Salmon Tacos

Salmon Tacos

Today I made salmon tacos. I found this recipe and have made tuna tacos, but today I choose salmon instead of tuna. Fresh salmon would have been delicious, but I didn’t have any, so I used salmon patties from Costco. I cooked them on the stove and broke them up for the tacos. I still added other ingredients to spice it up.

Salmon Tacos

1 lb. salmon filet
¼ c. chopped onion
¼ c. red bellpepper, chopped
2 whole fresh tomatoes, chopped (I have to omit this because my kids don’t like tomatoes)
½ t. ground cumin
½ t. marjoram
2 t. garlic powder
1 t. oregano, dried (not ground)
¼ t. chili flakes, crushed
½ bunch cilantro, chopped
1 dozen corn tortillas
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
Shredded lettuce or chopped cabbage
Crema Mexicana (table crème)
Chopped avocado
Twist of lime on salmon

Heat 2 T. olive oil in frying pan, cook salmon, set aside. Don’t drain pan. Saute oil and bellpepper in pan and add tomatoes and flaked salmon. Stir, add spices and cilantro until well blended. Add mixture to corn tortillas and fry as a taco. Serve with salsa, hot peppers, avocadoes. Or in the case of my kids, who don’t like tomatoes, omit from recipe, but add them as a side. Or add chopped cabbage and Crema Mexicana. Serve with fruit in season.

Curves for Women Toning Trainer

I am a slow walker. Okay, let’s face it, I am a shuffler. I shuffle in the morning and all day long. That is how I walk. Well not any more. I just received as a gift Curves for Women Toning Trainer sneaker. I love it! I can not shuffle with these shoes on. My feet actually rock when I walk and if I try to shuffle, I trip. And, get this, I actually walk faster. Call me crazy, but these are the best shoes ever and now I need to look for some that don’t look like sneakers so that I can wear them everywhere.

I encourage everyone to try them.

Celestial Seasonings Tea

Chai tea has been out for a while at all the coffee houses and quite honestly I didn’t feel like trying it out. Especially since I heard it was basically black tea with milk. The reason I didn’t feel like trying it out was because that is what I grew up on. So why try something everyone thinks is a new thing, when I have had it all my life. Ever since I can remember we have had hot tea for dinner and as a young child, to make it not so hot, we added milk to it.

Boy was I wrong! This is delicious. I thought this is the best tasting chai ever. There was a hint of coconut plus a little bit of ginger, nutmeg and cloves. Now I did have to add milk and sugar to it (I always add sugar) because if not, then it is not chai. Even my 11 year old daughter loved it.

The only way I can describe the taste of this tea is that it made me feel like I was in a little café village in Venice watching people float by in their gondolas, as the breeze was ever so softly caressing my skin and soft music softly playing in the background.

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