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Salmon skin dessert pizza
The undesirable salmon meat
is delicious as a pizza topping!
In my article
in which I describe the low temperature cooking of salmon, I point out
that I don't like the taste of the dark meat or skin of the salmon. Instead
of throwing it away, I combine it with some type of sweet vinegar sauce.
In the photos below, I am making a Feta cheese dessert pizza, and I will
put the pieces of salmon skin and dark meat on the pizza as a topping!
This particular sauce is lumpy because I added some azuki
bean sprouts (the oval-shaped lumps). It also has a little bit
of grated carrot for color.
The photo below shows the finished pizza. The grayish material is the
salmon skin and meat, and I also sprinkled on some grated lemon rind on
one portion of the pizza, and some grated carrot on another area of the
pizza. And I also added some more azuki sprouts on top of the sauce. (I
removed the outer, brown skin of the sprouts, which is why they are white.)
It may seem strange, but when the skin and dark meat of the
salmon are used as a pizza topping, they become merely flavoring
agents that give the pizza a nice salmon flavor. They do not
dominate the pizza. The sprouts add a bit of flavor, also, but mainly they
had crunchiness. As I've mentioned, I prefer food that I can chew
on rather than the pasty, slimy, or "baby food" textures.
As I eat the pizza, the crust continues to absorb the feta cheese sauce.
In the photo below, which shows the last slice of pizza, you can see that
the bottom of the pizza crust is still dry. This coarse, whole-grain bread
is very absorbent, so it is excellent as a crust for pizzas.
I am only one of many people who dislike the salmon skin and
dark meat. Therefore, if we were to alter society so that restaurants can
provide these type of meals, then a restaurant could provide us with a
low temperature salmon dinner, but without any skin or dark meat, and then,
for dessert, the restaurant would bring out some type of dessert pizza
in which the dark meat and skin is a topping. This reduces the waste of
food, and there are probably valuable nutrients in both the dark meat and
skin.
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