Soy Glazed Salmon with Noodles

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• My kids love salmon so I'm always looking for new and exciting ways to make it for them.

This probably looks similar to recipes I've posted before but, I think, this is the favourite.

• We stuffed ourselves with this tonight. 
• I would totally eat this every night! 

The fish cooks so quickly and the noodles take no time to prepare but the end result is very impressive and beautifully colourful.

It would be a fun dish to serve to company if you're sure they like fish.

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• Soy Glazed Salmon
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• 1/4 cup packed light-brown sugar
• 1 Tbsp olive oil
• 3 tablespoons soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
• 2 tablespoons dry white wine, stock or water
• 2 pounds salmon fillet

Heat oven to 400 degrees.

Mix sugar, oil, soy, lemon juice and wine in a small bowl.

Arrange salmon in a single layer in a baking dish, sprinkle with black pepper.

Pour sauce over salmon.

Bake 15-20 mins.

Chili-Lime Noodles with Vegetables

1 bag (340g) wide egg noodles

1 red pepper, thinly sliced

2 large carrots, grated

2 celery stalks, thinly sliced

1/2 cup vegetable stock

• 1 teaspoon freshly grated lime zest
• 2 tablespoons lime juice
• 3 tablespoons reduced-sodium soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons chile-garlic sauce or hoisin sauce
• 1 tablespoon light brown sugar

Cook noodles and drain them.

Add red peppers, carrots and celery to the pot.

Whisk all remaining ingredients together and pour over the noodles.
Serve with Salmon.

Whipped Lemon Dill Cream Cheese

The other day, Renee and I bought some amazing bagels and whipped up a batch of this amazing cream cheese to go with.

I was thinking dill and she was thinking lemon, so we did both.

It was so good.

We toasted the bagels, loaded them with the lemon dill cream cheese and topped that with slices of smoked salmon and cucumber.

Whipped Lemon Dill Cream Cheese

1 8oz package of Cream Cheese (We used Philly)
2 tsp dried dill (or 2 Tbsp fresh dill)
1 lemon, zested and juiced (2Tbsp juice)

Whip all ingredients in a food processor or stand mixer or use and hand held mixer.

Teriyaki Salmon with Sesame Noodles

My kids love salmon.

However, I need to be very creative to get Jim to eat it.

He loves this teriyaki salmon.

The fishiness of the salmon seems to be completely cut by the sour rice vinegar and the sweet apple juice.

Your run of the mill bottled teriyaki sauce is probably all sugar.

What I love about this is that it's not sickeningly sweet.

I serve it with simple sesame noodles mixed with carrot, green onion and cucumber.

Teriyaki Salmon with Sesame Noodles

(Fish is from: Not Your Mother's Weeknight Cooking/

the noodles are adapted from thekitchn.com)

Salmon

One 2 inch piece fresh ginger, peeled and cut in pieces

2 garlic cloves

1 can frozen sugar-free apple juice concentrate (I use NoName)

1/2 C low sodium soy sauce or shoyu sauce

3 Tbsp rice vinegar

1/2 C chopped green onion

4 -6 1 inch thick salmon filets

Noodles

2 bundles soba noodles

2-3 carrots cut into match sticks (you could grate it too, just dont bother blanching if you do)

1/2 cucumber, in thin rounds or long ribbons

2 green onions, thinly sliced

1 Tbsp sesame oil

1 1/2 Tbsp soy sauce

1/2 Tbsp honey (optional)

2 Tbsp rice wine vinegar

a few dashes hot sauce

For the fish:

Place fish in a 9x13inch baking dish.

Preheat oven to 350.

In a food processor, whiz until garlic and ginger are very finely chopped.

Add apple juice concentrate, soy and vinegar. Whiz again.

Stir in onion.

Pour over fish. Cover with plastic and refrigerate 30mins.

Bake fish 10-15 minutes or until fish is firm.

For the noodles:

Boil noodles 6 minutes and then drain and rinse with cold water.

Pour noodles into a large bowl.

Blanch carrots in a little boiling water for 1 minute. Add to noodles with cucumber and onion.

In a small bowl, whisk together sesame oil, vinegar, honey, soy and hot sauce.

Pour over noodles, cover with plastic and reserve until fish is ready.

Room temperature noodles are fine.

Serve Noodles topped with fish, teriyaki sauce and a few more bits of green onion.

(Dad, avert your eyes from Jimmy's hand...seriously, it's for your own good...)