Garlic Lemon Salmon with Mashed Potatoes and Sautéed Green Beans

This is actually one of my favorite comfort food dishes. As much as I love having rice, I am a die hard mashed potato fan. Most salmon dishes always seem to have some sort of rice and or vegetable pilaf, so this is a bit outside of the norm. Obviously, any other meat can be used in this dish, but fish really makes this a bit more spontaneous. I wouldn't call it a quick meal, but you can throw it together in about an hour so with all the prepping. Nom Nom Nom!

Mashed Potatoes
5 to 6 large russet potatoes (peeled)\
3 tablespoons of sweet cream butter
3 tablespoons of sour cream
2 tablespoons of whole milk
1 teaspoon of salt
1 teaspoon of pepper

Peel and cut potatoes and cut into 1/3 inch pieces and bring to a boil on stove top. Make sure to watch the pot, sometimes starch has a tendency of over boiling. Turn to med-high and leave it on a low boil for about 10 minutes or until you can stick on of the pieces without sticking to a fork. Drain potatoes and return to pan. Add butter, salt, pepper, and sour cream with milk. Mash lightly (you can mash or whip depending on how chunky you like the texture.) Serve immediately.


Garlic Lemon Salmon
2 large salmon fillets (bones removed, fish washed and dried)
1 tablespoon of garlic minced
1 lemon
2 tablespoon of butter
1 teaspoon of salt
1 teaspoon of pepper
1 tablespoon of soy sauce
2 springs of rosemary

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. While this is heating you can dress your salmon on a large cooking sheet. Usually you want to use aluminum foil to make sure it doesn't stick to the bottom of the pan, but you can also use spray if you don't having anything lying around. Use half of the lemon for the juice, spread evenly over prepped salmon fillets. Use garlic, butter, salt, and pepper over the fish evenly. After this is done, cut remaining lemon into thin slices and put over salmon fillets. Wash and use both sprigs of rosemary onto the face of the fish. Bake in oven for about 20-30 minutes depending on how flakey you like the texture, Remove from oven and let sit for about 5 minutes. Serve and enjoy.

Sauted Green Beans
Green Beans (Washed with ends removed)
1 teaspoon of extra virgin olive oil
1 pinch of salt and pepper
1 teaspoon of butter

Bring pan to a med-high heat and add olive oil to the pan, once oil is hot add the green beans and sprinkle salt and pepper evenly over the. Sauté for about 5 minutes until the outside of the bean is slightly softer, while the inside still has a nice crunch. Remove from head and add butter onto green beans. Serve immediately.
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