Friday, November 27, 2009

Wild is good when it's Salmon



Costco offers fresh, farmed salmon but I always choose the frozen, wild Sockeye salmon. Here's a quote from The George Mateljan Foundation with a link to their website to read more information about the general recommendation of wild salmon:
  • Despite being much fattier, farmed fish provide less usable beneficial omega 3 fats than wild fish.
  • Due to the feedlot conditions of aquafarming, farm-raised fish are doused with antibiotics and exposed to more concentrated pesticides than their wild kin. Farmed salmon, in addition, are given a salmon-colored dye in their feed, without which, their flesh would be an unappetizing grey color.
I recently made a delicious meal with salmon (defrosted in the refrigerator) by microwaving Tabatchnick's Vegetarian Chili(one portion, seasoning with Aleppo pepper and when the fish was nearly done and the chili heated through, I added the canned peas. Five minutes and done!



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