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Post by Atticus Pizzaballa on Mar 21, 2022 16:32:31 GMT -5
Ingredients
6-8 boneless salmon fillets
4-6 tablespoons of olive oil
Salt & Pepper
25 cherry tomatoes
Mini sweet peppers in red, orange, yellow
2 cloves of garlic
½ chili pepper
1 teaspoon of hot pepper spread
½ lemon
1 handful of spinach
5 tablespoons of capers
Thyme
1 cup of white wine
Instructions:
1.In a skillet, place 2-4 tablespoons of olive oil on medium heat and place salmon fillets and cook for 3-4 minutes per side. Add black pepper on each side.
2.Once cooked, transfer salmon to a baking dish and cover with aluminum foil to rest.
3.In preparing the wine sauce, add 4 tablespoons of olive oil and squeeze 2 cloves of garlic into a skillet over low heat, chili peppers and cherry tomatoes. Add 1 teaspoon of hot pepper spread and mix. Watch the video for special instructions.
4.Add 1 cup of white wine and increase heat for approximately 2 minutes. 5.Squeeze half lemon to mixture and add 1 cup of spinach. Place 3-4 branches of thyme and 5 tablespoons of capers with its water to mixture.
In a separate pan, sauté mini peppers for a 2-3 minutes covered.
6.Watch the video for special instructions. Serve with your favorite wine and enjoy!
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Post by Clipper on Mar 21, 2022 18:03:50 GMT -5
It sounds delish if you are a fan of salmon. I have never caught the bug for it myself. I occasionally will order salmon with a lemon dill sauce at a locally owned seafood restaurant if we end up there with our friends who love the place. Once in a great while Kathy will make salmon patties and they are ok for an occasional change of pace from meat and poultry, but even then, although Kathy disguises the salmon fairly well I am not that crazy about them.
I actually wish I DID like salmon. It usually looks delicious on the plate but I just don't care for the flavor of it.
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Post by Atticus Pizzaballa on Mar 21, 2022 19:42:33 GMT -5
Salmon is the only fish that I researched that I can safely eat. Due to gout. I love tuna but have to be careful. If I don't buy fresh salmon at a reasonable price at Walmart I get the frozen ones but with that one has to be careful since farm raised salmon has a lot of saturated fat of which wild salmon does not have. Is Salmon OK for gout? Cold water fish like tuna, salmon and trout can increase your uric acid levels, but the heart benefit from eating them in moderation may be greater than the gout attack risk. Mussels, scallops, squid, shrimp, oysters, crab and lobsters should only be eaten once in a while. Is tuna fish good for uric acid? Tuna and other cold-water fish are considered healthy, but they have relatively high amounts of purines, which can be problematic if you have gout. Purines are chemical compounds that break down to form uric acid, a substance that triggers gout attacks in people who are susceptible.Feb 17, 2021 www.healthline.com/health/foods-to-avoid-with-gout#vegetables |
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Post by Clipper on Mar 21, 2022 20:37:19 GMT -5
While I don't care for salmon, I DO like a good marinated tuna steak done on the grill during the summer. We don't get a lot of good seafood around here but once in a great while Green's Seafood downtown has some nice looking and fairly fresh tuna steaks. Marinated in lemon juice, soy sauce, minced garlic clove, a bit of sugar, salt and pepper. They say to marinate for up to two hours. We usually leave it in a ziplock in the fridge for a bit longer than that and then put it on the grill.
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Post by clarencebunsen on Mar 22, 2022 17:02:04 GMT -5
We have salmon steaks only when Michael gets them for us. Had some last week. I also buy the salmon packets which are sold next to the tuna packets. The amount I eat doesn't have any impact on my gout. Of course I have taken a daily dose of allopurinol for years.
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Post by Clipper on Mar 23, 2022 8:35:44 GMT -5
We have salmon steaks only when Michael gets them for us. Had some last week. I also buy the salmon packets which are sold next to the tuna packets. The amount I eat doesn't have any impact on my gout. Of course I have taken a daily dose of allopurinol for years. Knock on wood, I have been fortunate thus far not to have experienced gout. My friend John used to suffer from gout that would settle in his toes and/or his knees on occasion. He took a medication for it and also would drink copious amounts of cherry juice when he had a flare. Another fellow I bowled with years ago had gout attack the joints in his fingers once. Very painful. He said it hurt so bad that he wished he could just cut the hand off. I guess I didn't know that gout can attack ANY of your joints. Not just your big toes. How do you prepare the salmon you purchase in a pouch CB? Do you use it in a salad or just eat it with a fork just as it comes out of the pouch? Those pouches are a very convenient way to buy salmon in a small quantity. If they are like the tuna pouches I purchase once in a while, they only contain about 3 ounces or so. Kathy uses them to make us a lunch salad of lettuce, tomato, black olives, sliced pickled banana peppers, red onion, strips of cheese and the white albacore tuna. It makes a great light meal with a balsamic dressing. If you like salmon I bet that it would be good in a salad such as that. Not my cup of tea, but you might enjoy it. |
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Post by clarencebunsen on Mar 23, 2022 8:49:18 GMT -5
Usually on crackers. Salmon contains purines which can cause a gout flair. My gout is well controlled with medication, but I don't push it.
