Anyone else just LOVE Salmon dishes?!

[JanMichael]

I just had my salmon standard, taken from a Jamie Oliver show a couple of years ago, and it was GREAT!

What's even better is that it's cheap AND delicious.

Here's the recipe:

Pre-heat your oven to at least 450 degrees. Set a small pot of water to boil.

After that do the following...

Take a handfull of fresh greenbeans (.99cents/lb) and snip the ends off then blanche for 3-5 minutes in the boiling water.

Take a few 4-8 cherry/grape tomatoes (anywhere from .99 cents/lb to $2.25 a pint.) and cut some in half, the bigger ones, and leave a few whole.

Smash a few large black olives (.99 cents for a small can) with the broad side of a knife or just squeeze em'.

Take the blanched greenbeans and drain. Now toss them with the cherry tomatoes, black olives, a half a lemon (.50 cents?), tons of black pepper, fresh basil leaves (3-5) ($1.50 a bag) and olive oil.

Leave them to sit for a few minutes while you prepare the salmon steak (one cost me $2.17 at $3.99/lb). Oil it up, squeeze on the other half of the lemon, heavy pepper an salt.

Now place the greenbean mix next to the salmon steak in a shallow pan. Lay three or four anchovie strips over the green beans, this is what salts the dish, the anchovies break up in the high heat.

Then place in the pre-heated oven for 10-15 minutes.

Voila! It's done and should only take 30 minutes start to finish.
Pretend I was cooking for two, because all of the ingrediants could have supported three (probably four) dinners, and it'd be $10 for two plates of this awesome dish ($12.50 for three $15.00 for four! It cost me about $7.00 for the one dinner but I have left over EVERYTHING except Lemon and Salmon. Plenty for another meal tomorrow or Thursday.). I always have olive oil, salt and black pepper (in those cool grinder shakers) so I didn't price them out.

Try it out!

[LisaM]

1. Ha, ha, no, I hate salmon and I live in Seattle

where it's served, at the very least, at every other dinner party or barbeque you attend. It's hilarious. In the past year, I've gone to dinners where they serve salmon barbequed in foil with mayonnaise, teriyaki salmon, salmon sausages, dried salmon, smoked salmon, salmon apparently pickled in a jar, plain old salmon on a plate, you name it, it's there. I'm tired of that bright pink fish staring at me everywhere I go!

[JanMichael]

4. I'd hate salmon too if I lived in Seattle.

But it's OK here in FLA.

[hlthe2b]

2. Sounds really good

I'm always looking for new ways to cook salmon...

[DemExpat]

3. I just love salmon! Have acquired a taste for it

in the past couple of years.

Thanks for the recipe.

DemEx

[Mandate My Ass]

5. Jamie is an anchovie freak

and I really like that about him. I'm using anchovies more and more (although I have to hide them from the menfolk) and find they add depth to anything from vegetables to meat to sauces without tasting fishy. Anchovy paste is a great condiment and makes stealth anchovy cooking so much easier.

The one time I got caught my son asked me why I was putting rat turds into the stew. I told him he's been eating rat turds for years and that seemed to put the matter to rest -- at least for the time being.

[JanMichael]

8. "rat turds"?! Eh...I suppose one could make that mistake.

It is cool the way they melt into dishes.

Tomato and anchovie seem to really do well together.

[Mandate My Ass]

9. tomato and anchovy

puttanesca sauce....yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....:9

[JanMichael]

12. Ding ding ding!

<drat>

You just pointed out what I simply couldn't remember! All I was recalling was tomato and anchovie, not puttanesca sause. Good catch!

Good stuff too.

[bratcatinok]

6. I bought

some smoked salmon this weekend and I'm not sure what to do with it.

Several years ago I had slices of smoked salmon on a cracker topped with finely chopped onion, lemon juice and capers. I plan on doing part of the salmon that way.

What else can I do with it? Recipes anyone?

[JanMichael]

7. I'm not that familiar with the smoked recipes.

I've had the one that you just described and like it quite a bit.

I guess you could make a salmon dip?

[Mandate My Ass]

11. I just typed "smoked salmon"

into the search engine at eat.epicurious.com and it came back with 113 recipes. Personally I like smoked salmon with eggs and fresh dill.

[bratcatinok]

13. Thank you

I hadn't heard of eat.epicurious.com before. I'll have to check it out.

[henslee]

10. wild salmon....yum,,,,,

Here in CA and we can sometimes get wild, line caught salmon from the NW. Yum.
I like it pan fried with some organic eggs (which you might notice, have softer, brighter yokes) crunchy toast, a cup of joe,

Right now, the local sole is pretty tasty.