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It’s cold and wet and dark all across most the state of Texas this morning (sorry Panhandle, Midland, and El Paso), and though all this moisture is mighty welcome, it made me start thinking of sunnier, warmer climes like the Mediterranean. The Med is home to some of the oldest European culture on the planet, and boy do they know how to cook! So instead of staring out the window cussing the time change and the wet, let’s talk about a warm spicy awesome salmon recipe.
This recipe works for however many salmon steaks you feel like cooking, just duplicate the process on each slice of fish. We’re also assuming an average weight of 1/2 pound of fish per serving. All seasoning and garnishing in this recipe should be done to suit your taste. If you don’t like an overpowering onion flavor for example, don’t use a lot of onion! A lot of folks look at recipes as an absolute, but I’m here to tell you that this one is more of a guideline, after all what we’re after is a delicious meal.
I suppose while we’re visiting you should go ahead and pre-heat your oven to 350 degrees. There are a few veggies to prep while the oven is warming up, so grab a smallish tomato and chop it into 1/4″ or so cubes, same with a purple onion, and set the chopped bits aside. Now get a pie pan, line it with foil and put the salmon in there. Drizzle some red wine vinaigrette over the salmon, then add a little olive oil. McCormick makes a Mediterranean Seasoning Blend in those little red bottles you see at the grocery store, sprinkle some of that on the salmon, and add some red pepper flakes. Once the salmon is spiced, take a handful of chopped tomato and sprinkle over the top of the fish. Then add some the chopped purple onion. Finally, add some sliced black olives and capers, add a light dusting of crushed black pepper over the top of the whole mess, close the foil into a packet and bake for 30 minutes on a cookie sheet with each fish you cook in it’s own separate foil packet.
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