Sake-cream Poached Salmon

So here we have a recipe that I originally posted on GAX Online - a social network for gamers. It's fairly simple and easy to execute on a single person scale, which some days is perfect because I'm one of those people who hates to cook just for myself. Sometimes you just end up with too many leftovers to deal with. Or, depending on the recipe, you just end up looking at what you've made wondering what the hell made you think you'd need anything with a pound of ground beef in it.Luckily for me, I have a boss that lets me play around with the food a little bit at work. And, one of the duties for kitchen staff is to prepare daily meals for everyone. It's a pretty good deal for the staff. Depending on what you get, you get a $20 to $40 meal free every day.One of the ladies that works there has...

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Italian Chicken Rolls

Here we have another recipe written for Amish Otaku. This one is pretty popular with my roommate and with the exception of pounding out the chicken breasts (which gets much easier with practice) is extremely easy to make.For this dish, you’ll need the following things: Chicken breasts Sliced pepperoni Grated mozzarella cheese Minced garlic (this can be bought in jars already minced for you and will last a long time) Dried basil, oregano and parsley Salt and pepper ButterThe first thing you’re going to need to do is to pound out your chicken breasts, smooth side down. You’ll want to get the breasts as thin as possible...

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Quicky Salmon Cakes with a Honey Mustard Sauce

So for my first couple of posts, I'll be pulling some over from other sites that I've written for or posted on. This first post was orignially done as a feature on Amish Otaku, a site for gamers, comic book and movie fans and other general geekery.It's a simple, tasty recipe for salmon cakes designed for the novice cook.First, you’ll need the following tasty, tasty items: 4 slices wheat bread 2 large eggs 1/2 small chopped onion Seasoning (this can be your favorite mixed seasoning; I tend to go for Greek) Olive oil Flavorless oil (vegetable, corn or peanut oil is good)You’ll also need the following hardware: Another,...

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Out of the Pan and into the Fire

Before we get rolling here at the Kitchen Diaries, I thought I'd lay down a simple fact. I never had aspirations to cook for a living. Being raised on the living a waitress could provide, I despised the idea of working in anything resembling food service.Nor did previous jobs as a dishwasher/grunt at truck stops and mom 'n pop eateries as a kid engender me to the food service industry.And honestly, I seriously doubt that it occurred to anyone in my family that restaurant work was something someone would aspire to. That's just something you do to get through college and become something more important, like a doctor. Right?Yet, somehow, at the...

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