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Going through my freezer the other day, I noticed that I had a package of salmon fillets from Costco. Score! Salmon is one of our favorite foods. Visions of Salmon with Primordial Ooze danced in my head. The only problem was that there were only three fillets, and there are four of us. Looking around the cupboards and fridge, I decided to make a salmon spinach salad with a little bacon on top. It was really tasty – and pretty, too! Salmon Spinach Salad with Bacon
Salmon Spinach Salad with  April 19th, 2010 |  Tags: dinner, fish, freezer, low-calorie, recipe, salad, salmon |  Category: Cooking |  One comment A couple of weeks ago, I tried making a lighter version of one of our family favorites, Spaghetti con Sugo di Tonno. I failed miserably. It was all going well until I decided that upping the fiber and protein would probably be a good idea, and I added a drained can of cannellini beans. Well, they turned to grainy mush that pretty much ruined the dish. I think maybe if I had added them nearer to the end… but I decided to skip them this time and rely on side dishes for the added fiber. This lighter version was as delicious [Continue reading Lighter Recipe for Spaghetti con Sugo di Tonno (Spaghetti with Tuna Sauce)] February 24th, 2010 | Tags: dinner, fish, light, pasta, quick and easy, recipe | Category: Cooking |  2 comments Today my middle son is no longer a kid – he’s a teen! He requested two used computer games for his birthday, but he didn’t request them until last week. I ordered them from Amazon sellers, and since I didn’t expect them to arrive in time, I told him that I was getting them for him. And then they both arrived during the week. He knew what the packages were, but I wouldn’t let him have them until today. So that’s where he’s been all day. I also got him a watch, which is our tradition when a kid becomes a teenager. [Continue reading Pan-Seared Cod Recipe and Birthdays and Car Stuff] February 23rd, 2010 | Tags: dinner, fish, quick and easy, recipe | Category: Cooking | Leave a comment I don’t have much to say about these, except that I love them. Salmon Patties Salmon Patties 2 tablespoons olive oil Heat the olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Smash up the salmon in a medium bowl. I remove the skin first, because it grosses me out, but you could leave it in. Don’t remove the bones, though – they are soft and won’t hurt you, and they add calcium. Sprinkle the flour over the salmon and I love to eat fish, and all but one of my kids love fish, too. My favorite fish is orange roughy. A few months ago, I was talking to a friend and mentioned that I was making orange roughy for dinner. She told me that orange roughy are overfished and close to being on the endangered list. I knew of a couple other varieties of fish that I don’t buy because of those kinds of issues, and I was starting to feel overwhelmed – how am I supposed to remember what’s okay to buy and what isn’t while I’m in the grocery January 27th, 2010 | Tags: environment, fish, frugal, shopping, tips | Category: Cooking | One comment Last week (or was it the week before?), I made one of the kids’ favorites – poached salmon with primordial ooze. Hmm… I think that name might need some explaining. The sauce is really a tzatziki-type sauce, or maybe a cucumber salad-type sauce. It’s very tasty and complements the salmon just perfectly. But “Mom’s sour cream and cucumber and dill sauce” was getting cumbersome to say, so we decided that we needed a new name. The day we decided that, we were watching something on the Discovery Channel, and they mentioned primordial ooze, and we thought that sounded perfect. So that’s what We had planned for my kids to spend the night with my mom last night, while I went to pool league, but that didn’t happen. So I decided to make a recipe that I found yesterday while surfing – Simply Recipes’ Tuna Pasta with Capers in White Wine Sauce looked so yummy, and I had everything on hand, so why not? I thought it might have a similar flavor to our Tuna Spaghetti, what with the tuna and pasta (hah!), but it really was different. And it was divine. The boys weren’t as over the moon for it as I was – Spaghetti con Sugo di Tonno (Spaghetti with Tuna Sauce, or, as we call it around here, Tuna Spaghetti) is an amazingly tasty dinner that takes only about a minute longer than it takes for the pasta to cook. I discovered this on a blog somewhere and have since lost the link and the printout I had of the recipe. It was such a huge success that we make it almost weekly around here – so I no longer needed the printout, I guess. I need to find the time to search out the original recipe sometime, to see how far I’ve strayed [Continue reading Spaghetti con Sugo di Tonno Recipe]  |
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