Whenever Hunter and I cook, I make sure he reads the recipe completely through before we start cooking. There's nothing worse than starting to cook a dish and then realizing that you're going to need to marinate parts of the dish for a few hours, or that you needed to prepare parts of the dish the day before. I make a pretty big stink if he hasn't read the recipe before we start cooking.
This week I learned I need to follow my own advice.
After skimming through the recipes a few times, I saw that we wouldn't need to prepare anything the night before and we could cook everything the day of.
Menu- May 2
- crab cakes p. 83
- creamed summer corn p. 189
- sweet potato chips p. 232
The crab cakes were pretty simple: cook up some finely diced onions and peppers, mix all the ingredients together, form little balls of crab cake, and pan fry. I started to mix all the ingredients together, but definitely missed the step where I was supposed add in the onion mixture and then I goofed AGAIN when I started to pour in all of the panko crumbs.
oopsies. my bad. insert foot into mouf.
The crab cakes (luckily) still turned out super tasty. I'd like to try this again when we have the sweet and savory flavor of the onions and peppers and with less breadcrumbs inside the crab cakes and instead breading the outside to create a nice and crunchy exterior.
Hunter, meanwhile, had read the instructions for his recipes and was diligently following them to create the creamed summer corn and sweet potato chips.
The sweet potato chips gave Hunter another chance to practice his mandolin slicing skills...he's becoming quite the mandolin-slicing ninja! The chips fried up nicely and were finished with a touch of kosher salt. Light and crispy- yum!
The creamed summer corn came out looking spectacular. We cut a few corners since it's still spring and used frozen corn. Let me do you a favor when you make this recipe: do not use frozen corn. Blech. The texture was chewy and caused the dish to turn out pretty badly. We'll have to try this sucker again when the corn is in season, fresh, and sweet. Lesson learned.
Yuck or Yum:
- crab cakes: d-"very tasty, but I bet if I had followed the recipe more closely, these would have turned out even better!" h- "d made a mistake by telling me that she made a mistake; I never would have known. Awesome even with the missed steps. We'll just call it improvisation on her part!"
- creamed summer corn: d- "yuck- I really couldn't enjoy this dish, but I'm not goign to put fault on the recipe...it's because we didn't use fresh corn." h-"Not sure if it was the frozen corn or me overcooking, but the texture was definitely weird. Silver lining: you could definitely tell that if cooked right this dish would be great. The lime flavor complemented the corn well--we'll give this one another try down the road."
- sweet potato chips: d- *crunch* *crunch* (too good to stop eating to tell you how much I loved these) h-"Sweet potatoes, you complete me. Make sure to salt as soon as they're out of the oil, otherwise it won't stick"
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