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:
I turned regular salmon into this sweet glazed treat:
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:
To go with the fish, I broiled some asparagus and some red pepper. I also made a simple salad.
I topped this with light balsamic dressing that I make homemade and keep in the fridge.
Here is a look of the whole meal:
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!
I’m glad the cat is out of the bag! 🙂 Yay for baby H’s first 1/2 marathon! Pretty sad he/she ran it faster than I did when I was 26! 🙂 The pumpkin butter looks good – almost enough for me to try salmon, but definitely enough for me to put it on chicken! 🙂 xo
Yay! I think you should try salmon! I’ll make it for you! 🙂
that looks so yummy! def. have to try it! can’t wait to see you TODAY!!!! love ya!!
Congrats on the marathon–so cool!!
And this recipe is def exciting news too, YUM!
I have both pumpkin butter & salmon in my fridge. That is what is for dinner tomorrow night!
This dish will not disappoint! 🙂 Let me know how it goes!
Last year while in Trader Joe’s I sampled a yummy salad using their pumpkin butter in the dressing – I lost the recipe – does anybody have it?
I looking for last years Trader Joe salad recipe using their delicious pumpkin butter in the dressing – doe anyone have it?
Hola , Happy halowen!
Hi! Do you just smoosh on the pumpkin butter and broil? Or are there any other steps? Cause I’m making it tonight! 🙂
This is awesome! I am going to try this tonight! Thank you! Xo, VIna
How’d your salmon turn out?! I hope it was great!