Wednesday 25th March - John Torode Salmon? and weird weather

 John Torode's '10 minute salmon teriyaki noodle' recipe was delicious, at least, if my version was good, his must be amazing.

His recipe uses Chinese noodles, salmon, teriyaki sauce from a bottle or home-made, pak choi, tenderstem  broccoli, spring onions, stock, red chillis and liads of garnishes like fresh coriander and crispy onions and bean sprouts.

Mine was sort of similar, at least regarding the stock and teriyaki sauce. Two out of eight is pretty good for me when I'm 'following ' a recipe. I did ignore all the garnishes.

I used loch trout, Japanese straight-to-wok noodles, a pinch of dried chilli flakes, carrots cut into short thin sticks, broccoli florets, and finely shredded carrots, a sachet of blue dragon sticky teriyaki sauce. 

Having straight-to-wok noodles instead of dried ones meant I had to rethink the cooking order... marinade the fish (I skinned the fillets first), chop veg, bring slightly less water to the boil.

Drop in the fish and marinade, add all the veg except the cabbage, simmer 5 minutes, add cabbage and noodles and simmer another couple of minutes until three noodles were hot, and the fish was cooked.

It all looked pretty good and tasted as though that was how it might be meant to taste... more or less, but not as pretty as John's picture! 

This afternoon has been a good one for weather watching. 'Rain moving across the Southern counties from the west', the say on the television. Several times today it really was raining at the west side of the house, the back, but not at the front. The sky had a band of billowing white clouds along the horizon, a broad band of clear beautiful blue sky, and then a bank of uniformly dark, uncompromisingly grey clouds above. 

Then you'd look again and the skies were totally different. 

There was a sudden clap of thunder, then... nothing.

A sudden pelting of little pellets of white hail skittering along the road and pavements in the rising wind, which vanished as quickly as it had arrived. 

Bright sun for half an hour, then three minutes of rain.

The weather seemed bewitched! I had thought of going out, but I'm glad that we didn't. 

Boud often references exercise videos by April and her mother Aiko on her blog. I tripped across the Japanese 'Radio Taiso' 3 minute exercise programme, which is broadcast every day, and followed by many many Japanese people in their offices, schools,  homes and out in parks.

Here's April and Aiko explaining some of the background and demonstrating the exercises 

This is the youtube link so you can read the description as well.

I think it might make a change from the ballet exercises I had been doing (but wasn't any more!)