I grew up on a cattle and wheat ranch so my diet was built around beef and bread. My profession is in Child Nutrition (the nice way of saying I'm a "lunch lady") so again I'm used to basing a meal around meat and bread, but of course we have ridgid government guide lines we have to follow for our meal plans, which do include fruits/veggies. Now, on the off chance I'm offered a
fish, I'm all over it. I hit the jack pot this week! While visiting my sister and brother-in-law over the weekend I was treated to a nice home cooked salmon, on the bbq. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. The next night my sister took mom and I out to dinner at a wonderful restraunt close by where I had prawns and pasta!!!! Again, heaven. Now this evening our neighbor came home with a huge, fresh caught Chinook salmon (which I got to watch him fillet) and he GAVE it to me!!! I was so excited! And then I remembered...I don't know how to cook it. I watched my b-i-l as he prepared his salmon for the bbq, I've watched Emeril prepare many a nice fish on "Live", and I know that the internet has a wealth of information available on how to prepare a fresh fish. I know all of this but I'm terrified I'll destroy this beautiful fish. So, I wrapped it with care and gently laid it in the freezer and plan on studying up this week so that I can do justice to it when I cook it next time my sister visits. I'll do my best when I present it for the meal but in the end...it is, what it is.
