This Week in the Kitchen...

This week, I expanded my weekly menu to include salmon and continued to prefect some staple side dishes. Below, baked salmon basted in lemon juice, horseradish sour cream mashed potatoes with scallions, and green beans with caramelized onions.


I also saw what looked like an easy but tasty recipe for lemon blueberry cheesecake bars dusted with powdered sugar, so I made that as well. I'm distributing them to friends and family so I don't eat them all myself. So far, they seem to be a big hit.

From the Kitchen...

I've always wanted to make a mustard potato salad, don't ask me why, I just like mustard ok? So last night I boiled up some golden potatoes and made some from a recipe off of foodtv.com, of which there are surprisingly few I might add. The recipe actually called for two different types of mustard, dijon and grainy mustard, and it turned out ok except I'm still trying to decide if I like the amount of vinegar it called for. I should have taken a picture but side dishes by themselves don't lend themselves to photos the way entrees do. Oh well, maybe next time. Been trying to stick to my make something new every week and I've found it's a lot easier if I don't shoot for the moon every week like how I started a few months ago. It's about baby steps.