La vita e bella quando puoi cucinare: Life is beautiful when you can cook!
October 26th, 2010 § Leave a Comment
It’s cold! Autumn seemed to have been too short this year. Or was it? The story today is about the great feast we had to celebrate the mere yet beautiful season of the year.
Venue: Tesco. Target: Whole salmon. Let’s do it. Just like that, suddenly appeared in our messy kitchen counter was a well-fed fat salmon from the head to tail altogether. After comfortably lying all along one side of the kitchen counter, the fish underwent an operation.
First- clean the fish
First: clean the fish. Always make sure that the inside of the fish has been being cleaned as well as the outside. Often it is this thick skin flakes outside that smell really bad so make sure you do this properly. Preparation in this case is vital.
Then rinse it. Just so that you get rid of tiny skin flakes remained somewhere. Let the fish be nice and clean.
Season the fish! The only pity thing was the salmon was so big that we couldn’t fit it altogether in the oven. We cut the head off and made thickest fillet steaks I’ve ever seen. And marinate the fillets with just olive oil and salt (sea salt if possible) on a foil-covered oven tray. Then just leave them into the preheated oven until they are very nicely cooked.
The salmon dinner on the table
It was the meatiest fish I’ve ever had. The best taste always comes from good materials and simple cooking. It fed four hungry students but there were still a couple of massive salmon steaks left. What did I do with these? Some days later, I added some onions, potatoes and scallops and made seafood chowder which served me another happy dinner time. La vita e bella quando puoi cucinare: Life is beautiful when you can cook!
