Baked Salmon Head

This dish is simple to make and is perfect paired with a bowl of rice, or as an appetizer with some beer. The same technique can be used for almost any other fish.

• 1 salmon head, halved
• olive oil/any cooking oil
  
• salt
• pepper
• garlic powder
• chicken bouillon powder
• margarine/butter (optional)
• lemon

Head to your local grocer and pick up a fresh salmon head. Notice the nice colors, the eyes are not foggy and make sure it does not stink! Give it a nice rinse.
Set your oven to 350 degrees (we actually use a toaster oven, a little more energy efficient and perfectly sized for 1 pc of salmon head)


Pat it dry with paper towels


Line baking tray with foil and brush a light layer of oil so the fish doesn't stick.


Place the fish skin side down


Rub on the spices. The order shouldn't matter, but we first sprinkled on a layer of pepper. Then we rubbed in the chicken bouillon powder followed by salt. Finally, a generous sprinkle of garlic powder. Usually, at this point, my mom would drizzle some oil on top, but my dad wondered how it would taste baked with butter, so we decided to give it a try.


Pop it in the oven, 350 degrees for 35-40 mins


and voila! I suggest you serve with with some lemon wedges on the side. yummy!

p.s. We didn't really notice a change in taste/texture using butter instead of oil.

The Basic: Rice

Now I can't cook rice in a pot on the stove but give me a rice cooker and we're all good.


First, give the rice a rinse. Cover rice with water, use your hand & swish around a few times. Drain and repeat. Don't be tempted to over-rinse. I know I'm guilty of playing with rice.



If you have a rice cooker, it's super easy. All you do is fill up water corresponding to the # of cups of rice you're cooking. Here you see that we're cooking 3 cups of rice, so the water fills up to 3.


Finally, plug in the rice cooker and make sure the "rice cooking" light is on. Once it's done, it'll jump to "keep warm" and your rice is ready to be served.

The Beginning

My mom's a great home cook. She specializes in Chinese food with a Vietnamese influence. Self taught, she's able to recreate almost any delicious meal such as turning

this

to this


It's time that I start learning... and in the process, why not record it? My mission is to take pictures and caption step by step how to make these delicious dishes. Wish me luck!