Comments on: Lox on Fearless Friday

By: Tiera

Tiera — Mon, 18 May 2009 16:49:15 +0000

I was reading through the Fearless Friday post and comments and wondering what I could challenge myself with when I remembered that just about 2 weeks ago I cooked something I had never cooked before. I’m going to use that. I made braised beef short ribs and oh my!! They were easy and great. I think I’ll make them again tomorrow for dinner, they just about melted in your mouth. I was always thinking that there wasn’t much meat for all the work, but it worked out wonderful. Long slow cooking is the key. I browned the ribs in batches in olive oil and garlic in my cast iron dutch oven, Then added all the ribs back to the pan, added one can of beef consume and one whole quartered onion and put it in the oven with the lid on at 350 for 2 hours. i served it with oven roasted potatoes and steamed Brussels sprouts, my family was quite happy with it.

By: Keter

Keter — Sat, 16 May 2009 16:01:29 +0000

@Stacy – if you want to make your own healthy salad dressings, do check out Penzeys.com – they sell premixed salad dressing spices. Search for “salad” to find the blends. All you add is the liquid (mayo, sour cream, yogurt, etc.). The salad blends double for quick spice hits for things like scrambled eggs, rice, or stirfy, too.

By: Stacy

Stacy — Sat, 16 May 2009 15:45:00 +0000

I also love lox, and order it whenever we go to restaurant that serves it (in Southern California you sometimes find Jewish delis and restaurants that specialize in having great lox). However, it never even occurred to me to try to make it. I’m going to try it–thanks.

Well, this isn’t just a “Friday” thing, but I have been trying for the past couple of months to try new recipes every week. However, yesterday, Friday, I did try making a new salad dressing. It’s not a life changer, but it was new, and it’s something I normally do not do because it rarely seems to taste as good as the bottled dressings.

It involved cayenne pepper and sour cream, which was weird for me, but it turned out pretty good. I’m a spice wimp, so cayenne pepper alone kind of freaks me out, but it was okay. It’s only very slightly spicy, hardly anything you’d notice. Here’s the recipe:

Mix these together in a small-ish bowl:
1 tsp salt
1/8 tsp cayenne
1 tsp sugar

Add:
1 tbsp lemon
2 tbsp vinegar (I used balsamic; I’d reduce it to 1 tbsp)
Stir the above until smooth.

Add:
1 cup sour cream
Mix it all together thoroughly and chill for a few minutes.

By: Nicole Feliciano

Nicole Feliciano — Sat, 16 May 2009 03:20:14 +0000

I tried a Chinese food recipe for the first time. Here it is:

http://momtrends.blogspot.com/2009/05/myrecipescom.html

Easier than I would have expected!

By: Keter

Keter — Sat, 16 May 2009 02:37:31 +0000

I am absolutely going to make lox. I love lox. But…but…I have a wheat allergy and can’t have bagels. Which means I’ll have to figure out how to make bagels – which I used to make from scratch every week – without wheat flour!

I had never made ribs before, so I made them, and they came out great. Linked above, with my name oh-so-smoothly typoed into “Leter.” Oy vay. /

By: Pam

Pam — Fri, 15 May 2009 23:39:39 +0000

I also enjoy a very thin slice of onion, a smear of
horseradish, and a slice of tomato on mine

By: JaxCC

JaxCC — Fri, 15 May 2009 21:04:41 +0000

Well, I created a shell of a blog so I could link to it, but I haven’t had a chance to work on it, so for now I’ll post here. =)

I live alone, and I don’t like to cook. It’s a big deal for me to eat regular meals. So in order to make it easy on myself, I eat almost 100% frozen foods. Last weekend I went out of town for 2 nights and stayed in a motel room with a microwave and fridge/freezer. I had planned on buying more frozen stuff (I figured that was still better than eating out), but I decided to be brave while I was at the store. Fearless Fridays and all that, right? So this may not be a big deal to anybody else, but I bought romaine hearts, baby carrots, sliced baby portabella mushrooms, grape tomatoes, a 4 oz bag of shredded cheddar cheese, and some Ken’s salad dressing. And I had the best salads while I was there. They were fab. Loved them so much that yesterday I bought produce again. Going to have a salad tonight for dinner.

I feel totally lame that my big Fearless Friday adventure was “anything not frozen” … but luckily the interwebz won’t tell you my name or where I live so you can’t point and stare … or at least if you do, I won’t see you.

Thanks, Heather, for starting this series.

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 15 May 2009 17:58:53 +0000

Fawn, one site I read had it as little as 18 hours, but the rest suggested turning it morning and night for 5 days. I went with the general consensus.

By: Fawn

Fawn — Fri, 15 May 2009 16:18:57 +0000

Mmmm, haven’t had lox in years. When did you start this? In other words, how long did it take?

By: Ceci

Ceci — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:10:14 +0000

Ok now I’m hungry. I LOVE lox (and hate cooked salmon by the way). Since there is no such thing as a good bagel once you are more than 30 miles outside Manhattan, when I have lox here i put it on sliced pumpernickel (not white, not wheat, PUMPERNICKEL) with butter, onion, and a few capers.