Restaurant Style Salmon

I’ll admit that I haven’t always been a huge fish fan. Oh, sure I like fish sticks and if I’m feeling fancy, I might have halibut on the occasion of a blue moon.

But my son is trying to be much more healthy so one night he brought home an enormous salmon filet. I had no idea what to do with it. Seriously, no idea. But when I saw the price tag on that crazy thing, I knew we needed to figure it out. After an evenings research, I found a lovely little fool proof recipe that is so easy, and SO delicious–that I might, just possibly have made it four times in the last couple of weeks.

I couldn’t help myself.

Let me tell you how simple it is to make.

First, you’ll need a cast iron skillet. Get it warming. Then gently rub a little olive oil onto both sides of the fillet. Salt and pepper lightly.  Set the salmon into the hot skillet and turn down to medium heat.  Set the time for about 6 minutes–depending on the thickness of of your fillet. Now, don’t mess with it. I know you’ll want to poke it and scoot it around in the pan, but don’t.  When the time is up, gently turn your salmon over and let it cook, undisturbed for another 2-3 minutes.

That is IT!!

Serve as is, or with Malt Vinegar….mmmmmm.

You’re gonna need to put me in your will for this one.

You’ll see.

 

 

Restaurant Salmon
 
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Ingredients
  • Salmon Fillets
  • Olive Oil
  • Salt
  • Pepper
Instructions
  1. First, you'll need a cast iron skillet. Get it warming.
  2. Then gently rub a little olive oil onto both sides of the fillet.
  3. Salt and pepper lightly.
  4. Place the salmon into the hot skillet and turn down to medium heat. Set the timer for about 6 minutes--depending on the thickness of of your fillet.
  5. Now, don't mess with it. I know you'll want to poke it and scoot it around in the pan, but don't.
  6. When the time is up, gently turn your salmon over and let it cook, undisturbed for another 2-3 minutes.
  7. Eat it up!

 

Honey Spice Throat Drops

And oh, my goodness, I’m feeling very clever right now. It just hit me one night–while I was sound asleep–maybe I dreamed it, I don’t know. But I woke up thinking, “I need to make my own throat drops!” These ones will not just soothe a scratchy throat, but they can actually strengthen the immune system against the nastiness that is causing it in the first place. So there.

I have recently become an enormous fan of  essential oils–I know, I know, I was a bit slow to catch that train. But I’m here now and I’m pretty excited to find all these unbelievably simple ways to help the sweet little moms and dads that I teach every week…plus my own family and friends. So my Honey Spice Throat Drops are a good place to start.

Here is my brand new secret recipe…

Honey Spice Cough Drops

Ingredients:

2 cups sugar

1/2 cup water

1/2 cup honey

1/4 cup butter

5-10  drops OnGuard (protective blend) essential oil

Put all the ingredients except essential oil in a heavy pan and cook slowly over medium heat until it reaches the “hard crack stage.”

Because area, altitude and climate can make such a difference in candy making, PLEASE click on this link and test your thermometer for your area. It will make all the difference in whether or not your drops are too soft, just right or burned. For example–at sea level, Hard Crack is between 300 and 305 degrees. But here in Utah, where we are waaaaay above sea level, Hard Crack is about 275-280 degrees. BIG difference. If you do this test and follow the directions~ your drops will work.

Resist the urge to turn the heat up higher to speed up the process. It will burn unless you keep it on medium and check it often. Once you can drizzle a spoonful of the syrup into a cup of cold water and have it turn to brittle threads–take it off the heat immediately. Wait about 30 seconds to a minute and then add the essential oil. Stir.

Pour into a buttered cookie sheet.  Fold edges of the candy into the middle with a metal spatula until cool enough to handle.

Working quickly, pull and roll into long strips…

and cut into nickle size pieces.

Allow to cool completely and harden. If your drops have been cooked long enough, you’ll be able to store them in a ziploc bag.

If they are a bit soft and still sticky, wrap them in waxed paper squares and store in a ziploc bag.

Just wait until you tell your friends what you just did.

You’ll likely be worshiped as a Goddess of Health and Happiness.

If you play your cards right, it’ll be true.

Note: You can also us Peppermint, Wild Orange,  Lemon or any number of yummy doTERRA Essential oils–think Lime, Fennel, Spearmint— oh, my.

Make sure your essential oil is the purest grade available. If it does not say that it is ingest-able, then it isn’t–so in that case don’t use it in this or any other recipe.

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Honey Spice Throat Drops
 
Ingredients
  • 2 cups sugar
  • ½ cup water
  • ½ cup honey
  • ¼ cup butter
  • 5-10 drops protective blend essential oil
Instructions
  1. Put all the ingredients except essential oil in a heavy pan and cook slowly over medium heat until it reaches the "hard crack stage."
  2. Resist the urge to turn the heat up higher to speed up the process. It will burn unless you keep it on medium and check it often.
  3. Once you can drizzle a spoonful of the syrup into a cup of cold water and have it turn to brittle threads--take it off the heat immediately.
  4. Wait about 30 seconds to a minute and then add the essential oil.
  5. Stir.
  6. Pour into a buttered cookie sheet.
  7. Fold edges of the candy into the middle until cool enough to handle.
  8. Working quickly, pull and roll into long strips...and cut into nickle size pieces.
  9. Allow to cool completely and harden.
  10. If your drops have been cooked long enough, you'll be able to store them in a ziploc bag unwrapped.
  11. If they are a bit soft and still sticky, wrap them in waxed paper squares and store in a ziploc bag.

So Dang Brave

This is me walking right up to the hospital to have pre-surgery lab work done. I am so, so brave. Nobody is even with me to drag…ummm… I mean, to walk me in there.

I’m practicing my adult skills–that I must admit, don’t come out to play very often.

Breathe deep.

Breathe deep.

“This won’t hurt a bit. Just a little pinch.”

Fibber.

To Begin

I have to lose 25 more pounds–says my new doctor–before we can do my knee surgery. Now, as you may know, I’m not a huge fan of taking the total medical approach over a much more natural one. But I haven’t been able to work in the yard of my new house, since I moved in–and I can’t have that. I realized that I’ll do whatever I need to do to be mobile again.

SO, I officially started Weight Watchers over the weekend–and get this–it’s actually fun! I didn’t expect that, at all

Anyone want to do it with me? Fruits, vegetables, eggs, chicken, beans and fish are ZERO points. That means that you don’t even need to count them!! Yeah, I’m having a blast.

And down 4 pounds from last week.

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doTERRA Convention Coming Up!!

Because the doTERRA Dream Convention is coming up THIS WEEK, it got me thinking back to the doTERRA Alive Convention that we attended a few years back.

It was wonderful to meet up with our sweet friends…

and sit for together for THREE whole days…

just soaking up all the incredible new oil information

and the science behind it all.

We filled whole tablets taking notes, without missing a beat. WAAAAY too much info to just trust that we wouldn’t forget.

But this, this was easy to remember…

and all this happiness, it was easy too.