Dinner with Dr. Monkey

Welcome to a new feature on my blog where I show you what I cooked for dinner! Tonight we had salmon cakes, mashed sweet potatoes, and a salad, all low fat of course.

I started by peeling a big ass sweet potato, chopping it up, and then I put it on to boil.

Then I chopped by half of a yellow stripey tomato.

Next I peeled and grated a carrot and added it to my tomato.

Then I added half a cup of organic raisins and my salad dressing, Italian made with a dash of balsamic vinegar.

Then I added baby spinach.

Then roughly diced English cucumber and a half cup of fresh cilantro, or coriander to you folks across the pond.

I then let the salad sit while my sweet potato cooked and I began my salmon cakes.

I use this brand of salmon. It's consistently good and it's relatively inexpensive.

To may salmon I added sauteed onion and yellow and red bell pepper.

Then I mixed in bread crumbs, lime zest, a big tablespoon of mustard, and some egg product, which is basically egg whites with yellow food coloring in them to make them look like eggs.

Then I patted the salmon mixture into patties and fried them in a bit of canola oil. You only need to cook them for a few minutes on each side because the salmon is already precooked. Just make sure to cook them long enough on each side so that the egg product cooks through.

Finally my sweet potato was done so I poured off the water.

I added a tablespoon and a half of Brummel and Brown spread and some cracked black pepper and I mashed as if my life depended on it.

Everything was ready so I plated it and I set out some peanut and sweet ginger chili sauce in some little blue flower sauce dishes my gf got me last Xmas.

I garnished the plate with finely sliced green onion and served it.

I must say the salmon cakes were excellent, I put in just the right amount of lime zest. And the sliced green onions in the sweet potatoes were damn good as well.

That's what I made for dinner tonight. Guess what? I even did the dishes too. Damn, I'm monkey of the year when it comes to kitchen duties baby.

Stay tuned for more adventures in cooking starring the food I cook.