IT’S MONDAY.  Four more days to go and who feels like cooking something complicated.  On the other hand, a beautiful something-to-eat would be such a mood lifter.  Try a piece of salmon, roasted in the oven, in the easiest tastiest sauce ever!  This recipe is so easy, it’s pitiful.  It’s a salmon filet smothered in bottled steak sauce and cooked for 30 minutes at 350 degrees.

But not just any steak sauce.  This is a delicious spicy vinegary sauce that really works well with the salmon.  And it is probably as close as I’ll ever get to the famous Peter Luger Steak House in Brooklyn!

Peter Luger Steak House in Brooklyn, NY is hard to get into!  John Mariani wrote in Forbes:  Peter Luger, which began as a billiards and bowling alley in 1887 in Brooklyn, after years of decline was bought by Sol Forman and his family and became the most highly touted steakhouses in America. Famous for its sliced porterhouse steaks, its refusal to take credit cards and a waitlist for tables that can stretch out for months, Luger, which has long had a branch in Great Neck, Long Island, has in recent years expanded to Tokyo and Las Vegas. 

I picked up a bottle of Peter Luger’s Old Fashioned Sauce at Fresh Market a few weeks ago, and loved it.  It has a lot of horseradish in it and tastes like a sauce you might put on shrimp cocktails.  Pouring it on a salmon filet last night turned out to be (if I must say so myself) a pretty smart thing to do.  It didn’t drown the salmon in a sweet sticky sauce, but the horseradish really complemented the fish.  I found this description of the sauce online:  From Linda Eckhardt’s Guide to America’s Best Foods: “This is the best. Their own steak sauce is not only great on steak, but also served on slabs of red ripe tomatoes. You can’t do without this. They only began selling their sauce after customers begged. We love this sauce on hamburgers. We love it on chicken. The taste is somewhere between cocktail sauce – it’s spicy with horseradish and traditional steak sauce – being a rich brown color. The sauce is fat-free. It tastes so good you won’t mind.”

This was almost too easy.  If you come across a bottle of this sauce in the grocery store (Fresh Market and Dorignac’s both carry it) try it!  On just about anything.  It’s addictive.