Fish Dish: Smoked Salmon Croquettes
| Smoked Salmon Croquettes |
- 1 cup Panko (Japanese bread crumbs)
- 3 – 4 ounce smoked salmon filet, crumbled/diced
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon Old Bay Seasoning
- Canola oil
- Tarter sauce
- Preheat a griddle or skillet to medium-high
- In a mixing bowl scramble the egg then incorporate the salmon, bread crumbs and Old Bay.
- Work thoroughly then roll into three 1.5” balls.
- Gently pat out into disks a half an inch thick.
- Pour enough oil to coat the bottom of the griddle and cook each croquette about 7 minutes on each side or until golden brown then serve with tarter sauce.
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Product Review: Newtons Fruit Thins
Recently the folks at Nabisco sent me a package of their new cookies called Newtons Fruit Thins. These new cookies reflect the changing attitude of the average American – they are wholegrain (8 grams per serving), made with real fruit and contain no high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) or hydrogenated oils. For a cookie, that is rare.
They come in five flavors – Cranberry Citrus Oat, Blueberry Brown Sugar, Chocolate Raspberry and Fig and Honey. The package I received was Cranberry Citrus Oat. There are few things that I do not like to eat but cranberry is one of them. I try them every so often but usually I’m still on the anti-cranberry bandwagon.
Imagine my surprise when I tasted the first cookie and actually liked it, a lot. Within two hours I had eaten half of the 30 cookies. I ended up sharing them with my neighbor, another anti-cranberry person. She found the same pattern – she couldn’t stop eating them. That’s impressive.
Now, these are still cookies so it’s not like you can eat 15 of them (like I did) and have no repercussions. One serving contains 140 calories with only 45 of those deriving from fat. That same serving contains 22 grams of carbohydrates but just seven are from sugar and the one gram of dietary fiber lowers the chemical effects of the sugar to the equivalent of six grams. My only concern is that the serving size in question is only for three cookies. That’s not much of a snack even for a child but if you eat two servings 280 calories isn’t terrible – not for a dessert anyway.
Ginger-Berry Pie and Vanilla Ice Cream
There are a lot of things growing this time of year to get excited about. Tomatoes, peas, squash, the list goes on. But for me the best thing about spring produce is berries. My favorite fruit on earth is raspberries, one of the few fruits incidentally that does not grow on the Gulf Coast where I grew up. Perhaps that is why I love them so, they are always a treat.
But I also love all spring berries like blackberries, strawberries and blueberries. There are two wild blueberry bushes in my yard and they are loaded with tiny little morsels of yumminess right now. My neighbor picked a bowlful to make her morning pancakes and I have already harvested a delicious pie from them. The best thing about those bushes is that it’s free food. Not exactly manna from heaven but blueberries from heaven are almost as good in this economy.
Now the thing is that pies are not exactly the healthiest things in the world. No fear, I have recently developed a new berry pie recipe that is healthy and good. Not normal healthy food good but good. Additively good. I rely on two of my old favorites, agave nectar to replace the sugar and coconut oil to replace the butter then I make a crust using fat free ginger snaps and now we have a flavor combination that is remarkable. And it’s easy to make, too.
This is for a 1.5 qt. countertop ice cream machine. I specked this out and a 1/2 cup portion has less than 80 calories. My pal Susan Irby (the Bikini Chef) will be so proud.
