Salmon Squared

 I don't eat salmon.  I honestly don't have any particular reason why but at this point in my life I figure I've lived this long without it, why change now.  But my mother loves baked salmon and I make it for her regularly.

Salmon has it's own flavour so I don't over power it with excessive spices, I add just a few tangy spices to compliment it's natural taste.

I've been told I make a mean spinach dip. It's one of those recipes, I just made up and it worked.  One day I wondered how those two flavours would taste together.  The result is this savoury hors d'oeuvre that blends the taste of the creamy spinach dip with the locked in flavour of baked salmon.

Sweet Potato Puffs

Can you believe I've never tasted sweet potato pie in my life?  I've seen it around many times (everyone I know loves it) but it never appealed to me - the pudding filling isn't my thing.

So, I thought I'd try to make something that would taste like it but didn't have that cream texture.

This delicious appetizer is a moist, delightful bite of sweet potato pie heaven (so I've been told). Not overly sweet, but full of the warm flavour of spiced sweet potato, this is the next best thing to having a full pie.