Teriyaki Salmon

As a cook with a sweet tooth, I'm always looking for recipes for actual meals. As usual, the meals I find that I want to try involve rice and soy sauce. This time, it's not chicken, it's the Teriyaki Salmon recipe from wholeandheavenlyoven.

This is amazing. I didn't have much of it when I tried it the first time, but I put it in the book that night anyway, and had a much bigger piece when I made it again for my mom's birthday dinner.

I didn't make the gingered rice that the blog suggests, but it doesn't matter. I love this meal anyway, and I'll keep the recipe forever.

Banana Cream Cookies

I know it's only been a few days since my last Pinterest update, but I got bored. Boredom leads to baking, and baking leads to blogging, so here's another internet recipe with short commentary.

We always have bananas in the house. Sometimes the bananas are better for baking than eating, but there are so many banana bread recipes that I couldn't decide which one to try.

Then I found these cookies from butterwithasideofbread. They were something that wasn't banana bread, so I decided to try them out instead.

They turned out good, according to my mom. Not something that I would put in my personal cookbook, but if you like banana bread, they're good cookies. I do not like banana bread, but I still suggest that those who do try the cookies.

Irish Cream Brownies

The original blogger of the Irish Cream Brownies from wonkywonderful.com posted them for St. Patrick's Day. I decided to leave my own comments for that same day.

My family has four people over 21, meaning there's a lot of alcoholic drinks. None of us drink much, but we like to have our options for when we do. This means that halfway through March, we still had most of the Irish cream my dad got for Christmas. With my sister having a birthday right before St. Patrick's Day and coming home for spring break at the same time, I decided to give them a try.

I made them a little bit too thin, but my family still liked them, so I call it a success.

I don't like Irish cream myself. I like the sweet girly stuff. But I just thought I'd post this here for St. Patrick's Day, in case anyone decides to read this.

Lemon Basil Chicken Crescents

This was actually something that my mom came up with back in January, because it was so cold and no one wanted to go grocery shopping. She went with 'whatever looked right' for her measurements, and it turned out good.

Naturally, as an autistic person, I needed exact measurements. This is why I learned to cook from books and blogs instead of my parents. But Mom had a lot of lemon basil from her herb garden, and was willing to guess the right measurements to help me get it right.

RECIPE:
- 3 tubes crescent rolls
- 1 12.5-ounce can cooked chicken
- 1/4 teaspoon crushed sage
- 1/4 teaspoon lemon peel
- 1/2 teaspoon crushed basil (or use lemon basil and leave out the lemon peel)
- 2 tablespoons sour cream
- 2 tablespoons mayonnaise

Mix chicken, herbs, sour cream, and mayonnaise in a bowl.

Spread 1/2 tablespoon in each crescent.

Fold up the crescent.

Bake as directed on the crescent package.

This is something that is now in my personal cookbook, so it's now another meal I can rely on for when I move out on my own. And it's low energy, so I can still do it after work.