Tag: Signature Dishes
Crab Rangoon Cheese Ball
Crab Rangoon Cheese Ball
I came up with this recipe with my new found love of Tillamook cream cheese. It’s much creamier and richer than your normal cream cheese. It’s so good you could shamelessly eat a brick of it in one sitting. Shamelessly. I took the ingredients that would go into a crab rangoon and turned it into the most decadent cheese ball known to mankind. The cheese ball contains jumbo lump crabmeat(substitute artificial crab if on a budget), shallots, chives, green onion, a few seasonings, and of course, Tillamook cream cheese. I rolled the mix into 2 balls, then rolled them in sesame seeds. They should chill in your refrigerator for at least 4 hours before serving.
Ingredients
- 8 oz cream cheese preferably Tillamook
- 8 oz jumbo lump crab meat
- 3 green onions finely chopped
- 1/4 cup shallots finely chopped
- 1/4 cup chives finely chopped
- 2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- 2 tbsp honey
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp white sesame seeds
- 2 tbsp black sesame seeds
- fried wonton wrappers for serving
Instructions
- Mix together the crab meat, shallots, green onion, chives, Worcestershire sauce, sugar, and salt.
- Using your hands, mix in the cream cheese.
- Form the mix into 2 balls.
- Mix together the sesame seeds.
- In a bowl, roll the cheese ball in the sesame seeds until it is entirely coated. Let chill in the refrigerator for 4 hours before serving.
- Serve the cheese ball with fried wonton chips.
Lemon Ricotta Meatballs with Orzo
Lemon Ricotta Meatballs with Orzo
This Italian-inspired dish is to die for. The chicken meatballs contain whipped ricotta and lemon zest, giving them a creamy tanginess. After they are browned, orzo pasta is simmered in chicken stock. Then heavy cream, butter, and lemon juice is stirred in; finished with shredded parmesan and freshly chopped parsley. It tastes so good, you’d think grandma made it.
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup flour
- olive oil
Meatballs
- 1 lb ground chicken
- 1/2 cup ricotta
- 1/2 cup breadcrumbs
- 1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
- 1 large egg beaten
- 2 tbsp parsley chopped
- 2 garlic cloves minced
- 1 lemon zested
- salt and pepper to taste
Pasta
- 1/2 cup shallots chopped
- 4 garlic cloves minced
- 1 cup orzo
- 1 cup chicken stock
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- 1 tbsp butter
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- shredded parmesan for garnish
- parsley for garnish
Instructions
- Mix together all of the meatball ingredients.
- Form into 1” meatballs.
- Lightly coat the meatballs in flour.
- Heat up an 1/8” of olive oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add in the meatballs.
- Brown for 10-12 minutes total on all sides. Remove from the pan.
- Add in the shallots. Cook for 5 minutes.
- Add in the garlic. Cook for 1 minute.
- Pour in the chicken stock. Bring to a simmer.
- Stir in the orzo. Cook until al dente; about 8 -10 minutes.
- Stir in the heavy cream, butter, and lemon juice. Season with salt and pepper.
- Add in the meatballs and cook for 2 minutes.
Homemade Buttermilk Pancakes
Homemade Buttermilk Pancakes
While there’s nothing wrong with buying premade mix, especially when your in a hurry, nothing beats made from scratch pancakes. Outside the buttermilk, most people have the ingredients in their fridge and pantry already. These take about 5 minutes to make the batter and 4-5 minutes each to make a fairly large pancake.
Ingredients
- vegetable oil for cooking
- maple syrup for serving
- butter
Dry Ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 3 tbsp sugar
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
Wet Ingredients
- 2 1/4 cup buttermilk
- 2 large eggs beaten
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Mix together all of the dry ingredients.
- In a separate bowl, mix together the wet ingredients.
- Stir the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients.
- Heat up 1 tbsp of cooking oil on a griddle or nonstick skillet over medium heat per pancake. Ladle a 1/2 cup of pancake batter onto the griddle.
- Once air bubbles form and pop on top of the pancake and the bottom is golden brown, flip; about 2-3 minutes.
- Cook for 1-2 more minutes.
- Serve with butter and real maple syrup.
