Getting Fancy

     Just stopping by to present the recipe I'm experimenting with tonight.
http://lipstickblogspot.blogspot.com/2010/06/roasted-salmon-with-pea-puree-in-light.html
     I am trying that and it sounds amazing.  Being me, however, I can't actually follow the exact recipe.  So, here are my changes:

• Side of peas instead of puree.  Don't want to dirty food processor.
• We do not have shallots.  We do, however, have part of a red onion that needs used.  Not the same, but it will work tonight.
• No mint involved.  Fresh mint will not be present in this household until after I move and can get my baby herbs started.
• No chicken broth involved.  I realize that broth would add flavor but I only have enough salmon for one serving each for my bf and I.  So, I don't want to open up chicken broth just for small amounts.
• No nutmeg in the rub.  Didn't have it.  Subbed cinnamon (I know it's not the same!)
• Didn't measure anything in the rub.  Just dumped.  I do that.
• That might be it for changes...

     I've already made the rub.  Dumping resulted in a little over half a cup which is more than we need for this recipe obviously.  However, I tried a pinch or two of it and I bet you one million dollars it would taste great on shrimp, chicken, pork, in burgers, etc.  The possibilities are endless.
     Also serving this with side of baby carrots with Beaumonde dip because the carrots keep freezing in the fridge so we need to get them eaten.  My bf always has a bowl of this made because he absolutely adores it and being home all day, I'm pretty much addicted.  Bf is pretty handy in the kitchen.
     Anyway, I was just pretty excited for this recipe (even though I'm not strictly following it) because it looks super tasty and super fancy.  I'll let you know how it turns out.

*Ok, so about the time my bf was leaving work and I was starting to get dinner together, I realized that all the sour cream had gone into the Boaumonde dip.  Wanting to get dinner started and not wanting to go out in the rain, I subbed sour cream with dip.  The issue is that there's mayonaise in the dip and that flavor came through, otherwise it actually tasted good.  I dolloped the sauce over the salmon fillets and that was a bit much flavor-wise.  Both of us scrapped off the sauce and just dipped bites of salmon in it and that was tasty.  The rub was fantastic.  Will try this recipe again with regular sour cream some other time.

I Moved!

     Ok, so I have not posted in several months.  I've been busy with that whole grad student thing.  I do not want to get into that here because talking about it would probably be very boring to any readers and because it would just make me go "UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH."  And we don't need that right now.
     Suffice it to say that I have finished the coursework for my program and am now solely in the thesis writing portion which is actually the most frustrating part.  Hence the long drawn out "UGH."  Also, I have moved twice in as many months.  First from my apartment to my parents's house at the end of the year.  Next from my parents' house to San Antonio into my bf's apartment.  After almost a year living 2/3 across the country, I'm pretty stoked about this move.  I'm going to say my bf is, too.  Also, in mid-March we'll be moving again.  But this time just across the parking lot to a smaller (more affordable) apartment.
     So, now my current full-time job is thesis writing which I need to get on a bit more.  I don't currently have a job job and probably won't look too hard until I turn the next chapter of my thesis in to my adviser (hence the "getting on that").  It's kind of nice for the moment.  I've started an exercise routine as we have a work-out center in our apartment complex.  Hopefully my inner sexy svelte self will emerge in time.  I've taken up jewelry making again and am considering starting an Etsy shop except that means my parents need to find my camera among the gigantic pile of personal belongings that didn't fit in my Impala and ship it to me.
   Being the half of the couple that's not bringing home the bacon, I've started to keep on top of things like laundry, cleaning, cooking, etc.  It's only fair (or about as fair as I can make it at the moment).  If I had my camera here, I'd post some pics of the rad food I've made thus far.  But since it's still in Iowa I'll just list some off:  wacky cake (which bf had never had and I overcooked in the oven which runs a bit hot), balsamic roasted vegetables with goat cheese pasta (set the fire alarm off, boiled over the pasta, turned out delicious anyway), Cook's Illustrated chocolate chip cookies (what the frick was up with that recipe?!  Not nearly enough flour called for in recipe resulted in melted mess on cookie sheet.  Dumped melted mess into dough and added about a whole extra cup of flour.  Chocolate chips from first batch melted thus creating chocolate chocolate chip cookies.  Actually a success.  But what. The. Frick.), and have plans to make some roasted cauliflower parmesan pasta thing tomorrow.  I'm on a roast vegetable and pasta kick at the moment and I like it.  Also, bf likes cheese so we have some super rad smoked gouda and multigrain crackers kicking around.  I approve.
  Current lifestyle:  awesomesauce.

  Also, since I don't have any food pics here is a photo of a llama that I stole from some stranger's blog.  Thanks, Stranger!