Salmon & Couscous Packages

Spring time is here and it is time to step away from the heavy dishes. Tonight we dined on a recipe from The Diabetes Seafood Cookbook (don't worry neither of us have contracted diabetes just yet). The recipe was cooked in foil pouches like we had last week, but rather than a stew the couscous soaked up all the liquid. Laura and I are both big fans of dill and this dish delivered on that taste. The one thing we didn't like was the finished couscous. The liquid used for cooking was white wine and wine flavored couscous just isn't all that tasty. Next time we try this recipe we will either use just water or veggie broth in place of the wine.

We give this one 3 stars for now, but we did end up throwing out the couscous.

dill and sour cream, what more could you ask for?

 couscous underneath fish on top (wine to come)

the recipe side was cucumber with sour cream, we decided to add some more dill (it was a good call)

fish = good; couscous = bad

more pictures here

Lime and Honey Glazed Salmon with Warm Black Bean and Corn Salad

Once again, we went to the cookbook, Rachael Ray 365: No Repeats, and once again it payed off. Say what you will about how annoying she can be, Rachael can cook and her recipes rock the house. The name of this dish explains it rather well, but it doesn't tell you just how tasty the salad is. I thought the fish was great, but Laura thought it was a bit too "fishy." Next time I will cook her piece a bit longer and hopefully it will be more to her liking. We did mess up in that we accidentally doubled the lime juice in the fish glaze which took away from the honey flavor, I will try and not do that again.

Overall we give this one 4 out of 5 stars (with 5 stars easy on the salad).

 Spice mixture for the salad: garlic, red pepper flakes, cumin, salt and pepper.

We fear the non-stick pan, so this got a little messy

Salad is made of onion (we used yellow rather than red), red bell pepper, corn, black beans, baby spinach and fresh cilantro