Ronnie Garrison
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NO JOKE!
I spent about two weeks of August in Alaska and caught a bunch of salmon. Had some flash frozen and shipped home - only cost about $15 a pound, not counting license and charter costs for catching them. You can get farm raised salmon for about $5 a pound, I am told wild salmon is at least $15. Bet there is not much difference.
ANYWAY
Got this recipe from local Piggly Wiggly seafood counter. It is from some magazine.
3 pound salmon filet with skin on
6 TBS olive oil
4 large garlic coves, minced - abouit 1 heaping TBS
1/4 cup minced fresh dill
2 tsp salt
1 tsp black pepper
1 tsp lemon zest
Soak a cedar plank in water all day - plank must be big enough to hold filet but small enough to fit in grill. I used a piece of left over cedar siding that had never been treated.
Place soaked plank in grill to side of coals, not over direct heat. It is ready when it starts to smoke a little.
Mix oil, garlic, dill, salt, pepper and zest and brush on meat side of filet. Place filet on plank skin side down. Takes about 25 minutes, depending on grill. Fish is done when it flakes easily.
This dill garlic sauce is fairly strong. I put it on a smaller filet and it was too much - had to scrape it off, still gave fish a great taste.
The cedar plank gives the fish a good flavor. I also grilled some filets on it after brushing them with olive oil, no spices. They were good, too.
I used Coho or Silver Salmon we caught near Sitka. We trolled in the bay for them. I also got a bunch of salmon from streams on a light spinning rod and crappie jig but they had already started going bad since they were in frest water. I caught coho, pink and chum salmon from streams in three different places. Great fight. The ones caught trolling were not much fight, we used downriggers and big flashers, but they sure do eat good.
I used a Spiderman spinning rod, of all things, with a Shimano Sedona reel and 8 pound PLine Flourocarbon line. Story and a picture is at http://fishing.about.com/od/troutandsalmon/a/chum_salmon.htm if you are interested.
I spent about two weeks of August in Alaska and caught a bunch of salmon. Had some flash frozen and shipped home - only cost about $15 a pound, not counting license and charter costs for catching them. You can get farm raised salmon for about $5 a pound, I am told wild salmon is at least $15. Bet there is not much difference.
ANYWAY
Got this recipe from local Piggly Wiggly seafood counter. It is from some magazine.
3 pound salmon filet with skin on
6 TBS olive oil
4 large garlic coves, minced - abouit 1 heaping TBS
1/4 cup minced fresh dill
2 tsp salt
1 tsp black pepper
1 tsp lemon zest
Soak a cedar plank in water all day - plank must be big enough to hold filet but small enough to fit in grill. I used a piece of left over cedar siding that had never been treated.
Place soaked plank in grill to side of coals, not over direct heat. It is ready when it starts to smoke a little.
Mix oil, garlic, dill, salt, pepper and zest and brush on meat side of filet. Place filet on plank skin side down. Takes about 25 minutes, depending on grill. Fish is done when it flakes easily.
This dill garlic sauce is fairly strong. I put it on a smaller filet and it was too much - had to scrape it off, still gave fish a great taste.
The cedar plank gives the fish a good flavor. I also grilled some filets on it after brushing them with olive oil, no spices. They were good, too.
I used Coho or Silver Salmon we caught near Sitka. We trolled in the bay for them. I also got a bunch of salmon from streams on a light spinning rod and crappie jig but they had already started going bad since they were in frest water. I caught coho, pink and chum salmon from streams in three different places. Great fight. The ones caught trolling were not much fight, we used downriggers and big flashers, but they sure do eat good.
I used a Spiderman spinning rod, of all things, with a Shimano Sedona reel and 8 pound PLine Flourocarbon line. Story and a picture is at http://fishing.about.com/od/troutandsalmon/a/chum_salmon.htm if you are interested.