I was looking for a Zucchini Chocolate Cake recipe and one of the food bloggers I follow posted one a few days later. Kismet or zucchini overload?
I followed the recipe, but I might make a few changes next time.
Category: New Menu Monday
New recipes every Monday
Monday Menu: Crispy Pecan Fish and Shortbread Cookies
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.
- Crispy Pecan Fish
- Hearty Bread
- Broccoli w/Garlic Wine Sauce
- 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
Monday Menu: Chewed Up!!
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!
Monday Menu: Letting Julia Do The Cooking
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:
Monday Menu: Frozen or Fresh Meats and Fish
Continuing the discussions about frozen versus fresh, this time focusing on beef, pork, chicken, and fish.
This past year has been ridiculously busy, and I have found myself taking more and more shortcuts when it comes to food prep. Two shortcuts I was reluctant to embrace at first, have become go-tos.
The first is frozen chicken breasts. I would shop sales and buy bulk “fresh” chicken breasts on sale and then spend an hour packaging them into freezer bags. It was messy and time-consuming. And the not-so-fresh packages were usually previously frozen, and then sold. This meant the quality of the meat was hit-or-miss, and I would often end up with tough, chewy chicken breasts.
One day, there was a not-to-miss sale at Costco on frozen chicken breasts. Since it was soup season, I took the chance and purchased a bag (it was Costco, it was a big bag, LOL), knowing a lot of inferior meat could be dressed up in a good soup. To my surprise, they were excellent, flash frozen, tender, and so easy to thaw and prep what I needed.
Annie DeMoranville 