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I just had my salmon standard, taken from a Jamie Oliver show a couple of years ago, and it was GREAT!
What's even better is that it's cheap AND delicious.
Here's the recipe:
Pre-heat your oven to at least 450 degrees. Set a small pot of water to boil.
After that do the following...
Take a handfull of fresh greenbeans (.99cents/lb) and snip the ends off then blanche for 3-5 minutes in the boiling water.
Take a few 4-8 cherry/grape tomatoes (anywhere from .99 cents/lb to $2.25 a pint.) and cut some in half, the bigger ones, and leave a few whole.
Smash a few large black olives (.99 cents for a small can) with the broad side of a knife or just squeeze em'.
Take the blanched greenbeans and drain. Now toss them with the cherry tomatoes, black olives, a half a lemon (.50 cents?), tons of black pepper, fresh basil leaves (3-5) ($1.50 a bag) and olive oil.
Leave them to sit for a few minutes while you prepare the salmon steak (one cost me $2.17 at $3.99/lb). Oil it up, squeeze on the other half of the lemon, heavy pepper an salt.
Now place the greenbean mix next to the salmon steak in a shallow pan. Lay three or four anchovie strips over the green beans, this is what salts the dish, the anchovies break up in the high heat.
Then place in the pre-heated oven for 10-15 minutes.
Voila! It's done and should only take 30 minutes start to finish. Pretend I was cooking for two, because all of the ingrediants could have supported three (probably four) dinners, and it'd be $10 for two plates of this awesome dish ($12.50 for three $15.00 for four! It cost me about $7.00 for the one dinner but I have left over EVERYTHING except Lemon and Salmon. Plenty for another meal tomorrow or Thursday.). I always have olive oil, salt and black pepper (in those cool grinder shakers) so I didn't price them out.
Try it out!
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