My son started the day off right for us by packing his lunch. Yay boy! He saved us $2. I however, had a splurge day. I went out for lunch with a bunch of friends.
I realized on my way to lunch that I forgot to take anything out for dinner. Hmmmm. I figured that I would figure out something to do with the leftover salmon. After I got back home, I began my recipe hunt. Leftover salmon. Leftover quinoa with corn. No way. There was a recipe for burgers using salmon and quinoa. I altered the recipe a little and came up with our "burgers". I combined the salmon, quinoa with corn, panko bread crumbs, two eggs, and soy sauce. I fried them up in a little olive oil. Uh oh. I don't have hamburger buns. I improvised and used up the hawaiian sweet rolls to make sliders. I topped mine with teriyaki sauce. My son used ketchup (of course). My daughter used soy sauce. What about a side dish? I saw a can of baked beans. Ugh. Baked beans is an item that I always feel that should be on hand but I never feel in the mood to eat. I wasn't sure how well this dinner would go over with the kids so I knew I better have a good dessert to use as bribery.
I had found a recipe on Pinterest for cookies that you put a box of pudding mix into. They were cranberry white chocolate with cheesecake pudding cookies. I did not have white chocolate so we used lemon baking chips. I didn't think that I had cranberries either until I discovered one single serve pack at the back of the cupboard. Score!
The verdict? The kids gave the burgers a rating of "good" and "outstanding". The cookies were rated "amazing" and "out of this world". Ha. I guess today is a win. Tomorrow is grocery shopping day. Here's to hoping we have two win days in a row!
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