jlawrence01 wrote:Cathy2's recipes, like usual, always tend to require simple ingredients that everyone has and can be made in these times.
Thank you for your thoughts, because I am stuck like everyone else dealing with what we already have or alter to make it fit.
Sometime ago, I bought some frozen corn on the cob to make a shrimp boil during Lent. I almost never buy frozen corn on the cob, but it seemed more fitting than dumping a bag of cut corn. Yet home as we were, we never had our Friday shrimp boil.
Yesterday, the corn on the cob was pulled from the freezer due to a miscommunication. It was already partially thawed when I saw it, so I stuck it in the fridge. I advised we would be having a shrimp boil on Sunday.
I scanned this recipe from a cookbook club selection called
Tasty Latest & Greatest. You boiled potatoes in water with mustard seed, coriander seed, allspice, dill, bay leaves and salt. They did call for red chili pepper, but that is just not appreciated around here.
After boiling potatoes for 15 minutes, then add your corn to boil for 10 minutes. They also called for smoked sausage, but I could not find where I cleverly put this sausage two hours before. Skipped the sausage, the added the shell-on shrimp once I was happy with the potatoes. These shrimp were done in less than three minutes.
I used a spider to lift everything out of the pot onto a pre-heated platter. It was served with commercial cocktail sauce (my sister commented multiple times I should have made my own: catsup and horseradish) plus melted butter with a smashed clove of garlic. At the table, I had a half-loaf of French bread to sop up the liquid.
Shrimp boil with corn and potatoes I harvested the first rhubarb from the yard with enough to make a pie and about two cups more to freeze for the future. How we got to pie is documented
here.
Rhubarb pie We have been eating rhubarb pie since I was five-years-old. There was an established patch at a home we lived too-briefly in Massachusetts. There was no pie left after this meal.
Next Sunday is Mother's Day and if the rhubarb plant cooperates, we will have more rhubarb pie.
Regards,
Cathy2