Smoked Salmon smothered in Ragu.

SGH

Everyone here knows how to grill or smoke salmon so I will skip the particulars. Here is some salmon that I whipped up on a whim after cooking some Cornish hens.  


Hope y'all enjoy and thanks for looking.  

bgebrent

If you would douse that in Ragu and surround it in way over cooked angel hair, maybe Scottie.  Then again, the photo on the board looks purdy good . Just lacks a little jarred sauce.

YukonRon

I have used the recipe posted by Egret. My Beautiful Wife loves it so much, I make it every Sunday for dinner for her. I do smoke it with sugar maple, and use cedar planks. Awesome meal. Angel hair pasta is interesting. I might try that as well. Thanks guys.

da87

Beautiful salmon @YukonRon - we have "salmon Sunday" every week as well, works nicely with a Monday trash pick up day!  Consensus - cedar planks once and done or cleaned and reused?  I've never reused them but wondering since they never really char.  And thanks for leaving out the Ragu this time!

NorthPilot06

Looking great!  Can't go wrong with some cedar planked salmon

KiterTodd

That looks awesome!

However, knowing your appetite, when I look at your cooks I try to figure out which is the appetizer and which is the main course?  I'm at a loss on this one, I think you could follow either up with a couple full racks of ribs. 

YukonRon

da87 said:

Beautiful salmon @YukonRon - we have "salmon Sunday" every week as well, works nicely with a Monday trash pick up day!  Consensus - cedar planks once and done or cleaned and reused?  I've never reused them but wondering since they never really char.  And thanks for leaving out the Ragu this time!

One and done. I throw them in the fire pit when done.

SGH

da87 said:

Consensus - cedar planks once and done or cleaned and reused?  I've never reused them but wondering since they never really char.  

You certainly can reuse them if you like. On that note, if you look at my pics you can see that I did not use a stone or setter as an indirect piece for the cook (the cedar planks were the indirect piece). I ran this at 500 degrees. As such, these planks were burned up pretty good on the bottom middle section so I tossed them. 
On that note, if I use a stone or setter in combination with the planks, I usually can get 4-5 cooks out of the planks. 

DoubleEgger

FWIW, this place has some great deals on planks. I buy their seconds for dirt cheap. 
http://www.outdoorgourmet.com/wood-grilling-planks

SGH

DoubleEgger said:

FWIW, this place has some great deals on planks. I buy their seconds for dirt cheap. 
http://www.outdoorgourmet.com/wood-grilling-planks

Thanks for sharing that brother Double. I had not seen that before.  

bgebrent

DoubleEgger said:

FWIW, this place has some great deals on planks. I buy their seconds for dirt cheap. 
http://www.outdoorgourmet.com/wood-grilling-planks

We need to go to lunch again!

YukonRon

SGH said:

da87 said:

Consensus - cedar planks once and done or cleaned and reused?  I've never reused them but wondering since they never really char.  

You certainly can reuse them if you like. On that note, if you look at my pics you can see that I did not use a stone or setter as an indirect piece for the cook (the cedar planks were the indirect piece). I ran this at 500 degrees. As such, these planks were burned up pretty good on the bottom middle section so I tossed them. 
On that note, if I use a stone or setter in combination with the planks, I usually can get 4-5 cooks out of the planks. 

@SGH
I got all mine at costco. They are way thinner than what yours seem to be. How thick are those planks? At 350F direct, mine would get kind of nasty. I started doing them with a plate setter. They still looked pretty bad after a cook.

YukonRon

@DoubleEgger thank you for the tip. I will order these. 3/8" is a pretty nice plank thickness.

DoubleEgger

YukonRon said:

@DoubleEgger thank you for the tip. I will order these. 3/8" is a pretty nice plank thickness.

No worries. I don't feel nearly as bad for tossing them out after each use for a buck a piece. 

BrueggeDad

That even smells good from here!  Good job.

SGH

@YukonRon
They are 3/8 thick. Pretty decent planks actually. This will probably get my thread buffaloed, but my wife picks them up from a Kamado Joe dealer close to where she works. A 10 pack is $9.99. 

YukonRon

SGH said:

@YukonRon
They are 3/8 thick. Pretty decent planks actually. This will probably get my thread buffaloed, but my wife picks them up from a Kamado Joe dealer close to where she works. A 10 pack is $9.99. 

Thank you for the information. Mine are 3/16. They suck. Your picture was great, and thank you for sharing. I will look for the other sources, actually I have too, Costco is out of inventory for the sesson.