Confession

I am sorry to all of you who have been checking daily with the hope of an update on my culinary whereabouts [i.e. my mother]. I've been busy, but the truth is, I just felt to much pressure to write something interesting. I've gotten such nice comments and encouragement from all of my friends, including those that are far away and who I wouldn't expect to be such enthusiastic readers, that I didn't want to let anyone down with mundane posts. But it takes a lot of energy and is intimidating to write when you are thinking of what might entertain or inspire other people. So i've decided that this blog must be for me, and if that means a great deal of it is simply a log of the meals I eat with simple descriptions and david's excellent pictures, I'm afraid I'll have to be satisfied with the readers who are truly interested in knowing what I ate for dinner. Hopefully my dinners can somehow be inspiring on their own, as cooking is my single greatest creative outlet and each meal is special to me. At the very least, you'll all see what's inspired me at the grocery store, or the farmers market, on the T.V., or wherever I happen to be living and cooking. On that note, I'll review all the cooking I've done in the last couple weeks, starting with tonight's dinner. I used up the last of the tamarind chutney I made with the samosas (below) tonight to make broiled pacific salmon with tamarind glaze and asian greens with peanut lime dressing. I love making fish in my ovens broiler (which is on the bottom, underneath the oven). It gets really hot so you can grill things nicely any time of year.