Salmon and Taters

Had a little hankering for some salmon and wanted to try out BP's oven smoked taters.

Here we go:

Took some salmon



Took some of this



Tossed it in the marinade express for 30



While the salmon getting flavorized worked on the taters, cubed up some Yukon Golds



Chopped a little garlic



1/2 stick of butter melted in mak running @400 (about 5 min)



Tossed it all together with some of this





On to the MAK @400



Salmon out of the express, hit it with a light dusting of Desert Gold

Salmon and Taters 2

Stirred the taters at 30 minutes and cooked for another 15, then put the fish on the grill along with some fish sticks (gotta keep the munchkins happy!)



Taters all done after an hour @400



Stirred up



Salmon looking good after 15 minutes @400



Time to eat



This came out great, the SOW marinade is fabulous on fish, my wife loves it and this was some of the best Salmon we have had. BP's potato recipe was great as well, will be playing with this one in the future.

That's a great looking plate! What method do you use to determine when the salmon is ready?

tators, tators, tators. i love tators and your look so good. i like fish too. to bad i don't live up the block from ya. i will bring FT and pellets.

Rip said:

What method do you use to determine when the salmon is ready?

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I look for an opaque color and a slightly firm feel. You can always do the fork test on the one you aren't going to photograph.

Looks Good. I have a Marinade Express on order. Did you use for lack of a better term the "Rinse Cycle" before using the marinade on the fish? Any advice on marinades either marinade express brand or other you had luck with.

That looks good CQ

Just recently i started to like salmon again.

jimsbarbecue said:

Looks Good. I have a Marinade Express on order. Did you use for lack of a better term the "Rinse Cycle" before using the marinade on the fish? Any advice on marinades either marinade express brand or other you had luck with.

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I haven't tried the "cleansing" step and "neutral" marinade that came with the unit yet, if you look on their website and the Grovac process website it's pretty interesting how the vac and tumble process can sanitize meats. Will definitely be playing with this when I get more time.

As for marinades so far I have used both of the SOW products on chicken, fish, and pork with good results. I have also used homemade marinades that I have been doing for years and they have come out excellent. Tried jerky with good results. The key is making sure that there is plenty of liquid in the marinade. The unit came with about 10 different flavors of Marinade Express brand marinades but I haven't tried these yet.

I have also read claims that food that has been vac marinaded cooks faster but I haven't seen much difference. Would be an interesting experiment to try out.

Overall I am very happy with the unit.

Everything looks fantastic Carter! I bet the fish sticks were tasty too.