Need suggestion for salmon

RD <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Am planning an important supper.

1. Goat cheese rondelle with oven roasted onions ina
balsamic glaze
2. Pear sorbet
3. Salmon steak with a sesame crust with leek and lemon
cream

I plan to sear the steak in a frying pan then finish it in
the oven.

What I would like to know is that I'd like to offer some
veggies, even

some rice or orzo,

Quoted message said:

I don't know something. The steak would be on top of the
veggies.

Any suggestions?

Split Pea and Potato Purée?

1 cup split peas 3 potatoes, peeled and chopped 1 onion,
chopped 2 cloves garlic, crushed 3 tbsp. olive oil or butter
1/4 cup half-and-half or light cream

Soak peas for a few hours. Drain and combine peas with
potatoes, onion, and garlic in 2-1/2 cups salted water.
Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer for 1-1/2 hours.
Drain, reserving cooking liquid. Mash vegetables into a near
paste with a ricer, sieve, food processor, whatever you've
got. Beat in olive oil or butter and half-and-half. Beat in
some of the reserved cooking liquid if necessary to achieve
proper consistency. Salt and pepper to taste, no garnis.

Dunty Porteous

--
"It tastes like burning..... waaaaa!!!!"
-Ralph Wiggum

"RD" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Am planning an important supper.

1. Goat cheese rondelle with oven roasted onions ina
balsamic glaze
2. Pear sorbet
3. Salmon steak with a sesame crust with leek and lemon
cream

I plan to sear the steak in a frying pan then finish it in
the oven.

What I would like to know is that I'd like to offer some
veggies, even

some rice or orzo,

Quoted message said:

I don't know something. The steak would be on top of the
veggies.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

My first thought is to cook some basmati or jasmine rice and
at the last minute mix in some chopped raw spinach, so it
just barely cooks. The tastes will certainly go with the
salmon and sauce and the rice with green flecks would look
nice as a "bed"

--
Peter Aitken

Remove the [censored] from my email address before using.

RD said:

What I would like to know is that I'd like to offer some
veggies, even some rice or orzo, I don't know something.
The steak would be on top of the veggies.

Quoted message said:

Any suggestions?

What about couscous? There are tons of couscous recipes.

RD said:

Am planning an important supper.
1. Goat cheese rondelle with oven roasted onions ina
balsamic glaze
2. Pear sorbet
3. Salmon steak with a sesame crust with leek and lemon
cream I plan to sear the steak in a frying pan then
finish it in the oven. What I would like to know is
that I'd like to offer some veggies, even some rice or
orzo, I don't know something. The steak would be on top
of the veggies.

Interested in something that looks Japanese at a glance?

Shred diakon or raw turnip into clear/white threads. Put a
mound of them on the plate and set the salmon on top.
Visually like sashimi or teriyaki. And put some sort of
leaves around it. Stem down leaf up. Make a ring of them.
Maybe belgian endive leaves. Those taste good and look
really cool.

RD said:

Am planning an important supper.

1. Goat cheese rondelle with oven roasted onions ina
balsamic glaze
2. Pear sorbet
3. Salmon steak with a sesame crust with leek and lemon
cream

I plan to sear the steak in a frying pan then finish it in
the oven.

What I would like to know is that I'd like to offer some
veggies, even some rice or orzo, I don't know something.
The steak would be on top of the veggies.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Asparagus.

gloria p

RD said:

Am planning an important supper.

1. Goat cheese rondelle with oven roasted onions ina
balsamic glaze
2. Pear sorbet
3. Salmon steak with a sesame crust with leek and
lemon cream

I plan to sear the steak in a frying pan then finish it in
the oven.

What I would like to know is that I'd like to offer some
veggies, even some rice or orzo, I don't know something.
The steak would be on top of the veggies.

Well-seasoned Salmon is great with plain white rice.

Sesame, leek, and lemon cream seems a bit light, though, so
you might want to make a saffron rice.

Just add a pat of butter, a few tbs of chopped onion, and 10
strands of saffron per cup of dry rice to the boiling water
before adding the rice.

--Blair "Granula rasa."

Thanks

I'll consider it

On Mon, 03 May 2004 05:23:56 GMT, "Dunter Powries"

fech.redcaps@spedlin said:

RD <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Am planning an important supper.

1. Goat cheese rondelle with oven roasted onions ina
balsamic glaze
2. Pear sorbet
3. Salmon steak with a sesame crust with leek and lemon
cream

I plan to sear the steak in a frying pan then finish it
in the oven.

What I would like to know is that I'd like to offer some
veggies, even

some rice or orzo,

Quoted message said:

I don't know something. The steak would be on top of the
veggies.

Any suggestions?

Split Pea and Potato Purée?

