Honey Glazed Salmon with Cinnamon Macadamia Crust

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Honey glazed cinnamon and macadamia crusted salmon on a plate of spinach.

I am a self-confessed cooking show junkie! I love watching cooking shows, especially the competition style ones like MasterChef or Top Chef. Lately I’ve been watching the latest season of Australia’s My Kitchen Rules. I’m obsessed with that show right now, plus I love watching it because of the Aussie accents… reminds me of home!

Anyway on a recent episode one of the couples made a dish using cinnamon and salmon which I thought was interesting. They made a cinnamon biscuit/cookie to go with their salmon, but in the end it didn’t work out so well for them. I was intrigued by the idea though and decided to give my own twist on the whole cinnamon and salmon idea. Cinnamon is one of those spices that can be used in both savoury and sweet dishes and a quick Google search of ‘salmon and cinnamon’ will bring up quiet a few results. [Read more…]

Persian Salad Shirazi with Fresh Sardines

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Persian Salad Shirazi with Fresh Sardines

Welcome to the start of a new week! Apologies for the lack of posts last week, I’ve been feeling a bit under the weather lately and just didn’t have it in me to share any blog posts, I was also so caught up in not feeling well that I totally missed our one year anniversary of moving to the UK! I really can’t believe that one year has already passed… it doesn’t seem real! I will admit though that it has probably taken about this much time for me to get adjusted to actually living here, to be very honest I’m not 100% sure that I can see Joe and I living here long term but for the time being it’s the place for us to be. [Read more…]

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