I’ve tried two new recipes of note this week.
Berry Pancake – This is a recipe from Primal Blueprint Quick & Easy Meals. It has intrigued me ever since I bought the cookbook 2 years ago, but I just now took the plunge and made it for breakfast on Sunday. Basically you heat up berries with copious amounts of butter. Then you whip up some egg whites and fold in the whisked egg yolks. You pour this eggy batter on top of the hot berries and bake the whole mess. When it’s done, you flip the pan upside down, with a plate over it (no small feat when you are cooking with a 40 ton cast iron pan), and voila! Berry Pancake! I have to say, this is not my favorite recipe. I think I should have used only non-seedy berries. The egg crust/souffle turned out really tasty however. I think I’m going to try this recipe again, but make it more savory instead of sweet – saute some broccoli with garlic and add the egg crust to that.
Asian Salmon Burger with Homemade Pickled Ginger – If you like salmon and/or ginger AT ALL, make this recipe post haste. It is deeeelicious. I could easily eat all 6 of these burgers by myself; they are THAT tasty. I did have to make a few substitutions/alterations, however. First of all, I ran out of honey, so I used maple syrup in the pickled ginger. I also only had about 1/2 a cup of rice vinegar, so I topped off the cup with white wine vinegar. Also, fresh salmon is prohibitively expensive (and last time we bought fresh salmon at HyVee it smelled reallly fishy), so we used the frozen keta fillets from Target (on sale for $9.99 right now). I ran short on shitake mushrooms, so I rounded out the dozen with some baby bellas. Oh, and lastly, I have no coconut aminos (I can’t find them anywhere in the QC!), so I used tamari instead.
We paired the burgers with a green salad and some leftover homemade mayo I made for chipotle coleslaw a few days ago. Wow – everything turned out super good. We LOVED the pickled ginger. I can’t believe it’s that easy to make.
So after that super healthy, nutrient-dense, primal meal, we are going out for…….
ICE CREAM!!!
I can’t help it. My hormones are demanding some creamy, sweet Whiteys, and I’m powerless to deny them.