Cooking with salmon on upcoming show

Creative Living

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Information on using whole grains in your favorite recipes, cooking with salmon and sewing on stretchy fabrics will be the featured topics on Creative Living on Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. and on Thursday at noon.

Cindy Falk is with the Kansas Wheat Commission, and she is going to show how simple it is to sneak whole grains into your favorite recipes. She recommends we make at least half of our grains whole grains and she will explain why. She is from Manhattan, Kansas.

We all like to prepare our favorite foods, and no one does it better than Connie Moyers. She will show how to cook salmon with salsa, make a pesto pizza, prepare a macaroni salad and discuss nutrition, ease of preparation and using new appliances as she does so. She represents California King Salmon and Rhodes Frozen Rolls. Moyers lives in Clovis.

Clare Rowley is the president of Creative Feet LLC, and she is going to demonstrate how to cut Polar Fleece using Stick and Rinse Tape and show how to quickly finish the edge of this stretchy fabric using her Sequins and Ribbon pressure foot. This results in a fleece baby blanket with yarn binding. Rowley lives in Prescott Valley, Arizona.

Information on decorating pecan shortbread cookies, analyzing an audience, and creating a tag book for 12 months of recipes will be the featured topics on Creative Living on Tuesday at noon and on Saturday at 2 p.m.

Nancy Siler, Wilton Enterprises in Woodridge, Illinois, will share simple techniques to make and decorate pecan shortbread cookies, including ways to decorate various shaped cookies, like round, square, flower and butterfly.

Robert Vartabedian says that one of the first questions to address when asked to give a speech has to do with those related to the nature of the audience. As a former actor and speech instructor, he will talk about how to analyze an audience before, during and after the speech. Vartabedian lives in St. Joseph, Missouri.

Jinger Adams, Just Jinger, shows how to create a tag book featuring 12 months of favorite seasonal recipes. Typical scrapbooking materials find a new use in this clever project. She is from Sandy, Utah.

Baked Salmon with Avocado Mango Salsa

Salsa

• 1 large mango, chopped

• 2 ripe avocados, chopped

• 1 cup minced red onion

• 1 Serrano chile, minced

• Juice of 2 limes

Glaze

• 1 tablespoon brown sugar

• 1 teaspoon honey

• Juice of 1 lemon

• 1 tablespoon soy sauce

• 4 (6 ozs. ea.) salmon filets

• Olive oil

• Salt, to taste

Prepare salsa, set aside. Mix together Glaze ingredients in a small bowl. Line a roasting pan with aluminum foil, brush with olive oil. Place salmon on pan, skin side down and brush with olive oil. Brush with glaze. Sprinkle with salt. Bake at 400 degrees for 10-15 minutes or until fish flakes in the center. Serve with Avocado Mango Salsa. Makes 4 servings.

“Creative Living" is produced and hosted by Sheryl Borden. The show is carried by more than 118 PBS stations in the U.S., Canada, Guam and Puerto Rico and is distributed by Westlink.