orange ginger salmon

i need to cook this every time paulinne visits – it’s her favorite and for her this is my signature dish
wild sockeye salmon marinated with orange juice, brown sugar and ginger…
finish product!  i got rave reviews or they’re just starving

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mother’s day/birthday celebration

for lunch, i cooked orange-ginger salmon, diet coke shrimps and roasted garlic crabs and clif made strawberry short cake for dessert…
orange-ginger salmon (paulinne’s favorite) from the oven… 
to a platter with my ambiance… 
diet coke shrimp (boiled in diet coke,then sauteed in butter and garlic) from the skillet…
with ambiance
roasted garlic crabs from the oven…
in my [...]

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restaurant review: zen bistro in millbrae

This is not your typical japanese restaurant – the look and feel is so metro; they have a huge menu, again not your typical japanese menu… their california roll is good even though they used fake crab meat.  Service is good. Instead of edamame, they give you pickled cucumber and they are very good; and [...]

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restaurant review: bouchon

went to yountville and had lunch at bouchon; the dungeness crab salad is to die for! the dressing is just perfect and the addition of grapefruit in the salad! I had salmon and that’s the best salmon dish ever! clif had salmon butter and just croutons and oji had florentine quiche and salad; all staff [...]

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