Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Baked Maple Chicken and Mashed Maple Butternut Squash

Baked Maple Chicken

4-6 pieces of chicken
almond meal/flour(optional)
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 cup 100% maple syrup
2 tsp lemon
dash of pepper
1/3 cup melted butter

Heat oven to 400. Place chicken in baking dish. sprinkle almond meal over chicken. Mix in a bowl remaining ingredients. Poor mixture over chicken and bake for 50 min.

Mashed Maple Butternut Squash

1 Butternut Squash
1/2 cup butter or cream cheese
1/4 cup 100% maple syrup
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon

Peel butternut squash with potato peeler, cut into chunks, remove seeds and put in a pot of water. Boil until you can pierce easily with a fork. Drain water. Mash with a potato masher and add all ingredients while mashing.

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Cajun Salmon


4-6 oz Salmon
1 Tsp Cajun seasoning (add more if you like it spicy)
2 gloves minced garlic
1/4 cup finely chopped onion
1/4 cup cooking white wine
1/4 cup butter (optional)
2 vine ripe tomatoes chopped
1 red bell pepper chopped

Simmer Butter, wine, garlic, onion, and Cajun seasoning. Add Salmon until half way cooked. Take salmon out and chop then put back into sauce. Add tomatoes and bell peppers. Cook until salmon is fully cooked.
I like to put this on top of crackers.