It’s hard to bring the family together for nightly meals, I get it.
Before I became a Stay at Home Mom when the twins were born, my career involved shift-work. This meant there was weeks out of the month that Isabelle ate dinner at her sitters and not with our family.
Flash forward to now, it’s the activities and sports that throw a curveball in our day, many of them are right over dinnertime.
Yet, it is so very important to make having dinner together a priority, and as often as possible. For us, this means a family dinner at 4pm before activities on Wednesdays. It is early, yet it’s something that I’ve decided based on the fact that I want us all to sit down together for a meal.
This is my time as a parent, to connect with my kids, learn more about them and ask them about their day.
Yet, with school pickup at 3 and dinner at 4 … well, lets’ think about this. Does this leave time to make a healthy, proper meal that we can all enjoy?
M&M Meat Shops is encouraging Canadian families to carve out time for the family mealtime tradition in their busy lives.
On September 18th, 2014, Canadians are invited to participate in the tenth annual M&M Meat Shops’ National Family Dinner Night.
I’m working with M&M Meat Shops to encourage families to take a look at their mealtime traditions, and make it a priority to find the time to eat dinner together. It’s a wonderful family-first initiative that I strongly believe in.
Which is why I’m happy to feature my recipe for One Dish Salmon Dinner!
I purchased 4 pieces of the Jail Island Salmon, which is from the Atlantic and raised in their natural environment by a family-owned company. It came highly recommended by the M&M Meat Shops employee, so I had to give it a try. Plus, I’m trying to incorporate more fish and seafood into our meals – so this worked perfectly.
Paired with the salmon is one of my all-time favourite sides found at M&M Meat Shops, Bean & Carrot Medley. My recipe was complete with some fresh cherry tomatoes that I had at home, which I needed to use up.
One Dish Salmon Dinner is a recipe that takes very little time to prepare, it’s baked in one pan {I actually used 2 pans since I made so much} and it takes less than 30 minutes to cook.
Meaning, there’s no excuse to not get that family together for a meal, despite a tight schedule!
Here’s the easy, simple and delicious recipe!
- 4 M &M Meat Shops Jail Island Salmon Filets
- 1/2 bag M&M Meat Shops Bean & Carrot Medley
- 2-3 cups Cherry Tomatoes halved
- Butter
- Fresh Thyme
- Lemon Slices
- Salt and Pepper to taste
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Spray a baking pan {or two if you wish}, with your choice of non-stick spray.
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Place Jail Island Salmon Filets, Bean & Carrot Medley and Cherry Tomatoes in the pan. I group the 3 items with the salmon in the middle.
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Pepper the ingredients as desired, I'm generous with the pepper. Salt the 2 vegetables lightly.
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Dollop butter onto the salmon and top with lemon slices and fresh thyme.
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Bake at 400 for 15 minutes, toss the veggies lightly to mix and bake for another 10-15.
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Enjoy!
M&M Meat Shops has some wonderful new Fall items, definitely dinner worthy.
I’m a huge fan of their skinless boneless chicken breasts and now you can get them in slices! Chicken Breast Slices would be idea for a quick dinner to enjoy together – I’m thinking wraps, quesadillas and fajitas!
I also need to try their Stuffed Cheese and Bacon Beef Burgers, no explanation why is required! Same goes with the Stuffed Red Jalapeño Peppers – a new idea for appetizer & entertaining nights!
What foods found at M&M Meat Shops will get YOUR family to the table?
Disclosure: I was compensated for this post. Yet as always, all opinions are 100% my own.
Mmm! This made my tummy grumble. 🙂 Looks delicious. And I love that it’s baked in one dish! How convenient. We like to incorporate fish in our diet too so that our kids don’t turn their noses up at food just because they look/smell different than what they’re used to.
You had me at one dish! I love easy dinners like this!!
I love that this is a one dish meal. As a working mom, this is such a time saver for me.
This looks delicious! I love having a colorful plate, your veggies look yummy with this
My husband would love this. Saving!
This recipe has the two main things I look for when I’m going to make anything – easy and taste. I love it!
This looks delicious. And so easy to make! That’s super important to me.
This looks delicious. I love anything simple.
This looks like a super tasty, super healthy, super easy dish to make for my family. I love it!
This looks like a great meal! I love M&M’s Meats! Thanks
That looks so delicious. I didn’t know it was so easy to make.
Salmon is my favorite! This looks so easy and delicious.
Great blog about how important it is to spend time together as a family! I heard about National Family Dinner night from M&M Meat Shops this week. It’s a great idea to get us all together!
My husband doesn’t eat salmon so I never fix it. If I could make it in one dish, it’d be totally worth it for me to make it for just myself. Thanks for the recipe!
Oh I love everything about this… first of all, one dish? Really? how simple… and the ingredients are things I actually have. Thanks so much
What a great idea! Not only saves prep time but clean up time as well! I always strive to have less dishes at the end of a meal. And the food looks delicious! We are big salmon eaters!
Would you believe I have never tried salmon before? I must be really missing it because this looks great!
My husband and kids love Salmon. Looks easy enough for me to make for them.
I have never had salmon before. How does this fish taste, is it fishy? Looks like a great recipe.
I’m all for putting a delicious meal together simply. The family eating together is important to me.
looks fabulously delish and healthy
That looks amazing!! Salmon is one of John’s favorite fish. I am always looking for new Salmon recipes!
This looks so good and simple!! This would be easy to make a great meal quickly! Great idea!
This looks like an easy meal to prepare and looks delicious too, I absolutely love Salmon and I love M&M meats.
Rob Shiels
Mmmm… this looks so delicious and healthy!!! I love salmon! I have to try this one pan cooking idea. It looks so convenient and easy.
We love M&M Meat Shops. I often get the chicken breasts and the bagged veggies are great. They have so many great items. This recipe looks so good i cant wait to try it.
It looks really good and edible.
I have never tried salmon before but this looks so darn good! I saw some st Ikea the other day and thought how I was missing out.
I get it too. Family dinners are hard to come by on weekdays, but it can be accomolished by being more practical.
Will give your recipe and m & m meat shops a try. Cheers!
Living in BC, Salmon is definitely a staple in my cooking – especially during the late summer/early fall. This one dish dinner looks yummy, so I will try it the next time I make salmon.
wow this looks so simple that I might be able to actually make it. and it looks yummy
This looks so good and easy…. I definitely want to try this out. I really need to go to m&m’s. I didn’t even now they had salmon. 😮
I love everything about this meal
So simple and looks deeeelicious!!
I love one dish meal.This looks so good
This looks so fresh and yummy . I can’t wait to make it.
Looks good and delicious. Hubby just caught some salmon last weekend, I quick froze it but we will be having it on Sunday
I usually try to partake of the M&M Meat Shops’ National Family Dinner Night which is sometimes difficult to do as my daughter works from 4pm to 10pm. However If I’m able to participate this year I’d love to try this recipe. We do both love salmon.
I never cook meals like this in one dish, but it makes so much sense. I am going to try it out.
Oh wow, this looks yummy and doesn’t even seem that hard to make! Thanks for sharing!
Great looking food and I love the one pan idea.
Love easy meals. Thanks
I agree with you that this Salmon Dinner Recipe is indeed very simple and , I am quite sure, very delicious and healthy. I have purchased items from M.&M. Shops and I know they have delicious, high-quality food. Thank you for this family recipe.