Chef Hunter

Hunter and I love weekends.  Its our time in the kitchen.  He has lots of ideas, and is such a fun little cooking/baking buddy.  So enthusiastic...

On this day we tried 5 different salmon recipes for one night.  I realized my garlic orange salmon recipe that was my go-to for over a decade... well, it was gross.  And I kept making it, over and over.  So creative Hunter and I searched the web over, asked friends, and finally, we found our top 5. 

Each salmon recipe typically only has 5 min prep time, so we had a fun time putting together: dijon honey garlic salmon, burned butter lime honey salmon, terriyaki ginger orange salmon, brown sugar pineapple salmon, rosemary garlic/onion salmon.  One salmon was pan fried, all the others we individually wrapped and threw in a 9x13.  Then at dinner, everyone got to sample all the varieties.  Of course, anything glazed got first place in this household!

Oh how I wish I had a picture of Hunter's whole 'salted caramel pineapple upside down cake' that we made for company that night.  It was out of this world.  It was scarfed so fast that I only grabbed my camera fast enough for these few images.

For me, it was the first time ever making cake batter from scratch.  For Hunter, it was no big deal, he zipped it out in no time and said the placement of the pineapples reminded him of minecraft. 

About a week later (the following sunday) we had another family over (we make yummy desserts when people come over).  Here he took a shot at Spiced Apple Upside Down Cake. 

We also made this yummy vegetarian lasangna.  There are seared pieces of pumpkin in grapeseed oil, nut/veggie meat balls... mmmmm.

Another layer... about to add the zucchini.

Something else that was really cool that Hunter did in January--

While I've been serving in Primary this year, he's noticed I've had to be ready for last minute lessons if teachers don't show up or if positions are waiting to be filled.  Hunter brought a back pack to church for a few weeks, prepared, with legos in individual compartments with a grand idea for people to create scenarios they read in the lesson scriptures. Finally we did it. It was awesome to even see the girls get involved and make the scriptures come to life through legos. 

Ok, one last photo, that has nothing to do with Hunter.  In China, on street corners, people sell these turtles for dinner.  There you have it.