Carnival of the Recipes!

This is a slightly larger carnival than usual and there are a handful or blogs with two recipes in this carnival because due to a family emergency in the carnival host of last week, there wasn't time to visit those entries where only the link and no other information was presented. I'm helping out with the sweeping up (because I'm another Mom that's why).

I can tell its spring for most of us, because we have plenty of delicious looking fruity goodness, not to mention the lamb, oh, the lamb, and the asparagus of sweet greenity, and much other deliciousness to please the palate of the most discriminating. Please try to take a look at all of them- many included photographs, interesting tidbits of information, and notices about contests, foodie events, and just Neat Stuff. I love the recipe carnival. It's better than a new cookbook every week because it's free, and unlike my cookbooks, I can never set the recipe carnival down on a hot burner and scorch it. All the participants have done a great job sharing a little bit of themselves with the rest of us.

Breakfasts:

B. Durbin had a delicious breakfast, and she kindly invites us to give it a look. It is just a look, though, as she only sent a link to the photograph. Here is the recipe itself, and I think it looks worth waiting for. She calls it 'the breakfast of glee.' Yum!

Continuing the fruit theme, Adam presents Bunuelos With Orange Syrup posted at Men In Aprons. This is more of a dessert than a breakfast, but it looked really breakfasty to me (and delicious!).

Oatmeal gets a lot of turned up noses because people don't know how to cook it (and they spoil their tastebuds with too much sugary breakfast cereal). The youngest two Progeny consider a bowl of soaked oats a delicious treat. They don't even want it cooked. Muse at me-ander presents other ways with Oatmeal


Savories, Salads, and Side Dishes:

Did you know that there are gourmet salts? I don't mean just sea salt, celtic sea salt, big crystal sea salt, little crystal sea salt, super expensive sea salt and cheap salt from the grocery store but it works salt- I mean really interesting flavors of salt. Gary presents Foodies Across Borders posted at Product Review: Flor de Sal d'es Trenc Olivas Negras.

keewee at keewee'scorner presents Bacon-Parmesan Cheese Ball- easy, delicious, and a beautiful picture of it, too. Nice job!

Dandelion Salad moves uptown, and Marsha Hudnall at A Weight Lifted presents a tasty looking version of Dandelion Salad


Dr. Fuhrman talks about the nutritional quality of asparagus and provides some asparagus inspired creations. My favorite way to eat asparagus is to pick the young asparagus plants in the garden and eat them on my way back to the kitchen. Oops.

Yes, we are really going to have to save some asparagus- Seriously Good offers some tasty looking asparagus spears- fried. Sort of like tempera, I think. Delicious looking at any rate.

In the Headlights presents these tasty looking Salmon Balls.

Blabber Heads offers a wonderful Cucumber salad.

Lunch
Everything and Nothing presents upside down Meatloaf, made special by the addition of a bit of ginger, and we surely do love ginger around here. I know meatloaf is generally supper, but leftover meatloaf makes great sandwiches, and we're short on lunch entries. Of course, I don't think you're gonna have any leftovers with this tasty version. Maybe you should make two.

Crockpot Reuben Melts- whip this together in the crockpot in the morning, and it's ready to eat by lunchtime. This serves about sixish, depending on your side dishes (pickles, salad, chips or popcorn).


Supper:

Michelle at Meanderings offers a savory looking shepherd's pie in this week's carnival. These are some upscale shepherds...I can almost smell the rosemary. Mmmmm.

Romanian Sausage? Looks great, and this post was as good as reading one of the better, really informative, chatty cookbooks (Bonus! It includes a link to a recipe for baked baby artichokes). What else should we expect from Kevin's blog, which is, after all, called Seriously Good.

The Wine Amateur submits McLaren Vale, How do I love
thee? a post about the wine region as well as a recipe and photo for slow-roasted lamb backstraps garnished with wilted baby spinach and served on a base of roasted potatoes.

Memento Moron (who has one of the blog names that never fails to make the Equuschick laugh) has been experimenting, and he's come up with something tasty he terms Mexitalia. Last week he posted this delicious looking chicken recipe and asked others to give it a try and let him know how it tastes. It looks might good to me- he calls it Pollo Blu Del Parmigiano

'Mama? Why are you smacking your lips and drooling?' Because I'm reading the Technogypsy's post about grilled lamb. And I don't even like lamb.

Desserts:

I have been surprised to learn that many people do not care for coconut. I am not one of those sad people. So if you don't like it, can I have yours? 'Coz Bill at Recipes Recipe offers a truly rich sounding recipe for Coconut Spice Bars. Hate to waste 'em on somebody who won't appreciate them.

Make sure we save some room, though, beause we've got to try this: Bill from World Famous Recipes
presents Comanche Chicksaw Plum Bars using wild plums (or canned if you must).

I don't need to save room for this one, because I can always eat strawberries- Laura Lynn Klein presents Organic Strawberry Rhubarb Compote with Streusel Topping, and does it look delicious!

mensa barbie at Mensa Barbie Welcomes You presents Merveilles de Sugar . She says "These little cookies are perfect for a party, as can be served with most beverages."

Our own recipe for Lemon Love Notes is posted here. Actually, I say it is our own, and we made it ours by loving it and making it over and over. But it comes from The Farm Journal's Home-made Cookies cookbook, which I have owned since sometime around 1975, and had to replace once. A lovely older woman gave it to me when I was a kid- she was my Sunday School teacher through all of junior high. She was diagnosed with a terminal illness. She had all the girls out to her house and had us choose cookbooks. She signed them for us. We didn't realize until later this was her way of telling us goodbye. She was a wonderful, simple, spiritual lady, and the cookbook is a lovely reminder of her, sweet, simple, and of the common folk, too.


A Class Of Their Own:

Saleem at A Recipe A Day tries to post an Indian/Pakistani recipe everyday and take a picture, too. The Prawns Dopiazza with Saffron Rice and the Raspberry and Peach Dessert looked especially tasty to me.


muse at me-ander presents Rising without yeast- a fantastic introduction to sour-dough bread, yeastless baking, and matzah.

Kailani presents How To Peel A Potato posted at The Pink Diary. I just saw this video earlier this week- it's great!

Also be sure to check out the Kosher Cooking Carnival.

Pascha for 50? You don't have to be Russian or even interested in a Pascha feast to find some interesting reading and cooking going on over here.


Next Week's Carnival is hosted by Goddess Dawn. Submissions are due Saturday by NOOON central time, and should be sent to recipe.carnival@gmail.com. You can also use the handy forms provided by the Conservative Cat. If you wish to host the recipe sometime, please send a message to the same address with the word 'host' in the subject line.

Please let me know if any links don't work or if I missed you, and we'll see what we can do. Thanks for your time, and y'all come back, now, hear?

Note: spelling errors will be fixed without notice.