Last night I made this recipe for dinner and i served it with these. Holy. Smokes. That’s some good eatin’! I would suggest you cook these up immediately! Both are easy and quick to whip up and I found that I had almost all of the ingredients on hand already.
What a fresh way to get your fish and veggies in! The only changes I made were to add a healthy handful of chopped green onions to the salmon burger mix, cook the burgers on a skillet with a bit of spray oil like Pam instead of vegetable oil, and to use Sandwich Thins instead of burger buns.
It’s safe to say this stuff blew. my. mind. Who would have thought adding a dash of lemon juice, cayenne pepper, and fresh cilantro to low-fat mayo could yield such incredible results!? This is good stuff. It complimented the salmon burgers perfectly and was also really flavorful as a dipping sauce for the sweet potato fries! I’d totally recommend this low-fat mayo for nearly everything requiring mayo. You don’t need a lot to get a mouthful of flavor!
Sweet potato fries are always a bit of a battle because they soften as they cook and, short of frying them (which would take away any potential health benefits), they’re a difficult beast to make crispy like regular fries. I think next time I won’t spray them with cooking spray and see if that crisps them up a little. I love sweet potato fries because they’re a fresh flavor and fairly healthy. Especially when you use only a minimal amount of olive oil and lots of potent spices like coriander, cumin and oregano instead of the brown sugar that most sweet potato fries are seasoned with. The honey lime dipping sauce was really refreshing and its cool temperature paired nicely with the hot fries. Though I think I actually prefer the cilantro mayo as a fry dip over the honey lime, which I was not expecting.
I also learned that the 32nd annual Taste of Cincinnati is next weekend! I’m so excited! Ever since I heard about it last year, I’ve been looking forward to this year’s. I’m glad I saw the ad for it last night because I would have been really bummed to have found out about it after it happened. Essentially a bunch of great restaurants in Cincinnati take over downtown for a weekend with food booths and offer samples of their most spectacular dishes (from appetizers to desserts!) for the general public to taste and vote on. We’re talking baklava, lamb burgers, lobster ravioli, noodles, spinach and artichoke rangoons, lettuce wraps, cheesecake, crepes, fried pickles, gyros, corn on the cob, bread pudding, bisques, funnel cakes, mac n’cheese, Bavarian pretzels with beer cheese, BBQ, crab cakes, ribs, sushi rolls, vegetarian dishes, duck sliders, tiramisu, bratwurst, and more.
I have one thing to say about that.
YUM.
Today I replanted some herbs, Ted is working on road cases and I’m keeping him company. In a rare change of events I have four days in a row off and Ted has two. We’re taking advantage of the time together to get things done and have a little fun. We’re hoping to mow the lawn, pull out the grill for a mini-cookout, and take our bikes to the bike trail if we have time. Happy weekend!
