Simple baked salmon & salad with home made croutons

Such a simple, simple dinner.

Baked salmon & salad.

The salmon fillet was drizzled lightly with olive oil, and lightly sprinkled with kosher salt, black pepper, and herbs du provence before being baked in the oven. Once it comes out it's going to get a light sauce of fresh lemon juice and melted butter.

The salad is a simple lettuce leaf salad with a good quality bleu cheese dressing (I don't make that on my own... yet) and the croutons were made of a crusty french baguette cut into cubes. I put the cubes of bread into a ziploc bag, and into the bag went 1/8 cup of good quality olive oil, 1/8 stick of butter, two cloves of garlic finely minced, a pinch of kosher salt, a pinch of herbs du provence (to tie it into the salmon) and a few cracks of black pepper. Close the bag, shake together to make sure each cube of bread gets some of the butter/oil, and then bake at 400F until toasty.

Simple dinners are sometimes the most satisfying.