Salmon Worth Salivating Over

Ever try to start dinner and realize that one of your ingredients isn't any good? Welcome to my evening. I'm not a very good cook, so improvising is a little bit scary for me (and my poor hubs who has to eat it), but this  concoction actually turned out to be pretty dang tasty! Paired with baked Parmesan, mushroom and artichoke tomatoes, this salmon made for a healthy, yummy dinner. If you try this out, please let me know if you liked it!

Sweet and Savory Salmon
2 salmon fillets, with skin
1/4 cup lemon juice
1 tbsp honey
1 tsp minced garlic
1/4 tsp onion powder
1/4 tsp Old Bay
1 1/2 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp dried cilantro (probably about 1 tbsp of fresh)

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Place salmon on greased baking sheet, skin down. Poke each fillet all over with a fork multiple times.
2. In a small bowl, combine lemon juice, honey, garlic, onion powder, Old Bay, olive oil, and cilantro. Stir well until oil, lemon juice and honey are well combined.
3. Brush all of the sauce over the salmon.
4. Bake for 20 minutes for well done salmon.

Menu Board

In my meal planning frenzy, I've been printing off a weekly menu to hang on my fridge and keep me on track. Printing a new one every week seems so wasteful, even though it get recycled. Luckily, I had an old picture frame hanging around the house to repurpose into a menu board! Did you know that you can write on glass with a wipe-off marker and it comes right off?!

Menu Board
Materials:
- Picture frame
- Staple gun
- Ribbon
- Fabric Glue
- Days of the Week printout

Print Out:
1. Open Microsoft Word.
2. Draw a table 8" wide and 10" high with 7 rows, 1 column.
3. Make each row 1.3" high.
4. Type on day of the week on each line. I started with Sunday since that's how I do my menu.
5. Choose a great font, make it size 72 and print that bad boy out.
6. Cut the paper down to 8" x 10" size - cut around the outside of the table.

Board:
1. Measure out 3 feet of ribbon. Tie a bow directly in the middle, insert fabric glue into the knot and pull the knot part tight.
2. Place the frame on the floor/table, front facing down.
3. Place the ribbon ends on the corners of the back of the frame, fold each end over onto itself once or twice, and staple into place.
4. Remove back panel from frame, set the print out face down on the glass, then replace the back panel.

5. Find a convenient spot to hang the menu board in your kitchen and write out your week's dinner menu!


This is a QUICK project, literally took me all of 5 minutes! I'm sure hubby will love the pink ribbon too! :)