Salmon with Mustard and Brown Sugar Glaze

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Salmon with Mustard and Brown Sugar Glaze

Ingredients:

3/4 cup dry white wine

1/4 cup butter, cut into small pieces

1 teaspoon Old Bay seasoning
1 2 pound center cut skinless salmon fillet
1/3 cup spicy brown mustard
1/4 cup (packed) brown sugar

Preheat oven to 350.
Boil wine, butter, and Old Bay seasoning in small suacepan 3 minutes.  Sprinkle salmon on both sides with salt and pepper.  Place fish on heavy rimmed baking sheet.  Pour wine mixture over.  Bake until fish is opaque in center, about 14 minutes. Remove from over.
Preheat broiler.
Mix mustard and sugar in small bowl to blend; spread over salmon to cover.  Broil salmon until topping is brown and bubbling, about 3 minutes.  Transfer salmon to platter and serve.

So I made some modifications to this, but it had a great flavor.

So I was fresh out of spicy mustard so I just substituted regular mustard and it was still really good.  Fyi.  I also didn't have Old Bay seasoning so I used a little Lawry's and some paprika instead.  I added fresh chopped garlic to the wine/butter mixture.  I just used a casserole dish instead of the baking sheet.  The other change I made was in broiling.  We (ok well mostly me) LOVE sauces.  I am the sauce queen.  So I heated the mustard/brown sugar mixture in a pan and after the salmon was cooked I just did a few minutes on each side in the sauce.  Then topped with remaining on plate. Yum! It was really good.  If you are looking for another way to do salmon try this, the flavors are really good with the fish.

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Fairy Extravaganza Part Deux

Here's the remainder of Stella's Birthday pictures. Thanks Larry for sharing your copies with us.  Right now through Shutterfly they have an offer for a FREE softcover 7x9 Photo Book.  I'm going to make Stella a book from her Birthday/party to keep in her keepsake box.  

Great Grandma's No Bake Cookies

 I foresee lots of cookie baking in our future! I am starting to get excited for the holidays. Thinking about our Thanksgiving menu, we are having Mario's Mom & Step Dad over.  The The Pioneer Woman has been posting lots of yummy recipes the last week or so. I have already printed out a few I am going to try.  I've pulled out my old & new Holiday editions of Bon Apetit & Cooking Light.  I'm going to make the infamous Pumpkin Ice Cream Torte and am trying to decide between this Pecan Pie from Ree or this Caramel Apple Pie from Cooking Light. After that Christmas Eve we'll host a open house here which includes numerous kinds of Christmas cookies! My Mom always had so many different choices on Christmas and by the time the day came, our freezer was stocked with goodies. The trick was to see how many you could skim off the top in the weeks before with out it looking like your sticky little fingers had been into her precious stash! :) The fudge was the GOLD prize but because the neat little rows it was pretty obvious when too many of those went missing.

This morning we made my Great Grandma's No Bake Cookie recipe.  Not for the holidays, just as a treat for Daddy.  He loves them. They aren't at the top of the pretty cookie list but boy are they easy, yummy,  rich and chocolatey! Pour yourself a BIG glass of milk before you dive into one of these!

No Bake Cookies

1/2 Cup Butter

1/2 Cup Milk

2 Cups Sugar

1/2 Cup Peanut Butter (optional)

4 Tablespoons Cocoa

2 Cups Quick Oatmeal

1 Teaspoon Vanilla

Bring Butter, Sugar, Milk & Cocoa to a boil in saucepan.

Boil at a rolling boil, stirring constantly, for 3 solid minutes.

Take off burner. Add Peanut Butter, Vanilla & Oatmeal.

Drop quickly by spoonful on wax paper.

Let set.

Yum!

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Goodnight Seattle

My sister gave this book to Stella as one of her Birthday presents. It is so cute and Stella loves it! When she opened it she made me read it about 5 times in a row. Every night we read 3 books in her rocker before bed. This has been on the list every night since she got it! You can get your own here

Amazon

or here

Abe Books

If you happen to be in Seattle she got Stella's at this adorable toy store here

Curious Kidstuff



Tinkerbells Stroll





How cute is Stella's Tinkerbell outfit?  She insisted on putting wings on top of the wings the outfit already has. After everyone left on her Birthday Mario and I were taking a few remaining things down from the tents.  She did laps around the yard for almost an hour. After we were done, we sat down in 2 chairs and just watched her for a bit. She would stop every once in a while and rub her eyes then keep going. She was pooped. She pushes her baby stroller all over the house. The next day she even wanted to bring it in the car with us and sit it next to her like a car seat. Every night she's been tucking the "baby" in on a pillow bed next to her crib. She kisses it, gives it drinks from her sippy and rocks it. She is such a little sweetheart, I love it.

This last picture pretty much sums up our last few days.  Totally happy about it too.  I was really needing some down time.  One on one time with the girl Some time to just putter around the house and let Stella play with all of her new birthday toys. Luckily that's what the last few days has consisted of. Those mundane things that sometimes bore you to death. I was craving mundane. No parties, dr appts, funerals, etc. No matter how excited I was about the party and how happy I am that it was amazing, I'm glad it is now a wonderful memory. I was feeling really off and fragmented and desperately needed a recharge not just of energy, of spirit.

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly."
Buddha