All I can say is what a waste to each of the three components! The delicious punchy but sublte cherry chipotle was like the little mousey girl who shows up at an over the top fashion show - invisible!!! The cedar plank was overpowering - think sumo wrestler visiting a kindergarten class. And that vividly coral salmon fillet????? Well it looked pretty, but what a waste.
So the lesson in all this.....remember, less is often more!!! The salmon would work well roasted in the oven with the cherry chipotle sauce (you can use this recipe as a base, just forget about the dill, lemon and paprika). Or BBQ the salmon on the cedar plank with just a little lemon juice.
Combining all three, now that I think about it, is like when my niece Katie comes over to play dress up - have you got that picture in your mind? Very cute on a six year old, but not so cute on food!
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5 comments:
Ruth, thank you for experimenting so we don't have to. It is such a waste look at those gorgeous slab of salmon...
Like you said salmon needs to be treated delicately :)
Incidentally, your comment page is acting really strangely... The text is huge and the part where i'm typing on now is squashed to 1 inch width by 2 inch length. How odd... I hope you get this message though. Have a lovely weekend! :)
Mae, thanks for dropping by. You're right about salmon being delicate, and I rarely mess with it. In fact, although teryiaki salmon is popular in cookbooks and restaurants, I rarely, if ever, eat/prepare it. I think it's such a shame to mask the flavor of salmon.
By the way, I don't know what happened while you were posting, but it looks fine now.
I do love teriyaki salmon though. In fact it's one of my most popular choice of treating salmon. Teriyaki is quite delicate.
Yes, the commenting is definitely working a lot better now.
hi ruth, lovely post, as always. the cherry chipotle sounds fantastic; do you think it would work well with pork?
J, I think it would work perfectly on pork - a big chop or tenderloin, yum!
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