Try these easy salmon recipes for Valentine’s Day

Can you marry me something?

A certain number of recipes “marry me”, a protein draped in a tomato sauce dried in the creamy sun (“marry Me Chicken”; my colleague Alexa Weibel de Tomato, whom readers call “marry Me Bean”), made my publishers and I ask yourself: just because you can dip something in this 90s pink sauce, should you?

You should.

Otherwise, how would you discover that the salmon with clear skin is spectacular with the sauce “marry me”?

The Tuscan style chicken recipe from Lindsay Funston has raised millions of views after its publication on Delish.com in 2016 and found a new life on Tiktok for years later. “Marrying Me Salmon” is a fantastic riff, a fish dinner that you can cook for yourself and the love of your life any day of the week. It’s not so new.

In 2023, Alyssa Rivers of the Recipe Critical Blog published a version with a lemon zest, which helps the fatty fish usefully, just like Hajar Larbah, who directed the Moribyan blog. As Ms. Larbah describes the salmon, it is “so good that it will make you say” marry me “to anyone who does it for you!” His omits the dried tomatoes in the sun but maintains the lush and creamy essence of the dish. There are others also vary in ingredients, but all carry the title of “marry me”.

For weeks, I was looking for one of these old -fashioned emulsions of red, light on the palace, almost grazed but rich. While eating as many pink sauces as possible in the world, I realized that what distinguishes the best is simplicity, with nothing competitor – and a lot of yellow, soft, soft and familiar onion. You can add garlic, but salmon is not chicken, so its sauce needs a lighter touch.

The chicken broth works, but the battery juice in the bottle (an intelligent advice from my colleague Geneviève Ko), easily available in most grocery stores, gives you a clean seafood taste. A touch of thick cream takes you to the Rougit vodka territory. The sun-dried tomatoes make him “marry me”.

By launching the fish, mainly on the side of the skin, in the tomato oil dried in the sun, then gently poaching (and briefly) the flesh side in the “marry me” sauce, you get the overwhelming skin that gives the plush salmon. There is something beautiful in the way the simplest treatment can bring out the best qualities of an ingredient.

No one told me until I got on my knees last August and I asked my partner to marry me, that nothing would change; There would still be dishes to make, invoices to pay and a laundry to sort. But after having integrated this dish into our busy life, I realized that wedding is everyday games, the parade of the week’s dinners during the occasional meeting party. “Me marry” can really mean anything, but above all, it is when the ordinary becomes transcendent.