Not Everything Works Out

[sawhorseray]

The way we hoped it would. I love smoked salmon and lox, never been a big fan of fresh cooked pink no matter how I've prepared it. Today we went to Sam's and picked up some fillets for lox, I'm following Smokin' Al's great recipe to a "T", it's can't miss. After I'd trimmed the fillets to fit the containers I had on hand there was about a pound of fresh fillet salmon to deal with. I figured I'd make a salmon sanny! Took the fillet scraps and seasoned them with some lemon pepper

Then fried them naked in a half cube of beautiful butter

Figured I make the sanny out of some fresh oatnut bread with mayo and spicy mustard, some thin sliced onions to top it off

I took two bites and tossed it down the garbage disposal, hated it. DW was there to save the day with some pumpkin bread she'd made just for me this afternoon. Buttered it up and into the micro

Slathered on some red raspberry jam and I was good to go, dessert for dinner tonight!

Sometimes I have to just belly up to the fact that every little thought I might have won't always work out the way I dreamed it would. I'll keep thinking, maybe I'll have another thought. RAY

 

[jcam222]

Glad you had a back up plan :) looks delicious. I’m pretty sure I’d have like the salmon Sammy too

 

[sawhorseray]

My backup plan was another glass of Even Williams and come what may. DW thought Evan and I had had enough to chat about this evening. Love that woman, she's a lot smarter than me. About the only way I like fresh salmon is with the cavity stuffed with lemon and lime , wrapped in foil, and cooked on the Weber for 15 minutes a side, or in a basket over hot coals and a little wood for smoke. Even then it takes Durkees Famous Sauce on the side to make me happy, I'm just not a huge fan of the flavor of fresh pink. In hindsight I should have saved it and bought another hunk from Sam's, then canned it in my pressure cooker, goop it up with some mayo and pickle relish like tuna. I like that on a grilled sanny or cracker, but fresh, NOPE! RAY

 

[JCAP]

That looks like it would have been a good sandwich but I kinda like the dessert + EW better!

 

[Fueling Around]

I'm on your side. More bourbon is better. EW says you might be shopping at C mart.
I do not like salmon (period).
Living mid continent I have to go with frozen seafood.

 

[eddiememphis]

Salmon sandwich? That sounds disgusting and I like salmon, just had a grilled chunk tonight.

 

[forktender]

I'm on your side. More bourbon is better. EW says you might be shopping at C mart.
I do not like salmon (period).
Living mid continent I have to go with frozen seafood.

Flash frozen Alaskan salmon is just as good as some of the so called fresh fish that they sell in markets out here.
The fresh fish can be up to 10-15 days old before it ever makes it to market. Flash frozen is cleaned and frozen with in hours of it being caught. I prefer flash frozen salmon mainly because it kills the parasites and worms that live in fresh salmon.

 

[tropics]

Ray I am with you all the way can't eat it cooked.
Lox I love
Richie

 

[gmc2003]

I like smoke salmon, grilled salmon, lox, and pan fried salmon. However a salmon sandwich just doesn't sound appealing to me. You could have used it in a salmon spread or dip and covered up the taste a bit. BTW what is DW stand for? My first thought was divorced wife.

Chris

 

[SmokinAl]

I will eat salmon any way you make it, & a salmon sammie sounds real good to me!
Al

 

[sawhorseray]

BTW what is DW stand for? My first thought was divorced wife. Chris

"Dear Wife".

On the bright side, but for the lox I'm making that's the last I'll have to do with salmon till next summer. In hindsight I guess I could have fired up the weber to get some smoke on the stuff. Heck, I just don't like it fresh cooked, period. I love smoked salmon, eat it like candy. I had a 21' Proline and fished between Bodega Bay and Monterey for forty years, love lingcod, halibut, and rockfish. Salmon was pretty much barter material to me, I can remember giving away shopping bags full of the stuff. What they want for Alaskan salmon at the market is a joke to me, it's just Alaskan sled dog food. RAY

 

[Fueling Around]

Flash frozen Alaskan salmon is just as good as some of the so called fresh fish that they sell in markets out here.
The fresh fish can be up to 10-15 days old before it ever makes it to market. Flash frozen is cleaned and frozen with in hours of it being caught. I prefer flash frozen salmon mainly because it kills the parasites and worms that live in fresh salmon.

All fish should be previously been frozen (PBF) to kill the non fish components if served raw.
If cooked, fresh is ok until it get on the aged side.

Lived in Seattle area for over 16 years. I tried good salmon (as in ocean caught king or silver) many times and it just wasn't my taste.
Girlfriend's step-father did a slow cook on a Komado of a couple of King (Chinook) filets and it was palatable.
I brought 1/2 dozen of my Puget Sound trapped dungeness crab to his Alaskan fishing trip party and they disappeared very quickly.

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Salmon was pretty much barter material to me, I can remember giving away shopping bags full of the stuff. What they want for Alaskan salmon at the market is a joke to me, it's just Alaskan sled dog food. RAY

Agree. What they want for river caught (1/2 dead) salmon is ridiculous.

 

[forktender]

They don't sell river caught Salmon for human consumption that I know of, I'm pretty sure it's all ocean caught.
My family has been in the fishing industry for well over 100 yrs.

Mainly Salmon, Tuna, Halibut, Ling cod, Herring, Smelt, Squid, and Dungeness crab. I don't eat "ANY" fish raw that hasn't been frozen for at least one month, I'm not really into Opisthorchiidae and Anisakadie.