Juice Mania

Well I don't even know where to start, I thought Caleb and I went juice crazy yesterday, but today was no joke.  However, before I get into that, we took Hercules to play some of his favorite, Frisbee!   Obviously he is much happier in this short hair cut, and he can play frisbee longer!

Also, Hercules enjoys ear rubs.  And although this picture is from Sunday, I thought I'd share his favorite car riding position: asleep and being cuddled.

Now back to dinner, last night we had Asian night.  Nothing special, just some Soy Glazed Salmon, spicy green beans, and spicy sweet potato fries.  For the salmon I used two different recipes.  Actually I used Rachel Ray's cooking technique and used the soy glaze concocted by Martha Stewart.
It was super easy, I started with cutting the sweet potato and then in a large bowl I mixed together vegetable oil, salt, pepper, cayenne, garlic powder, and paprika.  I didn't measure anything which is why I thought they were too spicy and Caleb thought they were too perfect. 

For the green beans I just steamed them for about 5 minutes, then put them in the pan with some olive oil for a few minutes then added the sauce (a mix of sriracha, soy sauce, minced garlic, and honey).  Now if you don't know what sriacha is, you are crazy! Caleb LOVES the stuff and its great on asian food.  Its basically a chili sauce with a rooster on the front.  It lasts forever and it goes great on tons of stuff.  For you cheap college kids its great on ramen noodles!

So then for the salmon (easiest part) I first rubbed EVOO all over it and then seared it skin side up in a cast iron, after about 3 minutes I flipped it over, added the glaze (soy sauce, brown sugar, white wine, EVOO) and then threw the whole thing in the oven for about 4 more minutes.  The sauce was not as thick as I liked so to finish it off I removed the salmon and cooked the glaze down on the stove. 

It was super easy and very delcious! Here you can see our gigantic plates! We had way, way too much food! Don't worry we didn't finish it all, and I'm eating our leftovers for lunch today!

As you can see Hercules is more than willing to eat our leftovers! Thanks to Caleb for capturing this picture! (See my hands in the background getting ready to move the plates so I can start eating.

So, even though I try to make things spicy enough for Caleb, it seems that it is never enough.  Here I have caught him adding more sriracha! That bottle is almost empty and we'll soon be restocking!

 So after Dinner we are off to juicing! We got so excited we forgot to clean up all our dishes!  But we went juice crazy again! From left to right you can see we made: 1. Grapefruit, 2. Strawberry-cantelope, 3. Orange-cantelope, 4. Orange-apple, 5. Celery, kale, carrot and apple, and 6. Spinach, apple, orange, strawberry.  Obviously, the straw indicates that I enjoyed (and split with Caleb) that last concoction right after juicing with Caleb.