Smoked Salmon Cucumber Salad.....

I am one of the people who dislikes breakfast.  My whole family would eat breakfast meals anytime of the day, but I'd rather go right to dinner.  I was so happy when I first tried a bagel with lox. It was like a dream come true! Since I had no bagels and cream cheese, I had to come up with another way of enjoying a favorite this am.

Smoked Salmon Cucumber Salad

2 small cucumbers chopped

2 TBS capers

1/2 tsp pepper

2 TBS chopped scallions

4 oz Smoked Salmon chopped

1 TBS olive oil

Combine all ingredients and use bagel crisps as your spoon!

This would be ideal for a brunch. It has no dairy so it would not spoil on a buffet.

Quinoa Stuffed Peppers....

My daughter wanted to have stuffed peppers, after seeing some gorgeous yellow peppers in the store. Needless to say I purchased the peppers and planned on making them the following day.  Since it was "Meatless Monday", I opted to create a new recipe which involved those peppers. She was not impressed that I strayed from the orginal recipe.

I did not realize that she did not like the way Quinoa felt in her mouth, no matter how delicious the final meal came out to be.  She did eat the dish, but complained all the way through thinking she was eating fish eggs. Can you guess what will be on the menu next week at my house... regular old stuffed peppers with meat and rice.

Quinoa Stuffed Peppers
1TB olive oil
4 Peppers - tops off and seeded - Chop the remaining top portions to add to the recipe later.
8 oz fresh mushrooms chopped
1 med carrot diced
10 oz Quinoa
1/4 c chopped scallions
1/2 c ricotta cheese
1/4 c Parmesan cheese

Saute the chopped pepper, mushrooms and carrots for 5 min over medium heat in a sauce pan.
Prepare the Quinoa in the same sauce pan as directed on the package (usually about 12 min)
Add the scallions, ricotta and Parmesan cheese.
Spoon into the scooped out peppers and bake uncovered for 20 min at 350 (longer if you like softer peppers)
Enjoy!

(I forgot to take a phot of the finished product! OOPS!)