How to Be Creative When you are Cooking

Have you ever been in the kitchen ready to eat and realized you
don't have your favorite sauce or dip for dinner. This happened
to me recently when my family was sitting down to beer battered
Walleye from a recent fishing trip. We had no tartar sauce. So I
opened the regenerator and selected mayonnaise, sour cream,
lemon and dill pickle relish. I then mixed the four together and
sprinkled in a little fish rub from the pantry. We had instant
tartar sauce and really tasty fish.

When you are in your kitchen don't be afraid to experiment a
bit. Try a homemade barbeque sauce if you are out of your
favorite bottled variety. Mix ketchup, and dry mustard with
molasses and a dash or two of pepper. If it is a salad you
desire here is a quick and easy oriental chicken salad.

Toss some lettuce into a bowl next chop leftover chicken into
bite size pieces and sprinkle on top of the lettuce. Whisk
together in a separate bowl sesame oil, rice wine vinegar, a
spoon full of Hoisin sauce and a dash of oyster sauce. Pour over
the salad and toss. If you have any fresh veggies on hand toss
those in as well.

Finally a dessert quick substitution. When you want hot fudge
sundaes and are out of fudge sauce try melting chocolate cake
frosting. Pour the warmed cake frosting over ice cream and you
have quick and easy hot fudge sundaes. If you really like to mix
things up try melting a different flavor of cake frosting.
Little children enjoy using confetti cake frosting, this way
they have sauce for the ice cream with sprinkles built in.