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After munching on leftover salmon all week, we are ready to eat something different so I decided to throw together some salmon patties for a little variety. Some recipes use raw salmon but I still had about one pound of leftover salmon from our salmon barbecue  so I decided to use cooked salmon in this recipe. This was enough to make about 8 salmon patties which I can freeze and save for a quick dinner. Makes 8 patties 1 pound of leftover salmon 1/4 cup panko bread crumbs, plus 3/4 cup for coating patties 1/4 cup fresh, minced parsley 3 Tbsp. mayonnaise 4 tsp. lemon juice 2 sliced green onions 1 tsp. Dijon mustard 1/2 tsp. salt pinch cayenne pepper 1/2 cup vegetable oil 1. Add leftover salmon to food processor.    2. Add 1/4 cup panko, parsley, mayonnaise, lemon juice, green onions, mustard, salt, and cayenne pepper to salmon in food processor. Pulse salmon mixture until thoroughly combined. 3. Using 1/3 cup measuring cup, scoop a level amount of salmon m...

That darn Howard Schultz!

This weekend we had a big summer barbecue featuring our favorite of all foods…King Salmon. Bruce and some work associates like to go fishing to the  outpost  in beautiful British Columbia located on the Queen Charlotte Islands.  This year Bruce caught the biggest salmon, a 42-pound Chinook salmon, the largest he has ever caught.  Usually, when anybody catches a salmon that large, the guides will make them throw it back to keep the genetic pool circulating in the ocean. But this poor salmon was injured too badly after reeling him in so Bruce had to keep him... Soon, it looked like this…   and then it looked like this We prepare salmon in a rather simple way.  Wrap in foil.  Slice onion and place on top.  Cook in the foil on a hot barbecue grill.   With a thermometer, immediately remove the salmon from the heat when the internal temperature reaches 110 degrees and let sit for 10 minutes wrapped in the foil.  (It wi...

Yes, seriously! I saw these two swimmers interviewed on the  Today Show  broadcasted  in London and I wasn't really surprised but it is a little heartbreaking. I always joke at my job in the hospital that the most popular place that patients tell me they will go after they discharge is to McDonald's.  (After they are re-admitted back into the hospital)  I guess it isn't any different for Olympic athletes.  Here is the article taken off the internet on Yahoo!News.  Note: They do say in the article that they do eat "healthily" (which I'm sure is true for what they accomplish) and McDonald's is in their Olympic dining hall, the world's biggest, by the way, since they are an official Olympic sponsor.  America will always be America. Ricky Berens was part of the gold-medal-winning relay Tuesday night that put Michael Phelps in the record books. It was the second gold medal of his career and his second overall medal in 2012. The race also...

One of the highlights of my visit to Seattle this weekend was to celebrate Lauren's 23rd birthday.  We let her choose a restaurant of her choice to have dinner and she chose Sitka & Spruce, which is unique in many ways.   It is located on Capitol Hill at the Melrose Market (formerly it was located on Eastlake).  I've read about it in Sunset magazine so when Lauren mentioned it, I wasn't totally in the dark about it and was eager to go there myself. The Melrose Market is a fairly small but upscale mall that houses a cool clothing shop, a hip bar, a cheesemonger, a butcher shop, a gift shop, and a florist. We loved poking around at all they had to offer here. Lots of yummy snacks in this mall, not your typical "food court". But we were saving our appetite for Sitka & Spruce.  Chef owner, Matt Dillon, prepares simple, clear, lovely flavors; sauces are sparing, nothing is over-bearing, and all is local and f...