Pesto Salmon

This has got to be the most ridiculously easy way to cook delicious salmon. Prep time: 2 minutes. Sit around and do nothing cook time: 20 minutes. Dishes dirtied: 1 knife and a cutting board. I will be placing it in my clutch recipe file. I stole it from http://kalynskitchen.blogspot.com/. It's a pretty fantastic South Beach Diet blog.

• 2 salmon filets
• 4 Tbl pesto (make your own for extra points, but I just used a jar)
• 1 medium tomato, sliced thick- I recommend splurging for the good quality on the vine type
• 1 tsp olive oil
• lemon juice from 1/2 lemon
• aluminum foil

Preheat the oven to 450. Squirt some lemon juice over the fish and let it sit for 5-10 minutes. Alton Brown told me that when a fish dies, it releases chemicals that produce that fishy smell. These chemicals happen to be basic, so squirting something acidic on the fish neutralizes that acid and fixes that fishy smell.
Take about 3 feet of foil and fold it in half. Drizzle that olive oil on it and position the fish on top, squiggling it around to make sure the bottom is covered. Spread the pesto on top of each piece, place the tomato slices on top, and fold the foil to make a pretty little package. Put it in the oven for 15-20 minutes (depending on how thick the fish is) and serve.

-Jackie Nemunaitis