Shrimp Cakes

[lsanderson]

An Asian Tradition... Only they usually use fish

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[kightp.livejournal.com]

Yum.

They look rather like my mom's '50s style salmon croquettes. (-;

Not if your mom's salmon croquettes

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

Wuz anything like mine..

That's all shrimp with a wee bit o' scallion and dill. I got summoned downstairs to put the Cuisinart together to whirl it around.

Somebody is frying them in EVOO. My suggestion to use butter fell on deaf ears.

Re: Not if your mom's salmon croquettes

[kightp.livejournal.com]

Heh. I said *look* like. I'd be willing to bet our moms were roughly of a generation, and it wouldn't surprise me if got their salmon croquette recipes from a similar source (Betty Crocker? Fannie Farmer? Some women's magazine of the day?)

I made crab cakes last night, light, moist and crispy, and mused on how very little they resembled the greasy, crab-flavored dough-balls that were the first crab cakes I ever tried...

Re: Not if your mom's salmon croquettes

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

Hmm, can o' salmon, box o' crackers? ;-)

Re: Not if your mom's salmon croquettes

[kightp.livejournal.com]

And egg. Yup.

They were kind of nasty, but I enjoyed crunching the salmon bones.

Re: Not if your mom's salmon croquettes

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

Sounds identical.

Re: Not if your mom's salmon croquettes

[kightp.livejournal.com]

I'm betting a whole generation of us never encountered salmon in any other form till we were adults (except, maybe, for the ones who lived in salmon-fishing country).

Re: Not if your mom's salmon croquettes

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

Two of my mother's sisters lived in Seattle. They'd send a salmon back to the wild prairies o' Dakota once every five years or so... ok, maybe ten years or so, so I seen 'em.