Salmon with red onion, figs and honey and persecution by toothbrush
I have become victim to relentless persecution by small electronic devices. I was awoken at 4am yesterday morning by the fire alarm helpfully informing me: ‘ba-tt-er-y lowwww, ba-tt-er-y lowwww, please replace the ba-tt-er-y’ (and repeat). After three years’ blissfully silent cooperation, could the battery not have waited another couple of hours? Try finding batteries while you’re half asleep and can’t turn on the lights for fear of waking everyone up and also being attacked by unusually pugnacious mosquitos. This morning, Léo’s electric toothbrush sprung into vigorous and totally unsolicited action at 5am. It vibrated itself off the edge of the sink only to jaunt across the tiled floor towards the bedroom; pure evil (at such an antisocial hour) and hyperactive to boot. I lay in bed fuming, planning ever-spriralling retribution (leaving it to rot in a large glass of substandard cola, tearing out its bristles one-by-one, throwing it against the wall…) while it gained ground. I ended up having to go outside to dispose of it in a dustbin in the grange because it just wouldn’t pipe down. How mad is that? Resorting to moonlit dustbin visits because a toothbrush has got the better of you. And as if alarm and toothbrush angst aren’t enough, my ipad spent the day randomly blurting music from the ’70s. I think I’m going to have to apply myself to that problem though because I’m not throwing my ipad in the bin.
Ingredients (serves 4)
1 tablespoon olive oil
4 salmon filets (about 180g each)
1 small red onion, finely sliced
I chilli pepper, sliced (optional)
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
4 fresh figs, sliced
1 tablespoon honey
Preheat the oven to 200°C. Drizzle the olive oil into a shallow baking dish, coating the salmon on both sides and place the filets skin side down in the dish. Add the sliced red onion, chilli pepper and Worcestershire sauce and season to taste. Finally place the sliced figs over the filets and spoon the honey over the top. Cook for 12 minutes, or until the salmon is cooked in the middle. Delicious served with perhaps green beans or a salad, but definitely with all small electronic devices in the ‘off’ position.
14 Comments
Lori
Okay, I know all this didn’t feel funny, but I can’t help but laugh. Wow! Yes, all of that would be quite frustrating!
I absolutely love this recipe! Wow!
The Healthy Epicurean
Thank you and that’s OK – you’re allowed to laugh. I did, afterwards at least 😉
lapetitepaniere
Tout simplement delicieux, c’est à s’en lécher les babines 🙂
The Healthy Epicurean
Merci! En effet c’était très gouteux!
apuginthekitchen
Oooh figs and salmon, lovely!! Beautiful meal, simple and delicious. Ok, I think there is a poltergeist playing with the electronics in your house, no way this is spontaneous occurrences. Thats just too weird, the toothbrush, the ipad, music from the 70’s maybe it’s Elvis. You make me laugh.
The Healthy Epicurean
Thank you – it was quite delicious! I’m getting worried about the poltergeist – unless Hugo has suddenly become interested in electronics… ?
apuginthekitchen
Oh dear, Hugo well he is quite intelligent and could be the culprit. it really is intriguing. Poltergeists are known to dabble with electronics as a medium of communication.
The Healthy Epicurean
I’m putting my money on Hugo! 😉
Stacey Bender
Priceless! I think these devices secretly want to wake us up. I have yet to come home in the middle of the day with the fire alarm blaring that the battery is low.
I am waiting to hear how you explained the missing toothbrush to Leo.
Your salmon looks lovely.
The Healthy Epicurean
I agree – how come they never kick off in the afternoon at a civilised hour? I told Léo that his toothbrush had upped and left of its own accord. He told me that they’d been having ‘issues’ for a while now…
lapetitecasserole
It’s a beautiful dish! I’ve never thought to combine salmon and figs…
The Healthy Epicurean
Thank you! I hadn’t really thought of doing before – it’s just that I have an absolute glut of figs I need to use! It does work very well though…
Sally
They are secretly taking over! I hate that appliances seem to nag you these days… the microwaves beeps..food ready, food ready… the washing machine whistles…come and take the clothes out now… things ping on your phone…answer email NOW! I wish they’d all just shut up.
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