Salmon and Simple Sides

Our trip to Burlington was awesome, but we stayed up past our usual bedtime and didn't sleep in very late.  We got to camp in plenty of time to cook, but without any excess of energy.  Fortunately our meal today was a simple one, and everything except the dessert came together just how we hoped.

Baked Potato Soup

I improvised this one, based on a similar soup I made a couple months ago.  I used two pots, to make it easier to blend in the pot.  I caramelized 4 yellow onions in olive oil, and toward the end added about 4 stalks of celery.  Then I added a bunch of oven-roasted potatoes that were leftover from Beast night, which came with their own herbs and fat.  I also added a quart or so of rich veggie broth that was squeezed our of the cooked greens and onions for spanakopita night.  All that got cooked for an hour or so, then blended up, and served with sour cream, grated cheese, and chopped green onions.

Salmon

From this recipe.   We also took a tip from a family friend of Dave's, and poured a splash of orange juice on the fish while it was cooking.  It came out delicious and beautiful -- it sounded like it got applauded when it came out to the table. 

Quinoa

Straight up.

Oven-roasted Broccoli

From this recipe.  This came out awesome, and was very easy to make.

Fruit Sherbet and Lacy Oatmeal Cookies

From this recipe.  The flavor was great, but despite our giving it 5 hours in the freezer when the recipe called for 4, it still had the consistency of a three-fourths-melted Icee, instead of a legitimate frozen dessert.  So we decided to serve it over vanilla ice cream, as a kind of cold sauce.  That worked out pretty well.  I'm not sure how we could've planned it better, and I might be ready to give up on serving ice-cream-like desserts at camp.  Without an ice cream maker, we have to rely on timing to control crystal size and resulting dessert hardness.  If we had made this last night, I think it would've been unpleasant to eat tonight.  I guess soon we'll know more about that, since we'll have plenty of sherbet leftover.

The cookies were from this recipe.  I had some hopes that I would roll them into tubes, but they were easy to break when pulled from the pan, and so I gave up on that idea.  They were pretty tasty, even flat.