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Salmon with roasted spring vegetables

The bulb of the fennel plant is an absolute favorite ingredient of mine, and when roasted with tomatoes, onions and peas, it turns into a savory stew that stands up to the flakey lemony salmon. This is one of those dishes that’s incredibly easy to make if you’re doing a million other things, and you [...]

Salmon with mustard cream sauce

Mustard cream is one of my favorite sauces for salmon. I absolutely love the flavor of mustard, its pungency and the way it adds a bite to the cream. And any time you have mustard and cream, you have to add wine and shallots. They all just work together so nicely over the mildness of [...]