I named my blog One Spoonful at a Time for a reason. Not just because it means you have to take like one spoonful at a time, but it also ties in with my love of food!!! I am going to start posting blogs about the food that I make along with the recipes!!! So, here we go!!!
The picture above is Planked White Fish and Green Onion Butter, Corn and Wild Rice Cakes, Pickled Onions, and Marinated Red Peppers.
Planked White Fish
4 untreated cedar wood planks or shingles 4x6 x 1/2 inch
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 egg yolk
2 Tbsp lemon juice
1 Tbsp Dijon Mustard
1/4 cup bread crumbs
1/4 cup green onions, chopped
2 Tbsp parsley, chopped
1 garlic clove, smashed
1/4 cup vegetable oil
4 white fish fillets, skinned and boned
salt and pepper, to taste
1. Soak the cedar planks in water for atleast a few hours before proceeding.
2. Mix the butter, egg yolk, lemon juice, mustard, bread crumbs, green onions, parsley, and garlic in a food processor. Pulse for 1 minute to combine into a paste. Roll paste into a cylinder about 1 inch thick and wrap in plastic wrap. Place in refrigerator until firm.
3. Preheat oven to 450 degrees F
4. Remove the planks from water, dry. Brush planks with the oil, and place in the oven on a baking sheet for 5 minutes. to begin seasoning the wood.
5. Brush the fish with oil and season with salt and pepper
6. Remove paste from refrigerator and cut into 1/4 inch thick slices. Place 1 to 2 slices on each fillet.
7. Place fish on the hot plank and return to oven. Bake fillets for 8 to 10 minutes. until butter has melted to brown crust.
8. Remove and serve immediatley
**** You can use any kind of fish you would like for this recipe.
**** When cooking the fish you want to be careful not to overcook it. You want to make sure that the fish is slightly flaky
**** When we made this recipe our butter did not melt onto the fish and make a brown crust. It just kind of got toasted and then when we plated the fish we spread the butter with a fork and it turned out perfect.
Corn and Wild Rice Cakes
1 1/2 Tsp butter
3/4 cup leeks, cleaned, white part only, very thinly sliced
1 garlic clove, minced
1/2 cup corn kernals, fresh or frozen
1 cup wild rice, cooked
1 egg, lightly beaten
1/4 cup heavy cream
1 Tbsp parsley, chopped
1 Tbsp chives, chopped
1/4 Tsp black pepper
1/2 Tsp salt
1/4 cup all purpose flour
vegetable oil, as needed
1. Heat butter over medium heat. Cook leeks and garlic until soft.
2. Combine leeks, garlic, and corn with wild rice.
3. Mix egg and cream together until blended. Mix chopped herbs, pepper, and salt.
4. Combine the wild rice with the egg cream mixture. Stir in flour until rice can be formed into cakes. You may need to add more or less flour.
5. Form cakes using 1/3 cup. Chill for 30 minutes.
6. Saute cakes in oil until lightly browned. about 3 minutes per side
Pickled Onions
4 cups pearl onion
1 Tbsp mustard seeds
1 Tbsp celery seeds
1 piece fresh horseradish
1 cup cider vinegar
3 Tbsp honey
2 hot chiles, fresh or dried
1. Bring a large pot of water to a boil, add the onions and cook for 2 minutes.
2. Drain in a colander and rinse under cold water. Trim away the onion tops and hairs at the stem end. Leave the base of the stem end intact, then peel.
3. Combine mustard seeds, celery seeds, horseradish, and vinegar. Bring to a boil, then simmer for 15 minutes.
4. Add honey and chili pepper. Remove the horseradish and simmer another 10 minutes.
5. Add onions and cook until tender, about 10 minutes.
6. Remove onions and continute cooking liquid until reduced by half
7. Poor liquid over onions.
**** You can use any kind of onions you would like for this recipe
Marinated Red Bell Pepper
1 Red Bell Pepper, seeded, julienned
Salt and Pepper, as needed
Garlic, minced, as needed
Olive oil, as needed
1. Seed and julienne pepper
2. In a bowl, combine olive oil, salt and pepper, and garlic.
3. Toss the red bell pepper in oil mixture.
4. Marinate in refrigerator for desired time.
This is one of the meals that we worked on in my American Regional class at school. I will be posting more pictures and recipes of the food I prepare and share it with all of you.
If there anyone has any questions about the recipes please let me know by commenting on my blog or sending me an email: alexis_nay5@hotmail.com
You need not, to climb mountaintops
You need not, to cross the sea
You need not, to find a cure
for everything that makes you weak.
You need not to reach for the stars,
when life becomes so dark
and when the wind
does blow against the grain
you must follow your heart
you must follow your heart
when all your friends
have come and gone
the sun no longer shines
the happiness for which you long
is washed away, like an oceans tide
when all the hard times, outweigh the good
and all your words are misunderstood
when the day seems lost from the stars
you must follow your heart
you must follow your heart
If you feel, you paid the price
and your wounds should cease to heal
and everything you love in life,
spins like a winding wheel
if you should wake, to find you're abandoned.
and the road you travel, leads to a dead end
when death creeps in, to play it's part.
you must you follow your heart
you must follow your heart
City and Colour speak the truth. No matter what happens in your life you need to always follow your heart.
When I am in trouble and I am in need of guidence or a path to follow I do not look to God. I do not look to religion. I look to myself. I look to my heart.
No one can tell you how to run your life. No one else can make your decisions. Its all you. You need to learn to trust yourself and just jump sometimes.
Ahhhh I am so happy I came across these lyrics. They already mean so much to me.
Life is not easy, but the one thing we can do to make it easier on ourselves is just trust ourselves. Give yourself a chance. When you are in need of someone look to yourself and you will see that you can provide your light.
It is inside everyone, you just need to find it.
I am really lucky to have the family I have. I have always known this, but some days make it more known than others. Like today for instance.
I was at work and most of the people I work with have children so they were talking about their troublesome children and how they dicipline their children and the other thing I really had to go off of is how I was raised.
When I was younger I thought that sometimes my parents were the meanest people and I just hated some of the things they did and they always said you are going to thank me when you are older and other things to that affect and I never believed until I got a little older.
Listening to some of the moms I work with asking what they should do with their children or what they have been doing I just feel so thankful that I was raised by my parents.
Speaking of being thankful....Its November 2nd and that is making me think about Thanksgiving!!! and Chirstmas!!!! This time of the year I try to think about everything that I am thankful for. When I was younger the only thing I really focused on was the food and the presents, and dont get me wrong that is what I think about now too hahaha but I think about giving and being thankful for what I have more.
I couldnt have asked for a better family. They are supportive. They are loving. They are fun. They are exciting. They are goofy. They are crazy. And I love them more than words can describe. If I ever need anything I know I can always go to someone in my family and get the help I need, and that is how it has always been, and I realize not everyone has that.
I am so thankful that I have the opportunity to go to school. Going to culinary school has turned my whole life around. It actually makes me feel like I have meaning in life. It makes me feel like I am doing something with my life and I am actually going to succeed. Its a great feeling.
:)
There is just so much I could go on forever about how lucky I am and why. I cant wait to start getting things together to take to the road home. Last year me and Katie got a TON of stuff together and took it their and it felt so rewarding. I am so excited to do some service this year and do everything I can do to make other people have a great holiday season!!!
I freakin love my life!!! :) I am so happy. I am so lucky.
I couldnt ask for anything more <3
