I used a recipe from my all time favorite The Fannie Farmer Cookbook: Anniversary and turned crab cakes into salmon cakes tonight, using the salmon leftover from last night, breadcrumbs and all. Another hit! This actually came out a bit moister than necessary. It tasted absolutely wonderful but might have been a bit easier to…
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Slow Cooked Salmon
My parents came down yesterday. Everyone but me loves salmon so I decided to fix that, plus it went with my kid-oriented Valentine theme of pink and red. I also had red potatoes, hearts of palm salad, and asparagus. Okay, the asparagus sort of blew the theme but we all love it. The girls had…
“Italian” Funeral Potatoes
There’s an old recipe called Funeral Potatoes, which includes frozen hash browns, cream of chicken soup, butter, grated Cheddar cheese, sour cream, and usually some sort of butter and cereal crumb topping, made from Corn Flakes. In my ongoing pantry challenge to use up a few things I decided to do something with the bag…
Catalina Apricot Chicken
I was looking for a way to bake some bone-in chicken last night and wanted something other than my usuals so went thumbing through a few “community fundraiser” cookbooks. I had picked up half a dozen of them at the last library book sale for about 25 cents each. Eventually I’ll donate most of the…
Yellow Squash with Pepperoni
I was looking for a side dish that would get a few vegetables in with our pepperoncini beef sandwiches tonight. We’ve had asparagus, spinach, and carrots this week so I wanted something of a different color. I settled on some yellow squash from Recipes from a Kitchen Garden, although I didn’t have any fresh basil…