salmon

Clearly this baby has decided to be ‘fashionably late’ and not respect the due date assigned nearly nine months ago. So rather than huffing and puffing my way through labour, I set out to make dinner for us instead. Fast, simple and healthy was what I was in the mood for and the barbecue-friendly weather suited the recipe for the Great grilled side of salmon.

You can fill your grill with more than just beefy burgers! Try a batch of these salmon burgers — they’re healthy, super simple to make, and fun to eat. This recipe is by PEI Michael Smith of the Chef at Home series on Food Network Canada.

Let me begin with the end: while cleaning up after our delicious dinner of Pistachio-crusted salmon, I was elated to discover what looked like slender sheets of toffee attached to the foil that was used to bake the salmon. It wasn’t toffee, but rather the runoff from the sauce that was brushed onto the salmon. "Dare I try it?" I asked myself. I like to eat chocolate flavoured with cayenne pepper, so why not try maple curry Dijon toffee? As you can probably guess, I tried it. Let me just say that I really enjoyed cleaning up this dinner. And that the foil had very little residue on it once I (finally) disposed of it.

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