So! What's cookin' over here?

[hippywife]

Gonna make some salmon patties with asparagus and rice tonight.

What are your menu plans? :hi:

[yellerpup]

1. Coconut shrimp with tamarind dipping sauce on a salad

of purple lettuce, tomato, baby English cucumber, black olives, scallions, and artichoke hearts. Probably a crusty French roll on the side that I bought from a local bakery. I's unseasonably hot here today (mid-80's, don't laugh!) and I bought a slinky evening gown yesterday that needs to still fit at the end of the month, so it's smaller portions and stepped up exercise for me. We love salmon patties and are never without the makin's in the pantry. Nosh on! :hi:

[hippywife]

2. Sounds very yummy!

I saw this recipe on Smitten Kitchen you might like, too. I was going to make it but I forgot when I went to the grocery yesterday.:

http://smittenkitchen.com/2010/04/cabbage-and-lime-salad-with-roasted-peanuts/

I also forgot lemons. Do you have one you can loan me? LOL

What's the slinky dress for, doll? Any word on the book yet?

Love ya! :hug:

[yellerpup]

3. I do have a lemon for you!

But my pitching arm isn't that good. The slaw recipe you pointed me to looks luscious and I love lime on cabbage. The dress is for a cartoonist's convention at the end of the month. The awards banquet is always black tie. It's a hoot of a brotherhood -- and not a straight man in the bunch! My agent says "we've gotten a couple of noes" then crabbed that publishers are "using any excuse in the book not to buy." Times are tight, publishing is changing, who knows what will happen...but in the meantime we've gotta eat! With a great Asian market within walking distance (1/2 mile each way), I find myself going more and more in that direction. The Thai chicken noodle soup with coconut that some merciful someone posted on here is a favorite at our house now.

[hippywife]

4. Have you thought about

self-publishing? Have fun at the awards banquet. I bet it IS a lot of fun. LOL

How nice to have an Asian market that close! Comes in very handy, I'm sure.

[yellerpup]

5. I have thought about self-publishing.

At one time I would not have considered it, but I'm more open to that possibility now. I love the Asian market. I just strap on the backpack and go!

[pscot]

6. Beef stew with schwemmkloeschen

Perfect for a cold, rainy day.

[hippywife]

8. What is schwemmkloeschen?

I even tried to google it and didn't get anything that I could see to explain it.

Beef stew definitely does sound good for a cold, rainy day. :hi:

[pscot]

10. Schwemmkloeschen

are dumplings made with pate choux: 1/4 l water, 60g butter, 150g flour, 25g cornstarch or potato flour, tsp backing powder. salt, nutmeg, 4 eggs. Procede in the usual manner. The proportions of fat to flour are a bit different than the normal pate choux as is the use of baking powder. Form the finished dough using 2 tablespoons and drop into barely simmering stew or soup. They should be done in about 10 minutes. If overcooked they tend to disintegrate. You can season them as you like and we sometimes add very finely chopped parsley. They're similar to Parisian gnocchi.:hi:

[hippywife]

17. I thought it might be

some kind of dumpling or noodle. :hi:

[japple]

7. Well, let's see. We had fresh asparagus from the garden, strawberries

with (homemade) pound cake & whipped cream. Oh, and a pork loin roasted with onions, rice, speckled butterbeans, and broccoli.

Edit to add: On the table, white peonies and roses. They are more beautiful this year than in recent memory, and the smell is heavenly.

[hippywife]

9. That sounds delicious.

So glad that the flowers are bringing you such joy, too, sweetie. :hi:

[japple]

11. Hi HW! I keep thinking I need to come up with a new way to cook

asparagus, but everyone seems to like it roasted with olive oil & salt, so I keep on making it that way. We only have a small bed but we're going to build it up this fall and amend the soil, add some manure, and maybe we'll get more next year. We only have enough for 8 people for Sunday dinner, so there's not much to experiment with.

Hope things are going well with you. I'm still dragging myself thru Texas, but am getting close to the end. I don't know why I keep on going. Maybe family history has something to do with it. (oops, wrong forum!!)

[hippywife]

12. Gotta be patient with asparagus.

Bill just planted ours last year so we've a couple years to go.

It is sometimes hard to stop reading a book, even if it's a drag at points, once you've gotten to know the characters. I'm always too curious to see what happens to them to stop.

