Parsnips and Pastilla

Parsnips...check out whoshotthechef . Roasted, olive oil, salt and pepper. And the pastilla or also known as the bstilla which is the pigeon pie that I ate in Algeria and later cooked at home. Find out about this wonder pie in my other blog!

Thai Corn and Crab Fritters Recipe

Wild..spent hours with ATT to get things like email working. One of these, if I knew then what I know now...wouldn't have gotten tv service! They didn't tell us all the consequences before...

So..what am I cooking and not taking pictures of! Thai Corn and Crab Fritters! You serve with a Sweet Chili Sauce..out of the bottle and onto the plate or a small bowl. The corn I had cooked and was frozen and the crab was snow crab that I had taken out of the shell and was in the freezer also..the corn meal was a yellow stone ground that I had..

1.5 cup corn cooked (could use canned)
8 oz snow crab (or close)
3 ea egg
3 ea scallion, chopped
1 T fish sauce
1 T lime juice (then added about 1teaspoon more)
3 T chopped cilantro
1 t garlic chile sauce
1 cup flour
1/2 cup cornmeal

Mix all ingred and shallow fry...they did turn out great..ate three and then froze the rest in packs of two...will get a photo when I pull a couple out.

Been spending hours upon hours on the phone getting other people's glitches that have affected me straightened out..been 5 days with insurance Blue Cross Blue Shield and they still haven't gotten anything done..today..'maybe we will have an answer by the end of the week'...but made the Key Lime Pie recipe again the other day..yeah..takes no longer than five minutes to make it and then chill..how easy is that!

Mexican Cheese Dip Recipe, Mexican Stuffed Chicken Breast Recipe

Here we go..this is an easy dip to make...process..Philadelphia cream cheese til soft, then pulse in salsa..this is great for chips..is there any specific amount? No..you don't want soup though. You can use mild, med, or hot salsa..it's up to you.

Hot White Cheese Dip with Jalapenos: No this is not a really Mexican recipe but one that the Mex restaurants sell at a premium in certain parts of the states. Simple and as my wonderful food rep says...it keeps foreverrrrrrrrrr...yes, it does. At first I used to get the Land-O-Lakes white processed cheese from her...but now you can find it in lots of deli places..even Target...maybe not the same brand, but look for white processed cheese ( large block just like the large yellow processed cheese as in Velvetta). You just ask for the amount that you want..like one pound..

white processed cheese, grated

milk

diced pickeled jalapenos (mine are in a bottle)

Trying to get you started now...I may used 1 cup of milk to 1 pound of cheese..I put the milk in the pot, heat, add grated cheese and stir til melted. Then add the drained jalapenos till it's spicy enough....

Mexican Stuffed Chicken Breasts:

I used two chicken breasts that I had cut in half into two cutlets..filled with some of the cream cheese dip, then some of the white cheese dip, then poured a little leftover salsa on top and baked until the chix was done. I did have some cilantro in the fridge that I added to the filling.

So next...sliced those, and used more of each of the two dips and rolled all in flour tortillas and put into each of two containers and then into the freezer...also had a couple of pieces of grilled tenderloin that I sliced, rolled in the flour tortillas along with some of each of the dips.

These will be thawed and heated in the oven at approx 375* til hot and the flour tortilla is crisp. I serve with sour cream..and a little more salsa if I have that at the time.

Easy does it Cheddar Pecan Coins

Today was also a quick bake off of the cheddar coins. Always make plenty of dough, freeze extra wrapped in parchment and syran..then thaw when needed, slice and bake off. These will be shipped to a friend who is on the mend from an accident. I love using the freezer to make my life easier...so many things will freeze...the recipe..you all probaby have one in your recipe box or in your recipe program on the computer. My recipe program is about 12 years old..is something called a OTM program..never upgraded by the company..so..I won't upgrade to the newest operating systems..sometimes the old just can't be replaced