Broiled salmon with creamy lemon sauce

So good! So good!

I've been wanting to update my binder of recipes for awhile now, but before I do I decided to go through and make everything in it. This way I can weed out the ones we don't really like or make notes to change things up on the recipes we like.

Tonight's meal was broiled salmon with creamy lemon sauce. If I remember correctly I got the recipe from fortheloveofcooking.com. It's been sitting in my binder for years never used until tonight. It was also nice that I got to pair it with salmon that I bought at the supermarket on my first grocery shopping trip out in town.

It turned out amazing! I'll have to cut the lemon sauce in half since it was more than we needed. I also did not use capers like the recipe calls for.

LEMON SALMON WITH CREAMY LEMON SAUCE
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 clove garlic, minced
1/4 cup lemon juice
2 tablespoons capers
1 teaspoon lemon-pepper seasoning
1/2 cup fat free sour cream
1 1/2 pounds salmon fillet

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Coat baking sheet with cooking spray. Heat oil in a small saucepan over medium heat. Add garlic and cool for 1 minute. Reduce heat to low. Stir in lemon juice, capers, and lemon-pepper cook for 5 minutes. Add sour cream and cook for 5 minutes, or until heated through. Meanwhile, place the salmon on the prepared baking sheet. Bake for 20 minutes, or until fish is just opaque. Serve with sauce.

I paired ours with sautéed corn and green beans and roasted asparagus.

Now where's dessert!?

Best pillows ever!

I'm not one to spend a bunch of money on a pillow. But these babies were so worth it!! After we got our new bed we realized immediately that we also needed new pillows. Funny how they seemed fine when paired with an old bed.

On our first solo trip to Costco I told Frank to check out the pillows to see if he liked any. Of course his attention went straight to the most expensive. Since we were stocking our pantry with things we had to throw out before the move I told him to just get one for now. If he liked it then I'd get one for myself later.

Right away I noticed that Frank wasn't sweating at night like he used to. That gel insert for cooling is amazing! What's even better is that he doesn't toss and turn as much now that we have a new bed. Double score for me :)

Next pay check I made sure to pick a pillow up for myself. It was different getting used to a thick pillow since all of ours are pretty thin. But after about a week of using it my neck stopped hurting in the morning. It's so nice not waking up in pain anymore! Needless to say they were so worth the price! Best pillows ever.

I can't remember how much they were exactly but I know they were somewhere between $32-$36.

Personalize it!

Awhile ago I was trolling amazon for things I didn't really need. You know, window shopping on the Internet. I was looking for a basket for the dogs' toys that can be personalized. I found something that took me to a different website, personalizationmall.com. I believe that's the name. Found what I wanted for the dogs but of course it doesn't really matter since I wasn't buying it.

I did however go back to that website to order my dads birthday gift. Every year I tell myself this is the year I'm going to start buying people birthday gifts! So far I've started the year off great! My dad loves to BBQ and is pretty amazing at it (even though I won't eat the meat ha best salmon though!), so I got him a personalized apron!

I figure what a better birthday to start giving gifts then your 60th! Not sure if he was about to cook or just had but I was asking my mom for a picture. It was a total hit :)

Hello there...

Well.... I had no intentions of stepping away from the blog for a short time. Life happens :]

Not too much to catch up on right now though, just catching up with Glee and the rest of Nicholas Sparks' books that I hadn't read yet. Just finished The Guardian last night. Loved!

Hopefully we'll be heading out to Yokosuka this weekend so I should have something more interesting than Glee to update on ha.

Vegan lemon poppyseed muffins

Heaven in your mouth! These are amazing. The actual recipe calls for Chia seeds but since they don't have them at the commissary (or at least I haven't found them yet) I used poppy seeds since I had those on hand. You MUST head over to Peas & Thank You and make these :]

 

 

Oh how I've missed baking... I was good, I only had 1 1/2 (shared one with Frank) then sent the rest to work with Frank.

 

Snow day...

From the view of my iPhone. Really hope these post in order!!

The first two were within a half hour of each other. Before the gym and after.

The last picture is my favorite. Our awesome new car 😀

Hey hey!!

Blogger is apparently having wide spread issues with uploading pictures. I am really hoping they get it fixed soon!

Lets see...

