Anyone have some magical way to transform the bane of my childhood, canned salmon, into...

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michael-in-phoenix

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...something edible and tasty?

My wife came home with a can of salmon today, and announced that she may summon the courage to open it later tonight. All kinds of bad memories of fishy-tasting salmon patties and salmon casserole are rushing at me from when my mom bought the stuff when I was a kid.

I like FRESH salmon a lot of ways. Grilled, poached, smoked, etc. Canned salmon is another story entirely.

HELP!

Michael

 
I like to mix it with ricotta or cream cheese, a little lemon juice,

a little grated onion, splash of worcestershire & maybe a drop or two of liquid smoke, then spread on toast and run under the broiler.

Then again, I LOVE salmon patties.

 
I do salmon cakes regularly. Chopped green onion, 1 egg per small can of salmon, wasabi,

sometimes a small amount of regular bread crumbs, mayo, s&p, ya know, kinda whatever. But the wasabi is the important ingredient.

And if you have some Old Bay Tartar Sauce, you've got it made Baby.

I like it also with a lemon grass vinaigrette over jasmine rice.

 
My dad's had this same aversion since he was a kid. No amount of persuasion could budge him.

I think my mom worked on him for a couple of years, but he always fixed something else for himself when we had salmon. smileys/wink.gif (If you really loathe something, there's little point in trying to stomach it, in my view.)

 
Try adding a couple drops of

liquid smoke.

I like using it like tuna to make "smoked" salmon salad for lunches. It makes a nice appetizers mounded into cucumber cups (1-inch chunk of cucumber hollowed out with a mellon baller).

I also do an oriental flavored version with fresh grated ginger, garlic, white pepper, sesame oil and serve it on a bed of spinach with cashews strewn about.

Like Marg, I still love my salmon cakes. One of my grandmother's weekly dinner specials was potato soup, salmon cakes, and hard-boiled eggs. I always think of here when I make them.

 
A simple salmon salad made like tuna salad--onion, capers or pickles, a little mayo and a tiny bit

of Dijon and S&P. Maybe some dill. Serve on toast and/or with cucumbers and tomatoes

 
I do this with tuna and I am sure it would be good with salmon.

I mix it with 8 ounces of cream cheese, add some chopped red onion or green onions, capers and for the salmon, I would add a couple drops of liquid smoke. Spread on a bagel and there's your breakfast.

 
definitely add the liquid smoke and this is everyone's staple cheeseball up here. serve w crackers

or mini ryes too.

 
Salmon croquettes = my childhood HELL. I had to miss The Beatles b/c I wouldn't eat them

Did we have the same childhood? Yes, to this day they are considered evil, evil, EVIL!

I always hated when mom made those horrid DRY salmon croquettes. And so it happened she made them the night that *The Beatles* were on the Ed Sullivan show and EVERYONE ELSE in the house got to watch them except for SOME little girl who had to sit at the table, in the dark, until bedtime because SHE WOULDN'T EAT HER SALMON F-ING CROQUETTES! But, oooh I'm not bitter or anything.

(I did peek around the corner and kinda got to watch them.)

Micheal, don't even try it, save yourself(!),...they are evil I tell you!

 
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