How do you use the canned salmon?
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Salmon patties! I use this recipe except I donāt add the green onions, I use dried parsley instead of fresh, and I use Tony Chachereeās seasoning instead of the old bay. The girls LOVE THEM and eat so much. I triple the recipe and it feeds us for 1 night. https://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/classic-salmon-cakes
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Ooo Iām excited to try this! I always buy that salmon, but I either dump a can on top of a salad, or make salmon salad to eat with crackersā¦Iāve never thought of salmon patties!
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Thank you! I really want to like salmon but I struggle with stronger flavored fish 
Iām a tuna/cod/halibut sorta person. Iāll try there!
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You can make sushi! Either use as is or add mayo and/or Sriracha, roll with cucumber, avocado, scallions (opt). Also variants like musubi or onigiri.
My mom would do rice or pasta salad with it (fish, mayo, scallions/onions, egg, starch.) Solid comfort food. Iāve also done just fish and pasta for a low effort dinner.
A friend made salmon melts for us once, it was tasty. Itās weird to me to think of salmon as a stronger fish than tunaā¦Iāve only recently discovered for myself that canned tuna is quite good!
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I make salmon chowder. Oh, so good!
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I canāt do tuna melts because warm fish is touch and go for me. I love smoked salmon (although Iām very spoiled- my dad (and last year SirB) go to Alaska yearly and fresh smoke then vacuum seal the salmon right then and deep freeze it).
How would you make musubi with salmon? I love, love spam musubi. Iāll try the sushi- I make lazy hand rolls with tuna salad sometimes if Iām not feeling crackers, and wasabi and soy sauce could help cover the flavor I imagine. But I classically havenāt even liked salmon in sushi rolls
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hot strong fish. That sounds. Not for me.
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I think onigiri would be much easier for canned salmon! I think galliver might have meant omusubi as thatās an alternate name for onigiri. But also if you donāt like salmon thatās ok! No need to force it.
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Re: salmon musubi, the friend who taught me to make musubi said to think of them as a ārice sandwichā. The spam ones we were making were āopen facedā (nori, spam, seasonings, rice, squish, wrap), but for canned fish (Iāve also done broiled mackerel) I did nori-rice-fish-rice, squish and wrap. Compression, sticky rice, and nori holds it together OK, but not quite as robust as spam musubi. Omusubi or onigiri is also def an option! I just have not tried shaping or packing those. 
Mayo or Sriracha mayo or other sauce would help the fish stick together, too, and cover the flavor if youāre learning to like it. I also agree with AllHat that you are not obligated to like it, but Iāve been teaching myself to like (or at least tolerate) beans for dietary and budget reasons with some success so I also get it. As maybe the second most available canned fish and one you can def have while pregnant, itās probably something that would be convenient to like.
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Thank you guys!!
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Musubi are like a sandwich! Thatās a good way to put it. Omusibi are really easy too! And It think easier for flaky things that donāt stay in one chunk easily (unlike spam) since the filling is protected by rice. Shaping them is actually super simple, and so is packaging them! There are really cool ways to fold plastic wrap around them so you can easily eat them on the go. I went to a whole lecture/workshop on them, haha, it was awesome! Musubi is cool because itās such a Hawaii thing and such a great example of exported canned meat making its way into a different culinary tradition, which is a whole area of food history Iām obsessed with. Like, canned meat specifically, haha.
The two styles of musubi that galliver is talking about, for the interested
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Onigiri success! Admittedly itās a small amount of actual fish consumed as compared to rice 
but we did the canned salmon with Mayo and sriracha and topped with a couple crispy fried onion pieces, wrapped it as a ball (didnāt do triangles lol, challenge for another day). Added a little nori belt and rolled in some furikake. And then like the white lady I am, I dipped it in wasabi and soy sauce 
Anyway, husband says āthank the people whose idea this was!ā Iām excited to try some as fridge grab and go food, too.
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Awesome!!! I love it as grab and go food.
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Do they require price checks there? In the U S, if they run out before you get there theyāre supposed to give you the chance to buy it at the sale price for about a month.
Update. Day 2 salmon onigiri was great. Held together really well.
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This is the content Iām here for.
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Also I got a tower of salmon cans from Costco
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Yasss a new convert 
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