What's For Dinner? Asian Glazed Salmon, Crispy Potato Cake and Cucumber Radish Salad

Most of my Facebook friends see my daily status updates of "What's For Dinner" where I describe what I'm cooking that night.  I get lots of comments like, "Stop teasing us." and "When can I come over?" and "How about a recipe?".  I thought I would share some of my (better) dinners on here so you can maybe try them for yourselves or just take away a little inspiration.

This night I made one of my favorite lighter summertime dinners using salmon.  I prefer to buy fresh salmon but frozen will do, especially for our busy schedule. 

I first took 4 skinless salmon fillets (you can keep the skin if you like that) and marinated them in a terriaky glaze.  You can buy it bottled or just simply throw together a sauce of soy, ginger, garlic and pineapple juice. 

While those marinated, I thinly sliced a cuke and a few radishes.  I then add white wine vinegar and a Tbs. of sugar which makes a pallet cleansing salad, like you would find in most Thai restaurants. 

While the cukes and radishes were soaking in their tangy, sweet pool of goodness I got started on the potato cakes.  I happened to have a bag of shredded potatoes used for hash browns which works awesomely as a time saver.  I swirled a small amount of vegetable oil in a non-stick skillet, let it heat up to med - high and placed piles of the potatoes inside.  I squished them down with a spatula and seasoned with salt and pepper.  These actually take quite a while to get a good brown crisp on them but it's worth the wait.

I have a handy, dandy grill pan that gets used almost every night of the week.  I heated up a bit of olive oil in my grill pan and cooked up my salmon.  Now some people like their salmon cooked hard but I like mine just done through so about 5 min. one side and 3 on the other.

I plated my salmon, my salad and my potato cake, adding a dollop of sour cream and some green onions from my garden to make a delicious, fresh, healthy, whole food meal.  Bon Appetit!