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Yesterday I posted a short entry about holiday gluttony, along with a photo of our Christmas Eve seafood feast. It occurred to me you might want to know how we prepared it. My recipe for shrimp boil is already in the index; below you’ll find our recipes for steamed mussels and boiled lobster claws.
 Ditalini and I drove to Las Vegas with our daughter Escargot and doggies Mortadella & Ubracio to spend Christmas with our son Baguette, daughter in law Truffle, granddaughter Biscotto, and grandson Pesce. All the deMenthes together again! Of course the holidays are all about eating. Baguette activated Fortress of Smoke™ Las Vegas, and when we [...]
Let me just say, right off the bat, that this was an experiment based on a popular Southern dish, shrimp & cheese grits. Next time I’ll add a green vegetable on the side for color, and perhaps substitute chicken breast meat for the chicken Italian sausage, because the strong fennel taste of [...] Fried catfish, dirty rice, sauteed spinach If you find yourself with some catfish, you can’t go wrong dredging them in cornmeal and frying them. Served up with dirty rice and sautéed spinach, catfish makes a great dinner. Ingredients Catfish catfish filets (1 per person) 2 eggs 1/4 cup milk 1/2 cup flour 1/2 cup [...] This is easy, and always good. It’s a dinner a husband can cook and a wife will love. Ingredients Salmon 2-3 wild salmon filets (1 to 1 1/2 lbs) 1 tbsp butter 1 tbsp honey fresh dill Potatoes 12 small red-skinned potatoes 2 tbsp butter fresh dill Green Beans 1/2 lb fresh green beans [...] Ingredients 1 lb fettuccini 3/4 stick butter 1/2 cup half & half 4-5 cloves garlic, sliced 12-24 large shrimp (21/25 count), deveined, heads & tails removed dried parsley flakes white pepper grated Parmesan cheese #gallery-2 { margin: auto; } #gallery-2 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-2 img { border: [...] We’ve always trimmed our tree on Christmas Eve. During our first overseas posting in the early 1980s, we started inviting single friends over to help us hang the decorations. Even though we’re settled down in Tucson now, we still invite our single friends over for the tree-trimming party, and of course we wine and dine [...] Ditalini came up with this great grilled salmon salad. She makes the salad and dressing; I grill the salmon. Ingredients (Salad) mixed salad greens red/yellow/green salad peppers, sliced red onion, sliced cherry tomatoes, whole green & black olives, pitted mozarella cheese Ingredients (Salmon) 1 lb salmon filet 1 tbsp butter 3-4 tbsp honey chopped [...] I recently dug out Keo’s Thai Cuisine, a cookbook that’s been sitting on our shelf, unopened, since 1992. What got me off my ass, Thai-cooking-wise? Shame. Evil Jungle Prince with Chicken (& Shrimp) You see, I admitted on Facebook to making Pad Thai from a package, and one of my friends called me out [...] We invited all our single friends over to help us decorate our tree on Christmas Eve. Of course one has to give in order to receive, so we lured them over with promises of food. Our traditional Christmas Eve feast is seafood, and this year was no exception. We served boiled shrimp as an appetizer. [...] |
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