More Cooking

I cooked for most of the day today, and am pleased with the results.   The dishes made were:

• Salmon - fan-fried and then simmered in a miso-wine-vinegar-soy sauce marinade with green onions, garlic, and ginger.    It was pretty tasty; but, next time, I'd like to be able to bring out the miso taste more somehow; and also make it less salty.  Should be pretty good served over the garlic spinach that I made.
• Pad Thai - the sauce is not the most flavorful  (I bought another bottle of a different kind, which hopefully will make it even better next time); but the dish turned out quite well.   I cooked the rice stick noodles (it took longer than the package said; and would've been better with more water).  Then I pan fried eggs, mixed in bean sprouts and tofu  (should've added the matchstick carrots at this time, but forget, and just added it at the end which was still okay) with green onions, ginger, and garlic, and some fish sauce and some of the Pad Thai sauce.  Then, set aside.  Then, pan-fried the noodles with the Pad Thai sauce, and mixed the other ingredients back in.   Then topped it with peanuts crushed using a mortar and pestle.
• Chinese Rice Noodles - the rice stick noodles actually are similar to the fresh rice noodles we can buy at the stores.  So, since, I didn't need the whole package for the Pad Thai, I just the rest for a Chinese Rice Noodle dish.   Made a mixture of mock abalone meat, baby corn, and some fresh romaine lettuce; along with seasoning sauce (soy, oyster, etc).   Then added to noodles to it.
• Enchiladas - Made enchiladas with this almost-chili mixture (tomatoes, corn, black bean, and chili beans).   It had enough sauce in it, that I decided not to use an enchilada sauce.   Filled the flour tortillas, rolled them, and topped with more sauce and cheese.  Then baked.    I like the corn tortillas better; and dipping it first in the enchilada sauce is better as well.   But, this is simpler and cleaner; and turned out fine.
• Kale chips - Baked kale until it was crispy.  It simply had olive oil, seasoned pepper, and a seasoned herb mixture.   However, it came out a little salty; so, I definitely will not add salt next time.