First BBQ of the summer yesterday! It was a lovely day,
hottest of the year so far. And I hope it’s just so far and there will be more
and hotter to come. The car outside thermometer was showing 25.5C. Inside the car it was even hotter. The air conditioning must have checked out sometime over the winter feeling
neglected and obsolete. Not a puff of cool air to be had.
I have left the BBQ season opening late this year, so it was high time. While waiting for the barbecue to be ready and hubby to come
home, both can take a while, I decided to paint the garden fence. It is barely
worth painting and I had to go with soft brush strokes lest the whole thing should
collapse. But I want to wangle another year or two of life out of it as there is so much
else that needs doing. We live in a Victorian house which by British standards
is not very old I suppose, but everything is falling apart a bit all the time
including the garden.
Fence looking sharp |
My parents are coming to visit in May, so we must prepare. I
am hoping for lovely weather so we can barbecue and eat in the garden. I need
to spruce up the garden a bit. I called to rescue a gardening guy from Bulgaria,
who came to view and quote for the work. He didn’t come from Bulgaria
obviously, but Ealing rather, but is originally from Bulgaria. I think without
Eastern Europe the British houses would just go to wrack and ruin without
anyone to paint or fix them. So thank you communism for screwing up the entire
Eastern Europe for generations so that our crumbling capitalist houses might
be kept afloat.
So Bogomil to rescue! He will come sometime in the near future to replace
the decking which caved in last August under husbands best man halfway through
our wedding celebrations, he hadn’t even touched the lamb chops at that point. My
Bulgarian hero will also replace the collapsed trellis and wonky side gate,
which won’t close without physical violence.
I decided to open the
BBQ season with my gridiron salmon. I absolutely love salmon made this way. You
get the lovely taste of the charcoal and it’s fresh and summery and moist. I
keep the other flavours simple, just salt, pepper, fresh chopped dill and lemon
juice.
Recipe: Gridiron Grilled butterflied salmon with lemon and dill
4 skin-on salmon fillets or half side of salmon
Salt
Lemonpepper
1/3 cup or more of chopped fresh dill
Juice of half a lemon
Olive oil
Butterfly the fillets (cut each fillet lengthwise in the middle leaving the skin in-tact and then fold the fillet so that the skin now is in the middle of what is now the butterfly fillet), that way the fish cooks evenly, they look nice and get loads of lovely smokey surface area. Season with salt and lemon pepper, sprinkle on half of the dill and the lemon juice and drizzle with olive oil. Flip the butterflied fillets over and do the same on the other side. Let sit for a while to marinate.
Oil the gridiron carefully, so the fish won’t stick to it.
Place the fish in and close the device. Grill just for a couple of minutes on
both sides until the fish has got some nice colour but is still lovely and
moist. It really cooks very quickly. Also watch out for the flames. The oil and
fat dripping from the fish can easily get some flames going, just lift the
gridiron away from the flames if that happens.
This recipe is incredible! I am a fan of making fine meals at home. I already made this recipe and the salmon I bought frozen was so fresh and delicious. I always buy it online through this page:
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