Parchment Paper Salmon Recipe

Hello, lovelies! It's starting to feel a bit springy now, right? I've recently been inspired to do some major spring cleaning: house and body. To keep the body clean, I made a delicious salmon dish; this was one of the easiest meals I've ever made. I feel really good about eating well, and it's so much easier when you can chuck a bunch of things together, wrap them up, and bake them!

Ingredients

1 tablespoon butter, softened

1 tablespoon parsley

1 tablespoon garlic

3 large potatoes, cut into 1/8-inch-thick slices

Coarse salt and freshly ground pepper

2 shallots, thinly sliced

1 celery stick, finely chopped

1 cup baby spinach

3 salmon fillets (6 ounces and 1 1/2 inches thick each), skinned

1 lemon, thinly sliced

Note: Feel free to add any other vegetables that you like!

Directions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Cut 3 large pieces of parchment paper into heart shapes. I suggest folding a large piece of parchment paper in half and cutting half a heart to keep it symmetrical.

Stir together butter, parsley, and garlic in a small bowl; set aside.

Divide potato slices between parchment rectangles, layering them in stacks to form a bed (slightly larger than the salmon fillet) to one side of crease. Season with salt and pepper.

Uncooked ingredients in heart-shaped parchment paper.

Top each bed of potatoes with the shallots and celery, followed by half the spinach. Place salmon fillets on top of spinach. Top each salmon fillet with 2 lemon slices; reserve remaining slices for garnish (optional). Finish with the butter-parsley-garlic concoction; season with salt and pepper.

Half-heart shaped salmon packets ready to be baked.

Fold parchment paper over ingredients at the crease. Starting with one end of the paper and keeping edges together, make small overlapping pleats the length of the paper, creasing tightly as you go and shaping the edge into an arc. The packet should resemble the shape of half a heart.

Place packets on baking sheet. Bake until packets have puffed, 25-30 minutes. Transfer packets to plates. Serve immediately, opening packets at the table. Garnish with remaining lemon slices, if you desire.

The final product. Yum!

I hope you all try this recipe and love it as much as I do! It's so easy to make! Also, feel free to post pictures and tag me so I can see them! Enjoy!

xx Amanda

Twitter & Instagram: @amanda_wymore

Making the Best of a Love-Hate Relationship: Exercise {Part 2}

Hello, lovelies! Well, it's beginning to look like Spring... kinda. The grass is still brown and the temperature can hardly pass 50 degrees (and I'm on Spring Break). It's kind of a bummer. Regardless of this disconcerting spring weather, it's been warm enough to start getting active again.

Trust me, working out is never something I look forward to doing, but it just needs to get done. College seriously is 100 times worse if you're feeling sluggish and tired all the time. You just have to take thirty minutes out of your day to take a walk around campus or on a treadmill, ride your bike or longboard, strap on some rollerblades, or go lift heavy things if that's really more your style. Start sweating, people! 

In my 18 years, I have never heard someone say they regretted working out.

So today, I decided I'd make my walk a little more interesting. I cranked up some music on my phone, took the cameras with me, and I got lost in Downtown CR. What a better way to start the morning than to have a tranquil adventure to discover places and things you've never seen before?

Here is what I discovered on my walk... Enjoy!

"Only hipsters drink Sprite"

"Hues of Blues"

"Anonymous Graffiti"

"Ducks and Rubbish"

"Downtown in the Distance"

"Go Like This on Instagram"

Maybe this post will give you a little motivation to go work out. If not, maybe you'll get up and go on an adventurous endeavor! It was so fun to discover some cool stuff today!

xx Amanda 

Twitter & Instagram: @amanda_wymore

Want to read {Part 1}? Click here!