Oh Boy! Bok Choy!

Whew. These late nights are killing me. I am too old to being staying up that late. Went to the Farmers Market today to shop. I shop one week at Kroger and one week at Farmer's Market each month. It works out pretty well. The produce and meats are so much better and cheaper at the market, but you can't buy things like TP there...

Dinner tonight was SO easy and really nice for a hot June night.

Grilled Salmon & Baby Bok Choy with ginger and garlic and cabbage

I adapted this from a Bon Appetit recipe which serves 12, mine serves 2

1 large skinless salmon fillet
2 tb asian sesame oil
4 large garlic cloves
2 tb chopped peeled fresh ginger
6 baby bok choy washed and cut lengthwise in half
5 tb sherry
1/4 c soy sauce
handful or two of shredded cabbage
lime
tinfoil

Turn barbecue on med hi. Make two big rectangles of tin foil. On one place the salmon and rub it with sesame oil both sides. Salt and pepper it. Sprinkle half the ginger and the garlic on it. Drizzle with half the soy sauce and sherry. Fold up the little packet.

On other rectangle place the baby bok choy. Drizzle with sesame oil; sprinkle with garlic, ginger, remaining soy sauce and sherry. Close up packet, if you have to use another peice of tinfoil to make a "cover" for it, that's cool.

Put Bok Choy packet on grill for about 10 minutes. When that 10 minutes is up, leave it on the grill and add the salmon packet to the grill as well. Grill for 10 more minutes. Keep an eye on the bok choy, if it smells burny, take it off the heat. After that 10 minutes, turn off heat, open grill and open the packets a little. Let them sit about 10 minutes.

Place bok choy on plate, cut fillet in half lengthwise and place over choy. Add a handful of of cold cabbage to plate. Drizzle everything on plate with a little lime juice. Drizzle cabbage also with soy sauce and pepper.

Fresh, light, no dishes, and no extra heat in the house...what more could you want from a summer meal?

Today we are thankful for: the boy finished a paper he was working on; I am happy I finished some invitations I was working on.