1 cup split peas 3 potatoes, peeled and chopped 1
onion, chopped 2 cloves garlic, crushed 3 tbsp. olive
oil or butter
1/4 cup half-and-half or light cream

Soak peas for a few hours. Drain and combine peas with
potatoes, onion, and garlic in 2-1/2 cups salted water.
Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer for 1-1/2 hours.
Drain, reserving cooking liquid. Mash vegetables into a
near paste with a ricer, sieve, food processor, whatever
you've got. Beat in olive oil or butter and half-and-half.
Beat in some of the reserved cooking liquid if necessary
to achieve proper consistency. Salt and pepper to taste,
no garnis.

Dunty Porteous

Puester said:

RD said:

Any suggestions?

Asparagus.

Gesundheit.

--Blair "I'll be over here,
mojitoing mixos."

"RD" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Am planning an important supper.

1. Goat cheese rondelle with oven roasted onions ina
balsamic glaze
2. Pear sorbet
3. Salmon steak with a sesame crust with leek and lemon
cream

I plan to sear the steak in a frying pan then finish it in
the oven.

What I would like to know is that I'd like to offer some
veggies, even

some rice or orzo,

Quoted message said:

I don't know something. The steak would be on top of the
veggies.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Think about the dishes you'll be using, and how the food
will look on the plate...WOUld the fish liik best on a bed
of white rice w/ a green veggie (asparagus is a good choice,
as Gloria suggests) on the side? Or would it look better on
a bed of baby spinach that has BEEN LIGHtly wilted by the
heat of the fish? You could serve some rice on the side, in
that case (mold it in a little custard cup and invert onto
the plate, to the side odf the fish. Sprinkle w/ a few black
sesame seeds and arrange a few long shoots of chive sticking
up from one edge.

RD <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Am planning an important supper.

1. Goat cheese rondelle with oven roasted onions ina
balsamic glaze
2. Pear sorbet
3. Salmon steak with a sesame crust with leek and lemon
cream

I plan to sear the steak in a frying pan then finish it in
the oven.

What I would like to know is that I'd like to offer some
veggies, even

some rice or orzo,

Quoted message said:

I don't know something. The steak would be on top of the
veggies.

Any suggestions?

Swiss chard.

Slice and saute some shiitake (or other mushrooms) in olive
oil. When they're just about done, toss in some minced
garlic and saute for another minute. Splash in a quarter cup
or so of chicken broth (or water) and add a bunch of cleaned
and coarsely chopped swiss chard. Cover and cook until chard
is wilted and done to taste. Salt to taste, if needed.

You can either serve this in wide, shallow soup plates with
the salmon & sauce on top, or spoon the chard and mushrooms
out of the broth and serve on a flat plate.

The chard should go well with the leek and lemon cream.

I generally don't like mushrooms with fish (I don't think
the flavors complement each other well), but one of the
nicest meals I ever had (at a brewpub called Dempsey's, in
Petaluma, CA) was swiss chard cooked this way with a slab of
roasted halibut on top, and some gingery beet relish on top
of the fish. For salmon, though, I might leave out the
mushrooms, come to think of it.

Jen San Francisco

Quoted message said:

1. Goat cheese rondelle with oven roasted onions ina
balsamic glaze
2. Pear sorbet
3. Salmon steak with a sesame crust with leek and lemon
cream

I plan to sear the steak in a frying pan then finish it in
the oven.

What I would like to know is that I'd like to offer some
veggies, even some rice or orzo, I don't know something.
The steak would be on top of the veggies.

RD,

I am going to address your question even though that's not
how I would serve the salmon. If I served salmon, it may be
on a bed of rice, or even vegies, but I'd also have side
dishes of vegies, such as asparagus.

For a bed of vegies, I'd just quickly cook a mixture of
vegies, such as carrots, broccoli, onions, garlic,
cauliflower, eggplant, sweet potatoes, colored bell peppers,
whatever you like and whatever is fresh, and then very
coarsely chop in a blender or food processor. If you wanted
to tone down the flavor a bit and make it a bit heavier in
consistency, you could add in whatever type of rice you
like. I'd leave it coarse and not a puree. Season however
you like, and you could add a bit of sesame oil for flavor
to bring out the sesame on the salmon. As somebody
mentioned, the whites, greens, reds, and oranges would be a
good presentation with the dark orange salmon meat.

Ken

Yeah, asparagus is on my A-list.

Thanks.

Puester said:

RD said:

Am planning an important supper.

1. Goat cheese rondelle with oven roasted onions ina
balsamic glaze
2. Pear sorbet
3. Salmon steak with a sesame crust with leek and lemon
cream

I plan to sear the steak in a frying pan then finish it
in the oven.

What I would like to know is that I'd like to offer some
veggies, even some rice or orzo, I don't know something.
The steak would be on top of the veggies.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Asparagus.

gloria p

Sounds good, but I might go with the swiss chard suggestion.

Thanks.

Blair P. Houghton said:

RD said:

Am planning an important supper.

1. Goat cheese rondelle with oven roasted onions ina
balsamic glaze
2. Pear sorbet
3. Salmon steak with a sesame crust with leek and lemon
cream

I plan to sear the steak in a frying pan then finish it in
the oven.

