It's Thursday and the pantry and fridge is pretty much picked over from the week. There is nothing to eat. So I came up with a brilliant idea to poach a frozen salmon fillet. Using leftover wine and water along with random seasonings, I began my little experimental lunch. I have never poached salmon before, I can barely poach an egg to be honest. So I did a simple Google search and found a recipe titled "simple poached salmon". I thought to my self, perfect, it is simple and probably easy and totally do-able. Well, I didn't have half the ingredients, of course, and barely made the wine requirement for the poaching liquid. Let me also add, every time I try to cook with salmon I over cook it and it becomes, umm, not so tasty. So poaching, in liquid should make the salmon stay moist and not dry, right??
5 minutes into the poaching the salmon is already that opaque pink it gets, but the recipe said 20 minutes! So I just went ahead and let it poach for another 5 minutes, just to be safe. Meanwhile, I am dripping in sweat with anticipation this is not going to work and I am going to have to go out and get Taco Bell or something. But, I really wanted salmon now so even my favorite thing in the whole wide world, Taco Bell wouldn't rid my taste buds for salmon.
So my liquid is boiling and the lid is now making a strange screeching sound and all I can think is, I am doing this wrong, it sounds like a horror movie in here, please no one come home, the house reeks of fish. That's it, 10 minutes up, the heat is going off and I am pulling the freaking salmon out of the liquid. Did I mention I wanted my salmon cold so I could eat it in a sandwich. So now I will have to wait another good 10 to 15 minutes so the darn thing cools down enough to make a type of fancy deli sandwich.
As I am waiting here, I am growing hangryer my the minute, and hungry and angry is never a good combo. While I am waiting, I thought of things to put on my most anticipated sandwich in the history of sandwiches. Yum, avocado...wait I don't even have any. NEXT. Spinach, nope! Red onion, nope! Pepper-jack cheese, ding ding ding, I thankfully had some pepper-jack cheese left. Alright, a hummus mayo combo spread with pepper-jack cheese and the poached salmon will just do.
Tick tock tick tock, IM HUNGRY!
Its time, its finally time to indulge on my experimental creation.
5 minutes into the poaching the salmon is already that opaque pink it gets, but the recipe said 20 minutes! So I just went ahead and let it poach for another 5 minutes, just to be safe. Meanwhile, I am dripping in sweat with anticipation this is not going to work and I am going to have to go out and get Taco Bell or something. But, I really wanted salmon now so even my favorite thing in the whole wide world, Taco Bell wouldn't rid my taste buds for salmon.
So my liquid is boiling and the lid is now making a strange screeching sound and all I can think is, I am doing this wrong, it sounds like a horror movie in here, please no one come home, the house reeks of fish. That's it, 10 minutes up, the heat is going off and I am pulling the freaking salmon out of the liquid. Did I mention I wanted my salmon cold so I could eat it in a sandwich. So now I will have to wait another good 10 to 15 minutes so the darn thing cools down enough to make a type of fancy deli sandwich.
As I am waiting here, I am growing hangryer my the minute, and hungry and angry is never a good combo. While I am waiting, I thought of things to put on my most anticipated sandwich in the history of sandwiches. Yum, avocado...wait I don't even have any. NEXT. Spinach, nope! Red onion, nope! Pepper-jack cheese, ding ding ding, I thankfully had some pepper-jack cheese left. Alright, a hummus mayo combo spread with pepper-jack cheese and the poached salmon will just do.
Tick tock tick tock, IM HUNGRY!
Its time, its finally time to indulge on my experimental creation.
Bon Appetite !
Overall, it turned out not so bad. I might even go as far as I would try this again!
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