Cedar-Planked Salmon with Lemon Dill Butter

As a birthdays/anniversary present we got a big basket of BBQ goodness. One of the things in it was a package of cedar planks. Coupled with Wegman's current supply of Alaskan wild-caught salmon (have you heard what's in farm-raised?) we decided that it sounded like a good Father's Day dinner.

Chopped some dill from the garden. Zested and sliced some lemons.



Softened some butter. Added garlic and the dill and the lemon zest.



Here's the color that salmon should be, kids.



Soaked the cedar plank.



Made some rice to go with.



Here we go!


Hot stuff!


Heat the cedar plank until it chars and smokes. It's too bad I can't take a picture of the smell.



Smoky, butter-y, dill-y, goodness.






I can't quite deal with this part. It reminds me of what I'm eating. Yuck.



But it looks nice on the plate.



And Liam likes it.