Vince makes the very best smoked salmon!  I love it better than any smoked salmon we get anywhere.  Last week we were out of town and in a store that had salmon and it was a bit thicker and would work good for smoking so we brought some home and he smoked it over the weekend.  Here’s half of what he smoked!

Since I was the one fixing the plates, I felt it was my duty to taste the salmon before serving it.  You can see there’s a little bite chunk missing off that right end.  There’s so much we can do with a big container of smoked salmon.  For lunch today, we had a nice salad with chunks of cold salmon.  Yum!

I never watch him prepare this because I don’t want to know how he does it. I like it just the way he does it!  I know that he sprinkles it with coarse salt, leaves that on for a while, then rinses the salt off, lets it dry on paper towels for a while, coats it with brown sugar and lets it sit in the fridge overnight uncovered, then smokes it.  It has a hint of sweetness with a hint of saltiness . . it’s really good!

I think I’m going to keep Vince . . he’s pretty useful.  He cooks, he cleans, he tills my garden, he’s building a chicken coop and . . ok . . we’d better stop there!