Black Bean-Garlic Catfish

I tore this recipe out of an Eating Well magazine and shoved it in my favorite-recipes binder. As far as I’m concerned, any recipe with black bean-garlic sauce is a winner in MY book. Another sign that it’ll be good is if the page has oil splatters all over it. I guess it could also mean that I’m a messy [...]

p. 229: Fish (Stick) Burritos

As you would guess, these were VERY similar to Fish (Stick) Tacos. Especially since I used soft-taco size tortillas because I had them and was too cheap to buy the burrito-size ones. The addition of refried beans, Mexican rice and Salsa Cream (p. 40: 1 part green salsa, 2 parts sour cream). Mike, again, was skeptical about this [...]

p. 228: Fish (Stick) Tacos

Admit it. Every once in a while, fish sticks sound really good. Especially when you “grown-up-itize” them (just made up that word myself…thanks) and make them into a taco. All you need are fish sticks, corn tortillas, salsa, sour cream and shredded lettuce or cabbage. The genius part to this recipe was Sam’s fish stick [...]

p. 185: Pasta with Smoked Salmon

Mike LOVES smoked salmon so when I saw this recipe I knew he would like it. In one of Sam’s recent shows, a registered dietitian reforms one of his pasta recipes. The biggest substitution is to switch out heavy whipping cream for low-fat evaporated milk. This recipe must have been written before that show because [...]