Dragon

Is that 1 cup seasoned bread crumbs or 1/2 cup?

Baldur

ooops, typo alert!
that is 1/2 cup of season breadcrumbs

Baldur

Here is hopefully the typo free version, (thank you Dragon!)
Baldur's Crab Cakes

Take 1 6oz tin of crabmeat and drain off most of the juice.
Give the juice to your cats
Combined the almost dry crabmeat, in a bowl with:
6 saltine crackers (crushed in your fist)
1 tablespoon of chopped chives (dehydrated is fine)
1 heaping teaspoon of Mayonaisse
stir until well combined. put aside
in a shallow bowl or pie tin place:
1/2 cup seasoned bread crumbs
with your hands form the crab mixture into 2 patties, each being approiximately 3" in diameter and 3/4" thick
place each patty into the bowl of crumbs and press down gently
turn each patty over and repeat so that the outside surfaces are breaded
place in the refrigerator until ready to fry them.
Just before serving fry them briefly on each side in a small amount of olive or vegetable oil until golden brown
Serve with tartar sauce or even better salsa as an accompaniment

Baldur

While Robert is having Crab cakes Baldur will be dining on Curried Coconut Rice with Onions and Spanish Olives

Dragon

Thanks Baldur, I took the liberty of adding that to the Favorite Recipes thread.

As long as your in cooking show mode I'm sure you had a recipe for eggplant in here a while back which I really want to try but now I can't find it. I neglected to put it in Fav. Recipes at the time and am kicking myself for it now. Might I convince you too share it again?

Baldur

It was a souvlaki recipe, I'll look for it, or retype it from memory.
Baldur does not have written recipes for most of what he cooks.

Dragon

Wouldn't want to be all take take take and no give so here's a recipe of my own. It's great when you just don't know what to have for dinner and don't feel like running out to the store 'cause you can use just about whatever you have on hand and mix it any old way.

Dragons Any Old Stuff Casserole

½ cup Miracle Whip
¼ cup flour
2 cups milk
2 cups shredded cheese (the kind of your choice)
1 pound meat of your choice, cooked (Ground beef or turkey, diced ham or chicken or meatless if you like)
1 medium sized onion, chopped
Veggies of your choice (carrots and celery, sweet potato and brussels sprouts, broccoli and cauliflower, rutabaga and potatoes)
Ground black pepper and nutmeg to taste (a few dashes)
Grated parmesan
Bread crumbs

Mix Miracle Whip, flour, milk, pepper and nutmeg in a microwave safe bowl. Microwave on high for 4 minutes. Stir in shredded cheese until melted. Pour 1/3 sauce in a medium sized greased baking dish. Layer on 1/3 cooked meat, 1/3 veggies, 1/3 onion. Repeat layers. Top with parmesan and bread crumbs. Bake at 400 degrees for 30 minutes or until veggies are tender.

In my experience if you are using carrots and/or potatoes you need to either cut them quite small or give the whole thing a lot more cooking time. You could boil them for a while too before putting them in.

Baldur

Well Baldur flubbed again, it was not a recipe for Souvlaki, but rather Moussaka.
It was hidden in plain sight on page 105 of this thread
Here it is again:

Baldur's Vegetarian Moussaka

I do make rather nice moussaka if I must say so myself, but being a vegetarian version it is hardly traditional.
Sometimes Baldur uses Veggie Burger crumbles instead of ground meat but i find chickpeas that have been roughly chopped in the food processor are even better.
I chop a couple large onions and fry them in olive oil until nicely caramelized, then I add a peeled and pummeled clove (or 6) of garlic, the chopped up chick peas and some oregano and cook it all together.
I layer
fried eggplant
1/2 of the chickpea mixture
bechamel sauce
feta cheese crumbles
more fried eggplant
the other half of the chickpea mixture
more bechamel sauce
more feta
then a last layer of fried eggplant
the rest of the bechamel sauce
the last of the crumbled feta
paptika.

Bake until insanely delicious smelling, golden and bubbly.

Baldur

Let me elaborate briefly, if I may.
To fry eggplant first peel it and slice it 3/8" thick
Sprinkle the slices with salt and place in a colander (in a sink or a larger bowl) and let the bitter liquids run out for 1/2 hour
Admittingly Baldur often skips this step.
Then rinse the eggplant well and allow the excess water to drip off.
Then dip each slice in beaten egg and then seasoned flour before placing them in hot olive oil.
Baldur enjoys dolmas but has never made them.

