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This is what Steve brought home from his initial fishing adventure.
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Isn't it beautiful?
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This is the freshest salmon I have ever cooked with. From the ocean to the net to my hands in mere hours.
I went to my delicious bookmarks and looked up salmon. I rediscovered yakitori, a recipe I've been meaning to try from one of my favorite food blogs.
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I started with a little sugar.
Note to readers: I attempted to be artistic while taking these photos and placed the salmon in the background of every ingredient picture. Consider appreciating that. Thank you.
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Some smashed garlic.
Note to readers: If you use a knife to smash garlic cloves, use the same knife to slice a cucumber, and eat that cucumber slice, it is a bad idea. Trust me.
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The original recipe called for rice wine. I had no rice wine. The suggested substitute was apple juice. I had no apple juice. I had a packet of caramel apple cider, but I thought that might throw the flavor of the dish off... I ended up using rice vinegar.
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Because I'm an idiot, I added oil to the marinade. The oil was supposed to be used when cooking the salmon. Oops. Luckily, I don't think it ruined everything. In fact, because I used sesame oil, the flavor may have even been enhanced.
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I had the foresight to mix the marinade in a ziploc bag...
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which made it really easy to let the salmon chunks soak up the goodness overnight.
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These pictures aren't the greatest, but I wanted to add them to prove I actually did make this dish. The above picture is the marinated salmon in (some more) sesame oil.
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This is the salmon when it was done. (Again, the photo is primarily to prove my culinary activity, in fact, took place.)
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The finished yakitori. Even my non-fish-eating husband enjoyed it.
3 comments:
I'm blushing at the link. Maybe I should start posting again....
Thanks for the push :)
Yummy! I love your adventures in cooking. We love salmon, but is that what color it really looks like? Or is that a special breed of salmon or something? When you buy it at the store it is like a pale pink. Your salmon is bright red?!? Oh I bet it is so good when it is that fresh!
I don't care much for salmon, but it sure looks delicious for someone else to enjoy!!
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