After a busy weekend spent in Leeds, I wasn't quite ready for Monday morning. Even though I love the organisation I work for and was feeling pretty inspired after a support event on Friday, today totally dragged and I couldn't wait for it to end.
Jasmine, Jon and I have started watching the 6th season of Dexter together and tonight we had planned to watch the two latest episodes, but Jasmine unfortunately has gotten caught by an autumn cold! Since she stayed home from work today, we figured it'd be best to postpone :(
It seems like everyone is getting sick lately and I've even started taking some multivitamins in order to ward off any germs. That, and my hand sanitizer for when I'm on the tube or train!!
Anyways, now with a free evening, I grabbed a train back to my area to do some errands and then hit up Waitrose. It's my favorite grocery store here. Well, actually the Whole Foods on High Street Kensington is probably my favorite and is the best one - trust me because I like to spend time wandering around grocery stores for fun - but Waitrose is consistently good and within 10 minutes of my flat! There I bought a few basics for my empty fridge and decided on salmon for dinner (again, this was me trying to be extra healthy to avoid getting sick and to get my Omega 3's!).
The end of my day consisted of cooking dinner, dabbling a bit on my guitar (my flatmate now has Bob Marley's Redemption Song in her head, whoops!), and then doing some job-searching while watching CSI. I hate job-hunting, but my contract ends the 31st December and it's time for me to start looking more seriously.
This salmon is really easy to do and actually it's basically cooked the same way that I do my easy baked lemon chicken! I put it with a wild rice and green beans. (Sorry about the crummy photo, but my camera battery died as I went to take the photo and I just used my blackberry's camera).
Easy Salmon
Salmon
Lemon
Olive oil
Oregano (or Rosemary, any seasoning etc)
Ground pepper
I started by putting the rice on to boil, since it takes the longest, and then moved on to the salmon. Rice is one of those things I have no confidence on; my family has always done' more pasta than rice and I've only started experimenting with it recently. Today I put some chicken stock in the water to give it more flavor and I think it was tasty! My aunt does a similar style rice but adds lentils, chopped carrots, ginger and coriander to it and I think I'd try that next time to make it more interesting.
For the salmon, I just put it in a pan but wrapped loosely in silver foil. Before closing the foil like a package, I drizzled the fish with olive oil, seasoned it with ground pepper and oregano, and then crushed a garlic clove to tuck around it. Finally I squeezed half a lemon over the whole thing and chopped the rest of the lemon to put around it. Throw it in the oven for about 12-15 minutes, or so, at 180 F/350 C and then you are done!
I just boiled the green beans in some water for about 4 minutes, before straining
Jasmine, Jon and I have started watching the 6th season of Dexter together and tonight we had planned to watch the two latest episodes, but Jasmine unfortunately has gotten caught by an autumn cold! Since she stayed home from work today, we figured it'd be best to postpone :(
It seems like everyone is getting sick lately and I've even started taking some multivitamins in order to ward off any germs. That, and my hand sanitizer for when I'm on the tube or train!!
Anyways, now with a free evening, I grabbed a train back to my area to do some errands and then hit up Waitrose. It's my favorite grocery store here. Well, actually the Whole Foods on High Street Kensington is probably my favorite and is the best one - trust me because I like to spend time wandering around grocery stores for fun - but Waitrose is consistently good and within 10 minutes of my flat! There I bought a few basics for my empty fridge and decided on salmon for dinner (again, this was me trying to be extra healthy to avoid getting sick and to get my Omega 3's!).
The end of my day consisted of cooking dinner, dabbling a bit on my guitar (my flatmate now has Bob Marley's Redemption Song in her head, whoops!), and then doing some job-searching while watching CSI. I hate job-hunting, but my contract ends the 31st December and it's time for me to start looking more seriously.
Easy Salmon
Salmon
Lemon
Olive oil
Oregano (or Rosemary, any seasoning etc)
Ground pepper
I started by putting the rice on to boil, since it takes the longest, and then moved on to the salmon. Rice is one of those things I have no confidence on; my family has always done' more pasta than rice and I've only started experimenting with it recently. Today I put some chicken stock in the water to give it more flavor and I think it was tasty! My aunt does a similar style rice but adds lentils, chopped carrots, ginger and coriander to it and I think I'd try that next time to make it more interesting.
For the salmon, I just put it in a pan but wrapped loosely in silver foil. Before closing the foil like a package, I drizzled the fish with olive oil, seasoned it with ground pepper and oregano, and then crushed a garlic clove to tuck around it. Finally I squeezed half a lemon over the whole thing and chopped the rest of the lemon to put around it. Throw it in the oven for about 12-15 minutes, or so, at 180 F/350 C and then you are done!
I just boiled the green beans in some water for about 4 minutes, before straining
