Pasta with Lemon Butter sauce and Pan Fried Salmon
 

Ingredients

Pasta, your pick, for 2 servings
8oz heavy cream
2 tbsp butter
juice of 1 lemon
Parmesan cheese
zest of 1 lemon
oregano
chives

Salmon Filet, halved, skin on
Dry rub of your choice, Cajun, blackened, salt, etc.
Olive oil to coat lightly

Boil water for pasta. Prepare a skillet large enough to cook both pieces of fish at the same time. Start the fish, skin side down over medium high heat. Cook for at least four minutes to develop a nice crispy skin that will release from the pan easily. Add the pasta and salt to taste to the boiling water. Flip the fish, and cook for the time it takes your pasta to become al dente. Melt the butter in another skillet and add the lemon juice. Heat through, and add the cream. Add the pasta to the sauce, grate some cheese over it, and toss in the zest and oregano. Plate the salmon with some pasta, grate some cheese over it and garnish with the fresh chives.

*Lemon butter sauce graciously given to the Greater New York Area by the Scotto family - GDNY. Wow, that's good.

I've just started pan frying fish. Before then I'd always grilled or broiled it. This sounds good.

God, that sounds good! I'm all over a good lemon butter sauce.

Sounds good but lemon butter seems to be the wrong name for it -- with the cream and the parmesean cheese in it- it's more of an alfredo sauce with lemon....

but like shakespeare said -- what's in a name-- a rose by any other would smell as sweet...

Tried this this evening. While I'm a fairly good cook, I really stink at sauces. I substituted dill for chives and served it over a blackened blackened tuna steak. Turned out very nice.

Thanks

I got a beautiful salmon filet last night, fresh not frozen... skin still on...

A little bit of olive oil fresh ground salt and fresh ground pepper...

Dropped it in a hot skillet... and let it cook about 3 minutes per side...

the fish side was such a beautiful color... and the fish was medium rare. and oh so delicious..

Mal, I love your simple yet oh so very yummy take on preparing food...