Whenever I get home from a holiday, I reminisce by looking
through my photos and remembering all the people I’ve met or visited with and all
the places I’ve been. I also reminisce
about the meals I have eaten. I’m going
back through my summer photos of food because there are so many dinners and salads and
desserts that got made, photographed and eaten with relish, but never got
posted. I am not even home yet and I am
already feeling nostalgic for wild salmon, which I have yet to find in Cairo.
Wild salmon is much drier than its farm-raised brethren so
poaching is an excellent method of cooking it. Add on a creamy caper onion sauce and you
can’t go wrong. I cooked this, along
with a cherry tomato tart, for my in-laws and it was very well received. My father-in-law has been ill and had not
been eating very well for a couple of weeks when I served this and he cleaned his plate! We were all very excited. Seriously.
To the point that we took a photo of his empty plate. Looking back now, that seems weird, but it
felt right at the time. Any small
victory!
