Granddad's special baked salmon

Doggoned if I ain't come up with something I think might be totally new!

1 3-4 lb whole Atlantic salmon
3 green onions (fresher, the better!)
1 or 2 whole Polish dill pickles
Salt
Fresh-ground black pepper
2 or 3 pats butter
Juice of one lemon (optional)

Remove head, fins, innards, and tail from the fish. make a slit along the back from one end to the other, same along the belly. Make 3 equally-spaced diagonal slits across each side. Wash fish well.

Remove any bad leaves from the green onions, wash well, cut about 1/2 of the green part off and set aside. Split the onions lengthwise and set aside. Slice the pickles lengthwise into 1/8 inch slices and set aside. Salt and pepper the fish inside and out.

Spread about 1/2 the butter inside the cavity of the fish, then place the pickle slices and the split green onions inside the cavity, reserving several pickle slices.

Place fish on a long piece of aluminum foil, butter the top side, and top with the onion tops and the reserved pickle slices.

Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes to 1 hour.

I served mashed potatoes and freshly-cooked spinach with this; but that's 'cause of my grandkids. I normally would consider serving it with a baked potato and a good salad. Tartar sauce or seafood cocktail sauce works well with the fish; but a more exotic sauce (perhaps based on a Bearnaise sauce) might also fit.

Posted: Sunday 26th September 2004, 1:31 PM

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