"Crab" Cakes

Ever since we started vacationing in Jamaica, crab has been off the menu. Once you spend a day watching the scurry across the beach stealing fruit from your tropical drinks, it seems wrong to eat them.



Unfortunately, I love crab cakes. Luckily, I found a recipe for zucchini cakes that promised to taste like crab, and they came pretty damn close.


The cakes take a while to put together, but are really simple.

First you have to grate the zucchini:



Then salt the zucchini, and let sit to draw out as much liquid as you can. Add chopped onion, egg, bread crumbs and old bay seasoning





Then shape into patties, and let sit in the refrigerator to firm up. They are supposed to be pan fried, but I just baked on a cookie sheet to save time, calories and cleanup.

I served with some Sriracha mayonnaise (man I love this stuff now), bulgar, and broiled tomatoes.


Again, maybe not the prettiest, but pretty damn tasty (and no crabs were hurt during the making of this meal).

I've got nothing

except for some random eats:

adorable sliders from the Port Authority Bowling Alley.

Who knew?

The sandwich that ate everyone:

(Mama's of Corona's @ CitiField)

And the fancy-pantsy spread at the American Girl Tea Party.

Seared Tuna Steak

Although they look kinda nasty in this super up close pic, they tasted great. Recipe here.

And Lemon Dilled Brussels Sprouts

Also quite nice. Did you know that the correct name is actually Brussels Sprouts? Not Brussel, Brussels. It's almost as unsettling as Canada Geese.

Back on track (for now)

This week has been going pretty well. Especially since hubby has been good about making suggestions for dinner.

This salad was inspired by one he found in a magazine, Mango and Avacado Salad, topped with Spicy Grilled Shrimp


And a side of, well, basically inedible grilled jalapeno peppers.




The Vegetarian Stuffed Peppers came out freakin AMAZING!



And, I bought myself a little present.

This shit is HOT! I hope it keeps, cause this baby is going to last me years!

Yawn

Once again, here I am apologizing for not posting. But, hey, I have an actual follower! Hi Rich =)

I at least have a good reason for being neglectful, hubby has been traveling a lot, and so has my camera.


moving on, here are a few from the Indian feast hubby made me. He has a real knack for this.









And here he is cooking for me =)








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A slow week.

All of my lunches have looked like some variety of this.

Although tomorrow's lunch should look different...the last salad didn't survive an unfortunate fridge avalanche.


Wednesday's dinner

Veggie Burger (from Costco, very good) with garden and quinoa salads



Somewhere in there was another spaghetti and turkey meatballs requested by guess who, but I refused to take its picture.




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Fancy Pants Weekend

Hubby and I got discount passes to see the King Tut Exhibit at the Discovery Times Square Expo. FYI, it was incredible.

Afterwords we had dinner at our favorite NYC spot. Cibo.
We were seated in a private, romantic, dark booth. Nice ambiance, but makes for sucky pictures.



Pork Turnover (for hubs of course, but I had a bite, and it was awesome).


I had a roasted beet, graprefruit and goat cheese salad, but couldn't take a decent picture of it.



Main Course:


For the Hubs.
Seared sea scallops, roasted eggplant porcini mashed potatoes, lime leaf coconut milk reduction




And for yours truly
Sauteed basil crusted cod fish, garlic roasted tomatoes, caramelized onion escarole



And, of course






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