Catch Of The Day

Oh yeah, fresh silver salmon. Although the teenage mutants stayed up most of last night, they were able to drag their zombie bodies out of the house nice and early this morning. Their reward... lots of fish.

If this keeps up (the daily fishing trips) I will need to buy another freezer. Ours is packed to the top with the summer catch of misc. fish, and as of now there is no room in the freezer for the moose my husband hopes to take this season.

The beauty of this is the creek the teenagers are fishing is less than 1/4 mile from our home, a quick 4 minute bike ride from the front door to the fish. No need to drive hour after hour. No need battle traffic and worm their way between the zillion other fisherman lined up shoulder to shoulder at the major salmon streams.

These fish are slated to be canned or smoked, and 'put up' for winter. Tonight's dinner... Salmon ala ME.

Recipe:

Marinade
1/3 cup light brown sugar
3 Tbsp. fresh garlic, chopped fine
3 Tbsp. onion, chopped super fine
1 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
2 Tbsp. honey
1/4 cup soy sauce
1/3 cup water
pinch each of salt and pepper
Place ingredients in saucepan and simmer on low heat until slightly reduced.

Marinade salmon fillets for 30 minutes. Remove from marinade and place skin side down in baking dish. Reserve leftover marinade.

Preheat oven to 325*. Baste salmon with marinade. Bake for 5 minutes, baste again. Repeat until salmon is slightly firm to the touch and flakes away when poked with a fork. Try not to over-bake the salmon, you want it to stay soft and moist.
It's that simple. The honey, brown sugar, garlic, and onions caramalize and give this dish a slight brown crust.

Enjoy!

I'm off to fillet the fish and drag the vacuum seal gizmo out so I can seal these beauties. Just sent the teenagers over to visit our Tibetan Monk neighbors, they just love it when we stop by with a big bag of fish heads. Like Alaskan natives, the monks make fish head soup. They are more than welcome to any and all fish heads! *shudder* : )