Quick and Easy Homemade Tarter Sauce Without Relish

So yummy . . . 

So I was in the mood for a fish night, particularly a processed fish night from the freezer aisle. Sometimes I like fresh fish smothered in butter and special seasonings, but sometimes I like it like this, because for the life of me I can't fry fish.

Once upon a time, I could. But now when I try, it crumbles. Not sure where I'm going wrong. I wanted breaded fish with tarter sauce, so here we go. Voila. Then I went to make the tarter sauce, behold, no relish.

The quickest and easiest way to make homemade tarter sauce from scratch is by mixing some mayo with relish. I usually just leave it at that, but you can also add lemon juice (fresh or from the bottle).

So since I had no relish I had to find a way to make homemade tarter sauce without relish. First step, call mom to see if she has any ideas. She looks something up and says try pickle, and then lemon juice, etc. etc. I literally went from scratch and chopped up pickles . . . But it was still quick and easy. Then I went through my cabinet - I had no lemon juice, but I had lemon pepper, which I bought to season fresh fish, and I had dill weed, also for fish. So here we go . . .

Quick & Easy Homemade Tarter Sauce

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of mayo
• a sprinkle of Lemon Pepper (or lemon juice - fresh or from the bottle - whatever you have to work with that tastes like lemon)
• a sprinkle of Dill weed
• a small sprinkle of salt
• 1 pickle chopped into small pieces (I took four quartered pickles and chopped them)

Mix all ingredients into a bowl and serve in little mini bowls on the side. I like to save dipping sauce cups from pizza and wing nights when we order out, and re-use them for things like tarter sauce and ketchup. They're great for things like that! Enjoy!

Carmen's Inspirational Creations: Don't Cry - Hold Your Head Up High

I'm going through some stuff right now and this thought popped into my head. I didn't cry. I try not to. Takes a lot to make me cry. I said to myself, I need to turn that into a new poster. I haven't been able to come up with any. So here you go, my first Inspirational Creation in almost four years . . . When life gets hard, or you have rings of fire to jump through, don't cry, hold your head up high . . .