canned salmon

[NMDemDist2]

what do you use it for? got any neato recipes to share?

Dora and I would be very grateful, we both got a six pack of cans at Costco and are wondering what to do with them......

hmmm, come to think of it, I have my old 60's cookbook. I wonder what salmon mousse tastes like ??

[Stinky The Clown]

1. You can use it anywhere you'd use tuna .....

...... but you can also make lots of things you'd never consider making from tuna.

Crepes .... mix the salmon, some sour cream (or maybe yogurt) some dill, chives ... whatever ..... and put 'em in crepes.

Omlettes .... just chunk it up and sprinkle it in along with whatever spices or herbs you fancy.

(Note, this works ONLY with a good solid pack salmon like you getf rom Costco. That cfrap with the skin and bones .... ? Fughettaboutit.)

Mousse (or, if you're a clown ... shape it into an animal form and call it Moose)

Pizza ... beleive it or not, salmon pizza is wonderful. A no-tomato pizza. Olive oil and garlic ..... sprinkle chunked salmon and mozz ..... bake till the mozz is melted .... sprinkle with salt, fresh parsley and a squeeze of lemon. Enjoy.

Salad .... just spinkle the chunked salmon into your salad, dress as usual ..... eat.

Lots more .....

And as above ... this only works with a solid pack salmon, like the Costco Kirkland.

For other canned salmon (aka Cat Food Rejects) ....... blech.

[troubleinwinter]

2. Funny

I just picked up one of those new-fangled envelopes (like they have for tuna) of salmon yesterday.

I haven't a clue what to do with it, I've never used packaged or canned salmon.

I wondered if a salmon version of crab cakes would work??? Maybe with hollandaise sauce?

I'm stumped, too. :shrug:

[NMDemDist2]

3. Dora gave me a good website

http://www.alaskaseafood.org/recipes/search/results.cfm

and this one

http://www.alaskaseafood.org/canned/recipes/entrees.html

[troubleinwinter]

4. Oh, WOW!

First link had a couple of possibilities, Salmon Croquettes and the Salmon Cakes with Sweet & Sour Sauce.

Thank you. I hafta go back and read some more!

[grasswire]

5. I've used those envelopes

I found the fish inside to be a bit more dry than canned salmon. But there's no waste to pick out, either. No bones, no skin. I used two of them to make a batch of salmon patties. You know, crushed saltines, a couple of eggs, minced onion, lemon juice, milk, dill weed all mixed up together and formed into patties and sauteed in butter in a frying pan.

[lavenderdiva]

6. My mother used to always make Salmon Croquettes....

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[SoCalDem]

7. salmon, eggs & saltines..

pat into rounds and fry 'em up.. We used to have salmon patties a lot as a kid..

[The empressof all]

16. We made them with Ritz crackers instead of Saltines

It was canned salmon, crushed Ritz crackers, eggs, onion and a sprinkle of Old Bay. I haven't made them in years and years. My SO won't eat salmon.

[jeanarrett]

8. We always had salmon patties as kids too, with a creamy

dill sauce over. You can also make a creamed salmon over toast points. You make it the same way you do that OTHER creamed stuff over toast, only put peas in there too and salmon instead of dried beef. Believe it or not, it is good.

[troubleinwinter]

9. I am embarrassed to say,

I have just rinsed a jar of chipped beef, and have the butter out to make the cream sauce!

I make it rather often....over white toast. I like it! My mother used to make it "at the end of the month" when dad's paycheck was running a tad thin. And, yes, we did call it 'Shit on a Shingle', but we liked it.

My widowed dad was here a few days ago and said that he'd bought a package of frozen Stouffer's Creamed Chipped Beef... I saw it in the market yesterday, and it was $4.19 for a single serving (and ya hafta add your own toast, too! Hahaha!) How times have changed.

[jeanarrett]

10. I like it too--but I don't make too much

stuff from childhood like that because my brats turn up their noses. We called it chipped beef on toast and I buy the Armour stuff in a jar and I don't think it's cheap, either.

We milked our own cow, raised a steer every year, sometimes a pig, and had a huge garden, which my mother canned everything from that we didn't eat fresh, so we were very self-sufficient. My aunt, though, had to stretch it sometimes and since I spent alot of time there with my cousins, I remember eating "macaroni and milk" with butter, salt and pepper for dinner. It was so good and I would ask my mom how come we could never have that for dinner!

She often fed her kids the cream gravy over toast (no meat) because they were so poor. They still like it to this day.

[troubleinwinter]

11. A dish I still make

is 'fried macaroni'. It was something my great-grandmther made during the depression a lot, and occaisionally after. But she was from Switzerland, and I suspect it may have had roots there.

It is simply (al dente)boiled long macaroni, drained, tossed with oil and fried in a pan with a bit of oil and LOTS of salt & pepper til crispy/chewey. To me, it doesn't make a meal, just a side dish, or really, a finger-nibble snack.

I am interested in peoples' family recipes from the depression. Times do change, though, as my family got the cheap oxtails from the butcher then, but now oxtails are quite expensive.

The chipped beef is not cheap, but at least it makes a lot of servings for the price, vs. the Stouffer's frozen which is kinda watery.

[jeanarrett]

12. Hey--you're jumping back and forth from the Helen thread

like me, aren't you! :smile:

[troubleinwinter]

13. Well, I cannot leave this machine even for a kitchen leak

til Helen gets her bouquets!!!!!!!!!!!

[jeanarrett]

14. I know--egads--it's worse that Solitaire (leaving the machine)

Stick a bucket under the sink for a few days--that's what we plumbers' wives do!

[NMDemDist2]

17. i had to come over here before I wore out my "refresh" key ROFL n/t

[madinmaryland]

15. My mother used to make salmon loaf with it.

The recipe is similar to meatloaf.

[NMDemDist2]

18. the link Dora gave me had "mini loaves" on it that looked good n/t

[mandyky]

19. I googled salmon casserole a few weeks ago

as I had bought a couple of cans of salmon. I found quite a few salmon and rice or salmon and noodle recipes that sounded good.

An old stand by is salmon in a white sauce with peas on toast.

[Puglover]

20. There is a WONDERFUL recipe for salmon mousse

in The Silver Palate" cookbook.