We splurged on New Year’s Eve and had some fresh crab and shrimp. I mixed up a homemade cocktail sauce recipe for the shrimp, and mixed some with a fair bit of mayonnaise for the crab. The joy of making your own is that you can adjust the seasonings to make it as spicy or…
Sauces, Dressing, etc.
Review: The $5 Dinner Mom Cookbook and Spaghetti and Oven Meatballs
Updated to add: The drawing is over and we have a winner. Thanks! But go check out Erin’s web site and/or buy the book and/or get your library to buy a copy. Lots of good frugal recipes. I was so excited to receive a copy of this cookbook to review: The $5 Dinner Mom Cookbook:…
Honey-Lime Dressing
Got this straight from RecipeGirl. I mixed it all up in my small Magic Bullet Express blender. My girls love it for making smoothies and my youngest likes to whip various home spa concoctions in it, but I do like it for quick salad dressings and marinades. If you don’t have a blender or food…
Thai Dinner Salad
I wanted a light green salad to go with the chicken curry in coconut milk I was making. This dressing recipe was quite good, but a bit salty. I think next time I’ll cut down on the fish sauce, but even though it was a bit salty it was still good. And it was the…
Eggplant and Green Pepper in Miso
This is from Japanese Women Don’t Get Old or Fat: Secrets of My Mother’s Tokyo Kitchen which I’ve been enjoying. I just used one small Japanese eggplant and half a green pepper because I was only feeding two people, and I cut back a bit on the sauce ingredients as well. It came out quite…