September 2nd: Foil-Baked Salmon with Spinach

Thursday, Thursday. I work a four-day work week, and Thursday is my Friday. TGIT. I do love a Thursday. Thursdays that start a long weekend are even better. Thursdays Greg plays baseball and sometimes football, and unless it is only one late game, O and I are often on our own for supper. Such was the case this week.


September 2010's Today's Parent had two recipes under the header, "Tempting your toddler -- and everyone else." Well, that was too good a promise to go untested. I plan to do Oven-Braised Short Ribs with Cinnamon and Molasses on September 11th; today's recipe was Foil-Baked Salmon with Spinach.


This was an easy meal--the prep part that took the longest was shredding the carrots--but it was a long time in the oven--40 min--so not necessarily a weeknight option for most. I forgot to pick up green onions, so I substituted Spanish onion and that was good. I forgot until the end to make the recommended accompaniment of rice or orzo so I quickly boiled up some teeny alphabet pasta and we were good to go.


I thought it was delish. O did eat it, but only after clearing the pasta-with-cheese off her plate first. She's an experimentative kid (she doesn't have much of a choice) but she's still a kid and likes plain food.


I won't be keeping the recipe though. It was good; it was healthy; it was filling; but it wasn't AMAZING, so: gone.


I also made a Fresh Peach Salsa (substituting a nectarine for the peach, and using Paul Newman dressing rather than Kraft) from Kraft Canada as a side dish. I do not recommend this. It went in the compost at the end of the day.

Bring on the long weekend!