Bulb by bulb, candy cane by candy cane. The Christmas tree was deconstructed and taken down today.
I very easily become attached to things. Mr. Jingles, my beta fish for 4 years. Frenchie, my car.
Carol, the Christmas tree. I think I would keep it (her?) up all year if I had the choice.
To avoid getting the Christmas time blues, I threw on my apron and set out to make a bright, flavorful lunch for the family. Which, by the way, started with two very simple ingredients: Soy sauce and brown sugar.
And two pieces of wild caught salmon.
Fast Forward 10 minutes.
Simple and perfect. And that, my friends, is just one of the things that I love so much about salmon. It doesn’t like to be messed around with too, too much, making things easier on the busy cook.
I still don’t like saying goodbye to things. Dogs, fish, cars, or Christmas trees.
I will say, however, that it’s kind of nice not crashing into Carol every time I do a downward dog or a sun salutation.
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Sweet ‘n’ Salty Grilled Salmon
Serves about 3
Although this recipe calls for the salmon to be grilled, you could easily cook it in your oven. I normally use a temperature around 350 to cook my fish, testing so often to make sure that I don’t overcook it. The fish is ready when it flakes easily. 😀
To keep the sides simple and easy, I roasted a few potatoes with garlic and olive oil; the broccoli was also roasted with a bit of olive oil.
- 1 lb. wild caught salmon fillets
- 1/2 T. lite soy sauce
- 1/2 T. brown sugar
- lemon pepper
- garlic powder
- Preheat grill.
- Sprinkle salmon fillets with lemon pepper and garlic powder. In a separate bowl, combine brown sugar and soy sauce. Spoon over salmon fillets.
- When grill is ready, place salmon skin side down and cook for 4-6 minutes. Flip. Continue cooking for another 4-6 minutes or until the fish flakes easily with a fork.
- Serve and ENJOY! 😀
Question: Have you taken down the holiday decorations yet?
I am having salmon tonight too 🙂
We took our tree and other decorations down yesterday. I miss walking past the tree already. Only 11 months until the next Christmas tree!
Holy YUM!
Simple, yet delicious – just how I like it 🙂
Yep, we took down the tree yesterday. It was a painful process, but it had to be done…
aw! we wait until jan 6th. i hate taking down the docr (and the effort of lugging it up to the attic!). Whe salmon fishing was legal here, my geandad and i would catch a fish, bring it home, do all the necessary “work” on it, gross! and then grill it-nothing beats fresh caught wild salmon! x
We took down our tree this weekend, too. It was so sad………
I leave my decorations up for the whole 12 days of Christmas, and take them down the day after Epiphany.
Yup yup .. I LOVE how simple salmon can be! I’ve never done brown sugar and soy sauce before, but I usually do lemon juice, garlic and dill just as simply. It’s such a wonderful fish!
We still have our tree up 🙂 .. and it probably will stay that way for a few weeks yet. It’s so pretty!
It’s always so bare once the Christmas decorations have been taken down. But, a delicious salmon dinner could definitely brighten my spirits 🙂
Salmon is one of my favorites too 🙂
Mine is going down tonight too for just the same reason — it’s totally in my yoga space!
Hmmm, I LOVE salmon cooked that way! 🙂
We took our tree down this weekend, I didn’t do any other decorating this year so it wasn’t difficult to put it away. Normally, it feels so empty in the house when I take everything down.
Jen
Mmmm…I love salmon. Took my Christmas ornaments off today as well, but sadly no salmon afterwards.