Matt's Salmon/Seafood recipes

[phattiomattio1]

I really enjoyed the Ifishstock BBQ party, and getting to Q on Roy's custom grill. (Wish I had one!) Several people asked me to post the two sauce recipes from last night. One is a pre-cooking baste sauce for fish and shellfish. The other is the unique pour-on sauce for the already cooked seafood. It was originally made for salmon, but a lot of people last night thought it was even better on the oysters!

Here first of all is the basting sauce recipe: (This will be enough for about a half a salmon)
-1/2 cup melted butter
-1/4 cup cooking white wine
-one clove chopped garlic
-1/2 t. fine herbs or parsley (fresh or dried)
-salt to taste (I suggest Johnny's seafood seasoning instead of salt)

Melt butter first in microwave and then combine with other ingredients (mix well). Baste on salmon filet.
Prepare the grill by spraying oil on it. (PAM works perfectly) Place salmon on meat side first, cooking until a nice brownish color has appeared. Flip it over to skin side and finish cooking until done.

Meanwhile, put all the following ingredients in a saucepan, but do not heat until they are all in the pan, and the salmon is almost ready.

-1 cup butter
-4 T. soysauce
-4 T. ketchup
-2 T. yellow mustard
-1 clove garlic, chopped
-1/2 t. horseradish
-juice of half a lemon

Heat once all ingredients are in pan, and fish is close to done. DO NOT boil! Serve over cooked fish (or oysters or shrimp, or whatever you are having). Enjoy!

Matt Hanson

[ 09-09-2001: Message edited by: phattiomattio1 ]

Thanks bud. Good job.

Dad

Edit: NOTICE,

I just thought of something people should do with such rich recipes that I would like to share. Instead of using real butter or normal hydrogenated oils margerine, we use a new margerine type product called "Smart Balance" (there is another one similar but I can't recall it's name). It makes very little difference in the taste of most recipes and is a world apart for better health. Instead of canceling out the positive affects of the Omega-3 oils in fish, this stuff actually helps promote a better cholesterol ratio too. This has been proven in independant studies, and I have seen the difference myself in my blood test results! This product and also flax seed oil will save a lot of lives over the years to come. I've read the credible research, including those in Prevention magazine - for those interested.

[ 09-10-2001: Message edited by: RT ]

[First Bite]

This is turning into a family board. Matt that sauce was simply the best. And now you're giving away your secret recipe! Maybe you will rub off on old Dad and he'll start giving away his scret egg curing recipes...right Daddio?
Mark

Hey Matt your dad doesn't have any fishing secrets except taking the rod after we hook the fish! Sorry you had to find that out here buddy but the world is a cruel place [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
Thanks for the recipes.
Stew

[fishbait]

Matt,
you might talk to Roy (bait o eggs0 or Jen about the BBQ grill. I know that Roy said that the grill was NOT going home with him. IF jen doesn't want it you could probably snag it. OR you could work a trade with Roy to have him make you one. HE is one of the few people in this world that I think is handier/more capabale than I am. and he has me beat by a long shot. He is amazing in what he makes and how fast he is. Thank goodness I can outfish him, or I would have to humble myself in his presnence.......

Hey fish', sit down. Are you sitting yet. ... OK, Roy knows full well you place all of your esteem in the fish you catch, so being the caring individual he is ... well, he simply lets you catch fish while he dulls his hook points for you. Now is that love and care or what? ... And Matt, Mark and Stew do hand off fish to me because they put deet on my hooks while I'm not looking. They weren't aware I can smell even a tiny bit of that stuff from several feet away, so it's easy to smell it around fishing gear. Busted! [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img] ... Nah, just kidding. They don't hand fish off to anyone [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] . Stew doesn't catch enough of them to hand off to anyone actually [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] . ...

Yes Matt, we do trash talk a lot on this BB! Enjoy. You should fit right in (I taught him everything I know about smack trash talkin - almost [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] ).

D'

[smilesforu]

Have you sat him down and had the father son talk about emus? [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img] I saw a booth today that was selling emu oil at the Wooden Boat show....oh so tempting [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img]

Matt if he shares the cooking tips on them emus please tell us.

[Bait O' Eggs]

For those that had to endure a drunked fishbait at the BBQ I am truly sorry. [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]

RT is correct he places all his esteem in the ability to catch a fish. I gave him the biggest and best bait yesterday, I made sure his pole was right in the rip line by carefully moving the boat left/right, I even used the herring that he accidently stepped on, on my pole. I put on a single #4 trout hook and tied the mangled herring on with a couple half hitches, dragging it tail first thru the water. [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] I used a 2 inch dropper and an 8 foot leader so my bait would be dragging in the sand.

And even after handicapping myself as much as I could short of not using a hook [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img] I still outfished fishbait. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

His ego was pretty bruised and he tried to dampen the pain with beer at the party. As most of you saw, he was hurting was pretty bad. Some people are a happy drunk, some a mean drunk, some a fighting drunk. Well Steve was a "Steve Drunk" [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] For those at the party, you know what I mean. [img]images/icons/frown.gif[/img] Next time I will leave the hook off and just troll a pickle or a chicken leg with no hook, so steve wont get his feelers hurt again.

Again, my appologies to the ladies. And for those that offered the $20 to take him home early, I should have taken you up on the offer. Looks like the officers might have had the wrong guy in custody in mook. [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

[phattiomattio1]

Alright Fishbait, I'll get RT to look into the grill deal [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]. Well I'm pleasantly surprised that we have trash-talking going on here! Whatta deal, learn to fish and talk trash while I'm at it. And no dad, I'm teaching YOU how to trash! [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

And yes, in fact it was last week (wasn't it dad?) that we had the ol' father-son-emu talk. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] I know all about it Smiles!

Good night all, school tomorrow.

Matt Hanson

What? I'm up at 3:30 - can't sleep on an empty stomach. Hey boy, you will NEVER out trash talk the king of the house! Nuf said. BTW, you don't need a hyphen between trash and talking. Don't reply to that dude, they will get bored with it! [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

Edit note: Please read the important NOTICE about 'Smart Balance' margerine in the thread's second post above. Matt used it in the first batch and not the second and I don't think anyone could tell the difference with the healthy stuff?

[ 09-10-2001: Message edited by: RT ]

[Spooled]

Hey Matt, he can be the king of trash talking in your house, 'cause we know who the king of golf is in that house. [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] I loved it when your Dad told me his shaft wasn't glued on right. [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] Thats a problem!!

[Jennie@ifish]

Sorry about the bbq! BOE offered it to Bill and now it is filed away in Bill's stock of favorite items. He loves it!
He is painting it up real purty and it will become the official ifish bbq.
Thanks ROY!
Jen