Salmon and Couscous

Couscous: so good they named it twice! Last night I made a delicious lemony salmon with tomato couscous! I also had a revelation!

... I fell in love with the crispy outside of roasted brussel sprouts!  I used Ina Garten's recipe as well as advice from the reviews!  It was oh so delicious and so easy! Simply pre-heat the oven to 400 and chop the yucky ends off your brussel sprouts

Then you season them with salt and pepper and cover with olive oil and garlic.  I added some lemon zest and the juice of half a lemon... mix well then throw them in the oven.










The recipe calls for about 50 minutes, but I found them perfectly charred after 30.  The only negative thing I didn't like (but Caleb did) was the inside.  Next time... I'll cut them in half so they get more of that yummy charred flavor.










For the salmon I started this "marinade" basically just some olive oil, garlic, and lemon zest 










So for the Couscous, I simply bought a package that had cooking instructions (whole grain of course).  So I brought some water to boil then added the couscous and took it off the heat.  I then chopped up a red onion (half of a small one).  Then covered it in the juice of one lemon.









Then I halved some cherry tomatoes (almost the whole pint) and put them on top of the onions.






Then I realized the bowl was too small so I poured it into a bigger glass bowl and topped it with the prepared couscous (after adding some olive oil and some lemon zest). Then I added some fresh cilantro!

Notice the middle is a little blurry, and so will the rest of the pictures... I found out this morning there was a smudge on my lens! :(


So after the couscous was ready and the brussel sprouts were in the oven doing their thing, I started the salmon in a super hot cast iron, skin side down.





After about three minutes I flipped it over and cooked it for another 2 minutes. See the nice marks on there?









So then it was just time to plate up! First my plate. YUM!

 And now Caleb's... I tried to give him the bigger piece of salmon.

Now I don't have pictures but we also had more s'mores cookies and then juiced! Great night!