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My Famous Aunt, and Broiled Salmon Misonese

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When I was growing up I had a famous aunt.

That’s what it felt like to me. Eve wrote for the Vancouver Sun newspaper for years, before the days when anyone with a computer could publish to the world. When there were more filters on what made it to print. Manual ones, like editors.

We subscribed to the daily paper, and I never tired of seeing her byline. My aunt, the author. Cool! 

Occasionally, Eve would weave personal vignettes into her articles and refer to her sister or parents. When I’d read these I would always feel a rush of excitement, as if anyone reading the article would naturally realize the family connection to know it was my mom or my grandparents she was talking about. It made me feel a little famous, by extension.

I felt that same rush recently when I learned that one of the recipes from Five Star Food (one of the cookbooks published when Eve was the Sun’s food editor) had been featured on Oprah.com.

Hey look everybody, that’s my aunt’s cookbook they’re talking about! Whoo hoo!

broiled salmon misonese ingredients

While I’ve had a copy of Five Star Food since it was published, I confess I had never made the Broiled Salmon Misonese until yesterday. Big mistake on my part. I think it’s the fastest salmon recipe I’ve ever made, and one of the tastiest.

True to the Oprah.com mention, the salmon is delicious but deceptively simple: Less than 5 minutes to prep the ingredients (chop the chives, stir the miso and mayonnaise together) and, depending on the size of your salmon fillets, 6-7 minutes to cook.

broiled salmon misonese prep

If you add a little more time to make a stir-fried veggie, like kale or bok choy, this is literally a 15 minute meal all-in. All in.

It’s an excellent example of what I call real fast food: A healthy meal, made from scratch with real ingredients, that comes together quickly and delivers on flavor, big time.

We are definitely going to be making salmon misonese around here more regularly, and not only because I now have a huge tub of miso paste — less one tablespoon — in the fridge. (Eve, maybe you can send a few more miso-focused recipes my way?)

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Eve here.

Ah Kris, how sweet to hear that you were excited by my modest fame.

I love Five Star Food: Recipes to Delight Your Family and Amaze Your Friends. It was the first of the two Sun cookbooks I wrote, and it’s still my sentimental favorite because of what it says about the way people eat in this corner of the world, and how it came to be that way. I remember getting the first copy, and being dumbstruck by the sheer beauty of it: the cover, the layouts, the excellent line drawings by Michael Knox.

I still enjoy thumbing through it, although I admit I make more meals from Six O’Clock Solutions: Fast and Easy Dinner for Family and Friends, the much more practical, 150 meals in 30 minutes or less cookbook that followed it.

A big “thank you!” to O reader Su-Bin Kuah, for bringing Salmon Misonese to Oprah’s attention, and giving me a thrilling moment of fame by association. And deepest thanks to chef Shun Ohnishi, who improved all our lives by creating this recipe while working at the now departed Cannery Restaurant.

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Broiled Salmon Misonese

Serving Size: 4

When it comes to miso paste, a good rule of thumb is: the lighter the color, the milder the taste. The original recipe calls for barley miso, which surprised me, because every time I've made this recipe in the past 20 years, I've used shiro (rice) miso, for its lighter, less earthy taste. If barley miso is all that's available to you, choose one that's golden in color.

Ingredients

  • 6 tablespoons mayonnaise
  • 1 tablespoon shiro miso paste
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 2 teaspoons sesame oil
  • 2 tablespoons chopped fresh chives, divided
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • pinch freshly ground pepper
  • 4 6-ounce salmon fillets

Instructions

  1. Mix together mayonnaise and miso paste; set aside.
  2. Combine olive oil, sesame oil, 1 tablespoon chives, salt and pepper; drizzle on top of salmon fillets and spread to cover evenly.
  3. Place fillets on broiler pan and broil until almost cooked (about 4 minutes). Spoon about 1 tablespoon mayonnaise mixture on top of each salmon fillet and broil for 1 1/2 minutes. Garnish with remaining 1 tablespoon chives and serve immediately.
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Comments

  1. jeff says

    October 19, 2013 at 5:19 pm

    I remember reading her articles!

    Reply
    • KrisNeely says

      October 20, 2013 at 5:31 pm

      Nice!

      Reply
  2. Daphne Gray-Grant says

    October 20, 2013 at 6:50 am

    Ooo, I love this recipe too and have been making it for years. It’s one of my favourites from that cookbook!

    Here’s another way to use Miso:

    3 Tbs Miso
    3 Tbs water
    3 Tbs marmelade

    Whisk together in a saucepan and cook for several minutes. This makes a sauce that we use on a pork chop and kale recipe we have. But it’s so delicious I think it would be good on just about anything! Probably really good on salmon, too.

    Reply
    • KrisNeely says

      October 20, 2013 at 5:24 pm

      Mmmm…that does sound good, Daphne. And easy too — I’ll give it a try soon. Thanks!

      Reply
  3. Anita Stewart says

    October 20, 2013 at 11:06 am

    Eve was/is one of the finest culinary journalists this country of ours has ever seen! Love your blog!

    Reply
    • EveJohnson says

      October 20, 2013 at 6:12 pm

      Oh, Anita, you are so nice. Thanks. Hope to see you on your next trip out here.

      Reply

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We’re Eve and Kris, an aunt and a niece. We love food. And while we have a lot in common in our approach, we also have our differences. So why not hash it out in a blog? Ant and Anise is a conversation about food in our lives, past and present. We like real food that doesn't take hours to prepare, but has something unexpected about it. It helps if it's pretty, too.

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