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Рецепт Red-Cooked Salmon with Sesame Asparagus, a box
by Katie Zeller

‘Red-cooked’ refers to a Chinese technique of poaching or braising in a soy-sauce based liquid. Salmon is not a typical fish in Chinese cuisine but it worked well for this.

As to the Sesame Asparagus….. We’ve been making this for years and it’s always a favorite. It’s great at room temperature or cold.

This is a spring dish – when it’s too cold to use the grill but we have asparagus.

Red-Cooked Salmon with Sesame Asparagus

Total time: 35 minutes

Ingredients:

Instructions:

Add the soy sauce, ginger, vinegar and water to a skillet just large enough to hold the salmon easily.

Add the salmon, flesh side down, cover and bring to a simmer.

Simmer slowly, bubbles barely breaking the surface, for 15 minutes, carefully turning the salmon half way through.

At this point salmon should be cooked through, flesh opaque. If not simmer another 3 – 5 minutes.

Remove from heat and let rest, covered until ready to serve.

Asparagus: While salmon cooks, heat a large saucepan half-full of water to boiling.

Drop in asparagus and blanch for 2 minutes.

Drain and immediately rinse with cold water.

Spread them on paper towels and pat dry.

In a bowl big enough to nicely hold the asparagus mix soy sauce, sugar and sesame oil.

Add asparagus and toss lightly to coat.

Sprinkle with 1 tsp sesame seeds.

Peanut Sauce: Combine peanut butter, sherry, 1 tbs soy sauce, garlic and chili powder, mixing well.

When ready to serve, remove salmon to plates.

Sprinkle with remaining 1 tsp sesame seeds and add a bit of peanut sauce..

Add asparagus to plates and serve.

It was raining the other day and I decided to clean the computers. When one heats with wood and lives in farm country with 2 big dogs, one has to periodically take the computers out to the barn, take the side panel off and blow the dust out with the air compressor.

I do it every few months.

I have found spiders.

Which brought me closer to the box….

I don’t think it’s been opened since we left the US…. Just moved from place to place. I decided have a look.

As was expected it was bits of my life, starting with my first doll.

I couldn’t believe that I could name everyone one of my 3rd grade classmates from their photos. Why I kept the photos from 3rd grade and not any other grade I have no idea.

On the other hand I couldn’t even find myself in the first communion class photo. Maybe I didn’t go….

I found book reports from 5th grade, my high school trigonometry book and papers I wrote in college.

One photo I found really made me pause.

I worked in sales in the early years. I don’t know if companies still send their recruits to ‘sales school’ – or, for that matter, if there are still corporate sales people, but when I started it was the norm.

Normally, there would be a beginning, general, sales school, then more product specific or technical schools. As I was selling computers, I attended a few schools. They were usually two or three weeks long and held at ‘headquarters. For NCR that was Sugar Camp in Dayton.

I digress….

The photo I have is a group photo of one of the classes. There were 18 of us; 17 men and me.

When I looked at it today I thought ‘how unusual, only one woman’. But I remember, at the time it seemed perfectly normal. I remember going to conferences with 150 attendees and being the only woman. I remember, once, seeing another woman in a large meeting and my first thought wasn’t ‘Great, another woman’ but ‘How weird, I wonder who she is.’

But that was then…. Why oh why are we still seeing photos of meetings and important events with no women present?

When I posed for that photo, back in the late 70’s / early 80’s, I just assumed that I was part of the first wave of a new era of equality.

Apparently, it’s a very slow moving wave.

On the other hand – I never had to share a hotel room….

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