I set out tonight with the memory of the delicious salmon dinner my brother and sister-in-law prepared for us up in Washington state last week. We’d gone to Pike’s Market in Seattle and picked up some fresh wild salmon for dinner. My brother created a foil “tray” with a lip slightly larger than the salmon…
Sauces, Dressing, etc.
Salsa
Watch out! I got a digital camera today. First picture had to be of the garden tomatoes. When I first started cooking I wanted exact measurements for everything. Even salsa. But now, I realize that you use what you have, you vary it depending on what you’re doing and whom you are serving–and maybe you…
Chimichurri Sauce
Desperation Entertaining! is a great source of recipes for entertaining or just for your everyday dinners. As with the earlier Desperation Dinners, it is focused on making things easy for you. In the first book, all the recipes took about 20 minutes from start to finish (although they sometimes started assuming you already had the…
Grape and Cucumber Salsa
The other night I was in the mood for total summer food. That to me means an easy barbecue. But I like lots of variety on the table, little bits of this or that. I decided to barbecue some chicken and marinated some bone-in chicken breasts in a mixture of 1 part port, 1 part…
Copycat Old Bay Seasoning
I used my old coffee grinder (after washing it out carefully!) to make this Old Bay seasoning. I had some canned crab and used it to make crab cakes last night. Mmmmm! A treat, for sure, but sometimes you gotta splurge!