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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Salmon Burgers!

It has been a while since I had a cooking post. They will start back up, though, as Top Chef starts back up soon so MC and I are reinstating our cooking for Top Chef night. I mean, it is HARD to watch them make all that yummy food without eating something yummy ourselves! :-) As you can see from the title, this exploration was salmon burgers! As one should begin all good cooking endeavors, we laid out all the ingredients and the recipe before starting.

We didn't think about asking the Publix people if they could remove the skin, so MC decided to brave it and fix up my salmon for me.
After I prepared the wasabi sauce, I just had to mix the remaining ingredients and form them into patties.
MC had cut up the salmon for me and the recipe asked for 1/4 inch cubes. As you can imagine, trying to pack cubes of fish into a patty is a bit tricky. It said they wouldn't hold together very well until we started cooking them. They were right, but it was still pretty tricky to keep them together. Two turned into "loose" patties, but I think cook times that were a little low were definitely a contributing factor.
We paired it with some some steamed asparagus, and I must say it turned out to be a pretty scrumptious meal!
This was also a cool night for cooking because we got to try out the kitchen computer that I set up for MC for the first time! I just got a new monitor for my computer not that long ago, so I had a 19" LCD available and I had an old computer that I had fairly recently gotten from home. The only thing I had to get was a keyboard/mouse (actually found a completely washable/waterproof one online that was an open box item and on sale) and a new wireless adapter (old one wasn't WPA-capable) and we were set!
Since the first recipe we tried was actually from a book, I scanned it first and put it on the computer. I haven't figured out the best way to keep things organized as of yet. Right now we'll just have bookmarks for online sites and images for the scanned recipes, but I would like to set it up where it would be easy to include notes about how it was, things we need to do differently next time, etc. I'm thinking there's probably an open source recipe program that I could find. Any suggestions? Either way, it should be handy!

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