Frank and I are coming off our cold/flu run that has been hanging around for a few weeks. Because of this we've been stuck at home for too long. Tomorrow we're headed to Yokohama to shop in the magical land of ikea 😀 yes we will brave the crowds since we can't go during the week.

I'm still hoping to hear about my application. Pray for me all!! This girl wants a J-O-B!

Molly and Ellie have had to pay the price of us not feeling well. They are dying to go for a run. Poor girlies.

I've been getting more into researching different IRAs (somehow just found out TSP has one. And it's been around for a year!) , savings accounts.. I never thought that kind of stuff would excite me haha.

This was a big week furniture wise for us. In the 6 years we've been together we bought our first NEW bed and... TV! Yup, no longer using the computer, we now have 55 glorious inches to look at. I think a Channing tatum movie is in order 😉

Found a few new recipes that will forever be in our rotation. I can not wait to share them!!

We have 4 boxes of Girl Scout cookies sitting in our freezer that we can't eat for another 3 1/2 weeks. We started a 24 day challenge last week but Girl Scout cookies went on sale today. I didn't want to wait and risk them being out! This will be pure torture for us.

Big Buddha

I wrote this post yesterday but blogger isn't letting me upload pictures at the moment. Anyone else having troubles with it? It won't even bring up the 'browse' bar. Please ignore where it says {pictures}, that was my way of reminding myself where they were going. Hopefully I can post them soon!!

Guess I should post about our afternoon down to Kamakura before I forgot completely. We had planned to go down there for our field trip day in our ICR class, but instead had to detour to the vet. Since we are trying to save money right now so we can furnish our whole apartment with new stuff we aren't doing any big trips just yet. (I'm still trying to think of something to go see/do tomorrow!)

We had a pretty lazy morning before we actually got on our way. It was a nice day out so we decided to walk to the train station instead of catching the bus. Found out it is 2.4 miles from our front door to the train station :]

We had our first encounter with a drunk guy on the train... that was interesting!

When we actually got to Kamakura we were confused on where the Buddha was. Come to find out you get on this old two car train that takes you along the water. It was cramped but super cute! And much different from a normal train ride with local Japanese since most people were tourist. Our plan once we got off at the Buddha was to find food first since we were both getting hungry. We figured we'd have no problem since it's a tourist destination. Well we were wrong! All we could find was desserts. I had no idea ice cream was going to be the main attraction. We did find a few places that had actual food but it was either not very appealing looking (I was in the mood for sushi!) or way to price gouged.

Since we found the Buddha before food we decided to hold off for a bit and enjoy it all.

I threw my Yen in (Frank was carrying my bag since I had the camera so I asked him to get me some coins from my coin purse. If I remember correctly he gave me a 1 Yen coin ha. I was thinking more of a 500 Yen coin for good luck!) and said my prayer to the Buddha :]

 

We walked around the little garden area taking pictures then went on our way for either food or a temple. We did come up to a temple near the Buddha but decided not to go in since it cost more. I just added it as a mental note for when we bring visitors there.

At this point it was around 3:00 and we knew it would be getting dark soon so we walked down to the water to take a few more pictures and then grab a snack. Once we figured we wouldn't be finding much for food we decided on a snack to hold us over until we got back to our station.

What's funny to me is that we ended up at a Hawaiian shop. I'm not a fan of donuts but they had malasadas which apparently are Hawaiian donuts (never heard of them). They looked pretty tasty so I figured since we had walked so much that day why not try them. Oh they were heavenly! Frank got a chocolate

and I got a Cinnamon and sugar malasada.

If you ever go to see the Big Buddha you must stop at cafe Hula!

On our way back we decided to go the long way on the little train so we could see more of the water front towns. They were so cute! I can't wait to go spend a day down there exploring more once spring comes around :]

 

 

Once we got back to our area we were trying to figure out what we wanted to eat. I was still wanting sushi but Frank isn't a huge fan of it. He was nice and decided to give it a try so we stopped off at the sushi go-round near base (or as I like to call them, fast food sushi ha). It was decent, we got 8 plates for under 1000 Yen so I was pretty happy. The best part of all was seeing some of the American/Japanese options they had. Neither of us tried it but they had what looked like a mayo/corn mixture in a sushi roll and a fried chicken sushi roll ha! Frank tried that one and said it wasn't bad. (He did like what he had! Anything that isn't raw.)

All in all it was a fun day! I was more than ready to get home and warm up :]