Silver Lining Sunset

I like cooking.  I actually like cooking a lot.  I think I actually like cooking for other people more than I like cooking for myself.  I used to cook a lot but not so much in the past few years.

Cindy’s baby shower is coming up in a few weeks and I was going to make this dish for it.  I already told her so it isn’t a secret.  I wanted to do a trial run before trying to cook something for the first time in mass quantities.  I had originally wanted to do the Hong Kong Baked Pork Chop Rice dish but decided to change it to a cream base as I thought it would be easier.  Typically, this dish is made with seafood.  I wanted to make it with chicken but that would take more time.  I scoured my cupboard for ingredients and found a can of salmon from a party not too long ago.  Hey, don’t hate on the canned salmon, it’s actually good – especially the one from Costco.  I decided to make it with salmon.

I wanted to make this for dinner for me and Monica before Women’s group (that’s our Women’s Bible study group) so I asked Monica to cook the rice the night before because the base of this dish is fried rice.  Now, this is kind of the few times I’ve actually taken pictures of the process of making something.  It’s typically a finished photo.  I also realized while reviewing my pictures that nearly all of them are blurry, haha, oh well.  This is probably the first time I’ve instructed with pictures how to do something. Continue Reading