Seafood Wednesdays

Wednesdays after work, G normally plays pick up ultimate frisbee and eats his favorite Chipotle food afterward, leaving me to eat whatever I want.  Which means seafood!  It's now salmon season, and you can buy Copper River Salmon (it's the best kind) from Costco!  But the problem with Costco is that I don't have a membership card (so thanks to Jenn for always being willing to take me!) and you have to buy a lot of it at once.  So I invited my work (and lunchtime climbing) friends over to cook and eat.

6/10/15: Seafood Wednesday #1
I was also obsessing over sea beans at this point, so Jenn had to put up with trying many different preparations of fish with and without sea beans.  Because we're engineers, we did a D.O.E. (Design of Experiment)

Options #1-3 are all baked in aluminum foil with lemon, salt, sea beans on top.  #1 is with butter, #2 is with olive oil, and #3 was the control with no fat/oil.  Guess which one turned out the best?  OLIVE OIL!

Option #4 I made while we were waiting for #1-3 in the oven.  I put some olive oil in the pan and put salt and pepper onto the fish and pan fried it.

Verdict: #4 wins because we didn't know how long to bake the salmon for so it was a bit overcooked and dry coming out of the oven.  The pan fried one was cooked pretty close to perfect!

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6/17/15: Seafood Wednesday #2
Seafood Wednesday #1 was successful, so we did it again and got more ambitious!  Debbie and Jill joined us too!  Debbie was the chef mastermind and master griller behind this time. 

Option #1: Miso butter glaze

Option #2: Italian seasoning and olive oil

Grilling fun (and veggies too!)

 Final (tasty) products that we ate:

It was pretty nice to hang out and cook a nice meal together after work.  This should happen more often :)
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Seafood Wednesday #3: TBD!