What I would like to know is that I'd like to offer some
veggies, even some rice or orzo, I don't know something.
The steak would be on top of the veggies.

Well-seasoned Salmon is great with plain white rice.

Sesame, leek, and lemon cream seems a bit light, though, so
you might want to make a saffron rice.

Just add a pat of butter, a few tbs of chopped onion, and
10 strands of saffron per cup of dry rice to the boiling
water before adding the rice.

--Blair "Granula rasa."

I thought of doing a rice/mushroom bed. I don't know. I
really want to impress these friends, the guy is an amateur
cook like I am and I want to <kick it up a notch!>

Thanks

Peter Aitken said:

"RD" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Am planning an important supper.

1. Goat cheese rondelle with oven roasted onions ina
balsamic glaze
2. Pear sorbet
3. Salmon steak with a sesame crust with leek and lemon
cream

I plan to sear the steak in a frying pan then finish it
in the oven.

What I would like to know is that I'd like to offer some
veggies, even

some rice or orzo,

Quoted message said:

I don't know something. The steak would be on top of the
veggies.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

My first thought is to cook some basmati or jasmine rice
and at the last minute mix in some chopped raw spinach, so
it just barely cooks. The tastes will certainly go with the
salmon and sauce and the rice with green flecks would look
nice as a "bed"

Hmmmm, never eaten diakon. Have to try it first.

Thanks

On 3 May 2004 13:43:25 -0700, [email hidden] (Doug

Freyburger) said:

RD said:

Am planning an important supper.
1. Goat cheese rondelle with oven roasted onions ina
balsamic glaze
2. Pear sorbet
3. Salmon steak with a sesame crust with leek and lemon
cream I plan to sear the steak in a frying pan then
finish it in the oven. What I would like to know is
that I'd like to offer some veggies, even some rice or
orzo, I don't know something. The steak would be on
top of the veggies.

Interested in something that looks Japanese at a glance?

Shred diakon or raw turnip into clear/white threads. Put a
mound of them on the plate and set the salmon on top.
Visually like sashimi or teriyaki. And put some sort of
leaves around it. Stem down leaf up. Make a ring of them.
Maybe belgian endive leaves. Those taste good and look
really cool.

No thanks, I hate couscous.

thanks anyway

Quoted message said:

RD said:

What I would like to know is that I'd like to offer some
veggies, even some rice or orzo, I don't know something.
The steak would be on top of the veggies.

Quoted message said:

Any suggestions?

What about couscous? There are tons of couscous recipes.

Wow sounds delicious The only problem is finding out the
french translation for swiss chard. I live in Montreal, and
I'm french speaking and I live in a french neighborhood.
I'll ask around

Thanks

On 04 May 2004 20:27:28 GMT, [email hidden]

(Blacksun21) said:

RD <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Am planning an important supper.

1. Goat cheese rondelle with oven roasted onions ina
balsamic glaze
2. Pear sorbet
3. Salmon steak with a sesame crust with leek and lemon
cream

I plan to sear the steak in a frying pan then finish it
in the oven.

What I would like to know is that I'd like to offer some
veggies, even

some rice or orzo,

Quoted message said:

I don't know something. The steak would be on top of the
veggies.

Any suggestions?

Swiss chard.

Slice and saute some shiitake (or other mushrooms) in
olive oil. When they're just about done, toss in some
minced garlic and saute for another minute. Splash in a
quarter cup or so of chicken broth (or water) and add a
bunch of cleaned and coarsely chopped swiss chard. Cover
and cook until chard is wilted and done to taste. Salt to
taste, if needed.

You can either serve this in wide, shallow soup plates with
the salmon & sauce on top, or spoon the chard and mushrooms
out of the broth and serve on a flat plate.

The chard should go well with the leek and lemon cream.

I generally don't like mushrooms with fish (I don't think
the flavors complement each other well), but one of the
nicest meals I ever had (at a brewpub called Dempsey's, in
Petaluma, CA) was swiss chard cooked this way with a slab
of roasted halibut on top, and some gingery beet relish on
top of the fish. For salmon, though, I might leave out the
mushrooms, come to think of it.

Jen San Francisco

RD wrote in message
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Wow sounds delicious The only problem is finding out
the french

translation for swiss

Quoted message said:

chard. I live in Montreal, and I'm french speaking and I
live in a french

neighborhood.

Quoted message said:

I'll ask around

Thanks

I belive it's called 'bette a carde'...you should find it in
an italian grocery store..or plantation fruits or something

john

Yeah I think I've seen it. Thanks

John D. Misrahi said:

RD wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Wow sounds delicious The only problem is finding out
the french

translation for swiss

Quoted message said:

chard. I live in Montreal, and I'm french speaking and I
live in a french

neighborhood.

Quoted message said:

I'll ask around

Thanks

I belive it's called 'bette a carde'...you should find it
in an italian grocery store..or plantation fruits or
something

john