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Post by Clipper on Mar 23, 2022 9:30:12 GMT -5
Gout is a very debilitating condition for sure. My former father in-law used to suffer from gout. Organ meat was his downfall. He loved liver and onions and although he knew he would pay for it later. My mother in-law didn't eat liver so he would cook and eat the entire pound package by himself at a single sitting and then suffer the resulting gout flare that was sure to follow. He had a pair of athletic shoes and a pair of house slippers with the big toes cut out of them. Kathy had it once and said that even letting the bed sheet touch her toe was excruciating.
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Post by BHU on Mar 23, 2022 15:35:39 GMT -5
I'm not a big fan of salmon myself but have had it on a couple occasions. Not my cup of tea though I do enjoy other seafood.
Never had gout either & I wonder if drinking cherry juice on a regular basis can help to prevent it? Can't hurt as long as it's not loaded with sweeteners like corn syrup like some juices are. We don't usually buy the stuff for that reason other then o.j.
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Post by Clipper on Mar 23, 2022 17:18:03 GMT -5
I don't know if you can buy unsweetened cherry juice or not. My buddy John used to buy it at Krogers in 6 or 7 ounce bottles and it was real sweet and fairly expensive.
I love seafood also BHU and salmon and swordfish are the only fish I find that I just don't like.
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Post by kit on Mar 24, 2022 7:12:20 GMT -5
A sauteed salmon steak is delicious when topped with champagne sauce. They used to serve it at the La Petite Maison restaurant in Waterville. It wasn't cheap, but it was very good. Sad that the restaurant went out of business when Eve (the owner and chef) passed away.
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Post by Clipper on Mar 24, 2022 10:16:29 GMT -5
Our local Food City stores have started selling sushi. I was reminded of this salmon thread when I saw a woman preparing the sushi rolls behind the meat counter yesterday. She is an older woman that has been working there for as long as I can remember. I was surprised at her knife skills. She was slicing salmon so thin that you could just about read a newspaper through it with a scimitar shaped knife. What REALLY surprised me was the size of the filet she was slicing from. It was over an inch thick, about 6 or 7 inches wide, and it had to be about 2 1/2 feet long. The filets they sell whole or packaged in portions are nowhere near that large. I was somewhat fascinated watching her slice the fish. She is not a meat cutter. She normally just wraps and packages meat that the meat cutters give to her weigh, wrap, and label and waits on customers.
The sushi is on a tray in the display case and they charge 60 cents for a piece about an inch long. Seems a bit steep to me. Any sushi fans out there? Isn't that a bit expensive?
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Post by BHU on Mar 24, 2022 15:43:58 GMT -5
Our local Food City stores have started selling sushi. I was reminded of this salmon thread when I saw a woman preparing the sushi rolls behind the meat counter yesterday. She is an older woman that has been working there for as long as I can remember. I was surprised at her knife skills. She was slicing salmon so thin that you could just about read a newspaper through it with a scimitar shaped knife. What REALLY surprised me was the size of the filet she was slicing from. It was over an inch thick, about 6 or 7 inches wide, and it had to be about 2 1/2 feet long. The filets they sell whole or packaged in portions are nowhere near that large. I was somewhat fascinated watching her slice the fish. She is not a meat cutter. She normally just wraps and packages meat that the meat cutters give to her weigh, wrap, and label and waits on customers. The sushi is on a tray in the display case and they charge 60 cents for a piece about an inch long. Seems a bit steep to me. Any sushi fans out there? Isn't that a bit expensive? Never had sushi, I won't even eat raw clams. Too risky for my blood. Another fish I don't like is Tilapia. Had it once, never again. Looks like tomorrow will be Fish Fry Friday. |
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Post by Clipper on Mar 24, 2022 20:30:42 GMT -5
I tried one piece of sushi only one time years ago. Some kind of spicy tuna thing with tuna, rice, seaweed and wasabi. I wasn't crazy about the seaweed and the wasabi was hot as hell. I don't eat raw shellfish anymore either. Years ago I used to like raw oysters with a dash of hot sauce and would always have a few from a street vendor on Haymarket Square when I took charter groups to Quincy Market in Boston. I ate Tilapia twice and both times I found it mushy and unappetizing. Except of the frozen haddock dinners I found recently at Aldi's (better than nothing but doesn't compare to haddock fish fries we are used to.) the only kinds of fish I really like whitefish, cod, rainbow trout, mahi mahi, and catfish filets. I can eat a boatload of fried or baked catfish filets. I love steamed clams but you can't even buy a bag of clams here for a clambake.
Where are you going for your fish fry BHU? You are lucky and have a lot of choices during lent. We used to buy fish from West End Seafood when it was open, and from Price Chopper in N. Utica. Our favorite place to have a fish fry out was at the Knight Spot in Frankfort but those folks retired and close the place. Deerfield fire house was always good.
Years ago we used to go to Anchor Inn, New Hartford American Legion, Moore's Hotel in Barneveld, Van's Tavern, and our favorite when we lived up North was White Birch Inn.
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Post by clarencebunsen on Mar 24, 2022 23:35:53 GMT -5
Cherries and cherry juice have anti-inflamatory compounds and have been used by many people for medicinal purposes. I don't know of any definitive studies.
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