#20 - Ways to cook salmon no. 2

So what is an easy way to cook succulent salmon? Answer - marinated stir fry! So this is what I did for my friend T coming over for dinner.

This time my salmon recipe did not go wrong lol!

I marinated the salmon fillets in an oriental mix of light soy sauce, thai fish sauce, chili oil, seasame oil and with fresh chillies, lemongrass and garlic:

A stir fry veg pack from Sainsburys was sliced and diced for the stir fry:


Then the salmon was grilled whilst the veggies were stir fried with the rest of the marinade from the salmon and served up together - too yummy to stop and take a picture I'm afraid!

For a palate cleansing desert and to use up a lot of blood oranges (also to avoid chocolate as this was lent time) I made a orange 'marinaded' desert:

The oranges were soaked in Grand Marnier and should have been served with a little cream, but were perfect with out = kinda like a lumpy cocktail! *hic*

The Camden Road Cook

#19 - What to do with lots of brown bananas....

Make banana cake!!

J had a tonne (not literally!) of bananas going brown, I had seen a recipe for brown banana cake on telly (BBC Nigel Slater) - so it was game on..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/black_banana_cake_52982

First we had to break up the chocolate

The Camden Road Cook does not own a rolling pin, however this is substituted by one of the numerous bottles of wine hanging around to good effect:

Apart from a vast number of bananas, chocolate, & nuts the recipe required a lot of butter and some flour type ingredients

Batter was tasty - and here it is in the tin ready to go in the oven

And after coming out of the oven!

Ummm tasting time!!

Seeing as we had a LOT of bananas we ended up with 2 cakes and enough to feed all our friends and colleagues (but I resisted sending cake abroad!)

The Camden Road Cook