Marinated Salmon

I got this salmon recipe from one of my lovely labmates who can pretty much cook anything.  She's the girl who you say "Hey, I have 14 lbs of radishes, what should I make?", and she will have a recipe for you.  This salmon dish is one of my favorites and goes great with some steamed greens or a side of rice or even a fresh salad.

Ingredients
3 tablespoons soy sauce
1 tablespoon maple syrup
1 teaspoon minced garlic in olive oil
1 lb fillet of salmon

Directions
Place salmon fillet in a deep tupperware container.  Mix first three ingredients together and pour over salmon fillet.  Allow to marinate overnight in the fridge.  When ready to cook salmon, preheat oven to 475F.  Place salmon on a foil-lined cooking sheet.  Bake salmon for 15-20 minutes, or until it flakes easily with a fork.  Enjoy!

Helpful Notes
- If you remember to marinate the salmon overnight, it will definitely be delicious.  But you can also just pour the marinade over the salmon and allow it to soak up the maplely-soy goodness while the oven heats up.  Still quite tasty.

- Fresh salmon is definitely preferred, but I've used frozen and this still tastes amazing.  I usually wait for the fresh stuff to go on sale, but frozen is usually the cheaper option and you won't miss out too much on delicious flavor.

- Be VERY careful of letting too much of the marinade leak out on to the cooking sheet.  The first time I made this I thought, "Why waste all this extra marinade, I will just dump it on top of the salmon for extra flavor."  Bad idea.  The maple syrup burns quickly when it's on the foil and then your house/apartment fills with giant smoke plumes.  Not good.

- If you don't have mined garlic in olive oil in jar in your fridge, you can just skip it - or make your own with a clove of garlic and some olive oil!