Twice Baked Sweet Potato Casserole

Ingredients:

 

1 smallish sweet potato. 

1 egg

1 stick of celery. Diced small (¼”)

¼ cup diced onion.

1 strip of bacon, diced, cooked

2 oz cheddar cheese. Shredded. Divided.

¼ teaspoon (more or less) curry powder.

¼ teaspoon (more or less) roasted garlic powder.

½ teaspoon dried sage.

Salt and pepper to taste.

3 oz roasted chicken, diced small.

Directions.

Peel and roast the sweet potato until it’s soft.

Cook the bacon. Sauté the onions and celery to soften them.

Mash the cooked sweet potato with the egg in a bowl. Mix in celery, onion, bacon, chicken, spices and half the cheese.

Fill a soufflé dish or other oven-safe bowl with the mixture.

Bake at 350⁰ oven for 25 minutes, or until the dish is cooked through.

Ten minutes before you’re done, top with the rest of the cheese. Let it melt and bake on top.

Rosemary Salmon with roast veggies

Ingredients:

For Vegetables:

1 cup or more  new potatoes

1 cup or more Brussels sprouts, halved

½ tsp Everything But the Bagel seasoning salt.

½ tsp lemon pepper

    (I used ground pepper and dehydrated lemon)

A couple sprigs of fresh rosemary, chopped finely.

A small pinch cayenne pepper

Olive oil

For Salmon:

1 good size (6 – 10 oz) salmon steak.

Olive oil.

Salt & pepper to taste.

Several sprigs of rosemary, whole

1 lemon (divided).

3 cloves of garlic, halved

Instructions:

Wash the vegetables. Drain well. Put them in a larger mixing bowl. Mix spices together. Drizzle olive oil over the vegetables. Add spices and stir well, until veggies are coated.

Spread coated veggies on parchment paper on a baking tray, and bake at 375º for 10 minutes.

Brush salmon with olive oil. Heat frying pan. Add garlic, lemon, rosemary. Drizzle with olive oil. Add fish to hot fry pan next to the other goodies. If your fish has skin, score it gently and rub a small amount of salt into the slices, then cook it skin side down, with a little oil. When the fish is about ⅔ cooked (you'll see it if you look at the side of the fish) then flip over onto the bed of rosemary.

After the first 10 minutes, turn veggies, and bake for another 10 minutes. Then broil for 5 minutes.

Serve the fish on the rosemary bed, with veggies next to it.

Candlelight is optional.