Hey, y’all.
Happy Easter Weekend. 🙂
We’re doing a really low-key Easter. I’m the cook / baker in the fam and I’m just not up for a lot of work. We were going to go out but then I got sick (possibly glutened) earlier in the week so now we’re doing a low-key meal at home. I am making a couple of things so hopefully they’ll be blog worthy and I’ll share next week.
Let’s see…what’s happened this week?
Bought a new hibiscus…one with the twisty stalk thing.
What? I think even I in my epic sewing failure could make this for the cost of a few sheets.
😉
We didn’t watch anything good or bad this week so I don’t have any docu thoughts.
Have y’all seen these Sweet Cream Soda at Sonic? I made the terrible mistake of ordering one and it was the grossest thing I’ve tasted in a good while. I’m not even sure what they’re supposed to taste like but this one is root beer and I mean look at that…it’s definitely not root beer color. It was like a tiny little bit of root beer plus some extra carbonated water plus a dash of cream. The overwhelming taste was carbonated water. Yuck.
These are from last week but I made some mini banana muffins using a bag of gfjules muffin mix. They look kind of lumpy. That’s because I left some of the banana chunky. I highly recommend doing that. 🙂 (not huge chunks…just not all mashed up and smooth)
Ok so remember last week when I made biscuits into bread crumbs? Well that was to make some crab cakes for Lent Friday.
Regular bread crumbs, chopped celery and butter. Softened celery in butter then added 1 cup bread crumbs and tossed them around to mix and coat.
1 lb Crab Meat
1 cup regular style gluten – free Bread Crumbs
Celery
2 tbsp Mayo
1 tbsp Dijon
1 Egg
Seasonings…I used regular salt / pepper / onion / garlic powder in some and then Cajun seasoning in the rest.
All mixed up by hand.
Portioned out. I used an ice cream scoop to keep them all pretty much the same size. I ended up with 16 total.
Breading station. I did flour, egg then the panko style biscuit crumbs.
Breaded and ready to fry.
Finished.
Served with salt crusted baked potatoes (and those who don’t have to drink their veg had some kind of broccoli mixed veg concoction). These were excellent. Even the crab hater in the group ate one. 🙂 As you can see the panko style crumbs crisped up perfectly. They were super crunchy on the outside and then soft and crab-y on the inside.
I made a dipping sauce of equal parts mayo and sour cream plus some crab boil (the kind in the little bag not the box). That Zatarain’s Crab Boil makes the best Cajun seasoning and a little goes a long way. This is how I tested it out to get my ratios…just a little bit on a plate at a time before mixing up a bigger batch.
That’s all for this week.
Happy Easter if you celebrate or happy weekend if you don’t. 🙂
I’ll see you soon. 🙂