I'm a huge fan of Jake's Marionberry Chipotle sauce and it's the best on salmon. I do it in a bamboo steamer: place your salmon filet on a piece of tinfoil in the steamer basket, make sure your tinfoil is just under the fish but don't cover the entire bottom of the basket and block the steam. Salt lightly and loosely cover with one layer of VERY thinly sliced lemon, lime or grapefuit. Generously pour on the sauce, nothing else is needed, place over BOILING water and steam covered for about ten minutes. Flesh should flake off a fork, if not, cover for another couple minutes and try again.
Steam some fresh green beans on top of that for a few minutes, just until they turn bright green and no longer, then toss those with garlic butter. Mmmm!
"Sea Kittens" is the new name chosen for fish in a PETA campaign. I can't decide if it's a ham-handed attempt at guilt-inducing sarcasm or if it really is that brain dead a humorless attempt at "re-branding" fish as a species you don't want to be mean to?
I'm for a lot of things PETA is for: I think wearing fur for fashion is grossly barbaric, I'm against factory farming and UNNECESSARY animal testing and research, I'm for humane and comfortable conditions for research animals BUT, sorry, I'm still going to eat them once in a while, not every day, and I'm still in favor of animal research before human. I want them to die as quickly, painlessly, free of terror as possible but I'm still going to eat some of them sometimes and the "Sea Kitten" campaign just makes all you earnest, well-intentioned people at PETA look like absolutely clueless IDIOTS, completely out of touch with reality.
I'm not saying that's what the people at PETA are, it doesn't matter if that's what you are or not, that's what it makes you look like. You can go so far beyond the acceptable reality of the people you're trying to reach that your position becomes something they cannot agree with, and you've lost them. They will not only no longer agree with you, they will no longer hear you. Find a position on your issue that people can agree with, don't try to stuff opinions down their throats that are completely beyond what they can understand - after all, it's not about what YOU think or your behaviour, is it? It's about changing other peoples' and to do that, you need to find common ground. There's just no common ground on "Sea Kittens," only a big bunch of well-deserved ridicule.
Mew-glub! And now, in all fairness, here's my Sea Kitten, FuMan-Cue, a salmon (of course) in all the available accessories from the PETA site I could stuff on there (no marionberry chipotle sauce as a choice, so he gets a mohawk):
