Week 1-Friday

Fish Friday--Honey-Soy Glazed Salmon
taken from 6 Week Meal Planning 

What you will need:

1 skinless salmon fillet- about 1 lb (cut into 3 pieces)
1 bushel asparagus
1 T honey
1 T soy sauce
Sea Salt
Black pepper
1 bag frozen sweet potato fries

Direction

Steam asparagus until soft-We decided to grill the asparagus following these directions
In a separate dish, mix together honey and soy sauce
**We chose not to follow the directions below but rather these directions for cooking

Place salmon fillets and cooked asparagus on baking sheet lined with tinfoil sprayed with EVOO
Season fish and veggies with sea salt and pepper
Broil for 5 minutes (remove from oven)
Drizzle 2/3 honey/soy micture over fish and veggies

Broil another 2-5 minutes (2 for medium cooked, 5 for well-done)
Drizzle remain mixture over fish-We do this step

ENJOY!

Sweet Potato Fries
While the salmon is cooking put the fries in the oven- the fries we got had to cook for 15 minutes  

Stars
Jessie: 4 out of 5
Jason: 4.25 out of 5

Thoughts:
It took us right at an hour from start to ready to serve. The salmon had to marinate for 15 minutes on each side so while that was marinating Jason got the asparagus ready. Jason said it was difficult do do all three (salmon, asparagus and fries all at the same time). Jason said he gave this meal a 4.25 because he didn't like the sweet potato fries. He also said he thought he could improve the salmon by cooking it more often. I liked this meal, I would almost say I really liked it if it wasn't for the fish. The whole meal was very yummy and very flavorful. I know that we are eating fish so of course it is going to taste like fish so I'm just going to have to get over that. The glaze on the salmon was AMAZING! I would defiantly eat this meal again and I'm hoping the more times I have it that I will get over my dislike of fish! Overall a very flavorful and pretty simple to make meal that we will make again.

2012 Summer Transformation
Weight: gained 1.5 pounds 
Water: 138 ounces
Breakfast: 2 pieces white Goldfish bread with peanut butter and a banana
Lunch: Hamburger and a small salad
Snack: am- 1 cup low fat cottage cheese
           pm-cubed American and Swiss cheese and  grapes, a mini butterfinger candy
Dinner: Honey-Soy Glazed Salmon, asparagus and sweet potato fried
Exercise: 50 minutes of Hydro-fit-This class is going to be a lot of fun. I will start by saying the average age was about 65 and if you were to take Ashley and I out it would probably go up to 70! I'm sure it is a good work out but I will say when I get done I don't feel like I really worked that hard. It is a class where I don't get my heart rate up that much but at least it is 50 minutes of movement so that is better than sitting at my desk right?!? Either way I think the class is going to be a lot of fun!
Sleep: bed at 9:30pm and was asleep by 10:00 (I only know this because I didn't see the news again for a second night!) and got up at 6:35am so I got about 8.5 hours of sleep. I slept pretty good and I don't think I even had to get up and go to the bathroom!