My family growing up wasn’t really into culinary adventuring, so unfortunately, I didn’t have Thai until last year when my pastor suggested a local thai cafe in Tyler. I loved it, and had to try cooking some of my own. Last fall, I tried a couple of Mark Bittman’s Thai recipes, with good success, and thus had ingredients on hand to try making a version of one my all-time favorite dining experiences: The incredible Thai Marlin at the Anchorage in Milwaukee.
I did this without actually measuring anything so this recipe is a rough guess, but it should get it close. Warning, this is, like much Thai, pretty spicy. And delicious.
Thai Peanut Salmon
Preheat oven to 375ºF
2 Tbsp. creamy peanut butter
2 Tbsp. vinegar
2 Tbsp. Nam Pla (fish sauce) (soy sauce could be substituted, but I didn’t have any. Nam Pla is VERY pungent.).
1 Tbsp. Molasses
2 cloves fresh garlic, minced (always better to use the fresh stuff than the refrigerated or dried).
1/4 tsp ground cumin ginger
1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
1/4 tsp ground cumin
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp sea salt
1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
1/2 cup finely chopped dry roasted unsalted peanuts
3–5 salmon filets (I used the frozen ones you get at Sam’s Club; make sure you thaw them first).
Mix everything except the last two ingredients together thoroughly until smooth. Place salmon filets in ungreased pan; spread peanut sauce over them evenly. Sprinkle the chopped peanuts on top (it should pretty well coat it). Bake the whole ensemble until done, about 10–15 minutes, probably (I actually didn’t thaw my salmon so it took me way longer. Oops.).
I imagine this would go great with stir-fried veggies, but my stove wasn’t hot enough to stir-fry them and I ended up with mushy uneatable veggies.
I should’ve taken a picture, but didn’t have my camera with me here at work today. Oops.
Enjoy!
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Seth Godin points out that we typically try sell people on our ideas based on our own point-of-view, not our audiences. He concludes:
The challenge lies in helping them see your idea through their lens, not yours…. Marketers of successful ideas rarely market the facts. Instead, they market stories that match the worldview of the people being marketed to.
It is easy to see the validity of this when you consider that the Bible is largely story. It is a big story told through many smaller stories, and much more focus is given to stories then to dogma. And through these stories, we begin to see ourselves, to learn about ourselves, and to learn about God.
In pondering how to better do what we do at Quest, I find myself considering the impact of story more and more. The trend in the 20th century was about teaching people facts and expecting them to change based on those facts. I expect the 21st century will find us focusing on building relationships and telling stories. We can’t understand another person’s worldview until we listen to them, building that relationship. And we can’t expect to change a person’s mind with facts. We can change a person’s worldview with stories, however. This approach, after all, has worked out okay for God for the last several millennia.
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From a friend’s Facebook profile:
Can I change the world?
Doubtful.
Can I impact 10 teenagers?
Absolutely.
Can those 10 teenagers impact 10 friends each?
Definitely.
Can those 110 teenagers change the world?
Watch and see.
Live exponentially.
It’s called “discipleship.”
I love it.
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This afternoon, we filled the Library building up with smoke to shoot some firefighting video. Walking through a darkened room with shafts of light spreading through it was beautiful, awe-inspiring, a little trippy. Nothing to orient to but 3-dimensional, narrow shafts of light.
See the rest of the photos on my Flickr page here.
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Big tossed salad for lunch—about 553 calories (31g of fat, 31g of carbs, and 47g of protein). Supremely healthy, and packed with enough substance to keep me full all afternoon.
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Fresh herbs, a lemon, and Penzey’s sea salt and tarragon peppercorns. Oh, I eat well.
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Glen Antoine Palmer, on his site The Gentlemens Standard wrote a powerful article espousing the idea that we are all witnesses—and specifically, that the actions our children witness us do will have a profound impact on them. He lists ten things his children will see him do. I definitely agree with this, and in the spirit of Rules for My Unborn Son I would adopt these as my own:
Going to work
Managing finances
Cook
Affection towards spouse
Affection towards own children
Dress
Social interaction
Show emotion
Go to church
Prayer
- Going to work
- Managing finances
- Cook
- Affection towards spouse
- Affection towards own children
- Dress
- Social interaction
- Show emotion
- Go to church
- Prayer
Read the full article on The Gentlemens Standard: The Gentlemens Ten- We Are All Witnesses.
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I read a lot, and a lot of it is online. I do have a couple tools that make this easier.
The first is called “Readability” and quite simply makes it easier to read webpages.
As you can see, Readability simplifies web pages, making them easier to read, by eliminating all the extraneous graphics. To use this awesome tool, you simply visit the Readability website on Arc90. You set your preferences for text style, text size, and page width and then drag a provided bookmarklet to your bookmarks bar. When clicked, the bookmarklet automatically cleans up the page for you.
A bookmarklet is a special kind of bookmark that, when clicked, acts on or with your current web page in order to accomplish an action. I have a folder on my bookmarks bar with about 20 frequently used bookmarklet tools, such as Readability.
Another frequently used tool is InstaPaper. Once you set up an account, you can drag a “Read Later…” bookmarklet to your bookmarks bar. Anytime you are are reading a web page and want to read it later or archive it safely, you can click the bookmarklet and it will save it. You can then visit InstaPaper and see a list of all your unread “Read Later” items. One of the beauties of this approach is that you can read those sites from any computer; just browse to the InstaPaper site to see your saved pages.
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Nikon D200 with Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 lens. 1/160 sec at f/1.8, ISO800.
I read little squiggly lines that tell me a lot about people’s health. Flat means dead, anything else means some kind of life.
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