June 14th, 2011

Today was a sort of cooking adventure for me.  I have been trying to figure out what to do with the canned salmon I bought from Costco.  Haven't really made much with salmon before so I wasn't really sure where to start.  My grandma makes some delicious salmon patties but I can never remember the recipe for those.  In the end I decided on making what I believe would be called a Salmon salad?  It's similar to what you would make for a tuna fish sandwich, but with salmon and missing a few other ingredients.

The salmon I used was a wild Alaskan salmon.  Bear salmon (rawr).  It was boneless and skinless so I didn't have to check for bones, but I did anyway.  Never can be too careful.

I didn't have any mayo like I would normally use in a tuna salad or chicken salad.  I scowered my fridge for something that would work and came across something my parents had bought and left in my fridge when they visited me last.  It is ranch that is apparently calorie free, fat free and gluten free.  So in my world of weight watchers it was 0 points.  Woot woot.  I doesn't taste too bad either.  I would say it doesn't taste just like ranch but it's not a bad taste either.

I also added some celery to the salmon and ranch mixture to give it some crunch.

Finally I put the mixture in lettuce leaves instead of bread for less points.  I would have used bigger lettuce leaves but my romaine lettuce was getting into the smaller pieces.  Ah well.  The tomatoes are just because I like eating tomatoes. : )

Some of posts might be more about what I cook lately...mostly because I'm trying to figure out new ways to cook lighter and healthier.  Don't worry, all my posts are not going to be about food...I think. Haha.