Coho Salmon

I just finished reading Bottomfeeder, by Taras Grescoe.  I highly recommend--it's scary, how overfished our world is, and how contaminated some of the seafood we get in the grocery store can be, but ultimately, it's a very useful book, in terms of helping you figure out what fish you should and should not eat.  As soon as it's out in paperback, I'm giving it to everyone I know.  One of the things I learned from Bottomfeeder is that whether or not you should eat salmon very much depends on what kind of salmon it is; wild-caught Coho is good, because it comes from sustainable stocks and is relatively short-lived for a salmon, thus lower in contaminants.  

Last night Craig made a wonderful Coho dinner.  He used an Epicurious recipe for salmon with tarragon mustard butter on leeks and French lentils.  It was soooo good--the butter was amazing and perfect with the fish, and I love those little French lentils, they have such a great texture.  It was a very flavorful meal, and we had the perfect wine to cut through all the sort of thick flavors and brighten up our mouths, a 2007 Vinedo de los Vientos Estival, an Uruguyan blend of Gewurztraminer, Chardonnay, and Moscato Bianco.  What a great way to say goodbye to a crappy week.