{"id":33838,"date":"2012-09-20T08:03:05","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T15:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=33838"},"modified":"2012-09-13T09:03:25","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T16:03:25","slug":"cashew-salmon-with-apricot-couscous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=33838","title":{"rendered":"Cashew Salmon with Apricot Couscous"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was recently asked to be an ambassador for the OohLaLa Wines<\/a>. (Of course I said yes, wine? SIGN ME UP!) I hadn’t heard of the wine before, but I was intrigued. It took awhile, but a month or so later I finally started to see the OohLaLa wines in my local grocery store. I was looking forward to trying it after wondering what it was like for so long.<\/p>\n

I had a recipe I wanted to try for dinner, so I stopped by the store to get the few ingredients I needed and a bottle of wine. I chose the Pinot Grigio because I thought it would pair nicely with the salmon I was making.<\/p>\n

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Obviously, they are marketing their wines exclusively to women. The label is pretty and girly and I admit, it appealed to me! It looks hip and cool.<\/p>\n

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I settled in with my music and my glass of bubbly wine while I made dinner.<\/p>\n

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I made us green salads to go with dinner, with fresh tomatoes from the garden. This dinner was super easy and super fast to make. I prepped everything: chopped the onions, apricots and cashews and then mixed up the yogurt sauce. I used plain Greek yogurt and that made it a little bit thicker, which turned out to be great. Michael and I both LOVED the sauce on the salmon.<\/p>\n

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The couscous had some green onion, minced ginger and the chopped apricots mixed into it before it cooked. I liked adding things to the couscous but neither of us were particularly impressed with the couscous. It paired with the salmon dish really well but as a stand alone it was kind of blah. I need to add something else to the couscous.<\/p>\n

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I loved, loved, loved the salmon and the yogurt sauce. I will most definitely make it again. The flavors were so nice together. There was a little bit of a bite in the yogurt (I’m guessing the cumin) and the crunch of the cashews added great texture to the dish.<\/p>\n

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Now, how was the wine? It turned out to be a sparkling wine! I had no idea. I usually don’t like sparkling wines. I don’t know why…I guess I just think if I want sparkling I’ll drink champagne. But I was pleasantly surprised by the refreshing bubbles and the Pinot Grigio had a zip to it. It was crisp and not sweet and balanced the rich salmon dish nicely. \u00a0I did well with this meal. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

QUESTION: Have you tried the OohLaLa wines yet?\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was recently asked to be an ambassador for the OohLaLa Wines. (Of course I said yes, wine? SIGN ME UP!) I hadn’t heard of the wine before, but I was intrigued. It took awhile, but a month or so later I finally started to see the OohLaLa wines in my local grocery store. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[6359,55,315,104,107,111,4458,3205,6360,212,5167,230,231,3439,3342,303,304,309],"tags":[6362,6364,8770,2260,5542,6361,8893,934,937,8711,4838,8763,6363,6282],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33838"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33863,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33838\/revisions\/33863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}