I’m returning to my normal Friday postings of recipes, dishes and articles from my fellow food bloggers that have given me inspiration over the past week. I’ve missed doing this Friday post and I’m happy to say that it will now become a regular happening here at Life, Lightly Salted.

My RSS reader is packed to the gills with food blogs. Sure, I have several news feeds as well as The Consumerist, Life Hacker, Download Squad and various music blogs, but I have to admit that 80 percent of the feeds in my reader are food blogs. There is so much creativity and great food out there. Every Friday I will share a few of my favorite gems with my readers.

This week’s inspirations were found at…

Robin Sue from Big Red Kitchen

She made a fantastic Irish Eggs Benedict. Corned beef hash, eggs, English muffins and horseradish gravy. I made it for dinner on Sunday night and it was delicious!  I slow cooked a corned beef brisket most of the day on Saturday. Then chopped up part of it for the hash. I left the skins on my potatoes and threw in loads of extra onions into my hash. The best part was definitely the horseradish gravy. It made the dish! Please go visit Robin Sue to get the recipe and see the full sized photos of this dish. You are gonna love it!

Big Red Kitchen’s Irish Eggs Benedict

Dawn over at Vanilla Kitchen made an amazing snack…Moroccan roasted chickpeas. It made me want to run to the kitchen and whip up a batch of mojitos, kick back and do some serious snacking. I’ll definitely be making these over the weekend! They are going to be a great snack to munch on while we are watching movies.

Vanilla Sugar’s Moroccan Roasted Chickpeas

Over at Serious Eats they had an article on 30 ways to use up left over salsa. There are some great ideas there! I especially loved the idea of mixing left over salsa with mayo to use as a dipping sauce for fries. I have a friend from Venezuela that mixes catsup with mayo to have with her fries. She tells me that it is very common where she is from. I’ve tried it on several occasions and enjoyed it. I bet using salsa instead of catsup will really jazz the dipping sauce up!

Here’s a link to the Serious Eats article…

Serious Heat: 30 Things To Do With Leftover Salsa

(looks like the story has temporarily disappeared from the Serious Eats website…so I will give you the top 10 of the 30. When the article reappears I will link it so that you can read all of the great uses!)

1. Mix with mayo or ketchup; use as a dip for French fries.

2. Combine with softened butter and refrigerate for a salsa compound butter; add thin slices to a grilled steak.

3. Stir into scrambled eggs or add to omelets and frittatas.

4. Spoon into cooked grits; add bacon and cheese.

5. Add to burger meat mixtures or slather on top of burgers (or both!).

6. Add lime juice and canola oil to a thin, puréed salsa like Rosa Mexicano Chile Pasilla de Oaxaca Salsa and marinate meat.

7. Replace tomato sauce for a chunky tomato salsa on a homemade pizza.

8. Make a béchamel sauce, add salsa and toss with pasta.

9. Stir into cooked rice; add olives and cheddar cheese.

10. Layer onto a grilled cheese sandwich.

 

I want to leave you with a great  blog that I discovered this week.

Hollow Legs

  Lizzie has mouth watering recipes and delicious photos. If you’re looking for something a little different please go pay her a visit.

What have you come across this week in the food blog world? If something has truly knocked your socks off…how about sharing it with the rest of us in the comments?