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Chicken Lo Mein

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Last night my husband made chicken lo mein, which happens to be one of my favorite foods. The recipe is from here and is super easy to make which is great for a weeknight dinner and there are always leftovers for the next meal!

Ingredients

  • Sauce (next time we make this we are going to double the sauce)
    • 3 Tablespoons of low sodium soy sauce
    • 3 tables hoisin sauce
    • 1 teaspoon sesame oil
  • Lo Mein
    • 1 package of Lo Mein noodles
    • 2 teaspoons olive oil
    • 1 teaspoon sesame oil
    • 1.5 tablespoons of minced garlic
    • 1 lb chicken
    • 1 cup shredded carrots
    • 1 cup snow peas
    • 3 cups fresh spinach

Steps:

1. Whisk the sauce ingredients together in a small bowl and set aside.

2. Boil water in a large pot. Add the lo mein noodles and cook until soft and drain the noodles.

3. In a pan add olive and sesame oils over medium heat. Cut up the chicken. Once the oil is hot add the garlic and chicken. Stir constantly until the chicken is fully cooked and remove from the pan.

4. Add the carrots and snow peas to the pan and cook until tender. Add the spinach, noodles, chicken, and sauce to the pan and stir until the spinach has wilted.

5. Enjoy!

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Anniversary Dinner

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We decided to stay in for our anniversary dinner since both sets of parents took us out dinner.  Matt decided he wanted to make steak au poivre, which is his favorite meal!   This receipe is from one of his parent’s cookbooks.

Ingredients:

4 New York Strip Steaks

1 – 2 tablespoons cracked whole black pepper

¼ teaspoon salt

1 shallot or 2 green onions, chopped

¼ cup butter

¼ cup cognac

¼ cup whipping cream 2 teaspoons Dijon-style mustard

Steps:

  1. Sprinkle both sides of the steak with the pepper and salt.
  2. Cook steaks on the grill (we like ours medium rare so we did it for about 10 minutes).
  3. In a pan cook the shallot and butter until tender.
  4. In a sauce pan heat the cognac till it simmers.
  5. Put the steaks in the pan
  6. Stir cream and mustard into the cognac. Light the cognac on fire and pour the sauce over the steaks. 
  7. Transfer the steaks to a plate and enjoy your French dish!

Easy Salmon Dinner

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Tonight is one of those nights where I have a million and one things to do for 3 upcoming events. So instead of getting fancy with dinner we just cooked salmon and served it with a side salad of spinach drizzled with poppy seed dressing.

Ingredients:

  • Salmon
  • Lemon Juice
  • Spinach
  • Dressing

Steps:

  1. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees
  2. Cook the salmon in for 15 minutes.
  3. Plate the salmon
  4. Drizzle lemon juice on the salmon to your liking
  5. Plate the spinach and add the dressing
  6. Enjoy your 20 minute dinner!

Salmon Wellington

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Today was a rare day where I took over the kitchen from my Husband. I decided try making Salmon Wellington and am really happy with the results!

The salmon wellington recipe is from here!

For the potatoes I drizzled olive oil on them with some sea salt and parsley! I cooked them in the oven for the same time and heat as the salmon.

Orange Sesame Ginger Glazed Salmon

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Last night my husband made orange sesame ginger glazed salmon and it turned out amazing! We served it with sugar snap peas and brown rice.

Ingredients on the original recipe is for 4 servings but we make it for the two of us.

  • Salmon filets (we used the precut ones from the seafood counter at Jewel)
  • Salt
  • 1/3 cup orange marmalade
  • 1/4 cup low-sodium soy sauce
  • 1 teaspoon sesame oil
  • 1 teaspoon ginger powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon minced garlic
  • 1/4 teaspoon of red pepper flakes
  • 4 green onion chopped up

Instructions:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Place salmon in a glass baking dish.

In a small bowl mix the orange marmalade, soy sauce, sesame seed oil, ginger powder, garlic, red pepper flakes. Put half of the mixture over the fish and bake for 10 minutes. After the 10 minutes is up, take the salmon out and put the other half of the mixture over it. Bake again for 10 minutes.

We used a rice cooker for the brown rice and Matt cooked the peas in a pan on the stovetop.

Here’s where the original recipe came from: https://www.fromvalerieskitchen.com/orange-sesame-ginger-glazed-salmon/