The Penniman table: Pisgah's birthday dinner....

Today is Pisgah's birthday and this is what we had....

Salmon with Brown Butter Sauce

Y'all, this is good.

The recipe was in the March issue of Real Simple. Here it is below:

Serves 4
Hands-On Time: 20m
Total Time: 20m

Ingredients

4 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 1/4 pounds skinless salmon fillet, cut into 4 pieces
kosher salt and black pepper
1 pound green beans, trimmed and halved crosswise
1/4 cup sliced almonds
2 tablespoons capers

Directions

Heat 1 tablespoon of the butter in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat.

Season the salmon with ½ teaspoon salt and ¼ teaspoon pepper.

Cook until opaque throughout, 3 to 5 minutes per side; transfer to plates.

Meanwhile, fill a second skillet with ½ inch of water, bring to a boil, and add ¼ teaspoon salt.

Add the green beans, cover, and steam until just tender, 4 to 5 minutes; drain and transfer to plates.

Wipe out the green bean skillet and heat the remaining 3 tablespoons of butter over medium heat.

Add the almonds and cook, stirring frequently, until the almonds and butter are golden brown (but not burned), 2 to 3 minutes.
Stir in the capers. Spoon over the fish and green beans.

So while I did use this recipe I did not follow it verbatim.

Here is our version:

I did use 4 TB of butter, which I heated on a non-stick skillet. We use Earth Balance butter, which is soy or something, and it works great.

I seasoned both sides of the salmon with salt/pepper

Once the butter was hot I put the salmon on the pan. I cooked the salmon for about 4-5 min on each side. I added the capers towards the end, when the salmon was almost done.

Instead of green beans, which we didn't have, I used frozen spinach.

I boiled it in water, drained it, and then threw in 1TB of butter and some minced garlic and let it simmer.

While all of this was cooking I toasted some almonds. (I didn't want to put them in the butter, because I like them crispy)

Once the salmon and spinach were done I put them on the plate and sprinkled the almonds over.

DEEELISH.

Accompanying our meal we had bread

and wine

(notice Pisgah's reflection in the wine glass)

And while Pisgah could not eat the dinner we prepared in her honor, she did get lots of snuggles with me...