Salmon Pasta

brianglass — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:41:18 +0000

I was faced with a meal I hadn’t planned for. I almost caved and just took the kids out to a restaurant, but we had just been out the previous day. I decided to go home and see what I could invent from what I had on hand. Here it is. Micah liked it and Hannah wouldn’t touch it (which is normal for pretty much anything). I didn’t measure anything so I’ll just describe.

I had some leftover cooked macaroni noodles (brown rice noodles) in the freezer. I defrosted them. I made up a white sauce with butter, flour, milk, and small amount of cheddar and gruyere cheese. Before adding the flour to the butter I sauted a small minced garlic clove in it. I made this sauce thinner than my macaroni and cheese sauce. It was more like a light cream sauce. I added a little salt, pepper, and paprika.

I took a small can of salmon (half the size of the 15oz ones) and used a fork to break off small pieces of salmon into the sauce. I dumped the defrosted macaroni into the sauce, and that’s it. I quite liked it.

Some nice additions to this dish might be asparagus and/or shrimp.

Salmon Spread

brianglass — Mon, 21 May 2007 15:47:50 +0000

I like to take this to work for lunch.

1 14.75oz can of drained Alaskan Red Sockeye salmon with bones and skin
about 10 large olives sliced
3T capers
dollop of mayonnaise to desired consistency (I make my own)
1T brown mustard
salt
pepper

Mash it all together and spread it on your sandwich.

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Salmon Pasta

Salmon Spread