A quick and easy dinner

The following recipes came from The Healthy Kitchen by Andrew Weil and Rosie Daley. This meal came together in about 30 minutes. The salmon recipe posted below is for 6, but since there's just two of us I scaled it back, but now that it's a few weeks later, I can't exactly remember the proportions I used.

This meal was really light and refreshing. It also felt like spring with the citrus glaze and the crisp snow peas. The snow pea side dish literally came together in minutes once the snow peas were all trimmed up.

Seared Salmon with Orange Glaze

serves 6

Ingredients:

Six 6-oz salmon fillets

1 T. sesame oil

3 tsp. soy sauce

1/4 c. white wine

1 c. freshly squeezed orange juice

1 tsp. orange zest

3 tsp.l sherry

1/2 tsp. grated fresh ginger

Slices of orange for plating

Method

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees

2. In a large, very hot skillet, add the sesame oil, and sear the fish fillets for 1 minute on each side. The fish should sizzle when it hits the pan. If you don't hear the sizzle, your pan is not hot enough.

3. After searing, move fillets to a ceramic or glass baking dish.

4. Drizzle soy sauce and wine over the fillets and bake them for 10 minutes.

5. While the fish is in the oven combine the orange juice, zest, sherry and ginger in a small saucepan and warm on medium-high heat until the liquid is reduced by half.

6. To serve, plate the fish and top with an orange slice. Drizzle orange glaze over the top of the fish.

Shiitake mushrooms and pea pods

Ingredients

1 pound of snow peas

1/2 pound of fresh shiitake mushrooms

2 tsp canola oil

1 tsp. toasted sesame oil

2 tsp light brown or raw sugar

1/4 cup of sherry

2 T soy sauce

Method

1. Trim the ends and any strings from the pea pods.

2. Slice the mushrooms into 1/2 inch wide slices.

3. Heat the oils in a skillet and add the mushrooms.

4. Saute over medium-high heat, until the mushrooms start to brown

5. Sprinkle the sugar over the mushrooms and add the sherry.

6. Cook and stir for 1 minute and then add the pea pods.

7. Cover, and reduce the heat to medium, and steam until the pea pods turn bright green, and tender crunchy (about 2 minutes)

8. Remove cover and continue to cook until the liquid has evaporated.

Serve quickly!