Mediterranean Salmon @MaddieDayAuthor #ValentinesDay

MADDIE DAY here. If you remember from last month, my Hugh is on a no-sugar regime. Normally I would make him a rich, decadent, chocolate treat for Valentines Day - which doubles as our anniversary! But not this year. 

Instead, I got a lovely piece of pretty pink salmon and invented a tasty recipe that came out tasting like something from Spain or Portugal. 

 

Mediterranean Salmon

This easy dish is a perfect love meal to serve for your Valentine and yourself – or just yourself!

Ingredients

(Because I was making this dish up as I went, I neglected to show the olive oil, salt, pepper, and pesto in the photograph.)

1 onion, thinly sliced

2 potatoes, thinly sliced

Olive oil

Salt

Pepper

1 pound salmon filet, preferably skinned

1 tablespoon basil pesto

4 small tomatoes, sliced

¼ cup chopped parsley

¼ cup white wine

Directions

Preheat oven to 400. 

Oil the bottom of a 9” x 11” pan. Layer in the onions and then the potatoes. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and drizzle olive oil generously over top. 

Bake uncovered for ten minutes and remove from oven.

Spread salmon top with pesto. 

Lay salmon on top of potatoes. Add tomatoes around the edges and sprinkle with parsley. 

Pour on the wine. Seal tightly with foil and bake another twenty minutes.

Note: Alternatively, you can separate all ingredients into two or three double-foil packets with the same layers and bake with the foil well sealed.

Test salmon and potatoes for doneness. 

Serve hot with a green salad and more white wine.

Readers: what meal do you like to make - or order out - for a special person in your life?

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Maddie Day (aka Edith Maxwell) is a talented amateur chef and holds a PhD in Linguistics from Indiana University. An Agatha Award-winning and bestselling author, she is a member of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America and also writes award-winning short crime fiction. She lives with her beau and sweet cat Martin north of Boston, where she’s currently working on her next mystery when she isn’t cooking up something delectable in the kitchen.