I do make rather nice moussaka if I must say so myself, but being a vegetarian version it is hardly traditional.
Sometimes Baldur uses Veggie Burger crumbles instead of ground meat but i find chickpeas that have been roughly chopped in the food processor are even better.
I chop a couple large onions and fry them in olive oil until nicely caramelized, then I add a peeled and pummeled clove (or 6) of garlic, the chopped up chick peas and some oregano and cook it all together.
I layer
fried eggplant
1/2 of the chickpea mixture
bechamel sauce
feta cheese crumbles
more fried eggplant
the other half of the chickpea mixture
more bechamel sauce
more feta
then a last layer of fried eggplant
the rest of the bechamel sauce
the last of the crumbled feta
paptika.

Bake until insanely delicious smelling, golden and bubbly.
Permit each slice to become golden on both sides before removing them to trays lined with absorbant paper.
This blots up the excess oil.

Baldur

Now how did that happen?
The other recipe pasted it back into the center of my addenda.
Baldur's computer often plays such tricks on him.

from my previous comment subtract this:

Baldur enjoys dolmas but has never made them.
I do make rather nice moussaka if I must say so myself, but being a vegetarian version it is hardly traditional.
Sometimes Baldur uses Veggie Burger crumbles instead of ground meat but i find chickpeas that have been roughly chopped in the food processor are even better.
I chop a couple large onions and fry them in olive oil until nicely caramelized, then I add a peeled and pummeled clove (or 6) of garlic, the chopped up chick peas and some oregano and cook it all together.
I layer
fried eggplant
1/2 of the chickpea mixture
bechamel sauce
feta cheese crumbles
more fried eggplant
the other half of the chickpea mixture
more bechamel sauce
more feta
then a last layer of fried eggplant
the rest of the bechamel sauce
the last of the crumbled feta
paptika.
Bake until insanely delicious smelling, golden and bubbly.

Baldur

I should also have corrected the spelling, but you get the idea

Baldur

Did I totally confuse everyone?
Excuse my Luddite computer skills
Here is the addition I had tried to add to the original recipe:

Let me elaborate briefly, if I may.
To fry eggplant first peel it and slice it 3/8" thick
Sprinkle the slices with salt and place in a colander (in a sink or a larger bowl) and let the bitter liquids run out for 1/2 hour
Admittingly Baldur often skips this step.
Then rinse the eggplant well and allow the excess water to drip off.
Then dip each slice in beaten egg and then seasoned flour before placing them in hot olive oil.
Permit each slice to become golden on both sides before removing them to trays lined with absorbant paper.
This blots up the excess oil.

Baldur

Perhaps it is time for a musical interlude.

Here is the Primrose Stringless Violin Quartet with their stirring rendition of:
Come On Feel the Noise
written by Jim Lea and Noddy Holder

Come on feel the noise
Girls rock your boys
We'll get wild, wild, wild
Wild, wild, wild.

So you think I got an evil mind
I tell you honey

I don't know why
I don't know why

So you think my singin's out of time
It makes me money

I don't know why
I don't know why
Anymore
Oh no

So come on feel the noise
Girls rock your boys
We'll get wild, wild, wild
Wild, wild, wild.

Come on feel the noise
Girls rock your boys
We'll get wild, wild, wild
Baby!

So you say I got a funny face
I got no worries

And I don't know why
I don't know why

Oh I gotta sing with some disgrace
I'm in no hurry

And I don't know why
I don't know why
Anymore
No no no

Come on feel the noise
Girls rock your boys
We'll get wild, wild, wild
Wild, wild, wild.

Come on feel the noise
Girls rock your boys
We'll get wild, wild, wild
Come on!

Well you think we have a lazy time
You should know better

I don't know why
I don't know why

So you say I got a dirty mind
I'm a mean go getter

I don't know why
I don't know why
Anymore
Oh no

Come on feel the noise
Girls rock your boys
We'll get wild, wild, wild
Wild, wild, wild.

Come on feel the noise
Girls rock your boys
We'll get wild, wild, wild
Baby!

Come on, (come on) feel it
Girls rock your boys (come on, rock it!)
We'll get wild, wild, wild
We're gonna get wild! (wild, wild, wild)
We're gonna get rocked tonight (come on feel the noise)

Rock it tonight (girls rock your boys)
We'll get wild, wild, wild
OH YEAH!!

Ah, ah, ah (woooo)
Ah, ah, ah

Come on feel the noise
Girls rock your boys
We'll get wild, wild, wild.

Ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah

Baldur

Perhaps something a bit more traditional would have been a wiser course.

Here is Baldur himself, accompanied by the Woonsocket Lute Orchestra with a very old piece of holiday music.

What Child Be this

Tune "Greensleeves" (traditional English)
Lyrics: Willian Chatterton Dix, published ca. 1865
Lyric revisions: Baldur Bear 1983

What child be this, who's laid to rest
At Mary's breast be sleeping
Whom angels greet with anthems sweet
While shepherds watch be keeping?
This, this be Christ the King
Whom shepherds guard and angels sing.
Haste, haste to bring Him laud,
The Babe, born Son of Mary.

