Baked Salmon over Apple-Ginger Quinoa

Learn how to cook salmon over apple-ginger quinoa is perfect for weeknight meals. This baked salmon over apple-ginger quinoa like many other quick quinoa recipes can be put together in a matter of minutes!

A sophisticated weeknight dinner, these flavorful salmon fillets are coated in a delicious juice-based marinade and then baked to perfection. Drizzle remaining marinade over salmon and serve over fluffy apple-ginger quinoa.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons Apple NESTLÉ® JUICY JUICE® 100% Juice, divided
• 1/4 cup soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon honey
• 2 1/2 teaspoons peeled, grated fresh ginger, divided
• 1 teaspoon rice wine vinegar
• 1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
• 4 (about 6 ounces each) salmon fillets
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1/2 cup chopped shallots or onion
• 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
• 1 cup ivory quinoa, rinsed
• 1 cup water
• 1 teaspoon MAGGI Instant Chicken Flavor Bouillon
• Ground black pepper
• Sliced green onions (optional)

Shrimp Chowder

Many people love seafood and fish recipes. You can try looking for cooking recipes and videos online but you definitely can’t miss this.

This is a recipe adapted from a 1992 issue of Woman's Day. This recipe was from an article on family recipe traditions during the holidays. The person who shared this recipe said this was a recipe her family makes for Christmas Eve. You might also want to make a few extra shrimp to use whole as a garnish on top of each bowl.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup chopped onion
• 2 tablespoons butter or 2 tablespoons margarine
• 1 1/2 cups water
• 1 lb medium raw shrimp, peeled,deveined,thawed if frozen,cut in bite sized pieces
• 3 cups frozen hash brown potatoes (the diced kind)
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt, to taste
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper, to taste
• 4 cups milk
• 1/2 cup half-and-half or 1/2 cup light cream
• 4 ounces cheddar cheese, shredded
• 1/4 cup fresh parsley, chopped

Directions:

1. Saute onions in butter in a large skillet until tender, about 5 minutes or so.
2. Add water and bring to a boil.
3. Add shrimp and cook 3-5 minutes, or until no longer translucent in center(be careful not to overcook them).
4. Remove shrimp and place in a covered bowl.
5. Add potatoes to the same pan, and season with salt & pepper to taste.
6. Simmer for about 4-6 minutes, stirring as needed, until potatoes are tender.
7. Add milk and half and half and bring to just a boil, stirring occasionally.
8. Once it just comes to the boil, remove from heat and stir in the cheese until melted.
9. Add shrimp back to the pot along with parsley, reserving a small portion of the parsley for garnishing if desired.

Vegan Red Quinoa Steak

Healthy, affordable and delicious. These fantastic and easy recipes can be found all over the web. It makes me happy to be able to see people from top chefs and creative people inventing their own dishes from all over the world in just a mouse click away. They’re affordable and delicious, but what about healthy? Of course, healthy food recipes are lying just around the web. You just have to do the right research. This is how I found out about this healthy food, quinoa, several years ago.

Over the years, more and more quinoa recipes were created. Just like this Healthy, affordable, delicious, and vegan quinoa steak recipe by Chef Bruno Albouze.

Crispy Grilled Black Cod With Garlic

The sablefish (a.k.a, black cod), noticed as a fish with creamy white flesh with black skin is a tasty fish that’s easy to cook as well as to enjoy. This fish is silky rich and loaded with a lot of omega-3 fatty acids that are very good for a healthy heart. Because of their high value, unique flavor, and health benefits, it has become a quite popular choice in countless healthy recipes.

Sablefish is a fish that can easily get along even with the novice cook. It’s a fish that’s delicious, tasty, and nutritious and there are a lot of fish recipes for it. So you can have baked fish today and probably next week, grill it, slice it, and toss it with some pasta.

There are a lot of new healthy food recipes to try to do and sometimes, a little experiment would not hurt. So check out this Crispy Grilled Black Cod With Garlic recipe below

If you choose to turn up the griller, better slap on some marinades with the sablefish as this is awesome grilled. The fat will act as a barrier to prevent overcooking. Salt, pepper, olive oil, garlic, and more spices and a hot griller and it would be a complete, delicious, and healthy treat served with drinks, probably a side dish or two, or maybe serve it with other grilled seafood.

