Salmon and Zucchini

Here's another one from Damn Delicious with some modifications.

http://damndelicious.net/2015/06/19/one-pan-lemon-herb-salmon-and-zucchini/

For this one I had to go with a cheaper salmon that had the skin.  So, I decided to cook the zucchini separately and with a different recipe.  Us Dyson's try our best to use as much fresh and organic ingredients as possible, but just as possible.  I'm not out to break the bank.  When a spice is available at Target or Wegman's, I pick the best options depending on coupons and sales.

For the salmon I mixed up the spread leaving out the sugar.  I will almost never add any sugar that's included in a recipe.  It has not been missed at all.

I spread it on, added slices of lemon and baked.

For the zucchini, I made it using a recipe that I cannot remember the origin.  I've made it so many times I've never needed to print it out or write it down.  None of the ingredients are measured.

It's basically fresh, sliced zucchini.

Parmesan cheese

Bread crumbs, garlic powder, onion powder, salt, pepper, and herbs to taste.

Dip the zucchini in water or olive oil and then in the mixture and lay on a lined or greased cookie sheet and bake until browned a little.

While both of these dishes turned out to be yummy on their own, together they were not a match.  Very healthy meal, though.  

Chris was playing DJ and we prepared this meal to Procol Harum's A Salty Dog.

What's for Lunch

I feel like Chris and I have mastered the Tuna Fish Sandwich.  I'm strictly talking about food here in case there was any confusion.

We take a can of solid white Albacore tuna in water, drain it, then smash it up in a bowl.  We then add Wegmans organic mayonnaise, Grey Poupon Dijon mustard, a couple of handfuls of chopped fresh spinach, about a spoon full of red onion and green onion, fresh chopped parsley, pepper, salt, onion powder, garlic powder, and celery salt to taste.

So good on Nature's Own Honey Wheat bread or a flour tortilla.  Paired with Flying Dog's Blood Orange IPA, this makes for excellent lunch!

Spicy Parmesan Shrimp Salad

This recipe is on Damn Delicious as Spicy Parmesan Shrimp Pasta.

http://damndelicious.net/2014/01/15/spicy-parmesan-shrimp-pasta/

Instead of using pasta, we used romaine lettuce.  The recipe has it cooking all flavorful, yummy, and damn delicious, then to toss with pasta.  We just let it cool a little so the romaine wouldn't wilt, and tossed it with that.

Now, I'm sure it's excellent with a pasta.  But, who wants to eat pasta during a weeknight?  Well, I do.  Forever, I do.  But I decided to be a responsible mature adult and have it as a salad.  And it was still damn delicious.

Pumpkin Pie Spiced French Toast

Pumpkin Pie Spiced French Toast.  Pumpkin Pie Spiced French Toast. I can't stop repeating this.  I feel that I'm now a culinary genius.  This was so yummy.

I used French sour dough loaf, eggs, heavy whipping cream and spices.  I don't measure the things that are so good that over doing it will only make your meal better.  So, liberal amounts of cinnamon, nutmeg, ground clove, and ginger all added to the pumpkin spice flavor.  The only thing that would make this better is if I'd used the pumpkin raisin spice bread from Moving Meadows Farm.  (www.movingmeadowsfarm.com)

But, being the beginning of the pumpkin craze, I have resisted in purchasing anything pumpkin.  Until today, where I will be at the grocery store getting supplies to make my first pie of the season.

Chris's soundtrack to this meal is Django Reinhardt's Swing de Paris.

Parmesan Cheese

Lemon Butter Chicken

Today I made the Lemon Butter Chicken from Damn Delicious.  I was a little skeptical until I read the second ingredient, smoked paprika. Mmmm. Love some smoked paprika.

An essential part of cooking is the soundtrack. My husband suggests:

And he's right.  Men at work and the smells of this meal were a match.

I also used my new kitchen tablet because for years now I've been using my phone and it is really inconvenient. This worked out great.

The alterations I made to the Damn Delicious recipe were that I didn't measure the garlic, smoked paprika, or butter. You can never go overboard on those. I also used three boneless, skinless chicken breasts because they're easier to prep for work lunches for the next couple of days. I also don't have a pan that is oven safe, so dumped it into a Pyrex before baking.

The plated photo was taken, then I took the chicken off, had Chris chop it up and we shared one on a bed of fresh spinach.  The only thing that would have improved this meal is if I'd thought to shred some smoked gruyere for the spinach.

This meal really is damn delicious!

 http://damndelicious.net/2014/12/31/lemon-butter-chicken/

My Butter Dish

I love my butter dish. I never thought about having a true appreciation for butter until I read Julie Powell's 'Julie & Julia'. For a couple of years now, I've been purchasing Kerrygold butter. Yummy. This stuff is great. It's like I didn't even know what butter was before this. So I needed a wider butter dish. I try to buy red things for my kitchen. So after searching for what seemed like forever, I found this dish at a Marshalls.  It isn't wide enough for my butter. But it's pretty and red and makes me smile. All that said, I'm clumsy, so I'll probably drop it or knock it off the counter today.

I'm also publishing from a tablet. More on the tablet later, but now I'll confess that I'm not tech savvy. This is my first tablet and I bought it solely for kitchen use. Please forgive my device/app/everything technical ignorance

My Butter Dish

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Welcome to my kitchen! I love to cook and am always finding new recipes online. I try these with having to make many adjustments due to food allergies.  After positive feedback from friends and family after posting photos of the food on facebook and instagram, I am trying blogger to display a broader account of each cooking experience. I'll also use this platform to show appreciation, criticism, or antidotes about my cooking tools.