Friday Dinner: Spaghetti with meat sauce and Broccoli

Friday Dinner: Spaghetti with meat sauce and Broccoli, originally uploaded by wickenden.

I picked Dorise up on the way home from work, as it had snowed and we car-pooled in the 4 wheel drive. Swung by Albertsons and picked up some burger, some ground italian sausage and some dessert. Diced an onion and fried it, added a bulb of chopped garlic and reduced that a bit in beer. Set that aside and fried ground beef and ground sausage and combined that with some tomato sauce. Topped with reggiano and had a side of steamed broccoli with it.

As can be seen below, Ayla liked it.

Broiled Salmon and Pasta with Mussels

I made the yummiest dinner on Sunday.  Costco has these bags of black mussels, they are huge -- for about 12 bucks -- and I took them home and cleaned them.  I also bought an expensive slab of Salmon.  I marinated the salmon in olive oil, a bit of lemon, and salt and pepper and a touch of vermouth.  I also cleaned and then braised two bunches of rainbow chard.  For the mussels, I sautéed a diced onion and bulb and a half of peeled, crushed and chopped garlic.  I added chicken stock and vermouth and reduced it until it was about a third the height

I added the mussels after I cleaned them of beards and stuff and discarded all the broken ones or ones that wouldn't close.  I covered them and in no time at all they all opened.  As soon as they were opened I dressed barilla spaghetti with them.

They were absolutely delicious, and work beautifully with the salmon on the side.