Cooking Journal

Pan-Fried Salmon in French Dressing with Bed of Rice and Lamb’s Lettuce

(frankly, that makes it sounds a lot cooler than it is)

  • Sockeye salmon, one pound, cut into 8 ounce portions
  • French dressing
  • Short-grain rice
  • Lamb’s lettuce (mache)
  • Tarragon
  • Brown sugar
  • Olive oil

Marinade salmon in dressing and tarragon for a few hours. Add brown sugar to taste. Prepare rice; when rice is almost done, pan-fry salmon in olive oil, skin-side-up, for about 5 minutes. Flip salmon and cook until skin is crispy. Cover plate or bowl with mache, put rice on top of mache, place salmon onto mache.

I didn’t actually make this with brown sugar; I threw that into the recipe in retrospect. It would have complemented the French dressing quite nicely.

Another reminder to self: take pictures of these things before eating them.