Bus driver. I love sweet potatoes too…but with salmon…it will be “orange day”. Just don’t serve carrots as the veggie! 
I like tarragon with salmon or chicken.
@thumper1, too funny.
My preferrred way to cook salmon is to make a foil pouch. I include herbs (from my garden) and lemon, with a drizzle of olive oil or a teaspoon of butter. Then I seal the pouch and bake at 400 for about 15-20 minutes. The salmon stays very moist.
Yes, DrGoogle, the recipe calls for it to be baked. And I’ll definitely leave out carrots, that is too much orange! I just sub sweet potatoes for white potatoes for many recipes, if it won’t be gross. But dmd77’s way sounds very tasty, and easy. I haven’t had much luck with fish, so I rarely cook it.
@busdriver11 I’ll be right over. Yummmm salmon sounds so good right now!
busdriver: I learned the method from the cook at a public high school, as unlikely as it seems. It’s almost impossible to cook the fish to dryness when it’s sealed “en papillote” even if you leave it in too long.
That’s good to know, dmd77, as I have a tendency to overcook things! I am fortunate that my husband is purely always happy just to get fed. Thank you, dear MIL!
C’mon over, shellz, the cooking starts now! We’ll see about that pioneer woman, she’s looking pretty good.
So out of the loop here! I love SO many foods, but one thing I just can’t warm up to - salmon!
However, I DID buy a jar of capers! Will have to make some lemon piccata or something to try them out!
I used to love capers but I seem to lose the taste for it but I still have a jar. I have tons of herbs in my garden. The only herb that I don’t want in my garden is mint. So far there is an organic farm that I can cut herbs for cheap, I believe they charge .08c per ounce.
Well, as I’m licking my lips, my conclusion is that I like the Pioneer Woman’s salmon recipe. However, I changed it around so much, I don’t know what it really would have tasted like. I cooked the fish in foil (not in the recipe), and that made it very moist. Funny thing, though, the best thing on my plate was the wild halibut (not in the salmon recipe), and the sweet potatoes (not there either). Yum!
I’m not crazy about mint as an herb, either. But I do love chocolate mint anything. NOTHING better than Campfire Girls mint patties!
I’m jealous I need to go to Whole a Foods again, not being there lately. I like mint with chocolate cake and raspberries, actually my husband likes it better than I do. But lately he’s complaining the raspberries at Costco doesn’t have any taste. So we switched to organic strawberries for better taste.
Mint goes well in a pot.
We grow our own berries and freeze them.
I use Tarragon to flavor buttered egg noodles and green peas when serving them with pork chops & ginered apples.
It is also good in scrambled eggs.
Yum! Strawberries you surely want to get organic, if you can. Chocolate cake…if I lose 5 pounds, I’ll have a piece. And gain it all back!
Em, it goes well in a pot but the flower can seeds them, so why bother. I compost some mints and I found them in my new yard, obviously from the compost bin because I didn’t bring any plants to the new house.
most kinds of herbs you want to keep pinched back, so they don’t bolt.
It keeps them bushier later in the season.
That’s good idea. I forgot all about it, I need to prune my basil. But I leave the thyme flowers to attract bees.
bus, glad that your fish dinner turned out ok!
I cedar plank my salmon on the grill… rain or shine.
I should try that too. I love the cedar planked grilled salmon when I order it at a restaurant. I wonder if it tastes as good at home.