Category: New Menu Monday

I am an avid watcher of B. Dylan Hollis’s cooking videos. If you haven’t seen one, you are missing out, and there is no way I could explain the joy they bring. I’ve added the video of this recipe at the bottom of this post.

A few days ago, one of his old ones popped up in my feed, and I knew I had to make the recipe. I made a few changes, mostly adding bacon pieces because I thought the recipe was crying out for them.

The other change I made, was to default to my traditional Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies measurement. One pound of bacon renders one-half cup bacon grease and that is the amount of butter for a half-batch of my cookies. I felt Dylan’s recipe (he is always faithful to whatever old recipe he finds) was too much flour for the amount of fat.

Here’s what I did:

I was in the mood for shortbread cookies, and I had these cool cookie cutters – ducks and swans – so of course, the cookies had to be ducks.

1. Crispy Pecan Fish
2. Hearty Bread
3. Broccoli w/Garlic Wine Sauce
4. Shortbread

Crispy Pecan Fish

• 4-6 oz fish fillets –you’ll want a firm fish such as: red snapper, catfish, tilapia or haddock
• ½ cup flour
• ¼ to 1 tsp cayenne pepper
• ½ tsp thyme, crushed
• 1 tbsp paprika
• salt & pepper to taste
• ¼ cup olive oil
• ½ cup milk
• ¼ cup butter
• 2/3 cup finely chopped pecans
• 2 tbsp lemon juice

Michael Symon, Clinton Kelly and Carla Hall

I am so very excited about this! When the Chew was on ABC during lunch hour, that’s how I spent my lunch. One of the advantages of working from a home office.

And when Carla, Symon, and Clinton said they were doing a YouTube show three days a week, I was ecstatic. My week needs this joyous thirty minutes!

The last month has been wild and I’m having trouble keeping up. I desperately need to focus on the Full Sail revisions, so for the next few weeks I’m going to let Julia Child do the menus for me. I love that PBS has an entire YouTube channel of her shows.

Since it’s fall and apples are coming in, I thought we’d start with this one: