Salmon Success

Salmon Success

Oh my heck the other day I made some of the best tasting food that I've had in a long time!!!

Recently I've been watching the food channel again---oh my I love that channel, it inspires me to cook and bake with new and exciting ingredients, well new for me any way.

I didn't have any of the ingredients that the chefs were using on the food channel so I started to get out my recipe books. I have a lot--many with great pictures and excellent directions. My eye caught this recipe called Salmon patties with Hollandaise Sauce. Of course I changed it to my liking.

For the longest time I really haven't like Salmon until recently when I've learned how to cook it correctly--thank you my sweet friend Gudrun.

The recipe called for canned Salmon, but we didn't have any canned, because neither of us like it that way. What we did have was 2 frozen fillets. Salmon is just not that good frozen either, so I thought this might just be the perfect way to use the Salmon. I took the Salmon out and I boiled it so that it was cooked and than I added the ingredients to make the best patties that I have had in a long time.

The Salmon Patties had the texture and almost taste of a crab cake---oh my heck it was so delish!!!! The cakes were good by themselves, but when we added the hollandaise sauce---my goodness I thought I had died and gone to heaven--honestly

Salmon Patties
2 1/2 - 3c Salmon (if it's not already chopped, chop it for the recipe)
2 c Home made wheat bread crumbs (this is just bread toasted and ground up--nothing for)
1c home made corn muffin bread crumbs (I made corn muffins the other day that turned out a bit too dry so I just ground some up)
2/3c celery
1/2c onion
3-4 eggs (this is to make the mixture stick together to make a nice patties)

Combine all ingredients. Make into patties. Put patties on a hot pan that has oil and cook until both sides are nice and brown.

Hollandaise Sauce
1/2c butter
1 lemon
3 egg yolks

You will need to use a double boiler; I use a mixing bowl that fits well on top of a pan with boiling water.

Juice your lemon (some people like lesson than a whole lemon, but I love the lemon zing in my sauce, perfect for sea food!!!) Place you lemon juice and egg yolks in a bowl and mix.

Place bowl on the top of the double boiler and continually mix. Add 1/3 of the butter and allow to melt into sauce. After melted completely add 1/3 again. After all butter is added the sauce, the sauce should look creamy, if it doesn't allow the pan to get warmer and cont stir.

To Serve the Patties
Place a patty on either a toasted English muffin or on toasted bread. On top of the patty spoon a tablespoon of sauce on top---you will not regret this recipe!!!

Pictures of the finished product