I am supposed to start eating Salmon frequently. How do you cook it? REcipes? Where to get freshest, non fishy tasting,

[Grace62]

Wags your recipe sounds very good. I have a stack of cedar planks waiting for grilling season.

Decocritter, the type of salmon you eat is going to depend on where you live. I agree with other writers; Atlantic salmon is to be avoided. The real thing from the northwest and Alaska is fantastic, you can find it flash frozen if you're not in this region, or when it's not in season. I also recommend high quality canned pink or red Alaskan salmon. This is nothing like cheap canned tuna, don't be afraid to try it! Shop online, it is also not cheap. It's delicious and packed with Omega 3's, which is probably the nutrient that you're after.
My kids love salmon cooked just about any way: grilled, baked, cold on a bagel, as sushi, in chowder, cold with mustard on a cracker, you name it!

[Grace62]

I'm kinda spoiled when it comes to salmon. There is a beach in our town where in August the pinks and silvers run right close to shore and kids can reel them in. Putting that on the grill an hour out of the water - that's living!

[anonymouse1]

Ditto on AVOIDING THE FARMED SALMON.

It contains very little of the Omega-3 oils that make salmon healthy, so you don't get much health benefit.

Also, it's a very polluting and ecologically bad process--they destroy tons of smaller fish to make the fish meal, they give the fish antibiotics, it's really nasty. And it doesn't taste as good!

[Dennis S]

Walmart used to have whole frozen salmon for $1 a pound 10 years ago. I don't know if they have anything like that now. I would tell them what you want to do and see if they can accommodate you.

[DCrunch]

Costco has the salmon steaks individually wrapped and frozen. I like the parchment paper method.

[Grace62]

Dennis S wrote:
Walmart used to have whole frozen salmon for $1 a pound 10 years ago. I don't know if they have anything like that now. I would tell them what you want to do and see if they can accommodate you.

Walmart salmon is farm raised and imported from Chile. The species is Altantic salmon, but it is raised on the Pacific coast of Chile in conditions that are bizarre for the species. Anyway, Walmart salmon created a boom in Chile and most of the Atlantic salmon sold in the US comes from there. Again, I wouldn't touch the stuff. You are not getting the taste or nutrition that salmon is known for. Pay more and get the real thing, otherwise don't bother.

[Speedy]

Why do you need to eat so much salmon?

[Mr Downtown]

I sprinkle it generously with lemon pepper and put it under the broiler for about six minutes. Repeat on the other side for about three minutes.

I usually warm a little béarnaise on the plate, but that's gilding the lily.

[Don Kiyoti]

Monterey Bay Aquarium has a great reference site about which seafood to get, if you're concerned about sustainability etc. It confirms what others here have said about farmed Atlantic salmon. Wild-caught Alaskan is GO!

Here is the salmon page:
http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/Se...spx?gid=17

[Winston]

Don Kiyoti wrote:
Monterey Bay Aquarium has a great reference site about which seafood to get, if you're concerned about sustainability etc. It confirms what others here have said about farmed Atlantic salmon. Wild-caught Alaskan is GO!

Here is the salmon page:
http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/Se...spx?gid=17

Interesting site. I was a little confused by their advice on canned tuna, which emphasizes albacore (white) tuna. I'd thought albacore was supposed to have higher mercury levels than other types. It sounded like their focus was on primarily on fishing techniques (sustainability and environmental impact) rather than the health issues. (Not that they didn't mention mercury as a concern - they just left me confused.) May need to research it some more.


- W