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Eat Your Fish - Salmon with Mandarin Hoisin Glaze

If you are like me you wish you could eat more fish... but you just don't have any good recipes. Until now my friends. This is my take on a recipe from Martha Stewart's Everyday Food. We eat it once every two weeks or so and I haven't tired of it yet.

Salmon With Mandarin Hoisin Glaze

Glaze
1 1/2 T Mandarin Orange Juice
2 T Hoisin Sauce
2 tsp. Honey

1 11oz can Mandarin Oranges Drained (save juice for above)
2 -4 Salmon steaks or pieces
Coarse Salt
Ground Pepper

Mix together glaze. Rinse salmon and pat dry. Season both sides with salt and pepper. Place in a baking dish and pour glaze over. Place drained oranges on top. Broil salmon 4" from heat source for 10-13min.

Enjoy!

Weekend Review

:: Enjoyed one homemade rhubarb crisp in honor of one handsome mans birthday.

:: Dinned out in honor of our -1 anniversary. (less than one year until the big day!)

:: Viewed the latest X-man movie. Hugh is such a hunk.

:: Took one 4 hour nap... proceeded by 3 hours of turning in bed before finally falling asleep.

:: Complete two craft projects on my endless list of things I want to try to make.

Overall... GREAT weekend! Hope you had a great one too.

Martha's Oatmeal Raisin

I'm a total cookie-hog. I love SO many cookies, but a couple months ago I had a hankering for an oatmeal raisin cookie. I searched online and ended up choosing Martha's version. It's traditional and Martha rarely gets things wrong so I went right ahead and whipped up a batch. I was surprised by how many it made (over 4 dozen) and for just John and I that was a lot.... but I couldn't let them go bad so I muched on them all week and might have even replaced a couple meals with them (shhhhh).

Well this week I decided to do batch number two and wanted to share the recipe. These are SO SO good, but because they make so many I decided to freeze 1/2 in freezer paper. I haven't made the frozen batch yet, but I'll try to remember to share how that goes when I get to it. If you don't want to freeze, but have too many to devower youself, you could share with a neighbor, friend, or family. I'm sure they won't refuse.
 

 

 

 

Martha's Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Enjoy!

Strawberry Angel Food Delight

Sometimes you just need to spoil yourself a bit.  I found myself in that situation yesterday as I was breezing through the grocery store and out of nowhere I found myself standing in line at the checkout with a box of angel food cake already in my hand. I swear I don't know how it got there.

Then at 7:30 last night I found myself pouring spoonfuls of fluffy white batter into the heart shaped ramekins I bought on uber-clearance at Target after Valentines day. AND... even worse.... I was licking the light as air, sweet and creamy batter straight from the spoon.

It was pure delight!!

P.S. Please don't tell my spandex and running shoes about this incident!

Valentine 2009

Oh my Valentine!

We spent the day with family watching two cousins play basketball. It was quite nice and relaxing. For lunch John took me to the small town pizza place that we both love and ordered a pepperoni and green olive pizza. In the spirit of the day it came as a heart.... how cute.... and cheesy.... oh and delicious. We enjoyed two mugs of 1919 to top it off. It really was a sweet day.

And I think that's were I caught this awful cold. Just about everyone in the family has been sick or is sick or is just starting to be sick so it was my turn too. I'm almost over it now, still a bit worn and tired. John is just starting to show symptoms, but we are combating it with long hours under warm blankets in front of the TV.

See you on the other side.

Jam'en

I'm back and feeling much much better. Yesterday I still had a bit of a lump in my throat, but today I'm good. I thought I had made it past flu season unaffected, but of course I got hit with the worst of all.... the spring sickness. argh.

Anyways. Despite spending most of my time on the couch feeling sorry for myself I did manage to get up and do a couple projects. The first I want to share I did yesterday. Here's how it goes:

Me: wow.... there is still so much rhubarb... I feel bad just leaving it out there unused.

Deb (Boyfriends Mom): Well.... you could make another dessert.

Me: No... that last one was amazing, but I want something different.... just not sure what.

Deb: How about rhubarb jam.

Me: WHAT? YUM! I would have never thought of that!

In an excited rush I searched the internet for a recipe and ended up chooseing the 'cheater jam' method. I call it 'cheater jam' because it uses Jello. Yeah I know. Not the best for you, but jam is a treat anyways so what the heck.

So here my friends is the best rhubarb jam. It's sweet and tart and so so GOOD!

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EASY STRAWBERRY-RHUBARB JAM
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 5 c. rhubarb, diced
 3 c. sugar
 1 sm. pkg. strawberry Jello

Combine the diced rhubarb and sugar and let stand overnight.
Next morning simmer this mixture for 10-15 minutes. Stir in
package of Jello. Pour into jam jars and freeze when jam
cools.

*Makes 3 jelly jars full
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Enjoy!
Jennalou

P.S. Yes family... you will be getting some!