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  • 30-Minute Mondays --Maple-Soy Salmon by Real Food Girl: Unmodified
    Seafood

    30-Minute Mondays– Maple Soy Salmon

    One of the things that I love about cooking, and photography for that matter, is that it keeps me humble.  According to The Stud Muffin, I need to keep my ego in check, so he’s pleased that I’ve found things that challenge me and keep me humble.  The reasons that cooking (and photography) keeps you humble is the moment you think you’ve mastered a technique, ingredient, or a certain dish or recipe, something happens, call it misaligned stars, faulty human, bad ingredients, Murphy’s Law, humidity…whatever, but something happens and for whatever reason epic failure doesn’t even begin to cover how badly the end results were.  As a food blogger and someone who develops recipes I…

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    Today’s dish is one of our favorites.  I know. I say that a lot, but it really is true. We have so many favorites and I keep testing new recipes that we don’t always get to eat our favorites as often as we’d like.  Whenever I do make this dish, The Stud Muffin is a happy man. Tilapia is one of the few fish that TSM likes. I enjoy fish a lot. I’d eat many other kinds if I knew he’d enjoy them, but he’s picky about his fish.  I want fish in our diets, so Tilapia is one of the fish that we eat and enjoy. I’ve done a fair amount of…

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    I’ve been looking for ways to add more fish into our diet.  The Stud Muffin has been requesting it, and it’s just not something that I happen to have a ton of ideas for.  I have a few French recipes, but my husband isn’t going to want to watch me turn cute little trouts bright blue with vinegar (Truite au Bleu).  If I make that dish, and put it in front of him he’s going to tell me “I don’t eat Smurf fish”… So- you can see my dilemma. You’ll be happy to know that this recipe won’t turn your fish blue, and it’s quite tasty.  So is Truite au Bleu, but that’s…

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