone and we decided a get together was long overdue so the following week I popped Nicholas in the toyota, then about 16 months old, and made the eight hour trek from Dallas to Missouri.  The drive was probably about one hour longer than a 16 month old had patience for, but we arrived in one piece, none the less for wear, and ready for a hearty dinner.

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Filed Under: Chicken, Food, Main Course, One Dish Meals Tagged With: 30 minute meal, broth, butter, chicken, featured, food, Garam Masala, garlic, Ginger, Indian food, Lemon, oil, onion, pepper, recipe, salt, Sour Cream, Tomatoes, Yogurt


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