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Friday, February 7, 2014

Seafood Frenzy Friday #62

TGIF and Welcome Back to Seafood Frenzy Friday! If you're new to CEK let me explain exactly what SFF is. I don't like or eat any seafood so you will rarely find seafood dishes here at Carrie's Experimental Kitchen. My family will eat some varieties of seafood, but I generally don't cook any seafood dishes at home so they order it out when they're in the mood.

I created Seafood Frenzy Friday several years ago and have brought it back here on the blog in different formats; however, none of them seemed to do well except my original concept of seeking them out on the web and sharing them here with each of you. I find most of the recipes on food sharing sites and try to find the most appetizing looking recipes; then link directly to the owners original post. If you are a blogger and would like your seafood dish featured here on Seafood Frenzy Friday in the future, please contact me at carrieexpktchn (at) optonline (dot) com.

Without further ado, here are this week's fabulous seafood creations. You can also find all of today's recipes on my Seafood Pinterest Board.

~Enjoy and Have a great weekend!

Grilled Rosemary & Garlic Salmon with Smoked Sea Salt from Fake Food Free

Grilled Shrimp, Tomato & Feta Kebabs from Real Simple

Stuffed Sole from Mom, What's for Dinner?

Crispy Shrimp Tacos in Tomato Broth from Food Luv

Scallop Bisque from Cooking with Books

Cajun Seafood Enchiladas from Girl Carnivore

Barbecued Blackened Rockfish from Food Jimoto

Salmon Burgers with Cilantro Mayo from Cooking & Beer

Black Cod with Tropical Fruit Salsa from Julia's Album

Crab Stuffed Mushrooms from Laurenda Marie

Which recipe are you going to try first?

Friday, January 24, 2014

Seafood Frenzy Friday #61

TGIF and Welcome Back to Seafood Frenzy Friday! I know, it's been a while and if you're new to CEK let me explain. I don't like or eat any seafood so you will rarely find seafood dishes here at Carrie's Experimental Kitchen. My family will eat some varieties of seafood, but I generally don't cook any seafood dishes at home so they order it out when they're in the mood.

How to Clean & Prepare Mussels

Most of you know that I don't eat seafood; especially if you've been reading my blog for a while. My family however loves most of it; especially mussels which I will be making once again on Christmas day. So I'm sharing some tips I got from my mother on how to clean and prepare mussels. I've been told that "They are the cleanest mussels I've ever eaten!" so I must be doing something right! :)

Seafood Frenzy Friday #59

TGIF and Welcome Back to Seafood Frenzy Friday! If you're new to CEK, I normally don't cook seafood dishes at home; which is why I created this feature so that all of you can get the latest and greatest. I did take a couple of weeks off from this segment so if you missed any of the entries from the last SFF you can catch them all here.

Don't forget to check back for new entries over the weekend as you can upload your recipes until Monday. You can also stop by my Seafood Frenzy Friday Pinterest Board where you can share and pin your own favorites. Congratulations to Laurie Bakke's Kitchen for having the most viewed recipe on Week #58.

Horseradish Crusted Dilled Salmon with English Cucumbers, Capers and Fresh Dill

An InLinkz Link-up

Gab's Caprese Shrimp Stuffed Tomatoes (Guest Post)

Today I'm honored to have my youngest daughter back here on the blog to share her latest experiment with all of you. AND...she chose seafood since I don't prepare it very often myself. It looks great and the rest of the family really loved these tomatoes. Take it away Gab.... xo

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Hello everybody! It’s Gab again and I’m happy to be back on the blog. Ever since I was on the blog two summers ago with my Homemade Gnocchi with Sausage Bolognese Sauce, I could not wait to get back into the kitchen to share another original recipe with you. This summer I was busy learning kitchen basics with my mother and helping her on the blog. My favorite task was to pin fantastic looking food to all of her Pinterest food boards and I can't wait to try some of them in the coming months!

I knew what I wanted to make as soon as I tasted my mom's Spinach, Mushroom & Brie Stuffed Tomatoes. They were SO good and I wanted to make my own unique version. These Caprese Shrimp Stuffed Tomatoes were DELICIOUS and had such a rich flavor, but not too "shrimpy" tasting. It made me feel like I was back in Italy and eating such wonderful Italian foods. This recipe can also be made without shrimp if you dont like shrimp or seafood. I had so much fun making this recipe, but the fun part is eating it together as a family. I hope you like it as much as we did. Bon Appetit!

