Dinners!

After getting over my ridiculously bad reaction to antibiotics (fainting anyone?) I felt well enough to have both sets of our parents over for dinners. We really enjoyed having J's parents over for his Dad's birthday. Laura helped make the cake for Grandpa and also helped him blow out the candles, well, candle.

Both the girls were also happy to see my parents. Their calling and our illness has made it so we haven't seen enough of each other lately. And Sara was happy to discover new foods - she loved salmon, chocolate cookies and yogurt. "No more of this baby food crap, guys."


The dinners turned out really well, so I'll include some of the recipes here. Thanks to my mom for help on the salmon recipe and to Sandra Lee for the initial idea on the Orzo:

Salmon
Preheat Grill (no smell in the house) or Oven to 300
Salmon
Olive Oil
Kosher Salt
Paprika
Oregano

Place the salmon on shiny side of greased aluminum foil. Drizzle olive oil over top side then sprinkle lightly with salt, paprika and oregano. Wrap completely in foil and bake/grill for 14 minutes.

Lemon Orzo
1 cup Orzo
Juice of 1 lemon
pinch of lemon zest
1 Tbsp Olive Oil
1 Tbsp chopped Cilantro

Cook Orzo according to package in highly salted water. Drain. Mix with other ingredients. Serve as a base for salmon or as a side dish.