(reposted for our GNO dinner- it's the BEST!)
My new favorite dish!!!! I served this for our Bon Appetit dinner - here was the menu.
Baked Sesame Cream Cheese with fruit and crackers
Teriyaki Salmon with Sriracha Cream Sauce
Thai Sweet Potato fries with Sweet Chilli dipping sauce
Asian noodle salad
Friend Valene brought the dessert- Lemon Sugar bundt cake with vanilla ice cream. We agreed it was the perfect meal!
Teriyaki Salmon with Sriracha Cream Sauce
Yields 2 servings
INGREDIENTS:
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1/4 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup brown sugar, packed
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
2 tablespoons honey
2 salmon filets
For the Sriracha cream sauce: (this makes it!)
1/2 cup mayonnaise
2-3 teaspoons Sriracha (more if you like hot)
1 1/2 tablespoons sweetened condensed milk
DIRECTIONS:
To make the Sriracha cream sauce, whisk together the mayonnaise, 2 tsp. Sriracha and condensed milk in a small bowl. Taste for spiciness and add more Sriracha as needed; set aside.
In a small bowl, whisk together the cornstarch and 1/4 cup water; set aside.
In a small saucepan over medium heat, add the soy sauce, brown sugar, ginger, garlic powder, honey and 1 cup water; bring to a simmer.
Stir in the cornstarch mixture until thickened enough to coat the back of a spoon, about 2 minutes. Let cool to room temperature.
In a gallon size Ziploc bag or large bowl, combine the teriyaki marinade and salmon filets; marinate for at least 30 minutes to overnight, turning the bag occasionally.
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Lightly coat an 8x8 baking dish with nonstick spray.
Place the salmon filets along with the marinade onto the prepared baking dish and bake until the fish flakes easily with a fork, about 20 minutes.
Serve the salmon immediately a dob of Sriracha cream sauce, garnished with sesame seeds and green onions is desired.
(reposted from GNO dinner but I forgot the butter!!!!)
Made this delicious shrimp for our New Year's Eve party and I think it was a winner. Here's the recipe with my thoughts.
First of all, I covered a large cookie sheet with aluminum foil for easy clean-up.
Here is the recipe:
Melt a stick of butter in the pan. Slice one lemon (I needed almost 3) and layer it on top of the butter. Place fresh shrimp on top of the lemon, then sprinkle one pack of dried Italian seasoning. Bake in a preheated oven at 350 for 15 min.
Easy and quick...but here's what you need to know about the shrimp. You want to buy UNCOOKED but peeled and cleaned, tail on shrimp. If you use c
cooked shrimp, it will become tough and rubbery. Shrimp cooks quickly so don't forget and overcook it. I'm a Bubba shrimp kind of girl- I love it cooked about every way possible EXCEPT overcooked! I will make this again. and again. (Don't eat the lemons...they just flavor the shrimp really fine...)
A special thanks to Diana who went above and beyond in making us feel patriotic and pampered at Bucket, the 3rd of July. Her coconut salmon was spectacular as well as her fun red, white and blue table.
Coconut Salmon-
Whip egg whites together and brush on salmon fillets, then dip salmon in shredded coconut. Bake until salmon is no longer "wet" inside. I noticed that Diana put tin foil on her baking sheet. Diana did tenderloin size -about 2 inches by 5 inch fillets- baked at 350 about 10 minute. She then made a reduction of teriyaki sauce - just boil teriyaki sauce until it reduces- about 15 minutes. Serve the salmon on a bed of mixed greens and drizzle the teriyaki sauce over the top. Don't leave the greens off since the combination is perfect.
(note: you can warm up the reduction for another time but if you boil it again, it burns and gums up.)
Layered 4th of July beverage-
Her fourth of July drink was a show stealer. Put ice in glass about 1/3 up. Pour cranberry juice up to top of ice. The fill the glass up to the top with ice. Pour blue gatorade another 3rd (or more.) Top with Diet Sprite. You have a great 4th drink. Apparently the sugar content is the key to separation so don't buy diet cranberry juice. We were amazed!
Flag Salad
She did a flag fruit salad with blueberries for the stars, watermelon and bananas for alternating stripes.
Star tortillas-
She also cut out corn tortillas in star shapes (cookie cutter)....bake 350 on pam-ed baking sheet. After 2 minutes, put mounds of grated cheese in center and sprinkle lightly with paprika. Yum and cute.
Tapioca with strawberries an blueberries. Costco rules!
Dessert was tapioca topped with strawberries and blueberries.
another tip she shared was dipping strawberries in sour cream...then instead of the traditional brown sugar, dip them in fire-cracker colored sugars!
