Your salmon tv factoid has inspired me to tell you about my salmon recipe I came up with trying to impress this woman I dated a couple of years ago.

La séduction de miel
Pompano Beach, Fl

Recipe:

Ingredients:

Salmon filet
Teriyaki Sauce
2 lemons
Mint leaves (you can find these in the produce section of your local grocer and it's
only about a dollar)
Honey
Pecans (Walnuts or Peanuts will work also; if you can buy them crushed that'd
be great)
Three garlic cloves
Optional: Cream cheese

Instructions:

1. Mince the garlic cloves (into very small pieces) and set aside to add later.
2. Grease a baking pan (or line with aluminum foil if you want).
3. Place Whole Filet into center of pan
4. Cover the filet liberally with Teriyaki sauce.
5. Halve one of the lemons and squeeze juice from one half over the whole filet.
6. Cover the filet with the honey (as much as you'd like; I am liberally but do not
cocoon it) and be sure to put plenty of honey
along the perimeter of the filet.
7. Apply the minced garlic over the top of the filet.
8. Not add most of the the crushed nuts to the filet spreading evenly over the top
and heavily around the perimeter. *Please be sure not to crush the nuts into a fine
powder.
9. Now bake that bad boy in a preheated oven at 350 degrees for ten minutes per
one inch of the thickness of your filet.
10. When you remove your masterpiece you will add the second half of that lemon
that you halved earlier. Then if you have elected to go with the cream cheese
you put it around the perimeter of the filet and cover it with any remaining nuts.
You will also now slice up the second lemon and place around one corner of the
filet to make it look pretty. Then take your mint leaves and arrange them to make
it look even prettier. Also grind up (or mash and rub in your hand) a small portion
of the mint leaves to release their smell and put that on the dish next to the
salmon as you server it. * The mint is not for taste so keep this in mind. It's only
for your viewing and smelling pleasure.

***Note to preparer: Some people are allergic to nuts. So, if this is a first date or even a few
dates later... you may want to find out first, if your date is allergic to nuts
because I don't think that'd make a good impression if he/ she is all swollen
and making funky grunting noises after dinner and has to be rushed to
the emergency room. Yeah, that'd suck! So know who you're cooking for.
 

Chili, Crock Pot Style
by John, Phoenix AZ

I like this recipe because I can prep it the night before, put it on before I leave for work, and have piping hot chili waiting for me when I get home!  Its great for coming in out of the cold of winter and having that chili smell hit you.  Ok, Ok, I know, I live in Phoenix, so it doesn't get cold compared to some parts of the world, but its all relative.  50-60 degrees is friggin' cold for here!!

Ingredients:
1 Crock pot
1lb Stew meat (if you use hamburger, you have to brown it before putting in crock pot, so I use some cheap stew meat instead)

1 large onion
3 cans of Tomato Sauce
1 can of stewed tomatoes
3 cans of pinto beans
1-2 packets of Lawrey's Chile Seasoning

Put the meat chunks and the chopped-up onion in the crock pot.  Put the tomato sauce and the stewed tomatoes in on top.

This next step is optional: if you have access to the crock pot 1-2 hours before dinner time, do not put the beans in.  Just drain the juice into the crock pot (the juice will give it some volume and flavor), but don't add the beans until 1-2 hours before you eat.  That will give the beans enough time to pick up some flavor and heat up, but not turn to just mush.  If you aren't going to be home, you can add the beans right then, but they will be a little mushy by the time you eat it.

Add as much of the packaged Seasoning mix as you like...I don't like it too spicy, so I only put in one packet, but that's up to you.

If you are prepping all of this the night before, put the crock part of the crock pot in the fridge, lid on. (If you don't have the kind that has the removable insert, just put the whole thing in)  Plug that sucker in (on low) when you leave to go to work and enjoy the smell when you get home.