Citrus Salmon

January 27, 2019 10:37 AM

I spent waaay too long trying to pick out another theme for this site since I didn't like the fact that the old layout was infinitely scrolling. And you know what happened? This theme also does the same thing! Whatever, I like the way it looks. One day I'll make my own theme.

Anyway, check out this salmon I cooked! I was browsing How Sweet Eats and I came across Winter Citrus Butter Salmon. It seemed like the perfect thing to make since I love salmon and I had oranges I needed to use up.

We followed the recipe exactly, and I seriously have no idea how Jessica managed to cook the salmon by broiling it for 8 minutes. I mean, I like my salmon undercooked, but even this was a bit much for me. A couple of adjustments I'll be making for next time:

• Bake the salmon for 10 minutes, then broil it for 5.It's two whole pounds of salmon. I don't think cooking it for 15 minutes is too long.
• Double the brown sugar rub. Like I said, two whole pounds of salmon. Needs more flavor.
• Cut the orange slices really thinly! Okay, the recipe already said to do this, but it's important. They taste like candy after they're cooked.

We paired the salmon with leftover veggies from a work event. And rice because we eat lots of rice.

I give the recipe 5/5 stars, would make again. In fact I want to try all of Jessica Merchant's salmon recipes.

Leftovers and Broccoli

January 27, 2019 4:53 PM

We have way too much food right now. I cook dinner around every other night, and my sister bakes stuff, and all of a sudden our fridge is filled with food. I decided we needed a leftover night, but I also decided we didn't have enough leftover vegetables. So I cooked broccoli.

I sorta kinda used the Quick Garlic Parmesan Broccoli recipe from Budget Bytes. Somehow I made my broccoli really yellow though ): I don't think I'll be making this again, because that was way too much work for broccoli.

I also used two whole pans for the recipe. And I wanted to heat up the rest of my pierogies, so I used another pan for that! This is way too many pans for leftover night.

Leftovers and Chicken

January 28, 2019 4:31 PM

I had a lot of rice in the fridge with no protein to go with it, and I also had chicken in the freezer.

I made Sweet and Spicy Glazed Chicken Thighs from Budget Bytes. It was super easy to make, and it tasted pretty good, but I thought it was missing something: fish sauce. That would have made it so much better.

Chili with Chocolate Ice Cream

January 29, 2019 5:00 AM

That's right. I saw this Fire and Ice Chili recipe from How Sweet Eats, and I was so intrigued by the fact that she put chocolate ice cream in her chili.

I actually looked for dark chocolate ice cream in three different grocery stores, but I couldn't find it until I went to Whole Foods. And then I spent a whole $9 (!!!) for a Haagen Dazs-sized thing of Jeni's ice cream, which is ridiculous.

Okay, but I gotta admit, Jeni makes pretty good ice cream.

This was a really interesting tasting chili. It was sweeter and less tomato-y than I'm used to, but I liked it. Not sure I'll ever make it again though, mostly because it took two hours, and that ice cream was stupid expensive.

But if I ever see it on sale, I'm totally trying the coffee flavor.

Strawberry Pizza

January 29, 2019 2:09 PM

I really like How Sweet Eats. Jessica Merchant just posts so many interesting recipes. During my food blog browsing I came across Strawberry Pizza with Bacon and Caramelized Onions.

Which sounded real intriguing. I looked at the ingredients and I like pretty much everything that she put on the pizza. Of course I also scrolled through the comments to make sure someone actually tried it and gave it a good review.

Making anything involving dough kind of scares me, but my sister is great with dough so I had to make this while she's here. Plus strawberries were on sale!

It was delicious. If I ever make it again, I'd need to make note of a couple of things.

• Use two onions. Maybe three onions. Seriously, this needs way more onion.
• Get a larger baking sheet so I can make a larger pizza. The pizza crust was a bit too thick for my liking.