Broiled Salmon

I am always looking for new fish recipes. This one is very simple, and my mom always cooks salmon this way (in fact I think it's the only way she cooked it when I was living at home...)

Take a salmon fillet (fillets are easy to find in the grocery store, however, as I hear from my friends who grew up outside America, fish is much more flavorful if you get it with the skin still on.)

Anyways, take a salmon fillet. Wash it off, and place it on a prepared broiling pan.

A broiling pan is a very useful piece of equipment, consisting of a top piece which has holes in it, and a lower part as well, which catches the juices while the meat is cooking. You will want to cover the top part with aluminum foil, and cut through so the holes are still there. Then spray the foil with pam or olive oil.

Then put the fillet on, skin down. You can put some olive oil or butter on top of the fish, although it's not really necessary, because it's such an oily fish.

Turn the oven up as high as it will go (to the "broil" setting") and leave the door open a little bit. your oven may not need the door open to broil, but for some ovens you need to do this. once it is really hot, put the fish in. Cook it for about 10 minutes or until it starts to smell cooked. Then take it out and check the inside with a sharp knife to see if it is cooked. Allow 10 min for each inch of thickness. The smell test is key though... Do not overcook!!! Once it is almost done only allow another minute or so as it cooks quickly.

Take it out and squirt some lemon on and salt and pepper. This is good with a salad or with bread or anything else. You can even eat it all on it's own. Salmon is so good. If there are leftovers you can break them apart and scramble them with eggs, or put them with lettuce in a salad. You can also mix with mayonnaise to make a salmon salad sandwich.