Made a very simple dish for dinner the other night – lemon butter salmon with creme fraiche. All it took was to wrap the salmon up in a bit of foil, popping in a pat of butter, a few slices of lemon, some herbs/salt/pepper, and a layer of creme fraiche on top. Bake it for about 15 mins and bob’s your uncle! DONESKIES. Served with some creamy and buttery mashed potato and you have yourself a very quick and ultra simple-to-make meal.
Where are the veggies?
Ummm… nowhere 😛
Place salmon on foil and put a pat of butter and lemon slices on top, with herbs/salt/pepper
Spread a layer of creme fraiche and bake at 180 celcius for 15 mins
Fresh out of the oven
Lemon butter salmon with creme fraiche, served with mashed potatoes
With the rest of the creme fraiche, I made Mushroom pasta with creme fraiche! Basically just tossed whatever we had in the fridge into a pan, and poured it on top of pasta. Fabulous comfort food.
Onion and garlic sizzling in a big pat of butter
(the more butter you use, the more fragrant the sauce is)
Whacked in sliced tomatoes and mushrooms
Finally, stirred in the creme fraiche. It looked like vomit. D’oh.
But it tasted great!!!
And on another night, we made tacos! MUCH missed, we hadn’t had tacos since
moving to China… it’s one of our favourite meals :)~
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mmmmm…….
creme fraiche is awesomes 🙂 I chuck it on some salmon tartare with fresh squeezed lime, finely diced red onions, chives, shallots and olive oil and serve with toasted (place favourite bread here – I’m going with brioche) … but oh so rich 🙁
Re: mmmmm…….
Ohhh that sounds mega good!! But an effort to gather ingredients for… hehe
mmmmm…….
creme fraiche is awesomes 🙂 I chuck it on some salmon tartare with fresh squeezed lime, finely diced red onions, chives, shallots and olive oil and serve with toasted (place favourite bread here – I’m going with brioche) … but oh so rich 🙁
Re: mmmmm…….
Ohhh that sounds mega good!! But an effort to gather ingredients for… hehe
Everything looks delicious! Going to try it myself 😀
Everything looks delicious! Going to try it myself 😀
Got to make that baked salmon it looks so good 🙂
Got to make that baked salmon it looks so good 🙂
Add some wilted spinach -easy and HEALTHY! hahahaha! Looks delish your salmon. I’ll make that some day I’m feeling lazy 🙂
The prob with buying veggies is that you get a whole LOAD, and the rest goes to waste if you don’t cook in the next 1-2 days. So we end up not buying any veggies 😛
Add some wilted spinach -easy and HEALTHY! hahahaha! Looks delish your salmon. I’ll make that some day I’m feeling lazy 🙂
The prob with buying veggies is that you get a whole LOAD, and the rest goes to waste if you don’t cook in the next 1-2 days. So we end up not buying any veggies 😛
simple and somewhat healthy! should have some broccoli and carrots too! 😛
Ermmm but it tastes good WITHOUT the broccoli and carrots 😛
thats not the point~~ hahahaha you ah!
We also cooked salmon with buttery mashed sweet potatoes yesterday. Since we don’t have an oven we make it rare (fry 5 min). You might wanna try to add some onions too. The add nice flavor.
Creme pasta looks good. We cooked smth like this on the weekend. We didn’t have cream so we used melted cheese and milk instead. It might sound gross but it tasted really good and soooo cheesy.
How do you make meat for tacos?
heh great minds think alike. I like it panfried too. And sometimes instead of lemon butter i make an avocado salsa to go with it.. yummmmmmy!
The meat is just mince beef, and i added in tomato sauce, some tomatoes, herbs, and salt/pepper!
Oh Beverly, you are awesome. Haha. I’ve never had creme fraiche on salmon before… what exactly does it do? Does it act as a sauce, does it add tartness or creaminess to the flavour, does it soften the salmon, or… ?
well i did it kinda randomly 😛 it’s much like yoghurt or sour cream, so it gives the fish that flavour. I also think it makes the fish more moist since it’s baked in there together 🙂
simple and somewhat healthy! should have some broccoli and carrots too! 😛
Ermmm but it tastes good WITHOUT the broccoli and carrots 😛
thats not the point~~ hahahaha you ah!
Wow, all the food looks really good and really simple.
It’s fast to make, which is just brilliant
We also cooked salmon with buttery mashed sweet potatoes yesterday. Since we don’t have an oven we make it rare (fry 5 min). You might wanna try to add some onions too. The add nice flavor.
Creme pasta looks good. We cooked smth like this on the weekend. We didn’t have cream so we used melted cheese and milk instead. It might sound gross but it tasted really good and soooo cheesy.
How do you make meat for tacos?
heh great minds think alike. I like it panfried too. And sometimes instead of lemon butter i make an avocado salsa to go with it.. yummmmmmy!
The meat is just mince beef, and i added in tomato sauce, some tomatoes, herbs, and salt/pepper!
Oh Beverly, you are awesome. Haha. I’ve never had creme fraiche on salmon before… what exactly does it do? Does it act as a sauce, does it add tartness or creaminess to the flavour, does it soften the salmon, or… ?
well i did it kinda randomly 😛 it’s much like yoghurt or sour cream, so it gives the fish that flavour. I also think it makes the fish more moist since it’s baked in there together 🙂
Wow, all the food looks really good and really simple.
It’s fast to make, which is just brilliant