The Quickest Meal Ever*

*By ever we mean in the context of this cooking blog and how long it usually takes us to cook our meals - which is forever.

After a minor hiatus we are back in the kitchen!

For tonight's adventure we made feta mashed potatoes, orange salmon with kale, and an AMAZING salad the Rebecca put together off the top of her head.

Feta mashed potatoes

Ingredients:
(We used) 5 red potatoes
2 tbs butter
Garlic powder
Most of an 8oz block of feta
Salt n pepper

Directions:
Peel them potatoes! Chop into small cubes, as it cooks much faster this way. When potatoes are cooked, add butter, a bit of salt, a bit of pepper (to taste), a tablespoon or so of garlic powder (but we like our garlic) and crumbled feta (you can get the crumbles but we recommend a block and crumbling it yourself). Mash the whole thing until you have mashed potatoes :)

To garnish, add chopped scallions and hot sauce. Mmmm....

Orange salmon and kale (and baby bok choy)

Ingredients:
2 oranges
1lb salmon fillets, skinless
10oz fresh kale, roughly chopped with the stems removed and only the green stuff used
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper
4 green onions, chopped, for garnish
(We also added...) 2 largish baby bok choy, chopped

Directions:
Zest both oranges. Set aside orange zest. Cut peel from one orange, and chop up into squares. Set aside. Juice the other orange and add juice to a large saute pan. If your salmon came with skin on it like ours did, remove skin (and fry it with some soy sauce to eat right away). In your pan, arrange salmon and sprinkle with half the orange zest, salt and pepper.  Cover and let it cook until fish is fully cooked through (no longer a dark pink - maybe 5 minutes). Remove fish to your plate(s). Add kale, oranges, chopped baby bok choy, remaining zest, salt and pepper to pan and cook for just a few minutes until greens were cooked, but not completely wilted. Serve salmon on a bed of greens, with your green onion for garnish (this is clearly a theme here).

Super-awesome salad by Rebecca

Ingredients:
1 avocado
1 big gala apple
Some match-stick carrots
2 green onions
Big chunk of ginger, peeled and minced

Salad dressing:
2 tbs olive oil
Most of the minced ginger (but you can put some more in your salad if you like) soaked in the olive oil for at least 10 minutes
Juice of half a lemon (use a fresh lemon!)
Salt and pepper to taste

Directions:
Cut everything up and mix together with the salad dressing, which is just all of the ingredients mixed together as well! For the apples, cut into thin slices (like guitar picks). Same with the avocado - make sure it's a very ripe one because it serves more as an emulsifier than as a salad ingredient. Very tasty.

The end!