This next dish is a popular one from Epicurious and it’s one I first tried with my ex. If you take a look at the recipe, there are 12 pages of comments (mostly positive) made and 93% would make this dish again. Another interesting tidbit about this dish is that I’ve had about 3 friends suggest this recipe to me and I’ve saddened them when I told them, “sorry, I’ve already tried it”.
I’ve probably made this dish a dozen times (with my own twist of course) and it’s still a “gourmet-ish” dish that’s easy for a weeknight.
I also still see the ex’s comment (in the review section) made on our behalf and today I still make this salmon with angel hair pasta. I find the pasta a good accompaniment to mop-up the sauce and the spinach.
My recommendations on this dish is to smear butter on the skin side of the salmon then season with salt and pepper and saute in the pan when the olive oil just starts to smoke…that’s crispy skin to die for!
I would also increase the recipe for the pan sauce by a 1/3 if you’re making pasta with this dish and double up on the baby spinach. The stuff wilts real easy and the recipe “as is” is a little chintzy in the spinach.
Grab some salmon, try it on a weeknight, open a bottle (or two) of wine, make the dinner as a couple or with a “friend”, have some fun and if the dish turns out real good like when I made it, you’ll get lucky (insert evil laugh here)!
Wow this salmon certainly does look ‘gourmet’. It looks very delicious, wonderful. :)
Another excellent recipe, looks delicious.
Peter, fish is always a winner in my book and I love spinach as well – wonderful combination!
This does look good, I like having recommendations of recipes that are well tried too cause then you know they work!
I love salmon – and love it seared! No sense cooking it beyond recognition…
Thanks for posting this, Peter. It looks like a wonderful, simple recipe for a weeknight.
Your rendition of the dish is worthy of being in the Gourmet magazine. Really outstanding, Peter.
Nice photos. The recipe sounds good. Tarragon is an herb that I would like to use more of.
If you recomend it, then I’ll have to try it :)
(don’t worry about it..I can’t spell haha)
lovely – favourites of mine… but … that evil laugh… :-Z ? What’s for dessert?
Bookmarked Peter. Perfect for our West Coast salmon!
Great recipe. I really like Epicurious — it’s a great resource, primarily because of the reviews. I like ready the kinds of things people enjoy (and don’t). Thanks for reminding me about it!
Wow! You sure have been busy! I go out of town a few times and finally get around to catching up on my blog reading and I haven’t left your page. I could plan two weeks worth of dinners based on all of these recipes. They all look so delicious!