Orange-Vanilla Ricotta Cheesecake

Vodka is one of my favorite drinks; I'm a big fan of vodka drinks and cocktails. But recently, the world of cooking with alcohol has been introduced to me. Since I'm new to this, I've been looking for easy recipes online to practice on. Then I stumbled upon this cheesecake topped with vodka-marmalade glaze! Wow, doesn't that sound wonderful?

Who doesn’t love a Creamsicle: vanilla ice cream wrapped in orange ice? Now take those flavors, whip them together with ricotta and a bit of vodka, and you’ve got an adult cheesecake that’s elegant yet still strikes a nostalgic chord.

Orange-Vanilla Ricotta Cheesecake
Ingredients

For the crust:

• 1 1/4 cups pecan shortbread cookie crumbs, from about 11 cookies 
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter (1/4 stick), melted, plus more for coating the pan 

For the filling: 

• 2 pounds good-quality ricotta cheese, at room temperature 
• 1 cup granulated sugar 
• 1/3 cup all-purpose flour 
• 3 large eggs, at room temperature 
• 2 large egg yolks, at room temperature 
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 
• 2 teaspoons packed orange zest (from about 1 medium orange) 
• 1/2 teaspoon fine salt 

For the topping: 

• 1/2 cup orange marmalade 
• 1/3 cup vodka 

For the complete recipe, click here

Here's a bonus for my fellow easy dessert recipes lovers out there.

Crispy Cod Nuggets

I love cooking crispy and tasty food. That’s something that I inherited from my parents. We would look for chicken and fish recipes and make crispy delights out of them. So right now, I try to continue the tradition by watching and trying to learn from new cooking recipes online. Here’s a good example that I found. 

Yep, crispy cod! Cod is a low-calorie fish that is a great substitute for meat protein. That’s why I’m a big fan of it. Then just recently, I found a really interesting crispy cod nugget recipe online. I’m sharing it because it’s really good!

Crispy cod nuggets with sweet potato wedges

Ingredients

• 4 pieces skinned cod fillet, cut into chunks
• 30ml (2tbsp) plain flour
• 1 large egg, beaten
• 100g (4oz) fresh wholemeal breadcrumbs
• 30ml (2tbsp) olive oil
• 2 sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into wedges
• 15ml (1tbsp) honey
• Sunflower oil, for shallow-frying
• Soured cream and chive dip and lemon wedges, to serve

Method

Coat each piece of cod in flour then dip in beaten egg and coat in breadcrumbs. Cover and chill in the fridge for 20 mins. Preheat the oven to 200ºC (400ºF, gas mark 6).

2 Heat the olive oil in a roasting tin for 3-4 mins then add the sweet potato. Roast for 20 mins, turning once. Brush with honey and return to the oven for 10 mins until tender and golden.

Heat the sunflower oil in a heavy-based frying pan and fry the fish nuggets for 2-3 mins on each side until golden. Drain on kitchen paper. Serve with the potato wedges, dip and lemon.

Recipe from goodtoknow.co.uk.

Sardines with Blue Chips

Are you looking for inexpensive, healthy and nutritious cooking recipes? You might think in advance how to cook salmon for your meals. I know salmon is a really big and healthy fish, but you shouldn’t overlook the nutrition values of the smaller fishes, like sardines.

They are rich in vitamins and minerals with a small serving providing about 13 percent of vitamin B2; 25% of niacin and well over the daily recommended requirement for vitamin B12–all of which vitamins help support the proper functioning of the nervous system as well as energy metabolism.

The small fish, usually consumed with the bones, are high in phosphorus, calcium and potassium, and well as minerals like iron and selenium. Due to its small size, it spoils rather quickly and after catching, the fish are submerged in brine as they are transported to land where most are canned in several ways. And aside from eating them right after you open the can, you may also try a few fish recipes using sardines. Maybe add blue corn chips beside them? Sounds great right?

Sardines and Blue Chips

Ingredients:

Blue corn chips

Canned sardines with olive oil

Please watch the video for the instructions.

Additional tips: Blue corn chips have 20% more protein than yellow corn chips, but yellow corn chips will suffice. Make sure the chips are made from organic corn!

More at Healthy Recipe – Sardines and Blue Chips by Dr. Gerhauser, www.naturalfoodsdiet.org