Posting this recipe, I have to remind myself to be brave.  Jeff Tweedy, Wilco front man once said at a concert that I attended, that he has become more and more insightful talking to the ‘ibis’.  In this case, he was talking about the audience of darkness.  He knew we were all out there but he couldn’t see us. It helped him work through a few things I guess.  Blogging can be much the same.

I am worried that ‘you’ my dark audience aren’t going to like this recipe. Certainly, I am delivering on delicious and nutritious.  However, there are a few points to this recipe that may be a pain point for some.  Specifically, Baby Teriyaki involves soya sauce and a little brown sugar.

Silence.

I am/am not afraid of brown sugar.  I am sure that one of these days I’ll do the proper research to know the types of sugar that are best to use for household health.  I’m not totally convinced by brown sugar but I am still too afraid to use honey so I’ll stick to brown sugar for now.  If you prefer honey and your child is well past a year of age, feel free to exchange.  The switch out will be like for like.

Soya sauce is made of soya.  Huge revelation there, right? (Thanks darkness for being so insightful!) Actually, soya is an allergen and it is FULL of salt.  To this I think that if you want to see if your child has a soya allergy, this recipe has a very small amount of it so it is probably a good tester so long as you have tried all the other ingredients.  ALSO if you are giving your child any soya formula, you are unlikely to learn of anything new allergy wise. You should be good to go. Lastly, there are reduced salt verities of soya sauce.  Why not give them a try if you are concerned?

But why am I being so provocative offering a recipe with a couple of controversial ingredients?  Here’s why:

You probably ate soya sauce before you were parents and at some point you have to bite the bullet.  Why not do it at home with a low amount of soya sauce so you can go off into the proverbial sunset of Asian cuisine? Suddenly you may find yourself able to meet with friends for Dim Sum on a Sunday morning (delicious).

Ingredients:

500 gram salmon fillet cut into four pieces

2 tbs butter, melted

1/4 cup olive oil

1/4 orange juice

2 tbs brown sugar

1/8 soya sauce

1 small onion

Preparation:

Place the salmon fillet in a shallow dish or in a zip-lock bag.  Your choice.

Combine all the other ingredients today and mix. Poor over the salmon and leave to marinade for a minimum of 30 minutes.

Set the oven at 350 degrees. Remove the salmon from the marinade and place the filets on a baking dish. Bake for 15 minutes.  No need to turn.

We done.