Blackend salmon

Soundtrack: Restored by Jeremy Camp

I wanted to have something different than the egg based meals which are so prevalent this week. Blackened salmon is not a dish I have prepared recently, so that is what I went with. I also appreciated the simplicity and speed of preparing this meal. (It was a rather long day at work and quite late right now.) Basically you brown both sides of the salmon, turn down the heat, and throw spinach and black soy beans into the pan for another few minutes. Measuring out the blackening spices is the most time consuming part, but I have a container storing a large batch ready to use. While that was finishing cooking, I also threw together some mock mashed potatoes.

The food components had a large range of color and brightness. That lead me to try another HDR picture tonight. I am still experimenting with the Photomatix software. It seemed to turn out alright in the end. One of these days I need to actually purchase the full version of the software to get rid of the watermarks.