This recipe is my way of pretending I’m still on the Vineyard. Every smoky, creamy bite brings me back to vacation… delicious, delicious vacation!
Actually, this recipe is my way of mashing up vacation and real life. A creamy fish pate is definitely an island treat, but the one we had on the Vineyard is made with smoked bluefish. Well, in Utah, there is nary a bluefish to be found, never mind smoked. Trout, however, we have in abundance, and that’s how it made its way into this pate.
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Is it just me, or has this blog gone crazy for seafood lately?
Shrimp last week, trout today, and I even snuck some fish sauce into Friday’s mushroom lettuce wraps. There may or may not be a package of smoked salmon in my fridge, too, for another recipe I’m hoping to post next week. There’s not necessarily a reason for it… I guess I just decided it was about time to work my way through all the fish recipes on the “to make” list I’m constantly adding to.
And this one… this one is a keeper!
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Good morning! We’re getting a bit more of a carnivorous start to the week than you may be used to here.
Yum.
P.S. Do you like my asparagus bouquet?
I’ve been eating a lot of salmon recently. Actually, the truth is that even when I went vegan, I had fish a few times, mostly in sushi because I juuust couldn’t resist. I love salmon, and I especially love ordering it at restaurants, where it tends to be the healthiest thing on the menu. The vegetarian options aren’t always the healthiest when you go to, say, a French or Italian restaurant. As much as I love some gnocchi in cream sauce, I can’t pretend to choose that “for health reasons” when there is a beautiful piece of healthy fish on the menu.
That’s how I came to try salmon with rhubarb sauce at the inn where our friends Bill and Aspen got married in May. The menu was small and meat-heavy, so I chose fish (although I did steal a bite of Nate’s lamb, mmmm. I love lamb!) The restaurant at the inn was so good; I would have loved to order every single thing on the menu. I think we did our share, though, ordering appetizers, main courses, and a dessert! I would show you a picture of that original salmon with rhubarb sauce… but romantic lighting, iPhone camera, and a plate of food – we all know how that story ends. I’d rather show you these photos instead.
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