Baked Salmon with Herbs and Roasted Cauliflower

Well, this just might be two of the best things I've made recently.

Take a large salmon fillet (mine was about 1.8#), put it in a roasted pan on parchment paper, skin down, sprinkle with salt, ground pepper, olive oil, and lemon juice.  Let it sit for a while you do the rest of the prep.

Pre-heat the oven to 425.  Tear the leaves off of a bunch of fresh basil and cilantro.  I ended up with a probably a mound of around 2 cups (not chopped).  I then ran it very quickly through my small food processor with a little bit of lemon juice to chop it.  It was still pretty dry, I didn't process it long enough for it to become pesto-like.  Coat the salmon with the herb mixture.

Bake for 15-20 minutes, then take out of the oven, cover with foil, and let it rest for 10 minutes.  This might have been the first time I've ever followed any type of "let it rest" instructions, but it said it helped the salmon finish cooking.  Worth it.

Pre-cooking herb fest.

Meanwhile (or really, interspersed with all this):
Chop a head of cauliflower into florets.  Put on a cookie sheet with olive oil, salt, pepper, and dried garlic, and mix around to make sure all the florets are covered.  Roast for 25-30 minutes.

These were both absolutely delicious.  Especially the roasted cauliflower.  There is nothing like a little bit of char on roasted vegetables.

Yuuuum, char.

Enjoy!
Scooter

These recipes were based off of Ina Garten's How Easy is That