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Crab-Stuffed Corn Muffins – Just One Frosting Away From Being Cupcakes

I was originally going to call these “crab and corn
cupcakes,” but since I’ve still not perfected my bacon frosting recipe, I
decided to hold off and go with the slightly less exciting sounding
“crab-stuffed corn muffins.” And no, I’m not kidding about the bacon frosting.

Besides, since these were inspired by the food wish for new,
easy and interesting football party snacks, I think “muffins” sounds a little
more gridiron than cupcakes. Regardless, they were simple to make, and (as I
tested personally) quite delicious eaten while watching a football game,
possibly with beer(s).

As some of you longtime viewers may have noticed, this is a
variation on something we posted many years ago called “Kernel Porker’s Barbecued Pork-Stuffed Corn Muffins,” and I always
wondered how it would be with crabmeat. When I got the usual autumn avalanche
of football-themed food wishes, I figured the time was right to find out, and I
was very happy with the results!

As I mention in the video, they reminded me of a New England
crab or lobster roll, where they simply pile warm, buttery seafood on those
toasted rolls. This was heavier, but just as pleasurable. Anyway, unlike the
replacement referees that are now calling the games, these didn’t suck, and
certainly won’t be a season-long embarrassment to the league. I hope you give
them a try soon. Enjoy!

Ingredients for 12 Crab-stuffed Corn Muffins
For the crab filling:

8 oz crabmeat

1 1/2 tbsp mayo

1 tsp crushed red chili sauce

1/4 tsp Worcestershire sauce

1 tsp fresh grated lemon zest

2 oz grated pepper Jack cheese (about 1/2 cup)

salt to taste

For the corn muffins:

1 cup all-purpose flour

1 cup corn meal

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp baking soda

1 tbsp minced green onions

2 eggs

1 cup buttermilk

1/2 cup melted butter

Bake at 375 degrees F. for 25-30 minutes. Serve warm.

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Oven Roasted Tomatoes

Summer plum tomatoes roasted in the oven with garlic and herbs make an easy and delicious sauce that will fill your kitchen with an intoxicating aroma.
The end of summer means using up my garden vegetables and herbs before the weather changes. It seems I wait all summer long for my tomatoes to ripen, then I wind up with so many tomatoes I don’t know what to do with them!

One of my favorite things to do with tomatoes this time of year is to roast them. The flavors of the tomatoes get concentrated and makes a wonderful sauce for serving over pasta or freezing for the future. If you think four pounds of tomatoes is a lot, you’ll be surprised! Four pounds reduced down to the contents of this jar.

What else do I like to do with my end of summer tomatoes? I have tons of recipes that use fresh tomatoes, but these recipes are a must!

Tomato Bisque^[1] – one of my favorite soups and perfect this time of year
Panzanella Salad^[2] – Using a good crusty bread is a must here!
Easy Garden Tomato Sauce^[3] – Perfect for grape tomatoes
Heirloom Tomato Sandwiches^[4] – So simple and delicious!
Heirloom Tomato Salad^[5] – I can eat this with some crusty bread and call it a meal!
Tomato, Mozzarella and Arugula Tower^[6] – A perfect meatless Monday lunch

Oven Roasted Tomatoes
gordon-ramsay-recipe.com
Servings: 7 • Size: 1/2 cup • Old Points: 1 pts • Points+: 1 pts
Calories: 53 • Fat: 2 g • Protein: 1 g • Carbs: 8.5 g • Fiber: 1.5 g • Sugar: 5.5 g
Sodium: 282 mg (without salt)

Ingredients:

1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
4 cloves garlic, peeled and thinly sliced
8 sprigs of fresh thyme
4 sprigs of fresh rosemary
salt and freshly cracked pepper to taste
4 lbs plum tomatoes*

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 450º F.

Divide the olive oil and pour onto the bottom of two large rimmed baking sheets; add the garlic, thyme, rosemary, and salt and pepper.

Cut the tomatoes in half horizontally and remove the stems. Toss the tomatoes with the oil and seasonings, then lay them down cut side down on the dish.

Roast in the oven until the tomatoes wilt and become softened, about 30-35 minutes, the tomatoes will start to wrinkle. Depending on the size of your tomatoes, cooking time will vary so keep an eye on them. When done, remove from oven and let them cool. The skins will come off easily; remove and discard skins and herbs then coarsely chop the tomatoes. Adjust salt as needed and place in a jar or use right away.

The tomatoes will keep for about 3 – 4 days refrigerated, or up to 6 months frozen.

Makes 3 1/2 cups.

*Calculated based on 3 1/2 cups cooked tomatoes which differs slightly from uncooked.

References

^{^} Tomato Bisque (www.gordon-ramsay-recipe.com)
^{^} Panzanella Salad (www.gordon-ramsay-recipe.com)
^{^} Easy Garden Tomato Sauce (www.gordon-ramsay-recipe.com)
^{^} Heirloom Tomato Sandwiches (www.gordon-ramsay-recipe.com)
^{^} Heirloom Tomato Salad (www.gordon-ramsay-recipe.com)
^{^} Tomato, Mozzarella and Arugula Tower (www.gordon-ramsay-recipe.com)

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Treacle tart

I mean, what the fucking fuck do you call this??!

I have for a long time thought that treacle tart is a thing I ought to be able to make, but I have always been scared off by this “baking blind” instruction.

That’s that thing, that I’m sure you’re all terribly familiar with and do it all the time, (in the evenings and weekends just for a laugh), where you roll out your pastry into a tin and then cover it with ceramic beads or beans and cook it before the filling goes in and then cook it again with the filling in it. A more pointless, time-wasty and stupid instruction I’ve rarely seen and so have always avoided it.

But tonight we’ve got some nice people coming round for dinner so I thought I’d break my baking blind, treacle tart duck and do it because the alternative is to cower in darkness – and that’s only hilarious for so long.

So off I went to Waitrose brmm brmm in my little car, and got some sweet pastry and a tin of golden syrup and some creme fraiche to go with it and came back and blithely stumbled into the worst and most useless recipe for anything I’ve ever cooked, ever. Except for that gumbo, remember that?

GARY RHODES I HATE YOU.

Just bad. Bad and wrong and unhelpful and stupid and ill and presumptuous and irresponsible. While the tart was doing its final cook in the oven I sat down for a bit with Waitrose Kitchen and had a flick through and alighted on a Fergus Henderson recipe for treacle tart that was far more detailed, complex and basically entirely different from the Rhodes recipe.

I experienced a terrible bumrush, of the sort you get when you turn over an exam paper and realise that you have spent the last week revising for a different, wrong module, or that the person you have just been massively bitching up is within earshot, or that your period is three weeks late.

I knew then. I knew in that moment that my tart was a bummer. And so it was. I can’t be bothered to start listing the catclysmic death roll-call of things wrong with it, but let’s just say that the BEST thing about it is that sides are burnt to shit.

FUCK! What a waste of my time! I could have been doing loads of other things! I could have been asleep.

I have nothing else to add. There is no nice ending to this story.