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Some quick meals over the last few weeks

Teriyaki Salmon w/ rice and seasoning

Got a ton of new things to upload but I’ll have to get to that another time. For now, here are a few pictures of things I’ve whipped up in the past few weeks, many of them are of recipes I’ve already posted. Salmon teriyaki appears a lot these days, it’s fast, easy, and pretty healthy to boot, though I’ve started branching out from just rice into soba noodles.

On a side note, had a nice big BBQ over Memorial Day, my contribution was a few pounds of steak tips marinated with the Kalbi marinade from a few posts back. Going to be grilling a bunch this summer so we’ll see if I can come up with some more interesting things to write about =P

Teriyaki Salmon over Soba
Tilapia, Spinach on fresh bread

Sushi Time!

Tuna + Salmon

Let me preface this by saying that I’m a complete noob at making sushi. Love eating sushi, but when it comes to rolling maki or making nigiri…let’s just say it was probably better that I paid someone else to do it.

Back in New Jersey, mom made California rolls now and then and she had the method down pat. I remember happily wolfing down piece after piece back in the day. My experiences rolling maki? Not so good. I used too much rice, I didn’t keep my hands moist, I overstuffed the roll and well, you get the picture. Think of a roll that looks like a lumpy potato in the middle =/

But, I decided to try making nigiri and it actually turned out well. Got the roommate to cut the fish while I rolled up the rice. The rice wasn’t the best, probably should tweak the sauce mixture a little bit, but it turned out alright as a few friends and I gobbled up every piece!

And the best part of it was getting the fish itself. I drove it back from New Jersey in a cooler =P

Inari
Tuna
Salmon

P.S. The title has nothing to do with the similarly named arcade game.

Sanity check – failed – excess chocolate detected

Chocolates!

Quickie today, real post coming tomorrow, but I needed an excuse to post this and mention that I’ve gone insane.

Not pictured are the 4 other bars I added, plus the bag of Taza chocolate covered nibs.

Whoa!

Happy Birthday, Seasoned Noob!

Today marks the 1st birthday of the Seasoned Noob blog and the “official” unveiling of the new site! I hope you all like the change and I hope to continue making improvements in the near future (in addition to posting a bit more often). In addition, please let me know if anything goes wrong as well.

Furthermore, apparently WordPress supports this thing called Gravatars (Globally Recognized Avatar) for the comments and profiles. Basically, your gravatar is a small picture that gets tied to your gravatar account and is accessed on gravatar-enabled sites (Also any WordPress blog) when you list your e-mail address in the comment field. Pretty neat idea, little bit of a pain in the butt to figure out all the tidbits about it, but it was interesting at the very least.

Anyway, I’ve got a few good (I hope) posts coming up in the very near future as last weekend, I was extremely adventurous and tried making 3 dishes I’d never attempted before. So that means the dearth of posts (mainly because of A, my laziness, and B, the lack of cooking any new dishes) will have a hopefully indefinite hiatus.