Salmon is the Sandra Bullock of the fish world. Everybody loves Sandy! Sandy ruffles no feathers. You loved Gravity. You loved her in Speed. Sandy can do no wrong. And neither can Salmon in the health food world. Everybody loves Salmon! Put it on my salad! Make a taco out of it! Make anything out of it!
That was until everyone realized that farmed Salmon isn’t very good for you.
Now this doesn’t apply to all farmed fish, but a majority of farmed fish has an over usage of antibiotics and cramped pens that leads to an unhealthy end product for you the consumer. Think of all your concerns about non free range chicken and apply it to fish.
If you want truly Wild Salmon, you can’t get it on the East Coast. The Atlantic Salmon is no longer really commercially available, you would be hard press to find true “wild” Atlantic Salmon. Most of the Atlantic Salmon that you are eating is farmed Salmon. For truly “wild” caught Salmon you typically have to get it from the West coast. Luckily I was able to get my hands on some fresh caught Salmon, and it was delicious.
If you can’t get access to “wild” salmon, do your best to be mindful of where your farmed fish comes from.
This Salmon dish is piece of cake on a weeknight.
Recipe – Oven Roasted Salmon
Ingredients
1 Sockeye Salmon Filet
1 Tbsp. Olive Oil
1 Tsp. Salt
1 Tsp. Fresh Ground Black Pepper
Method
Step 1 – All you have to do is brush olive oil, salt, and pepper onto your Salmon.
Step 2- The trick is, preheat your oven to 400F with your pan in the oven (use a cast iron skillet or a baking sheet).
Step 3- Once the oven is hot enough put your Salmon filets onto the piping hot sheet.
Step 4- This will brown the bottom and create a great crispy bottom onto your fish. After about 20-25 minutes, pull it out of the oven (make sure you get a nice brown edge on the entire fish as you see above).
Step 5- Plate and squeeze some fresh lemon or lime onto the fish and enjoy!
***SIDE NOTE*** Unrelated to Fish.
With Halloween around the corner, don’t forget to stock up on some tasty candy. I cannot in good conscience have readers who hand out bad candy! If you’re super against commercialized candy, just step your candy game up! But don’t dish out bad candy. Bad candy ruins everything.
Some candies that kids love:
Reese’s
Snickers
Kit Kat Bars
Twix
Candies that everyone hates universally:
For fear of not wanting to get sued, I just will say, you know what they are =) Because you were all kids once too!
And if you REALLY want to be the star of your block, just buy full size candy bars from Costco and dole them out like you’re some sort of Rockefeller. You’ll go down in Halloween lore as the house that gave out full size bars. For more Halloween Rules, click here.
- 1 Sockeye Salmon Filet
- 1 Tbsp. Olive Oil
- 1 Tsp. Salt
- 1 Tsp. Fresh Ground Black Pepper
- Step 1 – All you have to do is brush olive oil, salt, and pepper onto your Salmon.
- Step 2- The trick is, preheat your oven to 400F with your pan in the oven (use a cast iron skillet or a baking sheet).
- Step 3- Once the oven is hot enough put your Salmon filets onto the piping hot sheet.
- Step 4- This will brown the bottom and create a great crispy bottom onto your fish. After about 20-25 minutes, pull it out of the oven (make sure you get a nice brown edge on the entire fish as you see above).
- Step 5- Plate and squeeze some fresh lemon or lime onto the fish and enjoy!
