I searched the internet and found a nice maple glazed salmon on Food.com. I did make a couple of changes to the recipe listed in the link and I'll post what I did here. While I made the salmon my wife made us a wonderful side dish. It was Baked Parmesan Garlic Risotto with Peas and you can find it here at her blog, lunches fit for a kid.
3 tablespoons maple syrup
1 tablespoon grated fresh ginger
1 1/2 teaspoons cornstarch, dissolved in
1 tablespoon water
4 salmon fillets
1 scallion, sliced thin (white part plus about 2-3 inches of the green)
Directions:
In a small bowl whisk together the syrup through cornstarch solution until smooth.
Place the fillets skin-side-down in a large saute pan.
Pour the syrup mixture over the salmon.
Bake about 7 minutes at medium high heat until the fish flakes easily; baste with glaze halfway through cooking.
Sprinkle with scallion before serving.
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| Cornstarch added and mixed with water. Make sure to stir while adding to water or it will clump. |
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| Basting ingredients all mixed together. Looks pretty good already. |
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| Nothing looks better then fish cooking in a pan. Beautiful. |
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| Fine sliced scallions. Working on the knife skills. |
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| Fish has been flipped and basting process has been done |
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| Added scallions while fish was still in the pan. |
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| Removed fish from the plate to get ready to be served |
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| Final plating. There is a second part of this meal but I didn't make it. The wife did. |
So that was the main course. It turned out pretty darn good. I dare say almost restaurant ready. My son ended up not liking the salmon after all but my daughter loved it! After we all got done eating our kids went down for a sleep over at my parents so I decided.. it's time for dessert! What would it be? What would make the wife happy... Oh wait.. let's try this...
Chocolate Volcano Cakes! After watching a couple of videos on youtube I didn't think it would be all that bad. Again, I turned to food.com for the recipe. While watching the videos and reading the recipe I must have messed a couple of things up in my mind though. When it was all done it wasn't really a volcano it was more of a dried up puddle. Still the taste was wonderful and it really was asking for a scoop of ice cream. To bad we didn't have any.
4 tablespoons butter unsalted.
2 ounces
chocolate (We used 90% unsweetened)
1 large egg yolk separated from egg white
1 large eggs
1/4 cup sugar
1/3 cup flour (we used king Arthur flour)
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
Powdered Sugar
Preheat oven to 350
Melt butter and unsweetened chocolate together. You can use a double broiler or the microwave. Do this slow so you don't burn the chocolate.
Mix egg, yolk, and sugar together. No lumps. I did it all by hand. It didn't take too much work.
Butter the ramekins very well including the bottom and sides, all the way up and dust with some cocoa powder.
Sift the flour and cocoa into the egg and sugar mixture very slowly. Make sure to keep all the lumps out of it.
Add the melted butter and unsweetened to the mixture again stirring to smooth.
Pour mixture into a piping bag so that you don't make a big mess getting it into the ramekin and so that there is no air space. After about 3/4 full tap the ramekin on the counter to settle it.
Put ramekins in another dish and bake in the oven for 15-18 minutes. Remove them from the oven and let them sit for 5 minutes. Cut around the edges and place a plate over top. Turn the plate and ramekin over at the same time and dust the top with powdered sugar.
From what I understand you kind of have to play around with the time here. If you make them and they flow too much you didn't cook them long enough. If they don't flow at all you have to cook them less. It's too bad that this time we cooked them a little too long so we didn't get any flow when we cut into them but they were delish! I fully intend on making them again and possibly adding a little peppermint extract to the batter.
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| Mixing egg and sugar. Watch for the color change |
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| looking good |
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| Butter and unsweetened chocolate melted perfectly |
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| Dusted and ready to go |
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| Added the two mixes together. |
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| Fresh out of the oven |
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| First cut! No lava. Oh well, maybe next time! |
Over all, both of these recipes were pretty easy and quick. The Salmon took less then 30 minutes and the cake was about an hour. Both were yummy.
-Chris
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