[SAJ]

Hi, Kitty --

Here's **A** recipe I found:

8 ounces Cream Cheese
½ tsp Salt
1½ tbsp Lemon Juice
¼ tsp Black Pepper (freshly ground)
6½ ounces Sardines (skinless, boneless, drained)
1 tbsp Parsley Leaves (chopped)
1/8 tsp Red Hot Pepper Sauce (eg. Tabasco)
Capers (for garnishing)

How to make Sardine Paste:

In a bowl, mix cream cheese, salt, lemon juice and black pepper.
Mash the sardines and add them into the cheese mixture.
Add parsley and hot sauce and beat the mixture well.
Form the mixture into a mound or any shape as per your choice.
Garnish with capers and parsley.
Serve with toast fingers, bread or crackers

Kitty, as it happens, I do NOT like pepper sauce or parsley with this recipe. The sardine flavour should stand on its own. Also, if you try the recipe, use -- at first at least -- somewhat less lemon juice. 2 teaspoons rather than 4 1/2 as suggested will probably suffice...you can always add more after tasting, right? Do be sure, though, to mash the living hell out of the sardines; there's no such thing as a "chunky" paste.

Good grub to you!

[JRandomFreeper]

You got it right in one. All of the celebrity chefs that I was slave free labor to said the same thing. Taste as you go, or you are making crap.

I tasted a LOT during school.

/johnny

[KosmicKitty]

Many thanks! I have most of that already on hand. I love pepper sauce, though Mr Kitty does not. Parsley, eh.

:-)

[Hardens Hollow]

I’m going to try your sardine recipe. I have all the ingredients :-)

As a newcomer to anchovies, I will try the other suggestions here going easy on the anchovies. I do have several tins of them, for whatever reason that I can’t remember now. But I’ve been hesitant to try them.