Monthly Archive: November 2011

Creamy Potato Soup

This potato soup is so good that won’t get enough of. It is so creamy and full of flavor. With a piece of bread with this soup and you will have a great lunch.


Ingredients:

Serves 4-5

4 medium potatoes peeled and diced (about 3 cups)

½ cup diced onions

2 ½ tbsp.butter

2 tbsp. all-purpose flour

½ cup heavy whipping cream

1 ½ cups shredded cheddar cheese

2 cubes chicken stock bouillon cubes dissolved in 1 liter water (4 cups) if using bouillon granules use the amount enough to dissolve in 1 liter according to the package directions.


Directions:

In a pot, combine the diced potatoes with the water that was combined with chicken stock bouillon cubes. Bring to boil cover and reduce heat to medium.

Cook potatoes until tender about 15 minutes.

With a slotted spoon, scoop 1 cup of diced potatoes and put aside. And put the rest of the broth and potatoes aside in a bowl or you can keep them in the same pot if you are planning to use another pot for the rest of the recipe.

Over medium heat, melt butter and sauté onions for about 1 minute. Add flour and stir it until the onions are well coated.

Add the potatoes and the broth to the pot (do not add the 1 cup potatoes we reserved aside before). Cook for 5 minutes.

With handheld blender, blend the potatoes, broth and onions in the pot until it is well blended and creamy.

Reduce heat to low and add the cream, cheese and the 1 cup reserved diced potatoes and stir until the cheese melts and everything is well combined.

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Pan Seared Salmon with Mushroom Sauce

 

 

Both my husband and I are from Lebanon and we used to live near the coast, so we are used to eat fresh seafood.  We now live in Tuscaloosa Alabama and before we used to live in Michigan and in both states we are not able to really get fresh fish from the ocean. I got used to eating frozen and sometimes what they claim to be fresh fish, but my husband still doesn’t like it, he still compares it to the fresh fish he used to eat in Lebanon and I agree with him there is no comparison between fresh and frozen fish. When we were on a vacation in Florida one time, all we ate is fish because we were happy that we were able to eat fresh fish again. Salmon is one of the fish that he doesn’t mind eating from time to time, that’s why you probably will see salmon the most in the seafood category. This dish is really good, I didn’t think the mushroom sauce with go that well with the salmon but it did and it was very delicious. I served it with some asparagus that I sautéed with garlic and lemon zest. Hope you enjoy it.

 

Ingredients:

 

 

5 Salmon fillets

3 caps portabella mushroom cut to big bite pieces

2 springs of fresh rosemary (leaves finely chopped)

1/3 cup finely diced onions

2 garlic cloves minced

2 tbsp. butter

2 tbsp. vegetable oil

½ cup heavy cream

1 ½ cups chicken broth

Salt and black pepper

 

 


Directions:

 

 

Salt and pepper the salmon fillets. In a large nonstick skillet over high medium heat, melt 1 tbsp. butter with 1 tbsp. oil.

Put Salmon fillets in the skillet, reduce heat to medium and cook until browned on each side about 4-5 minutes on each side.( Sometimes I cook mine longer cause I like the really well done).

When Salmon fillets are done, transfer them to a plate and keep warm.

To make sauce, heat the remaining 1 tbsp. butter and 1 tbsp. oil over medium heat.

Sauté onions until translucent about 3 minutes, the add garlic and keep sautéing about 30 seconds. Add the mushrooms; rosemary, salt and black pepper keep cooking until mushrooms are tender about 5 minutes.

Add broth bring to boil, cover and reduce heat back to medium. And let simmer about 5 minutes.

Add cream and let the sauce cook until thickened for few minutes. Put Salmon fillet and let them heat through with the sauce for couple minutes.

 

 

 

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