Gab’s Caprese Shrimp Stuffed Tomatoes

Prep Time: 15 minutes Yield: 4
Cook Time: 15 minutes Serving: 1 each
Total Time: 30 minutes

Ingredients

4 Large Tomatoes
12 Extra Large Shrimp, cleaned and deveined
1 tbsp. Extra Virgin Olive Oil
2 Garlic Cloves, chopped
1 tbsp. Fresh Basil, chopped
1/2 c. Shredded Mozzarella Cheese (I used part skim)
2 tbsp. Parmesan cheese
3/4 c. of Italian Flavored Breadcrumbs

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Add the oil to a small saute pan, heat over medium heat; then add the shrimp. Cook until the shrimp is cooked through and pink for approximately 3-5 minutes(should not be clear or gray). Remove from pan, allow to cool slightly and cut in half.
Place your tomatoes on a flat surface, slicing a thin slice off of the bottom if necessary so it sits flat; then take a sharp knife and cut a circle in the top of the tomato. Remove the inside pulp and even out the inside of the tomato shell using a spoon.
Chop the tomato pulp and place in a bowl; then add the shrimp, garlic, basil, both cheeses and the breadcrumbs. Mix well. (You may need to adjust your breadcrumbs if the mixture is too dry/moist, it depends on how much tomato pulp/juice each tomato yields).
Stuff the tomato mixture into the tomato shells and place in an oven safe baking dish.
Bake for 15-20 minutes or until the breading is lightly brown.

Enjoy!

Nutrition Facts

Calories 228, Carbs 24.5g, Fat 7.8g, Protein 7.6g, Fiber 2.8g, Sugar 1.5g

*Calculations based on ingredients entered into Calorie Count and may not be 100% accurate.

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Thursday, August 15, 2013

Seafood Frenzy Friday #58

TGIF and Welcome to Seafood Frenzy Friday! If you missed any of last weeks' entries you can catch them all here. Thank you to everyone that linked up last week and don't forget to check back for new entries each day. You can also stop by my Seafood Frenzy Friday Pinterest Board where you can share and pin your own favorites. Congratulations to Lisa's Dinnertime Dish for having the most viewed recipe recipe last week!

Seared Halibut with Fresh Tomato Basil Sauce by Lisa's Dinnertime Dish

And now for this week's party...

An InLinkz Link-up

Thursday, August 8, 2013

Seafood Frenzy Friday #57

Welcome to Week 57 of Seafood Frenzy Friday!

The kids are still on summer break for another few weeks and the days just seem to be flying by. Last week, we visited another college in MD that she really liked and I liked that it was only 3 1/2 hours away.

I played Bunco again...BUT I can't tell you the theme. What happens at Bunco, stays at Bunco! Well at least this month! :)

We also visited the Sussex County Fair and I was a little disappointed. I hadn't been there for a few years and there were not nearly the amount of vendors that used to participate. Though I did get a good shot of the girls sideways on this crazy ride. You couldn't pay me enough money to go on this thing!

Lou S. from North Carolina won the Almondina Biscuits sampler package! Congratulations Lou and THANK YOU to everyone that entered!

Also, if you didn't get a chance to weigh in on my eBook poll, please vote by selecting your choice in the top left corner of the page.

Ok...Let's Party!

We're off to a fabulous start and had over 30 seafood recipes posted last week. THANK YOU to everyone that linked up! I think I'm really going to like this link party format. Before I was only able to find and post 10 new seafood recipes on my own. If you missed any of last weeks' entries you can catch them on Seafood Frenzy Friday #56!

As you may or may not be aware I started Seafood Frenzy Friday because I personally don't eat any seafood so you won't find many of my own seafood creations here on the blog. So instead of having me pick out my favorites, I've decided to feature the Top 3 Seafood Recipes based on the recipes that all of you clicked on the most. Here are last weeks' favorites:

#3. Fantastic Skinny Blackened Tilapia from Skinny Kitchen

#2. Baked Stuffed Shrimp from MJ and Hungryman

#1. We had a tie!
California Roll Sandwiches from Life Currents and....

Shrimp, Corn and Avocado Salad with Sherry Cilantro Vinaigrette from Laurie Bakkes Kitchen

An InLinkz Link-up

Thursday, August 1, 2013

Seafood Frenzy Friday #56

Welcome to Week 56 of Seafood Frenzy Friday!

It's been a crazy busy week here on the home front as hubby was away on a business trip, my youngest was in cheering camp and in between I had to chauffeur my oldest to/from her cheer practices, work and the gym. December 1st can't come soon enough when she goes for her drivers test! Oh well...I guess I'll miss it when they've left the nest. I still managed to get 4 new posts up on the blog though. Here they are in case you missed them: Cucumber Yogurt Lime Dip, Gremolata Chicken Skewers, Ratatouille Panzanella Salad and yesterday's product review of Almondina Biscuits...don't forget to enter the giveaway!