Why lies He in such mean estate
Where ox and ass be feeding?
Good Christian, fear: for sinners here,
The silent Word be pleading.
Nails, spear, shall pierce Him through,
The Cross be borne, for me, for you.
Hail, hail, the Word made flesh,
The Babe, born Son of Mary!

So bring Him incense, gold and myrrh;
Come peasant, king, to own Him.
The King of Kings salvation brings;
Let loving hearts enthrone Him.
Raise, raise, the song on high,
The Virgin sings her lullaby:
Joy, joy, for Christ be born,
The Babe, born Son of Mary!

marius

I like both tunes submitted to the musical segment of Baldur Radio!

marius

Funny night. We had an improptu dinner gathering tonight. Served beans and ham, cornbread, relishes, cheesecake.

All went well enough, but started out strange as dear friends were invited to be here at five but did not arrive until six. Of course they didn't have cell phone with them so we sat around wondering what had become of them, especially as they live 45 minutes away and traffic problems are not uncommon.

Bookkeeper friend knows her numbers and swore I made the error on the time. Well ... I didn't, and then I did. First email invite said five p.m. But, right before sleep, with fairy sleep dust in the eyes (you see, there IS an excuse for everything) marius emailed said friend about another matter and closed off by saying, "See you at six!"

Moral of the story: do not send emails when the sleep fairies have visited.
Here come the fairies now. Sweet dreams to all.

"part marius most of the time"

Baldur

That sounds like a good dinner marius. Baldur enjoys baked beans and even makes them from scratch most times.
Cornbread is another favorite.

This will be a busy week at Chez Baldur, getting progressively busier as we approach Thursday.
I removed the Turkey (blecch) from the freezer this morning. Hopefully Todays accomplishments will include
Polishing the silver
Ironing the linens
Making bourbon balls
Baking cookies (perhaps walnut biscotti)
Scrubbing the stairs.

Yesterday we did a very quick impromptu furniture shuffle.
This was not planned and started innocently enough when Baldur changed the window dressing in the office to heavier winter appropriate draperies.
The office is rather compact, and directly behind my lovely 19202 oak office swivel chair is a huge cube of an oak Mission style easy chair.
This started out in the living room but got replaced by a lovingly restored Morris chair.
It really is too large for this tiny office, unless of course we remove the drop front secretary desk and/or the homely little cellarette.
(Baldur votes for giving said cellerette away but alas Robert is attached to it)
In order to haul the heaving beast of a Mission easy chair downstairs to the family room I needed to empty and move the drop front secretary desk, as it was blocking some of the space the chair neded to clear the doorway,
Then I needed to remove the umbrella stand and many of the plants that live on the console table in the foyer. Prudently I also took the leaded glass table lamp out of harm's way.
This gave me perhaps just barely enough room for the chair to make it through the foyer. Baldur was praying silently that it would make it.
Actually it made it easily when I hoisted it to chest level above the edge of the console table. But being such a heavy piece of furniture and a there being a steep flight of wooden stairs that began just past the table made for a perilous and nervewracking experience.
All ended well however.
Once the piece was safely ensconced (+7 points) in it's new position we began to shift around the office furniture.
I emptied the cellerette of the barware and Waterford crystal 'rocks' glasses and tumblers and set Robert off to rinse the dust off them.
In itself that is a yearly pre-holiday tradition.

Baldur

Todays +' =Today's
19202 -2 +s =1920s

marius

Baldur, it is time to admit it: I am somewhat a curmudgeon (20 points) when it comes to holidays. It helps that I can now go through these times without panic attacks (well, think of it, if you had too many holidays with people who have untreated mental illness, not to mention problems with self-medicating, it will affect you!)

Had a dentist once who asked what I'd be doing for Thanksgiving. He said he was not looking forward to the "Triple F Holiday." That created certain images in the mind, so I asked. His answer, "Forced Family Fun." I knew exactly what he was talking about, understood his curmudgeon view. HOWEVER, the point of saying all of this is that, I want to thank you! Your descriptions of what will be served, and the wonderful lists of preparations, table settings, and so forth has activated an appreciation for holidays that had been rather lost. And this thanks applies to others who have shared their holiday joys on Baldur Radio too.

Am thinking I do not know a great many people who truly look forward to Holidays. There always seems more stress than zest involved. So, thanks for being one who provides zest. Reminds me to look after my own zest and keep it in good condition!

Do so enjoy zest - even the lemon and orange varieties! (tee hee)

Baldur

One of my secrets is to avoid my parents and siblings at all costs.
I have seen neither on a holiday in years

I invite friends who are in similar straits familywise