Quick Meals Planner: Chris' Pick
Walter Raymond's Sweet and Sour Cucumbers | Peppered Salmon Roulade | Easy Berry Pie
Walter Raymond's Sweet and Sour Cucumbers
Recipe Summary
Complexity: | Easy |
Serves: | 6 |
Category: | Salad |
Meal: | Chris' Pick (Quick Meals Planner) |
2 | large | cucumbers, sliced |
1.5 | cup | sugar, granulated |
1.5 | cup | vinegar, cider |
2 | Tb | onions, sliced |
1 | pinch | salt and pepper to taste |
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Cut cucumbers into thin slices. Dissolve sugar in vinegar on low heat. Thinly slice red onion. Add cucumbers, onions and liquid in a bowl and let marinate for 1 hour. Salt and Pepper to taste.
Peppered Salmon Roulade
Recipe Summary
Complexity: | Medium |
Serves: | 2 |
Category: | Fish Entrée |
Meal: | Chris' Pick (Quick Meals Planner) |
2 | Tb | butter, salted |
3 | medium | leeks |
1 | lb | salmon, one piece |
1 | pinch | salt and pepper to taste |
2 | Tb | pepper, fresh cracked |
2 | Tb | oil, canola |
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1 | medium | tomatoes, fresh |
1 | medium | cucumbers, sliced |
1 | tsp | lime juice |
1 | Tb | chives, chopped |
2 | Tb | mayonnaise |
1 | Tb | cilantro, chopped |
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Slice and clean the leeks, white part only. Heat butter in pan, sauté leeks until tender, remove and cool. Remove pin bones and skin from salmon. Place salmon on a cutting board, cover with plastic wrap and flatten with mallet or heavy pan until 1/2 thick. Place salmon on a large piece of aluminum foil, salt and pepper to taste and spread cooled leeks evenly on salmon, leaving 3/4 on top and bottom. Roll salmon into a log. Heavily sprinkle coarse cracked pepper evenly over outside of salmon and wrap tightly with foil, twisting ends.
Peel and seed tomato and cucumber. Dice into small pieces, place in bowl with mayonnaise, and lime juice, mix well.
Heat oil in heavy pan until very hot. Place salmon, still in foil, in pan and cook, turning constantly, for 3-4 minutes. Until when you push on side it offers resistance. Remove from pan, let rest for 5 minutes.
Place mayonnaise mixture on plate, cut salmon into 4 pieces, place two on each plate, sprinkle cilantro and chives around plate and serve.
Easy Berry Pie
Recipe Summary
Complexity: | Easy |
Serves: | 8 |
Category: | Dessert |
Meal: | Chris' Pick (Quick Meals Planner) |
1 | recipe | tart shell |
2 | Tb | raspberry jam |
1 | box | pie filling, vanilla |
0.75 | cup | strawberries, whole |
0.75 | cup | raspberries, fresh |
0.75 | cup | blueberries |
1 | Tb | sugar, white, optional |
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Make and bake tart shell according to the recipe found under recipe/dessert/tart dough. Allow to cool. Spread raspberry jam evenly on the bottom of the tart shell. Make the vanilla pie filling according to instructions on the box. Pour filling into tart shell and spread evenly. Quarter strawberries and place with blueberries and raspberries in a bowl; add a little sugar if the berries aren't quite ripe. Toss berries together and spread on top of tart. Refrigerate until served.