Recipes previously posted in my other blog

Here's a round-up of every recipe I posted in my other blog before I started this culinary-focused blog.

Rum is awesome--and so is salmon, and maple syrup...

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Roast-Maple-Glazed-Salmon-10808

First, you make the marinade:
1/4 cup maple syrup
1/4 cup rum (we used golden spiced rum)
2 tablespoons Dijon mustard

It calls for 2 pounds of fish, but I had a pound thawed from frozen, which was about to fall apart after floating in the boozy mixture for the prescribed 2 hours. Cook 450 degrees for 15 minutes on a cookie sheet lined with parchment.

I think this is my new favorite way to prepare salmon.


Maple syrup + poultry = YUMMY!!!!
Once more, proof that maple syrup is great on just about everything.

I did this with the cornish hens, like the recipe says, but I'd bet it'd a great way to do chicken thighs. (I seldom do breasts, because they cost more, and I love dark meat. More iron in it too. The parts of a bird that become dark meat are the muscles they use more, and thus get more blood flow to them.)
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/2581

(So I don't infringe on copyright, I won't post the entire recipe But in case your connection is slow, or you're in a hurry...the glaze is 2TBSP maple syrup, 1 1/2 TBSP butter, 1 TSP Dijon mustard, and 1TSP dried thyme, melted together.)

I used brown deli mustard and it was good too. I probably used more than 2 TBSP of the syrup, but that's the best part, right? Margarine instead of butter worked fine too.


Heavenly Chocolate Chip Cookies
The best cookies ever, Maggie's cookies, Margo cookies, whatever you know may know them as
here they are ...

Heavenly Chocolate Chip Cookies (the name they bore in the St. Mary's ladies' guild cookbook)
1/2 cup softened margarine
2/3 cup shortening
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup brown sugar, packed
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
3 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1- 12 oz. package semi-sweet chips
Cream margarine and shortening until smooth. Beat in eggs, sugars, and vanilla; mix until well-blended. Gradually add flour, salt, and baking soda. When well-blended, fold in chocolate chips. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls unto ungreased baking sheet. Bake at 375 F for 8 but no longer than 10 minutes. These cookies will be golden brown in spots. Even if they look underdone, do not cook them for longer than 10 minutes--they will settle into perfection. As a variation, these are also good made with white chocolate chips.