Sunday Salmon

I made this meal yesterday. We had Andy's brother and his wife over for dinner. I never make a meal I haven't prepared before when we are expecting company but for some reason this felt different, like an exception was okay. We started out with a Mondavi Chardonnay with sushi as an appetizer, which was really yummy! Then was dinner... I pretty much followed the instructions, well with a few variations. First of all, I have been on a pinenut kick so in the salad I used pinenuts. I also used an olive oil that has thyme, basil, oregano and garlic to accompany the balsamic vinegar. For the dessert I used Serena's recipe for inspiration. I made a lemon pound cake and we had fresh strawberry-blueberry shortcake. And topped it with whipped cream. The overall consensous was YummYumm, this is really good! I will make all of these recipes again however I didn't like the sweet potato with the sweet glaze, I found myself wishing for a savory potato to go with the sweet salmon. But over all I loved everything. Definate redo's!