Earlier on, I'd found a Jamie Oliver recipe on his website for pesto salmon parcels, wrapped in foil and cooked in the oven. Although the recipe calls for beans to be partly boiled and then put in the foil parcel along with the salmon, I don't really like green beans and I'd bought some sugarsnap peas and babycorn earlier, so decided to go for that instead.
Firstly, I preheated the oven to 180 degrees and got some baby new potatoes on the boil. I placed the salmon fillet, skin side down, onto a long piece of tinfoil and put a generous tablespoon of pesto on top, then the juice of half a lemon, a drizzle of olive oil and seasoned. This went into the oven on top of a baking tray while the potatoes bubbled away happily.
About 10 minutes in, I popped the steamer full of my veg - and a very good portion of veg it was too, my mother would be proud! - on top of the saucepan of potatoes and left to steam while the salmon finished cooking, which only took about another five minutes. After that, I took the baking tray out of the oven and opened it, to be greeted by a waft of lemony pesto. The salmon flaked off of the skin (a small mercy, as I am quite squeamish when it comes to fish skin!) and left a lovely juice to be poured over the salmon, potatoes and veg on the plate. A final squeeze of the half lemon over everything (and a bit of butter, because it is the first Monday of term, after all) and I was really very ready for it.
Definitely, definitely, better to do that than to just have toast or something junky, or worse, nothing at all. It only took about 20 minutes and used three dishes - a saucepan, a steamer and a baking tray, and I think I could've avoided having to wash the baking tray if I'd doubled the tinfoil so the oil didn't seep through.
Truly yummy, very easy and surprisingly quick. Another one to do again!
