Teriyaki Salmon with Siriracha Sauce

I made a yummy, healthy dinner last night of salmon with a cream sauce, rice and roasted asparagus. Haley loves asparagus so much, she eats them like candy and will steal them off our plates if we aren't looking. I have never seen a child enjoy a vegetable that much! (I only have the final masterpiece of dinner, because when I went to photograph the process of cooking I found my battery had died. Bummer.)

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

 

Cream Sauce Ingredients:

 

1/2 cup mayonnaise

2-3 tablespoons Sriracha

1 1/2 tablespoons sweetened condensed milk

 

1. In a small bowl, whisk together cornstarch and 1/4 cup water; set aside.

 

2. In a small saucepan over medium heat, add soy sauce, brown sugar, ginger, garlic powder, honey and 1 cup water; bring to a simmer. Stir in cornstarch mixture until thickened enough to coat the back of a spoon, about 2 minutes; let cool to room temperature.

 

3. In a gallon size Ziploc bag or large bowl, combine teriyaki marinade and salmon filets; marinate for at least 30 minutes.

 

4. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Lightly coat a baking dish with nonstick spray.

 

5. Place salmon filets along with the marinade onto prepared baking dish and bake until the fish flakes easily with a fork, about 20 minutes.

 

6. While the fish  cooks, whip up the sauce. To make the Sriracha cream sauce, whisk together mayonnaise, 2 tablespoons Sriracha and condensed milk in a small bowl.

 

7. Idea: Serve fish atop rice and spread a spoonful of sauce over all.

Roasted Vegetables

Roasted vegetables make a great side dish. They are very easy to make. Line a baking sheet with tin foil for easy clean up. Toss veges in olive oil, sprinkle with salt and pepper and bake.

Sweet Potatoes and Onions

 

 

Squash, Zucchini and Onions

 

 

Brussel Sprouts

Grape Tomatoes

Serenity got a gardening kit from her Grandma Bede for her birthday last year. We planted the seeds on her birthday this year. We are now getting at least one grape tomato a day. There is usually some arguing amongst the girls as to who gets the tomato that day. Haley will eat hers right away, while Serenity prefers to name her tomato and talk to it for a while. Of course Haley usually manages to gobble it down when Serenity is not looking lol!

The day we first planted the seeds.

After sitting in tiny pots on our window sill we transferred them to larger pots on our porch. We put two seedlings in each pot.

Our first tomato!