As the weather in southern Georgia is beautiful this time of year, Mark and I have taken to grilling out on our back porch. Brats, burgers, steaks, chicken, and yes salmon are among the many delightful foods we enjoy.
Sunday evening is traditionally our "special" dinner evening. Steaks, salmon etc...are reserved for these times. We picked up some salmon at Publix Sunday afternoon and after a brief walk downtown decided to grill.
Salmon is a bit trickier to grill as the fillet falls apart fairly easy. We grill it with the skin on so that it holds together. Our grill is a poorly designed in that the top edge of the grate is level with the top of the grill. If you try to slide things to the edge, they are likely to fall off.
Mark was attempting to flip our salmon over. When he tried move his spatula under it, he accidentally shoved it to the back of the grill. This of course then caused it to fall off, all over the floor of our deck.
I had the privilege of watching him do this and of course got a huge laugh out of the deal. Mark is wonderful with the grill. It just as easily could have been me. I wish I had his shocked faced captured on camera. If I had a video of this, it would have won at America's Funniest Home Videos for sure.
We decided that we weren't going to have any meat and the rice and vegetables looked just lovely. Had we been grilling steak, we could have just picked it up, brushed it off and yelled 5 second rule! Salmon unfortunately spreads everywhere making it a lost cause.
Oh well. Cheers to thinner waistlines and funny memories!
1 comment:
laura, as a fellow griller myself i'll give you this tip. though i do not like salmon myself i've learned that if you wrap your smelly salmon in an envelope of tin foil it won't fall all over the place, you can add different spices, oils, and seasonings to it and they won't go all over the place. i never thought of this before, but in the UNLIKELY case that mark is clumsy again, you CAN yell "5 second rule!!" and still have you're wonderful salmon w/ your veggies and rice. hope this helps a bit!! :D
can't wait to see you guys in december!!
megs
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