Archive for February, 2007


Bumgardner’s Wheel of Food

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

 Wheel of Food
Still in a dilemma about where to lunch with family or have a candle light dinner with fiancé? Hold on. Just Spin the Wheel of Food, created by Jim Bumgardner, now works at yahoo. (Sources like Amazon and MagazineArt.org. has helped him in making this wheel of YouTube and lots of other experimental interfaces for online data.)
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Crab cakes for you!

Sunday, February 4th, 2007

Crab cakesHere is a romantic dinner for you which are complete with hors d’oeuvre and debauched chocolate desert. The most elegant and marvelous end of that dinner can be a crab cake so I am here with really a simple but a fabulous cake dish which is easy to prepared at home.

This cake can be frozen for weeks even so just have a look on some simple ingredients for making this mouth watering cake:

Ingredients:
2 shallots or 1/4 small red onion, finely chopped
1 lb lump crabmeat or leg meat
Dash cayenne pepper
1 tbsp cream or milk
2 tbsp fresh finely chopped flat leaf parsley
1 cup plus 3 tbsp fresh seasoned bread crumbs
2 large eggs
¼ tsp pepper
1 tsp Tony Chachere’s Creole or Old Bay seasoning
Good quality vegetable oil

Process for preparation:
Leave crabmeat in a medium-sized mixing bowl.
In a diminutive bowl, lightly bang eggs with unguent and dispense over crabmeat.
Add 3 tablespoons of seasoned bread crumbs, shallots, parsley and seasonings.
Blend with a fork until all ingredients are just combined.
Cover a small baking sheet with wax paper.
Place remaining bread tidbit in a glass pie dish or plate.
Shovel up about 2 to 3 tablespoons of the crab mixture, roll into an orb and leave in bread crumbs.
Fleece the crab cake entirely, slightly flatten and place on a baking sheet.
Repeat until all the assortment has been used up.
Place cake in refrigerator for 30 minutes to rigid up.
Pour enough oil in the base of a skillet and heat to average high.
Place no more than 3 to 4 crab cakes in frenzied skillet at a time to ensure even cooking.
Cook until it gets golden brown, about 4 to 5 minutes each side give or acquire few minutes.
Remove and leave on paper towel to exhaust.
Serve hot with tartar sauce or concoction sauce.

There are some food tips also which can be helpful for you:
Fresh or canned high-quality lump crabmeat will work fine in this recipe.
If you are using canned crabmeat then make sure to drain it completely.
1/3 cup Mayonnaise or egg replacement can be used in place of eggs.
Crushed Saltine crackers can be used in place of breadcrumbs.
Just crush enough to equal 1 cup plus 3 tablespoons and season with 1/4 tsp salt and 1/4 tsp pepper.

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How to cook Cream Cheese with Green Chili Dip

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007

How to cook Cream Cheese with Green Chili Dip
We are going in the cheese world, I know, most of you like to eat cheese, so why do not learn to make a new dish of cheese? Here we are making Cream Cheese and green Chili Dip, it is very easy to prepare and as well tasty.

So go through the ingredients and cook fast and easy to make Dish for your guests:

1 T. vegetable oil

1/4 cup slivered almonds
12 oz. cream cheese, softened
Heavy cream to thin dip

1 clove garlic, minced
4 oz. canned mild green chilies, drained

Fry up Almonds in the vegetable oil in anticipation of light browned. Mix cream cheese and garlic in a mixer or food processor until smooth. Add cream in the almonds and after that cooking oil and chilies. Mix until smooth scratching down the sides of the bowl if required. And your delicious Cream Cheese with Green Chili Dip is ready to eat, now serve it beautifully with warm tortilla chips.

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