Month: October 2013

Fantastic Baked Fish

Tonight I made this fabulous baked fish dinner. With home cooked food this good, who needs to go out to dinner?! The next time you’re in the mood for fish, try this very easy and elegant fish recipe. It’s impressive enough to serve guests. Don’t be surprised when they beg for the recipe – yes, it’s that good!

Elegant Baked Fish Recipe:

3/4 cup mayonnaise
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon Chef Prudhomme’s Blackened Redfish Seasoning
1/2 teaspoon curry powder
8 fish fillets
Panko bread crumbs

In a small bowl, combine the first 7 ingredients. Blend well.

Place the fish fillets in a large baking dish. Spread the mayonnaise mixture over all the fillets. Sprinkle with bread crumbs. Bake fish in a preheated 400 degree F oven for 15 minutes. (If you have a convection oven, turn on for the last 5 minutes or if not, use your broiler for a few minutes, until the bread crumbs are lightly browned.)

Serve over rice pilaf with steamed broccoli.

The first time I made this baked fish recipe, my son told me, “You blew this fish right out of the water!” Lol!. What a nice compliment, I think…

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Thanks for stopping by my blog and sharing this awesome recipe. 🙂

Sharon Springfield

Tags fish, main dish

Creamy Coconut Shrimp

This recipe for Creamy Coconut Shrimp (Chinese buffet style) is adapted from a recipe I found somewhere online. As usual, I modified it so much that I feel I can call it my own version. You can serve this over rice or noodles.

Creamy Coconut Shrimp Recipe:

1 pound medium or large shrimp
1/2 cup coconut cream
2 tablespoons heavy cream or whole milk
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
2 tablespoons butter
1 tablespoon rum
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon cornstarch
2 tablespoons sweetened condensed milk

Shell & devein shrimp – rinse – pat dry. Season with salt.
In measuring cup, combine coconut cream, cream (or milk), and vanilla extract.

Melt butter in a sauté’ pan over medium heat. Add shrimp and sauté’ until both sides are golden brown, about 2 minutes each side. Splash in some rum and cook the shrimp for another minute. Set aside.

In a separate pan, add the coconut cream mixture and cook over low heat. Add condensed milk and stir in to mix. When coconut mixture begins to bubble, add additional sugar to taste. Simmer 3 minutes until reduced by one third. Add cornstarch combined with a few tablespoons of water to thicken sauce. Pour sauce over shrimp.

*optional – Mix in 1/2 bag of coleslaw (shredded cabbage & carrots) Heat through.

Serve over steamed rice or cooked noodles.

Creamy Coconut Shrimp

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Sharon Springfield

Tags Asian, coconut, main dish, shrimp

Soups

Cowboy Stew Recipe

Cowboy Stew

Here’s what we had for dinner tonight – Cowboy Stew. Its essentially Chili but it has steak instead of hamburger plus a secret ingredient that makes it thick and hearty.

You cook this in the crockpot, which means, throw it in the crockpot and go enjoy your life for the day. When you get home, you will be greeted with the spicy, meaty scent of this robust Cowboy Stew.

This can also be made as a “dump recipe” which you prepare ahead of time then dump it into the crockpot when you are ready to cook. See the special instructions for this below the recipe.

Ingredients:

1 lb London broil, steak or stew meat, cut into 1/2″ cubes
1 packet taco seasoning mix
1 (14.5 oz) can Fire Roasted Southwestern Style Tomatoes (not drained)
1 (10-oz) can Rotel Tomatoes (not drained)
1 can fat-free refried beans (minus the lard)
1 medium onion, diced
1 small red bell pepper, diced
2 (16-oz) cans pinto beans, drained
large Ziploc bag

To make immediately:

Coat the inside of crock with nonstick spray.
Pour taco seasoning into Ziploc bag. Add meat and shake to coat. Pour into Crockpot. Stir in rest of ingredients except for the pinto beans. Layer the pinto beans over the top and do not stir in. Cover and cook on low setting for 8 – 10 hours.

To make later (dump recipe):

Throw all ingredients (except for pinto beans) into Ziploc bag. Refrigerate until ready to cook. When ready to cook, dump the contents of the bag into the crock and stir. Layer the drained pinto beans over the top, Cover and cook on low for 8 – 10 hours.

I like serving the Cowboy Stew with a dense spoon cornbread. Corn muffins would be good too. Give this recipe a try and let me know in the comments how you liked it! Yee-haw for COWBOY STEW!

Cowboy Stew Recipe

Sharon Springfield

Tags main dish, soup