THE BAKER COUNTY PRESS — 11
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2015
Local & Entertainment
Seafood Alfredo
salmon and saute
2-3 minutes
until mushrooms
begin to soften.
Add shrimp
and scallops,
saute additional 3
minutes.
Reduce heat to
medium-low.
Add half &
half, a little salt
and the crab
meat, cook 3
Homemade Goodness
minutes more or
By Eileen Driver
until heated thru,
stirring
constantly. (Do not boil).
With Valentine’s Day
Gradually add cheese over
near, my mouth is ready
seafood mixture, stirring
for my favorite special oc-
casion dinner, Surf & Turf. constantly till all
combined.Remove from
To me that means I get the
heat and serve sprinkled
surf, which I love, and my
husband gets the turf, since with parmesan and fresh
parsley.
he is allergic to seafood.
Note: pat dry shrimp and
My favorite seafood
scallops before cooking
recipe I call “Seafood Al-
with towel so they don’t
fredo” because I don’t
remember what they called dilute the sauce.
If you make this as a
it at the restaurant where I
side to a steak you’re ready
fi rst ate it. Along time ago,
my family and I were trav- to enjoy, if you want to
make this the main course
eling along I-84 through
the gorge during a massive you can double the sauce
and serve over noodles.
snow storm trying to get
Either way it’s delish.
to Vancouver, Washington
Although this recipe
where we lived at the time.
can
be spendy, it is a lot
Well we didn’t quite make
less expensive to make
it as they shut down the
freeway and we had to fi nd than it was to buy it in a
restaurant and you have
a hotel room for the night.
We had dinner in the motel the option to use fresh,
frozen, canned or imitation
dining room that evening,
seafood as you choose to
and I got the most deli-
cut costs. Although fresh is
cious seafood dish I have
always best.
ever eaten.
And of course I
The recipe below is
wouldn’t think of having
as close to that heavenly
seafood dish as I have been you purchase the herbed
butter cubes they sell in the
able to get, by experi-
store for this recipe. It’s
menting with different
ingredients. I love this dish much better to make your
own from the herbs in your
even more than the one I
garden or local farmer’s
remember.
market and will be so
Seafood Alfredo
much better tasting.
¼ lb medium shrimp,
Herb butter
peeled & deveined
½ cup butter, room tem-
¼ lb medium scallops
perature
¼ lb crab meat
1 salmon fi llet, skinless cut 2 cloves of garlic, minced
1 teaspoon pepper
in cubes
4 large button mushrooms, 2 teaspoons fresh parsley,
chopped3 tablespoons
quartered
fresh basil, chopped
2 tbsp Herb butter
½ cup half & half or heavy 1 tablespoon fresh orega-
no, chopped
cream
Beat all ingredients
½ cup fresh grated parme-
together with a fork until
san, plus extra to sprinkle
light and fl uffy. Place on
Melt butter in skillet
plastic wrap and roll into a
over medium-high heat.
log. Twist the wrap to seal
Add mushrooms and
The
the ends.Store in freezer
and cut off pieces as
needed.
Herbed butters are so
easy to make and you can
use any combination of
herbs and spices you like
to create an unlimited vari-
ety of butter cubes. Spread
this on bread for garlic
toast, use for cooking
seafood, placed in center
of hamburger patties or on
top of steaks for grilling
or placed under the skin
of chickens before roast-
ing. Your imagination is
the only limit to what you
can do.
If you don’t have real
butter on hand, which is
much healthier for you
than margarine, you can
of course make your own,
much quicker and easier
than they used to. With
only one or two ingredients
depending on whether you
prefer it salted or unsalted.
6-8 ounces Butter
1 pint heavy cream
½ teaspoon salt
Pour cream and salt into
stand mixer with paddle
attachment. Tent the mixer
with a kitchen towel (you
really don’t want to skip
this step). Mix on medium-
high for 8-12 minutes. At
fi rst you will have whipped
cream but keep going and
it will separate into butter
solids and buttermilk.
(Save buttermilk in fridge
for making pancakes.)
Remove butter solids
from mixer. Squeeze butter
over a bowl in the sink
fi rmly by hand ( you might
want to wear gloves) while
periodically running the
butter under cold water.
When there is very little
liquid left and it comes out
clear, you’re done.
Form into a log and
store, covered, at room
temperature up to three
days, refrigerate up to
a week or freeze until
needed.
We have mostly forgot-
ten how, but just about
anything they sell in stores
or restaurants can be made
at home for less cost and
will be healthier for us.
We don’t have to give up
special occasions to save
money.
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