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Foil Cooked Salmon with Fresh Broccoli and Onions

Love Salmon? Salmon cooked on the barbecue? Love to clean up the mess?

No? Me either, that’s why I cooked this Salmon dish in foil. My friend Kurt Ploetz aka “Outdoor Chef Kurt” from www.fishgriller.com sent me this recipe awhile back. Kurt calls it ” Ranch Dressing Salmon Fillets with Orange Slices”, way too many words for me, so at our house we just call it fantastic!

Why cook in foil?

Cooking in foil has a few very worth while positives:

No mess, just throw the foil into the recycle bin.
Keep’s the Barbecue grill clean.
Seals in flavor.
Stores well, nice little roll in a box, very little space needed.
Serves as a plate replacement, eliminating dish washing.

I could go on for ever about cooking in foil! However, I am quite sure you would rather read about the recipe instead. Of course I made some alterations to suit my cooking style and taste but it is very close to Kurt’s original recipe.

Ranch Dressing Salmon Fillets with Orange slices

Ingredients

1 whole Salmon fillet

1/2 cup Ranch dressing

1 tbs olive oil

1 whole fresh orange, slice into 1/4 inch slices, then cut of the rind.

salt and pepper to taste

1 large sheet of foil to wrap Salmon

Preparation

Wash and pat dry the Salmon fillet. Rub Salmon fillet with Olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Place Salmon fillet on top of foil sheet and pour ranch dressing over the top of the Salmon fillet. Place three to four Orange slices on top of the Salmon fillet and wrap up tight with the foil. Cook on indirect heat for approximately 20 minutes at 350° f. No need to flip the foil packet.

Grecian Rib Eye Steak with Baked Onion and Potato.

Have you ever stopped at the meat case and just have a piece call to you? Yes, then you know what happened to me. Rib Eye Steak grilled over an open fire just screamed at me. Some where in the back of my cluttered mind I remembered a rub that sounded perfect. My Fire Pit had been idle for a few weeks so everything just clicked.

I took my 1lb Rib Eye Steak home to let rest while I got the Fire Pit going. Still trying to remember the ingredients of the rub, I scoured the spices on hand, checked the fridge and once again threw it together. Best way, right? Thought I would throw a Potato and Onion on the coals also.

Here is my dinner for the night including my “Grecian Rib Eye Steak”!

Grecian Rib Eye Steak

1 Rib Eye Steak rested at room temp.

1 – 2 tbs Feta cheese

Olive oil

Rub for 2 steaks

1 tbs Garlic powder

1 tbs Oregano

1 tbs Basil

1 tsp Pepper

1 tsp Coarse salt

Baked Potato and Onion

1 Large Potato washed and dried

1 Large Sweet Onion peeled

1 tsp Garlic salt

1 tsp Course pepper

1 tsp dried Parsley

Olive oil to coat

1 Pat of Butter each

2 sheets of foil for each Potato and Onion to wrap completely

How ever you decide to cook yours, my first and only choice for this Steak was an open fire. It just cried out for a mesquite fire. Well, old plum tree and cedar fence board to start with, then I added the mesquite I burned the fire for a couple of hours to get a good coal base started. Great excuse to stay outside! Then I added some Mesquite charcoal to the fire to enhance the flavor of the steak.

I took the Potato and cut it in half and cut a X on the top of the Onion. Rub both with Olive Oil, then sprinkle the Garlic salt, Pepper, Parsley and a pat of butter. Wrap each with 2 sheets of foil. The challenge was to get the Potato and the Onion cooked and done before the Steak was finished. I opted to throw both of them directly onto the coals. Not into the fire, on the coals!

As your fire is burning down, move some of the coals to the side and set your Potato and Onion directly on the coals. You have to keep turning them! About every 10 minutes or so. You will have some hot spots and the skins will burn here and there. Great for flavor! Cook time is about 1 hour. The onion could be little less. This is where practice takes over, you have to experiment to find out what works best for you. Some days it will be a little under done and other days, maybe a little crunchy. It’s all good when it’s cooked Outdoors!

Grecian Rib Eye Steak, probably one of my best recipes!!!

Wash and dry your steak, rub it with some Olive Oil and pat your rub all over. Let it sit for a least an hour. Grease up your grill ( I like to use Crisco for this) and then swing it over a hot bed of coals to pre-heat. Slap that steak on the grill and hold on! The smell is incredible! Sear on both side for about 2 minutes then cook to your personal preference.

Remember to let that steak sit for a few minutes before you cut into it. Un-wrap the Potato and Onion, plate them with the Grecian Rib Eye Steak, sprinkle a couple of spoonfuls of Feta cheese on them an enjoy!

Give this a try ….. I would have paid top dollar at a restaurant for this steak! I was fantastic!

Fix It In Foil, a book review.

Fix it in Foil! Tasty recipes! Easy clean up! For ovens, grills and campfires.

By CQ Products

From the back cover:

“Easy prep, great taste, good nutrition and quick clean-up – what more could you want from a meal? Fix it in Foil combines the best of all worlds!

This cookbook features 51 fantastic recipes to make in aluminum foil. Each recipe includes instructions for cooking in an oven, over a campfire or on an outdoor grill. In addition, you will find numerous recipe variations to provide many additional tasty meal possibilities.”

Recipes include:

Western Tortillas
Eggs in an Orange shell
Beef stew
BBQ Chicken
Tomato and Chicken Tortellini
Spicy Shrimp
Asian Asparagus
Hot Sourdough Deli Sandwiches
Sweet Banana Boat
Apple crisp
Peachy mallow

This book is presented in a easy to use format with recipe variations, three types of cooking methods and complete directions. Spiral bound soft cover for easy use.

The recipes in this book are top notch!! I am very happy having this book in my collection.