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Schmancy Hot Smoked Salmon Recipe (Works For All Fish)

Smoked salmon on a white platter.

No fish is more receptive to smoke than salmon. This recipe creates an elegant, delicate, moist piece of salmon with a hint of sweet, salt, and garlic. Unlike the stuff we put on bagels, it is “hot smoked” at about 225°F. This smoked salmon is perfect served on its own, in potatoes, in scrambled eggs or risotto, or in a sandwich.

Ground Salmon Burger Recipe

Grilled ground salmon burger with lettuce and tomatoes on a bun.

In this tested recipe you’ll learn how to make your own flavor packed homemade salmon sausage. Perfectly seasoned, the salmon sausage can either be made into stuffed links, tubeless links, patties, or meatballs. at your next cookout, try serving it on a crusty bun with flavored mayo, lettuce, and tomato.

Cooking Fish On A Wooden Plank: Separating Fact From Fiction

fish cooking on wooden plank

Planking is a popular method for cooking fish like salmon on a grill. Fans claim that soaking the wood in water gently steams the fish, which gets nice and smoky from the smoldering wood. Planking makes a nice presentation and helps keep fish from sticking to the grill, but the rest is mostly bunk. Here’s the science.

Melissa Cookston’s Grilled Bacon Wrapped Stuffed Shrimp Recipe

Melissa Cookston and John Wheeler

Create an grilled bacon wrapped stuffed shrimp appetizer with only five ingredients thanks to this award winning recipe courtesy of pitmaster Melissa Cookston. Cookston won the 2012 Kingsford Invitational by taking first place in five categories including this delicious bacon wrapped stuffed shrimp recipe.