One Cook – Six & A Half Dishes

How many dishes can one cook do in three hours?

Seven! That’s how many.

A few weekends ago, I was participating in two parties…and I was to bring food to both.

So I made:

• Tuna salad
• Egg rolls
• Crab dip
• Crab cakes
• Fried Rice
• Jalapeno poppers
• and finally, I started a pork salad but didn’t finish. By then I didn’t want to ever see my oven again.

So it’s technically six and a half dishes.

I started the pasta for the tuna salad and while it was cooking, I started on the egg roll mixture.

Here’s my Egg Roll recipes (there’s two posts, don’t forget)…I wrote it a while back. And here’s the ponzu sauce that goes with it.

I alternately shredded veggies for the eggs rolls and chopped celery for the tuna salad.

Here’s my Tuna Salad Recipe…

1. One box pasta…I like to use penne.
2. two cans of drained tuna
3. three celery stalks, chopped
4. salt
5. pepper
6. 1/2 cups mayonnaise

Easy peasy.

I then started the crab cakes…once the crab cake mixture was done, I hollowed out the bread for the crab dip. I placed the first batch of crab cakes on the stove and I finished chopping the onion for the egg rolls.

And now my crab dip recipe…

1. 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
2. 1 cup shredded fontina cheese
3. 20 ounces cream cheese
4. bread bows – I found the perfect size at Giant
5. 1 pound crab (I used backfin)
6. 1/3 Worcester sauce
7. tabasco sauce (to taste)
8. salt
9. pepper

Mix all together. Place first in a  casserole dish and heat throughly. Hollow out bread and place inside. Bake the bread with the crab dip at 400 for about 10 minutes or until the cheese is bubbly.

By now, everything is a mess, including me.

My crab cake recipe is here…it’s hot, you have to have some taste buds to eat them…by now I’ve cooked three batches of crab cakes.

Whew, are we done yet? No, there’s the poppers.

The recipe for jalapeno poppers were from the Pioneer Woman’s site…

1. Japaleno peppers, seeded and hallowed
2. cream cheese
3. shredded cheddar cheese
4. bacon

I put cheddar cheese in mine since we can’t make up our minds which one we like better, the cream cheese or the cheddar cheese. So I put in both.

I wrapped mine very tightly and put them on a grill with a pan under it to catch the bacon grease. I didn’t wear gloves but if you are making a lot, you definitely should or else your hands will feel like balloons for a week. I cooked mine on 400 degrees and turned them once so both sides will cook.

My fried rice recipe? By the time I got through making the above, I don’t remember. I was on overdrive at this time…I’ll post a couple of fried rice recipe sometime…I also didn’t finish the ground pork salad. I wrapped it up half done and place in the fridge for another day.

I wondered why I was so tired that weekend. All that cooking and a couple of mojitos really did me in, I tell ya. I hope I’m not invited to another party any time soon, I can’t take it.

I hope you made it this far in this frenzied post. Because I wanted you to know, this is my one year bloggy anniversary month. I’m going to join the rest of the blogging world and do a giveaway next week.

The details are still rattling around in my head but basically it’s this. There will be a food competition. And a vote. And a great prize. I don’t know what the prize is yet, but it will be great I tell ya. I’ll post details this week. So please check back next Friday, and get your recipes ready to link!

I’m excited and nervous too…

Update: Alrighty now, I just fixed all my typos since I wrote this right before running to do my step class and my proofreader is fishing. And I also forgot to tell you that this is posted on Designs by Gollum. Sorry Ms. Gollum.