Mar. 25, 2008 - I totally get it.
I have no doubt in my mind that the dishwasher salmon recipe I found online was posted by someone quite like myself.
They had been essentially housebound since February 26 with one or more sick children. Pneumonia, flu, cold, ear infections, you name it. Plus gross stuff you don't even want me to name in addition. A solid month in the same (if I were still saying it, which I'm not, I'd insert "freakin'" here) house, with cranky sick kids--several sick kids at a time but not ALL sick at once mind you, so there's always an energetic, healthy one or two climbing the walls and annoying the Christian love right out of everyone.
One gets a little stir crazy.
My moment of insanity came when I was sitting in the Urgent Care for the second visit ON THE SAME DAY. I had lost rock, paper, scissors with Mr. Wonderful over that one...or maybe I had won? Which is better? The parent with the flu taking the kid with the flu to Urgent Care or the parent with the flu watching the other kids with the flu at home? Anyway, the nurse laughed at me when I told her I did take a family poll before returning to see if anyone else needed to go? Speak now or forever hold your peace? Anyone else in intense pain that cannot wait until morning? Anybody else need to spend $300 instead of a $30 copay? Anybody at all? "I'm sorry," she said. "I know it's not funny." No, lady, it's not, but glad my life could provide your schadenfreude. I think of it as my gift to the world.
Anyway, as I was sitting in the Urgent Care lobby (again), I was looking around, thinking to myself, "Well, this is actually a nice place. It's pretty. The fishtank is really peaceful. This is a good place to just get to come sit. Really nice. I'm glad to be out of the house."
When the waiting room of an Urgent Care serves as a mini-retreat, dishwasher salmon seems downright reasonable. Nonetheless, Mr. Wonderful has forbidden me to try it.
Blessings, Holly
Cooking Salmon in a Dishwasher
Needs:
salmon fillets
aluminum foil
a lemon
a few butter pats
electric dishwasher
Place the fish on two large sheets of aluminum foil. Squeeze on some lemon juice and place the pats of butter on the salmon fillets. Seal the fillets well in the foil, and place the foil packet in the top wire basket of your electric dishwasher. DO NOT ADD SOAP OR DETERGENT. Close the dishwasher door, set the dishwasher on the hottest wash cycle, complete with drying cycle, and let it run through a full cycle. When the cycle is complete the fish will be cooked just right.
Comments
Mar. 26, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Arby
May I say with all courtesy and respect that I am not laughing with you. I am laughing at you. That was hysterical!
