Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Month 3 day 1: Asian Salmon and Noodle Salad

Month 3!

This month there are five issues:

  • Saveur, April 2012
  • Every Day with Rachael Ray, April 2012
  • Food & Wine, April 2011
  • Food Network Magazine, April 2010
  • Cooking Light, April 2010
And last night, I uncovered about 5 more magazines, including one for April (>_<) I think it might have to be kept for another month though, because 6 is too many to do in one month. I'll be working through 5 issues for the next couple months, with 4 for a bit in the summer, and then back to 5... there are 44 for 9 months.

I think I am getting better at being selective about recipes, because I was able to select just the right amount of dinners and brunches for this month. I maybe was a little over-ambitious for desserts though. Oh, and I think we will have a dumpling party, because Cooking Light has a little feature of four country's takes on dumplings. 

Today we made:
Yakitori Salmon and Bok Choy Skewers, Rachael Ray April 2010
Spicy Asian Noodles, Food Network Magazine, April 2010

Today was a hurried dinner before ceramics, so I enlisted G's help on the noodle salad. He chopped up the veggies while I mixed up the dressing and boiled the sauce for the yakitori salmon. The salad is quick, and the salmon grills up quickly too. The bok choy wasn't cooking fast enough (maybe because it was on the perimeter of the grill pan), so once the salmon was done I removed it from the pan,  poured some water over the bok choy and covered the pan to steam them until they were soft. 

Yakitori (焼き鳥) literally means grilled bird/chicken, so it's funny to have yakitori salmon.

G says to keep the salmon recipe but not the salad. We just used the whole package instead of 2/3rds like the recipe called for, plus I think a lot of the dressing just sank to the bottom of the bowl, so it wasn't that flavorful. Maybe tomorrow after there's been some time for the flavors to marinate it will be nicer.

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