If you didn’t see my exciting news that I have been dying to share, you can see it here: April Plans!

One thing about being pregnant is you have to watch how much seafood you consume because of the mercury levels in seafood. I wrote an Examiner article about the fish with the most and least amounts of mercury in them.

Check it out: Mercury in Fish

So I carefully pick which nights of the week I want to eat seafood so I spread them out. It’s hard because I love seafood! Anyways, tonight was a salmon night. I was hoping to find a fun and new way to marinate the fish. I wanted something other than soy and ginger because we had those flavors last night at PF Chang’s.

I used an idea from Eating Well which was just a simple salsa plus agave topping. I then created something delicious!

With my new pumpkin butter from Trader Joe’s:

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I turned regular salmon into this sweet glazed treat:

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I highly recommend trying this. I am sure it would work with chicken or shrimp as well. It was so sweet and had hints of pumpkin and fall flavors. Brady and I both picked this over the salsa style.

Here is our serving plate for dinner. We didn’t eat it all – but we ate all of the veggies:

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To go with the fish, I broiled some asparagus and some red pepper. I also made a simple salad.

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I topped this with light balsamic dressing that I make homemade and keep in the fridge.

Here is a look of the whole meal:

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Pumpkin Butter Salmon

  • 1 tbsp. pumpkin butter
  • 1 or 2 servings of salmon
  • sea salt

Spoon pumpkin butter onto salmon filet. Spread around with a spoon. Sprinkle with sea salt and broil on high for 8ish minutes or until done!


I can’t wait to make this again. I need to start thinking of more things to use my pumpkin butter in besides oatmeal and toast!

Any suggestions?!

Thank goodness tomorrow is Friday. I am planning (hoping) to get up for working out in the morning. Then it is off to a quick (cross your fingers) day at school and home to get ready for our best friends from college to come in town for Wittenberg Homecoming. It should be a great time!

🙂 Hope your weekend plans are fun!