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Friday Night Dinner: Baked Cod & Potatoes with Horseradish Cream & Orange-Olive Salad

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So, on the fish, it’s not really a cream sauce per se. I was intrigued/concerned with the idea of baking mayonnaise in a sauce, but, this worked well. I used some fancy-pants mayonnaise made with olive oil. La de da!

Okay, so I also found the fabled horseradish mustard called for in the recipe at Whole Foods, Stonewall Kitchens brand. I got it, mainly because I love me some fancy mustards. You could also just use a plain Dijon mustard and add some horseradish to that, maybe start with 1/2 teaspoon and taste from there. For some reason the idea of using a mustard with horseradish already in it was causing posters at epicurious.com to kind of collectively lose their … shiny marbles. Whatever. If you have some use it, if you don’t, add horseradish to the mustard-mayo blend.

Aside from the olive oil mayonnaise and the $6 mustard, this . . . → Read More: Friday Night Dinner: Baked Cod & Potatoes with Horseradish Cream & Orange-Olive Salad

Another Tasty Sandwich: Prosciutto and Fig Panini

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So very sleepy. But, I must post about awesome panini. This was very good. We had it a few weeks ago when we ate a bunch of soup exchange soup. T’was very good.

Okay, here’s the recipe, I’m going to bed now. Goodnight.

Prosciutto and Fig Panini
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup Port
1/2 cup (lightly packed) dried black Mission figs (about 3.5 ounces), stemmed, halved
1/2 tbsp dried rosemary
1 medium red onion, cut crosswise into 1/4-inch-thick rounds
1 tbsp chilled butter, diced
1 cup loosely packed baby spinach
8 slices of good bread or 4 ciabatta rolls, halved horizontally
4 thin slices prosciutto (2-3 ounces)
4 oz goat cheese

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Bring water, Port, figs, and rosemary to boil in small saucepan. Reduce heat to medium-low; simmer until mixture is reduced to a generous 1/2 cup, stirring occasionally, about 20 minutes. Cool slightly.

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Puree in processor until smooth. Fig jam can be made 3 . . . → Read More: Another Tasty Sandwich: Prosciutto and Fig Panini

My New Favorite Thing to do With Ground Turkey: Turkey Kofte with Apple Raita and Spinach

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Oh, Bobby Flay, you seem like kind of a tool but I really love all of your recipes that I’ve tried. So, I guess that’s okay. We’ll just agree to agree on food and I can still be kind of meh about you personally. Maybe in real life you’re a really nice guy, you just televise kinda jerk-y. I dunno.

Although for some reason I like watching “Throwdown”. Maybe you’ve mellowed since the days you had that one show where you would travel around, taste people’s food with noticeable disinterest and be an all-around ass. Maybe now you are a really nice guy and my “Bobby Flay is kind of a tool” intro to all the recipes of yours that I post about is untrue and kind of mean of me… Ack! I am so conflicted!

Anyway, these are awesome. I think I made my kofte kinda big, but . . . → Read More: My New Favorite Thing to do With Ground Turkey: Turkey Kofte with Apple Raita and Spinach

WCC 37: Lemon Tart Love

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Okay, I guess all good things must come to an end. Weekend Cookbook Challenge being no exception. Thanks Sara for creating and managing such a fun food blogging event for the last 37 months! Wow, I guess it has been along time! Sara rocks big time.

This month’s theme for February is “love”. This recipe is something I made for dessert on Valentine’s Day, so I think it fits. Tarte au Citron. It’s from the cookbook, Bouchon, by Thomas Keller. I really want to add an ! on the end of that for some reason… Bouchon!

My tart pan is only 8 inches. So, I decided to make a half recipe of the crust and see what happened. It worked for me. I ended up dividing the crust dough in half (instead of thirds) and froze one. The full recipe of saybayon filled my tart shell fine. If you . . . → Read More: WCC 37: Lemon Tart Love