After a long work day today, I somehow managed to muster up enough energy to cook a dinner with a main protein with a wine reduction AND five side dishes! Most of it was baked, which gave me time for the stove-top stuff. Part of the inspiration boiled down to clearing out the fridge and pantry, and the other was because of the shipment of our veggie box this morning. Here's a run-down of everything I made: baked salmon, a creamy white wine reduction sauce, 1 baked yam, 1 baked potato, sauteed white mushrooms, sauteed broccoli rabe, and roasted fennel.
Everything was baked except for the rabe and mushroom. The broccoli rabe and fennel were from the box, and those were simple online recipes. The fennel was perfect since I had already planned on baking the 2 types of potatoes from the pantry. To the (very large) yam, I added a pat of butter and 2 tbsp of brown sugar. The potato also got a pat of butter and some of the creamy white wine sauce (sour cream had gone bad). It felt like a feast and I finally got Ken to like yams!
*Picture coming soon.
