"Melba's Jammin'" > wrote in message
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> In article > ,
> "Janet Bostwick" > wrote:
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>> I haven't had them either. I saw them around back in the mid-west as
>> 'institutional food.' Hospital food, school lunches and such. I'd be
>> willing to try making them. I would use bread crumbs, egg, onion,
>> celery,
>> salt and pepper. Maybe a bit of roasted red pepper, Anything else???
>> Maybe Worstershire? Tabasco?
>> Janet
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>
> Here's my thinking, Janet, based on nothing but my predilection for
> plain food: Eighty-six the celery and the red pepper and the Tabasco.
> And don't use too much onion. Make a salmon patty, not a
> salmon-vegetable patty. JMO.
>
> --
> -Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
> http://web.me.com/barbschaller 1-9-2010

Those are good, valid points. I've watched cooks on TV doing crab cakes and
that is the argument between the two sides. Vegetable patty vs. seafood
patty. I'm a plain food cook as well. We'll see what happens when the time
arrives.
Janet