Soy Sauce is the Bomb

It's very versatile and easy to use. I wanted to bake some fish and needed a little seasoning without having to make the usual reduced white wine sauce. What was my solution? Put the fish in some aluminum foil, pour in some of the fish juice and a dash of soy sauce, top off with some julienned green onions, wrap it all up and we had some tasty fish twenty minutes later! And in our effort to clear out our fridge before the big move this week, I cooked up frozen potstickers to go on the side.

Crab & Corn Chowder

I actually used a little over half, not quite 2/3, of the 16 oz canned crab meat for the patties, and saved the rest for this chowder. I didn't have too many other ingredients on hand for a proper chowder but this worked. Combine everything and reduce the soup until thickened.

• 2 cans sweet cremed corn
• 1 cup low fat milk
• cubed potato
  
• chopped green onion
• salt & pepper to taste
  

Crabby Patties

A couple of weeks ago, I found canned crab meat at TJ's and thought it'd be fun to make crab cakes (the recipe was on the back, to which I made substitutes & omissions). Combine all the wet ingredients first, then add the crab, then lastly the bread crumbs. Allow the mixture to sit for about 10 minutes so the bread crumbs can fully soak up the sauce. Pan fry and they're ready to eat--very easy and tasty!

• 16 oz crab meat
• 1 beaten egg
• 2 tbsp mayonnaise
• 1 tbsp mustard
• 1 tsp soy sauce
  
• 1 tsp Lawry's seasoning
• 1/2 tsp lemon juice
• 3/4 cup bread crumbs (mine was a freebie from JJ Bakery)
  
• 1 chopped green onion

We also grilled some premarinated flap meat (a.k.a. carne asada) and zucchini. The crabby patties went quickly but there's plenty of grilled meat left over for carne asada tacos tomorrow night. One note on tacos: Instead of buying all the fixings separately, use 7-layer dip!