Perfectly grilled salad beast
Good morning! How are you? Hope your day is going well so far <3 Thank you so much for all of the baby bump Halloween ideas… I’m excited.
So, last night I asked the grillmaster if he would mind grilling up some goods for our dinner salad beasts.
I’m so glad he loves grilling, because the clean-up is so easy, and he’s kind of a wizard at it 😉
I prepped some salmon with:
-olive oil
-sea salt and pepper
-Nama shoyu
-The juice and zest of one orange
-grated fresh ginger and crushed garlic
-a drizzle of honey
and he also grilled up some asparagus spears to go with it.
While he was outside cooking the food, I caramelized some onions and made the dressing.
The finished product:
A glorious salad beast with grilled salmon and asparagus, segmented orange, caramelized onions and orange soy vinaigrette.
Not. too. shabby.
[This is the reason why it’s easy for me to be disappointed by restaurant salads]
We took Bell for her nightly walk, finished watching Bridesmaids –it was the third time I’ve seen it, and it gets funnier every time- and called it a night.
This morning, a pre-workout bowl of oats:
[oats, Sun Warrior, berries + melted chocolate chips]
and I’m off to the gym!
What’s on your workout agenda today? If you need leg workout inspiration, the one I did yesterday left my leggies pleasantly sore.
See ya later today!
xoxo
Gina
Something to read:
–10 Ways to Burn More Calories During Exercise
–Vegan Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls <— these look OUTTA CONTROL
–Woman Gives Birth After Finishing the Chicago Marathon
–Better Butt Workout [my favorite move from this is the single leg hip extension]
–Pumpkin chocolate chip bread –making a loaf of this tonight. The Pilot’s bread from the fall festival left me with pumpkin bread envy 😉
Something to talk about: I’m very late to the Pinterest bandwagon, but I finally signed up. Are any of y’all on Pinterest? The funny thing is that I haven’t pinned anything yet (it feels like a commitment! haha) but am excited to use if for decorating, fashion and recipe inspiration.
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I LOVE Pinterest – almost as much as I love Bridesmaids :). I will follow you!
Btw, you make me feel less guilty about having chocolate chips on my oatmeal. So glad I’m not the only one! 🙂
Just think of the antioxidants! 😉
Salmon with orange is one of my favourite pairings! Have you ever tried a marinade with orange juice, sesame oil, maple syrup and soy sauce? It’s fantastic!
Your salad definitely looks restaurant worthy. 😀
Watch out!!! Pinterest is so addicting! 🙂 Can’t wait to make the salmon. Yummm!
I’m new to finding this blog, but after seeing that salmon (and subsequently wiping up the drool off my keyboard) I browsed around and I’m in love! I actually already linked to you in my blog post about finding new workout ideas online!
http://studiofood.blogspot.com/2011/10/fitness-plans-and-new-motivation.html
awesome- thank you so much!
I haven’t pinned anything yet but love looking at Pinterest. I’m making your salmon this week; I always forget about oranges as a marinade. Tonight I made Smitten Kitchen butternut squash soup. Then I had a lot of fresh okra given to me so I froze part of it and made stewed okra and tomatoes with part of it.
I have Pinterest! It’s addicting!
Eating salads out at a restaurant makes me so frustrated. I always end up estimating what it would cost me to make the same salad. I am convinced that most restaurants make a killing on their salads. I usually can make the same salad for half the price. Yours looks amazing!!
That salad looks amazing! How did you make the orange soy vinaigrette?? I love salad dressings but find it impossible tomake up any recipes on my own! 🙂
the recipe is written on the notebook page in the post- it was so easy, and soooo good
How did I miss that?! lol thank you 🙂
I’m on Pinterest! I love it! But must warn you that Pinterest is where time goes to die…
I love bridesmaids! could watch it over and over too and i swear it gets funnier every time! the salad looks soo good! thanks for sharing!
Yum! That looks so delicious! I am definitely going to have to make that this week!
Hey Gina-
I want to recreate this dressing- the whole salad actually! It looks awesome, but what is the ingredient on the 4th line? I am blind as a bat and can’t exactly read it? Could you please help me out?
-Moira-