a taste of the south: part one

I'm pretty sure that over the past three weeks everyone (including myself) began to think I forgot how to cook. So it was awesome to bust out my cast iron skillet last night and fry up some salmon cakes! This was one of those recipes that I just knew I had to make. Pretty inexpensive, not too involved, but something different and delicious. And delicious it was! I added some coleslaw on the side and a glass of pinot noir. Excellent dinner.

The salmon cakes and black eyed peas with orzo were really wonderful when piping hot, and they were also really tasty cold for lunch today. I packed up some leftovers in my bento last night after dinner and took it to work with me, which made me feel awesome because 1) I didn't spend any money on lunch and 2) I got back to my bento!

I should've taken pictures of dinner, but at the time I was a little too enthusiastic to chow down... however, I did snap a photo before digging into lunch:

salmon cakes with lemon, the ubiquitous fruit cup
black eyed peas w/ orzo, coleslaw