If you follow my Facebook page, you're probably aware that I had a misadventure this week involving my stove burner exploding, so now my stove serves as a countertop until we can get the guy out to tell us what we need to replace. What I was in the process of making when it happened is the following recipe, although since I no longer have a working stove I had to radically alter the cooking methods I had planned.
However, this came out amazingly tasty! Not only that, but I was very pleasantly surprised to find out how low carb it ended up being, although the fat and cholesterol are a little higher than I'd prefer. Being that it was such an adventure to make, I'm calling low-carb comfort food a total win.
I love salmon. Even the cheap frozen stuff from the grocery store is good, but even better if someone has gone fishing and felt generous enough to share their catch. I got lucky with this batch, as a friend of my brother-in-law went fishing in the big lake and I ended up with an entire fillet (which came to probably six pounds of fish). Since I also had cucumbers from my sister's garden, I decided to try a recipe I'd had saved for a while.
Yes, this is another one that isn't mine. It actually comes from Diabetic Gourmet, but of course I made a couple of changes to it. Not many, though... it's pretty darn near perfect as written.
One of my all-time favourite snacks is cheese, or cheese spreads, on crackers. Whether you're watching a game, entertaining friends, having a family party, or just hanging out on your couch with a book or movie, cheese and crackers are an excellent choice. Instead of dedicating an entire blog post to each of these recipes, this time I'm combining several different spreads and a couple of types of homemade "crackers" into one post, because I often make them together.
Somehow I never got around to posting this one this summer, but there is pretty much never a bad time to make this salad. The combination of sweet, salty, and crunchy makes it a dish that rarely has leftovers no matter how big a bowl you make. I always put a smaller dish aside when I take this somewhere to ensure I end up with some.
As always, when a recipe is not mine, I'm stating that right up front. This comes from Sweet Tea and Cornbread, and I thank her most sincerely for sharing!
When I was a kid, I thought I hated spinach. Heck, maybe I did... kids are notoriously horrible judges of what constitutes good food. But all the way through high school I also didn't care for it, although I grew able to choke it down.
And then the day of revelation: My mother always served canned spinach, with white vinegar passed on the side. Canned spinach is, I am quite convinced, a food conceived in Hell. Fresh, on the other hand, is really quite amazing. Once I started cooking (or not) and eating fresh spinach, I couldn't get enough of it. Still can't.
Do you ever have those days in the kitchen where you set out to make one thing, and then discover either you're out of a key ingredient or you simply grabbed the wrong thing, thus needing to make an entirely new plan? That happens to me more often than I care to admit, but so far I've won more often than not.
That's what happened with this salmon. I intended to make a soy-ginger-honey glaze. But that is not how it worked out.
It never fails to amaze me how you can throw seemingly random things into a skillet, add some seasonings, and come up with a tasty dinner. When I put this one together, I had actually set out to make a frittata using some fresh spinach, but it turned out I didn't have nearly as many eggs as I thought and running to the store wasn't an option. Luckily, I was easily able to turn it into a sort of stir-fry instead.
Sometimes, you just have to indulge yourself. And sometimes, you can do that using boxed ingredients rather than making everything from scratch. I'm a big fan of easy desserts that are really tasty, and this one fills the bill quite nicely.
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