Last week we just got started with our new link party format for Seafood Frenzy Friday, and we already had quite a few wonderful seafood recipes shared from some talented food bloggers. Remember, entries can be submitted all week so check back often for new submissions and don't forget to spread the word to let everyone know we're back in business! If you missed any of last weeks' entries you can catch them on Seafood Frenzy Friday #55!

An InLinkz Link-up

Thursday, July 25, 2013

Seafood Frenzy Friday #55

Seafood Frenzy Friday is BACK!

For those of you new to CEK let me explain. I don't eat seafood. Any of it! I don't like the smell, taste or texture. So I created Seafood Frenzy Friday's where I would scour the web searching for the newest seafood recipes from my amazing food blogging friends to share with all of you. It was great to see so much inspiration each week and it was a very popular feature here on the blog. Sadly, I had to stop doing it for a while as it would take me hours to search and gain permission from the bloggers to use their photos in order to compile all of the recipes for you. Time which I didn't really have to spare.

I wanted to bring Seafood Frenzy Friday back, and got some great input from some of my foodie friends Debi (Recipes from my Boys), Joan (Chocolate, Chocolate and More), Christie (Food Done Light) and Amee (Amee's Savory Dish) and decided to start up a link party. Thank you for all of your help and guidance!

What's a Link Party?

A link party or blog hop is where any blogger can upload their own recipe link and photo, in this case it will be any seafood recipe, every week. Then readers like YOU, can stop by every day and check out all of the fabulous seafood creations that have been posted. It helps bring exposure to the blogger and gives YOU many options to choose from.

Enjoy and I can't wait to see what you've all got in store for us this week!

An InLinkz Link-up

Friday, March 29, 2013

Seafood Frenzy Friday (Week 54) & Interview at MommyPage

Welcome to Week 54 of Seafood Frenzy. If you've missed any of the posts along the way, you can check out all of the previous Seafood Frenzy Friday posts to get more inspiration! In these posts, I share the name of the blog, an image of the recipe and a link to the author's original post. I also write a comment on each person's blog with a link back to this post letting them know that I shared their recipe, as that is also the right thing to do. Plus, it's just nice to hear when someone appreciates your work and is willing to share it with others. I will also share these posts on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Pinterest.

Before we begin, I also wanted to let you know about a couple of things:

Visit MommyPage.com where I am the Featured Interview a little later today.
The April Newsletter will be sent out on 4/1. If you haven't signed up yet, now's the time! It only comes once a month and there is always information in there I don't share here on the blog. I won't sell your email to any third party vendors and you can unsubscribe at any time.

I hope you enjoyed this past weeks' recipe selections including Creamy Rigatoni with Portobello Mushrooms and Spinach, Wasabi Egg Salad and My Easter Menu, and yesterday's Rosemary Grilled Pork Skewers . Comment below or let me know if there was a recent recipe you tried at home, I'd love to hear from you!

And now for today's selections for Seafood Frenzy Friday!

The Healthy Foodie

Coconut Shrimp Lettuce Wraps

Kalofagas.ca

Seared Halibut with Greens & Chickpeas

Minimally Invasive

Caramelized Scallops with Strawberry Salsa

Sumptuous Spoonfuls

Basil Asiago Baked Walleye

A Bachelor and His Grill

Mango Chili Prawns

Pinch & Swirl

Steamed Cod over Greens with Meyer Lemon Gremolata

My Good Gravy

Wild Sockeye Salmon Sliders

Kitten with a Whisk

Blackened Fish Tacos

Heat Oven to 350

Southwestern Salmon Cakes

Manu's Menu

Fried Calamari

Thank you to this weeks' bloggers for allowing me to share their recipes.
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Friday, March 22, 2013

Seafood Frenzy Friday (Week 53)

Welcome to Week 53 of Seafood Frenzy. If you've missed any weeks along the way, you can check out all of the Seafood Frenzy Friday posts to get more inspiration!

First, CONGRATULATIONS to Gainya T. for winning the signed copy of The Everything Wheat-Free Diet Cookbook by Lauren Kelly C.N. and THANK YOU to everyone that entered!

If you're a new reader to this weekly feature, Welcome! In these posts, I share the name of the blog, an image of the recipe and a link to the author's original post. I also write a comment on each person's blog with a link back to this post letting them know that I shared their recipe, as that is also the right thing to do. Plus, it's just nice to hear when someone appreciates your work and is willing to share it with others. I will also share these posts on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Pinterest.

I hope you enjoyed this past weeks' recipe selections including Asiago Quinoa with Portobello Mushrooms, Buttermilk Fried Chicken, Ravioli with Spinach Pesto, and yesterday's recap of the Buick Discovery Tour along with a giveaway for Michael Psilakis' new book "How to Roast a Lamb". If you haven't entered already, there's still time! Comment below or let me know if there was a recent recipe you tried at home, I'd love to hear from you!

Bakeaholic Mama