:hi:

[joneschick]

13. daughter #2 made a lovely chicken salad

left over lemon pepper chicken breast with baby bok choy & onion & chipotle cheddar dressing & mayo. She is now my favorite!
:hi:

[hippywife]

14. LOL!

It does sound very good, but really MOM! :rofl:

[Coyote_Bandit]

15. Lazy Dinner Tonight

Sliced foccacia bread topped with pizza sauce, sliced black olives, mushrooms, Hillshire Farms hot and spicy Italian sausage and lots of parmesan cheese. Quick and easy to make. Warmed while I fixed dinner for the doggies. Followed it with some yogurt.

Needed something easy. Spent the afternoon working in the yard planting stuff and trimming some low hanging tree limbs.

[hippywife]

16. Nothing wrong with that.

Sometimes when the day is busy and tiring, it just works. :hi:

[pengillian101]

19. Heck, that sounds good!

I have frozen garlic bread - that might work, huh?

[pengillian101]

18. I've been on a salmon and asparagus kick myself.

Fresh baby spinach, asparagus cut very thin diagonally (raw), sliced button mushrooms, a sliced hard boiled egg, flaked canned salmon and topped off with a 50/50 dressing of honey and Dijon mustard is one of my favorite meals. And that's what I had. Later, I made a salmon sandwich, steamed asparagus and potato chips.

Salmon and asparagus - yum! One of my favorite ways to enjoy canned salmon is very plain - served on a plain old saltine cracker. I tried pink salmon once - nope. Deming red for me.

I tried salmon patties one time, but just like plain salmon, without mixing anything else in it. Same with crab cakes - just enjoy them by itself.

My other really favorite salmon is the marinated ones we buy at either Schwan's or Omaha Steaks. I think they use the same supplier. They seem identical.




My SO doesn't eat either salmon or asparagus and I felt like cooking, so I made him Betty Crocker's recipe for Beef Stroganoff and some broccoli. He always likes that.

:hi:

[hippywife]

20. It's hard to be the taste of

either one, no matter how they're prepared. :hi:

[AwakeAtLast]

21. I have been a cooking fool today

I made Pull Apart Bread (Monkey Bread) for breakfast. This afternoon I made Sweet Potato Bread to take to our new neighbors next door. For dinner I made a somewhat easy version of Chicken Tikka Masala. I've never had it, but it turned out fairly well. I know it is not very authentic Indian dish, but I wanted to see if I liked it.

[elleng]

24. Recipe?

There's a friend I'd like to 'impress!'

[AwakeAtLast]

26. For which dish?

Chicken Tikka Masala was:

1 1/2 lb. chicken breast cut up
2 T. Butter
1 medium onion
2 T lemon juice
1 t EACH: Garam masala, sesame seed, cumin, crushed red pepper (this one is optional or to taste)
2 t Paprika
1 can diced tomatoes with juice
1/3 cup cream
1 T corn starch
Rice or Naan for serving.

Heat pan, melt butter. Cook onions until translucent, add chicken and lemon juice (I think the chicken needed to be salted and peppered - it was a little bland) and cook for 10 min. or until no longer pink. Add spices (except red pepper) and cook one more minute. Add tomatoes. Make slurry with cream and corn starch, add in thin stream to pan. Bring to boil, reduce heat, stir frequently and cook for about 5 more minutes. Add crushed red pepper, stir again. Serve with rice or naan.

Monkey Bread:
http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/0,174,130176-241195,00.html

Sweet Potato Bread is in this forum somewhere. I'll search a link.

[elleng]

27. Oh, thanks! the Chicken!

[hippywife]

28. I made Chicken Tikka Masala

earlier this year and I liked it. But after I was done eating it, I was so sick of cumin. I haven't touched it since for any recipe. I just leave it out.

Maybe the next time I have it, I can con someone else into making it. :rofl:

[supernova]

22. We made a home version of tandoori chicken

:D

We had some tandoori paste at the house. Bought skinned and trimmed chicken breasts and marinated them in greek yogurt and tandoor paste for about 1/2 hour. Threw them on the grill with some cayeene pepper seasoned onions and corn cobs.

Not bad for the first grill out of the season. :thumbsup:

[Phentex]

23. Sounds good to me...

The rain kept us from grilling yesterday but I plan on doing some soon.

[housewolf]

25. Whipped Cream Cake

It's my favorite! A beautiful bundt cake, sliced thin with either a bit of peach preserves of a sprinkling of cinnamon and powdered sugar - luscious!





Also working up to making some chicken enchilladas in later this week.

[hippywife]

29. That looks beautiful, B.

I hope you thoroughly enjoyed it. :hi: