A fellow blogger, Michelle Kay, had an inspirational post I read the other day entitled "15 Fantastic Recipes That Make Breakfast For Dinner A Winner." http://domesticexecutiveonline.com/2014/09/15-fantastic-recipes-that-make-breakfast-for-dinner-a-winner/ Off to the grocery store I went with breakfast for dinner in mind. I grabbed a dozen eggs, a pound of bacon, milk, butter, some potatoes for home fries and some hollandaise sauce. I was ready to check out and realized I had forgot some English muffins (my plan was to make Michelle's "Easy Bacon-Egg Cups" then add it on top of a toasted English muffin and drown it in hollandaise sauce). Off to the bread section I went but got side tracked in the seafood section. A few packs of salmon steak were marked down to half price. Seeing the hollandaise sauce my mind quickly changed and thoughts of breakfast for dinner slowly left my mind.
Hollandaise topped grilled salmon steak with a side of broccoli and rice was the new meal plan. For me Michelle made some key points that makes breakfast for dinner so enticing, it's cheap, easy and a quick clean up. These were all goals I was hoping to achieve with my grilled salmon steaks.
Hollandaise topped grilled salmon steak with a side of broccoli and rice was the new meal plan. For me Michelle made some key points that makes breakfast for dinner so enticing, it's cheap, easy and a quick clean up. These were all goals I was hoping to achieve with my grilled salmon steaks.
Cheap, achieved. Five salmon steaks for $14.43, that's only $2.83 per steak. Broccoli crowns at $1.20, hollandaise sauce at $3.00 (including butter and milk) and rice at $1.89. Easy, achieved. I simply seasoned the salmon steak with kosher salt. Started the BBQ, a pot of water to boil for the broccoli, a pot for the rice, and melted the butter for the hollandaise. I dropped the broccoli and rice and head outside the BBQ.
The salmon steaks take about 7 minutes per side. In between tending to the BBQ I made my rice and broccoli. I flipped my steaks and started my packet hollandaise sauce. You might be thinking "packet" sauce? Hollandaise sauce takes finesse and attention. Two things I didn't have while tending to the salmon. Packet sauce is a great time saver and way easier than hollandaise from scratch. By the time I had the sauce underway the broccoli and rice were done and the salmon was ready to come off the grill. I then plated and this is what I was faced with.
I had a buddy over and we both had a plate like this each with a second helping of salmon each. Quick clean up achieved as well, three pots, a colander, BBQ spatula and two plates and utensil's to clean. Plus a bonus, a large plate of leftovers for lunch the following day at work.
Sorry Michelle, easy bacon-egg cups/benny's are going to have to wait.
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